Mystery car pix

fintail

Come to think of it, I've been to the German Bergen (Rugen).

explorerx4 said:

I thought it was the Bergen in Germany. I knew it wasn't the Bergen in Jew Jersey.

fintail

I see a "Falcon" sign near a "Ford" sign background left in the snow pic. Maybe some were marketing Falcon as being something distinct enough to warrant its own signage? (I think the Lark was marketed similarly).

tmart

andys120 said:

56 and 58 Canadian Ford, Meteor

tmart

ab348 said:

Milwaukee, WI, early 1960s. I actually stayed in the Hotel Schroeder on the right of the pic, back in the ‘90s when it was known as the Marc Plaza. My main recollection of the several days I spent there was how sausage and cheese seemed to be the two main food groups of the area.

60 Ford in front of the red Ford pickup.

fintail

Weird, ab's pic didn't load for me initially, I was wondering what the heck he was talking about

Behind the 60 Ford, a 61-63 Ford "unibody" pickup.

Lostwrench3

Front and centers - 1956 Meteor and a 1958 Chevy.

bhill2

In the Milwaukee picture, behind the '58 Chevy, is a '58 or '59 Rambler. Looks like a wagon and definitely worse for wear.

Lostwrench3

fintail said:

Weird, ab's pic didn't load for me initially, I was wondering what the heck he was talking about

Behind the 60 Ford, a 61-63 Ford "unibody" pickup.

My post #466 was the first displayed after the AB348 '58 Chevy photo. Later, there were 5 posts between that photo and mine!

kyfdx

Lostwrench3 said:

fintail said:

Weird, ab's pic didn't load for me initially, I was wondering what the heck he was talking about

Behind the 60 Ford, a 61-63 Ford "unibody" pickup.

My post #466 was the first displayed after Andy's Cooper's Garage photo. Later, there were 7 posts between that photo and mine!

Might have been shift change for the hamsters.

andys120

closest to camera-1958 Chevy four-poster ahead of a Rambler of similar vintage.nearly every car in pic has tu-yonr paint with a white roof.

ab348

Something I have never seen before:

explorerx4

El Benzo's!

imidazol97

Ranchedes

fintail

W114/115 based, Oz and South Africa have a thing for this type of rig.

andys120

tmart

56 Chevy Bel Air. The side chrome really looks weird with the door ajar.

magnette

those Benz pickups were LHD so probably rules out Oz or South Africa

South American probably

magnette

I had a (real) Mini in the 70s and it had a dent in the panel behind the drivers door following a little bump from a Land Rover

That looked like the BelAir above even with the door shut...

Lostwrench3

Across the street, a 1952 Chevy.
Curb feelers! A very helpful invention.

andys120

ab348

Here's one of my city - a 1965 shot of Barrington St in Halifax circa 1965. None of these buildings exist today. We can probably ID the sedan easily enough, but what is the make/model of the Public Service Commission truck parked at the curb?

andys120

I;m going to take a WAG and say mid-late 50s Ford F-100 panel truck.

fintail

I'll go with the panel van maybe being a Dodge (or perhaps a Fargo?). Maybe a Rambler American in front of it. And of course the 60 Fairlane driving by at left, no reverse lights.

ab348

fintail said:

I'll go with the panel van maybe being a Dodge (or perhaps a Fargo?). Maybe a Rambler American in front of it. And of course the 60 Fairlane driving by at left, no reverse lights.

I believe you are correct on the panel van being a Dodge or Fargo. The interesting thing about those is that the styling of the pickups was changed for the 1961 model year to this look:



But since they didn't want to retool that design for the slow-selling panel van, they stayed with the earlier design from 1960 and prior through the 1966 model year, after which van duty was assigned to the cab-forward A-100 van.

andys120

tmart

fintail said:

I'll go with the panel van maybe being a Dodge (or perhaps a Fargo?). Maybe a Rambler American in front of it. And of course the 60 Fairlane driving by at left, no reverse lights.

Actually, it’s a 60 Ford that might be a Fairlane or a Galaxie or a Custom.

andys120

tmart said:

fintail said:

I'll go with the panel van maybe being a Dodge (or perhaps a Fargo?). Maybe a Rambler American in front of it. And of course the 60 Fairlane driving by at left, no reverse lights.

Actually, it’s a 60 Ford that might be a Fairlane or a Galaxie or a Custom.

I think a Galaxie would have reverse lights, not sure about a Fairlane.

Lostwrench3

Well, the grille and side trim shout 1949 Cadillac.

fintail

60 Galaxie had a flat rear windshield, which always amused me as I suspect the wraparound/bubble rear windshield was more expensive to produce.

tmart said:

fintail said:

I'll go with the panel van maybe being a Dodge (or perhaps a Fargo?). Maybe a Rambler American in front of it. And of course the 60 Fairlane driving by at left, no reverse lights.

Actually, it’s a 60 Ford that might be a Fairlane or a Galaxie or a Custom.

ab348

1960 Fairlanes had “FAIRLANE” spelled out along the rear edge of the trunk lid. It doesn’t look like this car fas that.

tmart

Then it must be a Custom. Backup lights were still optional in 1960.

Lostwrench3

ab348 said:

1960 Fairlanes had “FAIRLANE” spelled out along the rear edge of the trunk lid. It doesn’t look like this car fas that.

Yes, the 1960 Ford Fairlane 500 had FAIRLANE on the trunk lid.
The regular 1960 Ford Fairlane simply had FORD.

sda

In the US market, I believe back up lights became mandatory in 1966. My 62 Galaxie and mom’s 63 Olds Dynamic 88 did not have them. Nor did either car have a driver’s door review mirror, seat belts or windshield washers, but they did have one speed electric wipers instead of the miserable vacuum type.

imidazol97

I did a quick look through a 1960 Ford brochure. Not a single car, from convertible to cheap model had backup lights.

They were shown as an option which made it sound like they were in a package deal with the reflectors that were mirror images of the taillight shape that fit on the rear bumper.

I recall backup lights in those days were the brake pedal: push on the pedal enough to light the brake lights to give some red illumination behind me as I backed up the dark.

magnette

THe car parked ahead of that panel van is a Vauxhall Viva HA so it would be there as an Epic

andys120

Lostwrench3 said:

Well, the grille and side trim shout 1949 Cadillac.

Yup the ambulance is a 1949 Cadillac. Where I grew up it was rare to see an ambulance or hearse that wasn't a Caddy.

andys120

stickguy

Porsche 928. not sure what sub model. looks like a later year to me.

fintail

My dad's Country Sedan, a moderately optioned (352, radio. I think PS but not PB, no doubt a few other things) lacked reverse lights.

imidazol97 said:

I did a quick look through a 1960 Ford brochure. Not a single car, from convertible to cheap model had backup lights.

They were shown as an option which made it sound like they were in a package deal with the reflectors that were mirror images of the taillight shape that fit on the rear bumper.

I recall backup lights in those days were the brake pedal: push on the pedal enough to light the brake lights to give some red illumination behind me as I backed up the dark.

fintail

1987+, possibly an early 90s GTS, which is the top dog 928.

stickguy said:

Porsche 928. not sure what sub model. looks like a later year to me.

magnette

Following on from that Cadillac ambulance most of our ambulances were van related rather than cars after the war but there were some exceptions.




I do remember these from the fifties - we had one in our local ambulance station in Wales, but the majority were supplied to the London County Council service prior to responsibility for ambulance services being transferred from local authorities directly to the NHS.

It is a Daimler DC27 and Hooper bodied several hundred of them - it was powered by a straight six engine of about 3.6 litres and was based on the DE27 Limo.

Judging by this picture it must have been unlucky to catch that RT bus - on route 13 to Golders Green..

magnette

This was more typical of our ambulances in Wales when I was a kid..

ab348

Here in Canada when I was growing up in the '60s, ambulance services locally were often provided by local funeral homes, though they did not typically use hearses. I remember panel vans being the usual vehicle of choice, fitted out rather sparsely compared to the rolling hospital rooms of today. Just like everything else in the healthcare system, advances in technology have made ambulances ridiculously expensive, with each unit costing many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

https://tri-star.ca/medium-duty-crew/

andys120

Most of the current ambulances resemble the Tri-Star, perhaps that is what they are.

andys120

The Porsche 928 was controversial in the Porsche world. Porsche purists generally could not accept the idea of a flagship with a motor in front. Porsche's management was afraid air cooled engines could not meet stringent emissions regs (they were right) so they developed the 928 as a more luxurious, more powerful Gran Turismo. It was derided as a "German Corvette" (unfairly given it's
modern design compared to contemporary 'Vettes).

andys120

magnette

In fairness there are two different grades of ambulance with different jobs - the highly equipped mobile emergency room with high tech available, and the sort of mini-bus van with windows that takes old dears to their out patient appointments

magnette

This was post war

fintail

Matchbox had a couple versions of a similar vehicle:

magnette said:

Following on from that Cadillac ambulance most of our ambulances were van related rather than cars after the war but there were some exceptions.




I do remember these from the fifties - we had one in our local ambulance station in Wales, but the majority were supplied to the London County Council service prior to responsibility for ambulance services being transferred from local authorities directly to the NHS.

It is a Daimler DC27 and Hooper bodied several hundred of them - it was powered by a straight six engine of about 3.6 litres and was based on the DE27 Limo.

Judging by this picture it must have been unlucky to catch that RT bus - on route 13 to Golders Green..

fintail

I see 2 Jags, Mark VI sedan at bottom, XK150 FHC (S) at top.