Mystery car pix

andys120

tmart said:

Tutone four door 57 Ford at right.

Ptretty sure you're right. Any boy know what the white car showing just headlights behind it is. I'm guessing 57-ish Mercury/

Newest car by half a decade or so is Rambler Ambassador, I'm thinking '64/5 MY.

fintail

Maybe a 63 Rambler, 2nd car in parked on the street at left.

57 Ford is a highline Fairlane 4 door HT, nice car.

tmart

There’s also a 60/64 Chevy Corvair at left.

ab348

Somewhere in California, 1964.

imidazol97

That's a rare 4 door hardtop in black and red Ford!

Lostwrench3

On the move - 1953 Ford.

stickguy

White60 ford wagon between 2 red beetles.

stickguy

64 blue T bird and a bunch of droopy denser Falcons.

fintail

Far right towards the rear I see 2x Mustangs, brand new.

I wonder if that wagon is a Squire, maybe more likely to have the roof rack.

tmart

Two 56 Fords, 52/54 Ford parked, the 53 Ford already mentioned, at least two 59 Fords. Two 57 Chevys.

bhill2

fintail said:

Maybe a 63 Rambler, 2nd car in parked on the street at left.

57 Ford is a highline Fairlane 4 door HT, nice car.

No one mentioned the car in front of the Rambler; a 56 Chrysler Windsor. I always liked that year Chrysler.

explorerx4

Kind of strange that the cars are parked 3 deep in the latest picture.
59 white El Camino parked in front of where the blue Ford is in the aisle.

kyfdx

explorerx4 said:

Kind of strange that the cars are parked 3 deep in the latest picture.
59 white El Camino parked in front of where the blue Ford is in the aisle.

That IS weird.

Lostwrench3

Valet parking.

andys120

Peak chrome>

tjc78

It’s a 58 Buick. Limited Series?

fintail

Yep 58 Buick Limited, top of the line, probably consumed half the chromium in Rhodesia.

In another group I follow, someone posted a similar car recently, but a key difference - export model:




I suspect cars like this are what caused the backlash against 50s excess.

andys120

MY 1958 saw massive amounts of chrome applied to auto bodywork. Buick and the Limited model even more so. more than others

sda

The lines of the 58 Buick are not bad but a very heavy hand with the chrome, just too much.

magnette

Jet Set

as my post a few days back got lost along the way it was
a 1958 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire - the name of the post was to refer to the Sapphire name as this was the last new model A S introduced and was named after the Sapphire jet engines which the Hawker Siddeley group was selling by then - A S also named their early post war cars after the considerable number of aircraft they produced during WW2 so we had Hurricane / Whitley / Lancaster etc...

As we also had a Jubilee celebration here recently I thought I would post this picture which is of an Armstrong Siddeley "ute" based on the A S 18 model (saloons of which were the Lancaster and Whitley particularly)




Virtually all these A S utes went abroad - this one was taking part - together with the following Standard Vanguard - in a parade through central London during Coronation week in 1953 - it was part of a display of British industries etc - various models were included including some commercial vehicles too but this is the only one where I found a decent picture.

The Ute was registered in Coventry and very few were ever seen here...

andys120

When did you last see a car with two doors big enough to seat 5 or 6 passengers? They used to be common.

Michaell

Jag-yoo-are XJS Coupe, 70's vintage.

texases

I always loved those XJ coupes. I read they had trouble keeping water from leaking around the windows fresh off the showroom floor.

kyfdx

Michaell said:

Jag-yoo-are XJS Coupe, 70's vintage.

XJ-6 or XJ-12 coupe, but that’s not an XJS

texases

Wiki also talks about how you can see under the door card the seam where they joined two sedan doors together to make the longer coupe door.

fintail

Sold in USDM only MY 1975-77, I think.

When I was a kid, there was one in the small town where I lived, silver with black top. Very elegant. It had one of those joke license plate frames: "My other car is a Rolls-Royce". The owner's other car was an early Silver Shadow, maybe didn't get the joke (both pretty exotic cars in small town WA in the 80s).

ab348

Harry Metcalfe just yesterday posted a driving video of his newly-restored XJ-12 coupe where he casually mentioned he dropped something like £70K on all the work:

https://youtu.be/P_GNk0Yn6lg

Over on his Harry's Garage page on YT he documented the restoration process over a year or so of what turned out to be a mind-boggling amount of work. It was in far worse condition than he ever realized.

Michaell

kyfdx said:

Michaell said:

Jag-yoo-are XJS Coupe, 70's vintage.

XJ-6 or XJ-12 coupe, but that’s not an XJS

Yeah, you're right - the XJS has the flying buttresses.

texases

I see that Metcalfe got rid of the factory stock vinyl top. They all came with them, supposedly because the 1970s paint couldn't handle all the flexing the now-coupe body suffered over bumps and turns. Modern paint can, so a number of restored Coupes are now vinyl-free. He mentions the paint cracking on the A-pillar if low-profile tires are used.

ab348

Harry referenced the body flex as a reason why he didn't go to extremes with stiffening up the suspension because the structure just couldn't take it. I guess they were pretty willowy.

fintail

Speaking of the XJC, I saw this one on my last trip to Germany:



On SIII XJ6 or maybe XJS wheels, I think. This was in the MB Customer Center parking lot, of all places.

bhill2

fintail said:

Sold in USDM only MY 1975-77, I think.

When I was a kid, there was one in the small town where I lived, silver with black top. Very elegant. It had one of those joke license plate frames: "My other car is a Rolls-Royce". The owner's other car was an early Silver Shadow, maybe didn't get the joke (both pretty exotic cars in small town WA in the 80s).

fintail said:

Sold in USDM only MY 1975-77, I think.

When I was a kid, there was one in the small town where I lived, silver with black top. Very elegant. It had one of those joke license plate frames: "My other car is a Rolls-Royce". The owner's other car was an early Silver Shadow, maybe didn't get the joke (both pretty exotic cars in small town WA in the 80s).

fintail said:

Sold in USDM only MY 1975-77, I think.

When I was a kid, there was one in the small town where I lived, silver with black top. Very elegant. It had one of those joke license plate frames: "My other car is a Rolls-Royce". The owner's other car was an early Silver Shadow, maybe didn't get the joke (both pretty exotic cars in small town WA in the 80s).

When my wife and I first bought our Mercedes I wanted to get a license plate frame that said 'My other car is a Toyota' (it was true). My wife wouldn't let me.

Michaell

Valley Highway (now I-25) in Denver, 1961:

tmart

54 Ford, 59 Chevy, 57 Chevy, 60 Ford, Metropolitan, 56(?) Chevy.

explorerx4

59 Chevy to the left of a 57 Chevy wagon.

andys120

Big Austin-Healey passing two-tone Chevy. Can't tell if it's a Healey 100 or a 3000.

magnette

I remember there was a sticker I saw once on a Porsche 911 bumper and it said "My Other Car is a Ford Escort"

imidazol97

Michaell said:

Valley Highway (now I-25) in Denver, 1961:

1956 Oldsmobile dead in the middle.
1955 Plymouth V8 to the right of that.

andys120

texases

Odd trim around the headlights, kind of 'raccoon eyes'.

fintail

Something tells me that car is a Skoda.

tmart

fintail said:

Something tells me that car is a Skoda.

Like the hood?

andys120

On my monitor the badge is not easy to read but you're right it's a Skoda 1200 from the early 60s.

andys120

texases

"One of these things is not like the others..."

explorerx4

A red Jeep with white top doing maxed out towing.

magnette

That Skoda 1200 was a model they didn't market in the UK although they may have imported a few here. this particular car has Dutch plates.

The first model they imported officially was the 445 which became the Octavia, from about 1956/7 I think.

magnette

the Jurassic Park predecessor has two of our old regular features with a 60 Ford Wagon adjacent to a Minx convertible.

tmart

60 Ford Country Sedan, 59 Ford Ranch Wagon, 59 Chevy wagon, early 60s Chevy Biscayne

texases

Back then you got a half dozen fiberglass dinos, a jeep, some trailers, and some land, and POOF, you have a tourist attraction!