Mystery car pix

sda

andys120

The Euro version of the Audi 100 sedan from the late 60s-early 70s.

sda

Yep. that was mom's 71 Audi 100 LS Automatic about 1975-76 that she drove while we lived in Chavenay, France.

andys120

My wife lived in Chauvigny, France near Tours when she was a kid, same place?

fintail

Seattle 1968, should zoom well enough, have fun with this one:

sda

67 Cadillac, 62 Buick, 68/69 Rivera

bhill2

sda said:

Yep. that was mom's 71 Audi 100 LS Automatic about 1975-76 that she drove while we lived in Chavenay, France.

Was it as big a piece of cr*p as the 100 LS Automatic that my cousin owned?

kyfdx

bhill2 said:

sda said:

Yep. that was mom's 71 Audi 100 LS Automatic about 1975-76 that she drove while we lived in Chavenay, France.

Was it as big a piece of cr*p as the 100 LS Automatic that my cousin owned?

Is that the cousin from Poughkeepsie?

explorerx4

VW Bug taking a left ahead of the Cadillac.

sda

@bhill2 said:
Was it as big a piece of cr*p as the 100 LS Automatic that my cousin owned?

It had random carb issues. Often it would run poorly as if on two cylinders. It also liked to eat front brake pads as the rotors were mounted inboard where they stayed hot. Dad's Renault company car was more reliable, lol.

texases

I wish I had asked the faculty dorm supervisor about his 100 when I was at school. Both long gone by now...

fintail

It's the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, this pic is from Spokane some time after the eruption, with a dust still in the air (should zoom OK, diverse assortment):

bhill2

kyfdx said:

bhill2 said:

sda said:

Yep. that was mom's 71 Audi 100 LS Automatic about 1975-76 that she drove while we lived in Chavenay, France.

Was it as big a piece of cr*p as the 100 LS Automatic that my cousin owned?

Is that the cousin from Poughkeepsie?

At that point he was the cousin from Provo. I think he had fellow students at Brigham Young University joining him in prayer for it. Didn't help.

bhill2

sda said:

@bhill2 said:

Was it as big a piece of cr*p as the 100 LS Automatic that my cousin owned?

It had random carb issues. Often it would run poorly as if on two cylinders. It also liked to eat front brake pads as the rotors were mounted inboard where they stayed hot. Dad's Renault company car was more reliable, lol.

Oh yeah, the front disk pads sound familiar. Two cylinders was a fairly good day. Oh, and it barfed its transmission a couple of times. He stuck an AMC dealer with it in trade for a bottom feeder Gremlin the color of Welch's grape juice. He loved it.

stickguy

Yellow B210 hatch next to a yellow Ford Fiesta (I really liked those back then). far left a Duster like the one I owned. very far left another yellow. A FIAT (128?)

Lostwrench3

1961 Chevy.
That Carpet City Company still exists and that phone number is still good!

explorerx4

Late 70's Impala coupe under the first R of the grocery store.

andys120

explorerx4

Reminds me of when my parents had an Electra 225. The garage door would have closed not far beyond the rear window.

Lostwrench3

1960 Cadillac.

andys120

stickguy

1957 international harvester A100.

Chrome side trim not lining up looks odd.

texases

@explorerx4 said:
Reminds me of when my parents had an Electra 225. The garage door would have closed not far beyond the rear window.

The 1900-era house I grew up in had an extension built on the garage at some point to fit longer cars.

andys120

stickguy said:

1957 international harvester A100.

1957 was the 50th Anniversary of International Harvester Corp. hence the gold paint.

ab348

stickguy said:

1957 international harvester A100.

Chrome side trim not lining up looks odd.

It's hidden in that pic but it takes an awkward dip downward at the back edge of the cab to actually line up.

tjc78

@texases said:

@explorerx4 said:
Reminds me of when my parents had an Electra 225. The garage door would have closed not far beyond the rear window.

The 1900-era house I grew up in had an extension built on the garage at some point to fit longer cars.

I’ve mentioned this before by my uncle with the 58 Bonneville had to have the builder increase the size of the garage to properly fit the car.

andys120

"Ordinary sedans started reaching unprecedented lengths beginning about 1957 so garages built during the 20s 30s and 40s couldn't hold them.

I used to have a place in an"active adult 55+" community in Arizona that was built during the 70s and 80s. I noticed that full-sized pickups (there were many) had to be parked outside. In most places this wouldn't be a big deal but in AZ it means exposure to high levels of heat and ultraviolet radiation.

fintail

I call those "Model T garages". Tons of pre-50s housing stock in my area still has them.

magnette

When my parents bought their new house in Wales 1961 they had one car - a 1959 Sunbeam Rapier

By 1963 Mum had another car - a Morris Mini Minor.

The garage was only long enough for the Rapier so that garage never got shut again as the Rapier stuck out by ten feet thereafter.

Here I keep my Magnette in a garage just around the corner from our house and park our Fiesta in the street.

The Magnette is narrow by modern standards and so I can open the drivers door fully though the passenger door is not openable then ( I always back in as it is easier to get the car back out if I come out forwards )

When it was away being fixed last year for a few days - replacing the passenger side front floor - I tried to park the Fiesta in the garage and found that it was wider - mainly the mirrors which of course fold in but still stick out a bit, and being a two door the drivers door was much longer than the MG one so I couldn't comfortably get out of it.

Its a big problem as local authorities here seem to still plan parking areas to fit Ford Anglias or Triumph Heralds - but of course most people who live in suburban London feel the need to drive a Range Rover or whatever go to the shops so people would have to resort to gymnastics to get out of those when - as they always are - the car park is full.

magnette

Front and rear for this one - and it is not quite what it seems

ab348

I believe that is a Humber Vogue out of Australia.

andys120

Akron, Ohio [expands]

sda

The black Imperial looks regal, ‘Do you know who I am’ ? Both the Imperial and 60 Chevy look so much more modern than the 57 Chevy or 56 Ford.

andys120

The Imperial looks like a 1958 model but some '57s got the four headlights early. Can anyone tell us if that's an Imperial Crown or just an Imperial?

Looks like a 1956 Ford Ranch Wagon (only 2 doors) behind it.

Lostwrench3

Lacking the Imperial side script behind the front wheel well and having the small Le Baron badge there makes it a Le Baron.
1957 or 1958? The 1958 had circular parking lights so 1957.

magnette

@ab348

It is indeed a 1961 /2 Humber Vogue mk 1 and is in New South Wales

Here that car was badged as a Singer Vogue at that time

fintail

Behind the 60 Chevy maybe Volvo 544. Behind that almost makes me think 60 Edsel, but there's not a lot to go on.

Regal Imperial makes me think "We're the ones in the Imperial and WE'RE running last?!".

explorerx4

56 Ford Parklane wagon(2 door). Another 56 Ford 2 cars back.

andys120

explorerx4 said:

56 Ford Parklane wagon(2 door). Another 56 Ford 2 cars back.

I thought Parklane was a Mercury name, I'm sticking w "Ranch Wagon".

tmart

Ford used Ranch Wagon and Parklane in 56. Based on the “Fairlane “ chrome side, I agree with exployerx4 it’s a Parklane. The Parklane was the premium two door model.

andys120

stickguy

going out on a limb, but is it an NSU?

andys120

It's not an NSU, it's THE NSU, the RO80, their most advanced design ever. A product of the late '60s the RO80 featured rotary-power, fwd and state-of-the art aerodynamics Unfortunately high development costs bankrupted NSU forcing them into the hands of Volkswagen Group where most of the technical advances of the FWD Volkswagens and eventually AWD Audis were based on engineering pioneered by NSu

magnette

The NSU RO80 led to the transition model for the VW - Audi - NSU range - which was this...

sda

magnette said:

The NSU RO80 led to the transition model for the VW - Audi - NSU range - which was this...

You can really see the future Audi/VW styling language with that car.

andys120

magnette said:

The NSU RO80 led to the transition model for the VW - Audi - NSU range - which was this...

Volkswagen K70 in a yellow shade popular in the 1970s.

fintail

Not sure if this has been posted before:

andys120

Looks like Grand Central Parkway or Northern State in the NYC/LI area. There's a '60 Ford Galaxie going away from camera in left lane. It might be the newest visible car. The oldest are 1949-52 MoPars,
a dark one @ lower right and a mid-color wagon about 3/4 of the way to top on right.
The car on lower right appears to be a wagon w tailgate window open (bad idea, hard on hinges), just ahead of '59 Chevy. It could be another 1960 Ford.

That could be an MG Magnette just ahead of it??

fintail

Wagon with the open rear hatch window is definitely a 60 Ford. I remember that feature on my dad's car, and he wouldn't drive with it open, knowing if it slammed shut and the glass broke, it would be virtually impossible to replace.

Car in front of the wagon gives me Sunbeam Talbot vibes (sold for a time in the USDM around 1953-55 or so).

tmart

In addition to the two 60 Fords, there’s a 55 Ford, 56 Ford, two 57 Fords, and a 59 Ford.