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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 267,518
    Power Wagon?

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 263,743
    Dodge Power Wagon

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,519
    def a PW. until a couple of months ago when the owner sold the house, for decades there was one of those set up as a fire truck (a brush truck) parked outside the house in the driveway, rotting away (one side of the windshield was broken and tires were flat). No clue how they got it out of there.

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,708
    1945 Dodge Powerwagon; I believe this was based on the military WC, which was later replaced by the venerable M37.
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Fiat Abarth?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    edited June 2022
    tmart said:

    Fiat Abarth?

    Nope, it looks like some of the Fiat Abarths but it something else. Hint: Styling by Carrozerria Bertone,

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133

    Alfa Giulietta?

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    texases said:

    Alfa Giulietta?

    Yes!, Alfa-Romeo nomenclature is really confusing and this car illustrates it. It's the first version of the Alfa Giulietta Sprint introduced in 1954. The Sprint Veloce introduced in '56 featured more power via bigger carbs.

    In 1962 the Giulia Sprint version debuted to replace the which featured new bodywork by Bertone which were produced throughout the 1960s

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    Here's one courtesy of Shorpy, 1961 in Columbus GA. Love the Great Sign, not sure why they ever changed it. Blows up to a great size.



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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    1960 Ford under the word "Holiday". It's the newest car.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133
    edited June 2022
    Any idea what this is? Like a Ferrari, but the rear fenders on back looks odd, and that's not a Ferrari logo.

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    I'm pretty sure that is one of the many custom variants of the 1960s 3-liter Ferrari 250GT, it's wearing Borrani wire wheels as most of them did and that's a Pininfarina emblem behind the side grill. The windshield looks right off a standard 250GTSWB.

    Back in the day it was possible to buy a Ferrari with custom bodywork from a number of coach-builders, all you needed was lots of money.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    ab348 said:

    Here's one courtesy of Shorpy, 1961 in Columbus GA. Love the Great Sign, not sure why they ever changed it. Blows up to a great size.



    49/50 Ford and a 54 Ford to the right of the 60. Possibly another 60 Ford at far left.
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 263,743
    My home town in CA, 1980:


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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Ford Econoline van
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,519
    Wes was visiting!

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,708
    tmart said:

    Ford Econoline van

    ECONLINE! And, a bunch of misc supporting pieces of some sort. :D
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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    edited June 2022
    andys120 said:

    1960 Ford under the word "Holiday". It's the newest car.

    I see a ‘61 GM full-size 4-door sedan roof and rear window to the left of the ‘60 Ford.

    As tmart noted it looks like another ‘60 Ford rear window at the far left.

    That ‘50 Ford on the right side of the pic sure looks spiffy! Someone loved that car.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    xwesx said:

    tmart said:

    Ford Econoline van

    ECONLINE! And, a bunch of misc supporting pieces of some sort. :D
    Confused. My spelling is correct, Econoline.
  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,708
    edited June 2022
    tmart said:

    xwesx said:

    tmart said:

    Ford Econoline van

    ECONLINE! And, a bunch of misc supporting pieces of some sort. :D
    Confused. My spelling is correct, Econoline.
    Sorry. I was shouting in emphatic agreement that it was the only vehicle in the photo worth naming. Figures that I would have misspelled it in my excitement. :D
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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 826
    Holiday Inn photo - right border - 1960 Dodge Dart Seneca.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,516
    In Columbus, the 60 Ford nearest the camera is a Galaxie 2 door post (Club Victoria?), while the one at far left appears to be a Fairlane or Custom.

    In Michael's town, Ford LTD II in the foreground. Wagon driving away maybe a Corolla?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    edited June 2022


    Can you ID the white convertible closest to the camera?

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,519
    I think it is a FIAT 850 sport spider.

    Is 2 ahead of it a pacer wagon?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    stickguy said:

    I think it is a FIAT 850 sport spider.

    Is 2 ahead of it a pacer wagon?

    It's a Fiat Sport Spider but not the rear engine 850 but rather the 124 Sport Spider
    , a cut-rate Alfa-Romeo which like the Alfas had Pininfaina bodywork, 5 Speeds and a twin-cam four.
    I owned a '71 which I loved but sold when I realized the tin worm would eat it all up. If you see one now it probably has never been parked outdoors.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133
    I remember upsetting an Alfa Spider owner at the gas station when (as a know-nothing teen) I compared his car to the Fiat Spider.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,519
    Resolution on my iPad for that puncture is terrible. Taillights looked 124 but the side shape seemed curvier, more like the 850

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    stickguy said:

    Resolution on my iPad for that puncture is terrible. Taillights looked 124 but the side shape seemed curvier, more like the 850

    It's not your iPad, the photo isn't very clear. I could make out the shapes of the bumpers and taillights as well as the windshield. That car wears an after market luggage rack on the trunk lid. The 124 Sport Spider had a sizeable trunk for a 2 seat roadster. I once drove from NY to Denver and back with luggage for two in trunk and on backseat.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    stickguy said:


    Is 2 ahead of it a pacer wagon?

    No, the backup lights (about the only thing you can make out in that awfully fuzzy pic) are in the wrong place. Someone at Hemmings guessed it to be a downsized '78-up A-body GM wagon, but that's wrong. If I had to guess, I'd say a Ford Fairmont wagon.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133
    Yeah, too long/boxy for a Pacer wagon. I was also thinking maybe K-car wagon, but Fairmont's a better guess.
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 263,743
    Same corner on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, just 50-60 years apart.


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,516
    The wagon 2 in front of the Fiat is definitely a Fairmont (doesn't appear to be a Mercury Zephyr Villager), distinctive rear window shape.

    Looks like a shoebox Ford Tudor at the gas station in old time Malibu.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    Mystery Tailfin>


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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    57 Chevy
  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,708
    Stock equipment. :D


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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    56 Chevy?
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133
    Nope, '55.
  • StagnetStagnet Member Posts: 5
    Reading an old conversation, when I was 7 years old.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    About 300 of these were made (not by Porsche)>





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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    The obscure Denzel 1300. Read all about it here:

    https://www.classicandsportscar.com/features/porsches-forgotten-rival-meet-wd-denzel-1300

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    About 300 of these were made in the 1950s (not by Porsche).


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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    I'm not surprised that nobody could ID the little red roadster. The resemblance to early Porsche 356 models comes from the fact that the Denzel WD 1300 Sport was based on the same idea as the 356--building a sports car based on Volkswagen "Beetle" components.

    The parallels with Porsche are many. Both began in Austria (Denzel in Vienna), both used Beetle components but built their own modifications for suspension, running gear and motors. Some Denzels used bodies built of fiberglass while others had steel or aluminum coachwork. Production began in 1948 and lasted until 1959. About 300 were built. While most Denzels used the modified VW flat four, a few had Porsche engines, others used the flat twin from the BMW 700 (Wolfgang Denzel was the BMW distributor for Austria and still owns a dealership).

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,133

    ? @ab348 got it.

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Jet set


  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,350
    texases said:

    ? @ab348 got it.

    Thanks.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    texases said:

    ? @ab348 got it.

    My bad,
    I missed AB's post.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    The RR-Silver Cloud looking car is an Armstrong Siddley Sapphire, named for a jet engine made by the same company..

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,672
    Expands nicely>




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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Tutone four door 57 Ford at right.
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