Mystery car pix

texases

Oops. But by then the Miata was in place, would have been nice to have a Honda competitor from the get-go, or even before the Miata. Honda sold about 110,000 S2000, Mazda over 1,000,000 so far.

andys120

ab348 said:

texases said:

Yep! Too bad Honda didn't keep after the roadster market.

The S2000 would like a word.

Fantastic car but it ceased production in 2009. Teases has a point.

magnette

@stickguy

Sorry I lost your comment about my grey Manchester scene.

The one on the right is indeed a Morris Minor van - they built tens of thousands of them from the late forties to the early seventies including vast numbers for the Post Office, but this particular one wasn't one of theirs

ab348

I believe there may be some older vehicles in this pic from NYC, 1960.

stickguy

well, definitely not 1960! 1st gen Mustang is easy. I will guess the headlight behind it is a big Rambler sedan.

stickguy

and the oddly dressed/masked "showgirls" is an interesting extra touch.

andys120

ab348 said:

I believe there may be some older vehicles in this pic from NYC, 1960.

1960? I don't think so, the Mustang is a '65MY (on sale fall '64). The Chevy taxi is a '62. GMC/Chevy panel trucks looked the same for about a decade.

fintail

Seattle, 1989:

stickguy

67(?) Barracuda looks like an antique here.

very new Corolla about to be rear ended by a Chevy panel chassis-cab.

Michaell

stickguy said:

67(?) Barracuda looks like an antique here.

very new Corolla about to be rear ended by a Chevy panel chassis-cab.

When I graduated college in 1985, my dad wanted me to buy a Corolla of that vintage.

I passed and found a year old Accord Hatchback.

texases

I’m thinking that ‘67 is a Charger.

tmart

Econoline Van, Honda Accord

explorerx4

Pontiac Grand Prix in front of the Charger. Mid 80's Olds 88 waiting to take a right.

ab348

stickguy said:

well, definitely not 1960! 1st gen Mustang is easy. I will guess the headlight behind it is a big Rambler sedan.

The "s" that was supposed to be at the end of 1960 never got struck on the keyboard. I think I was distracted by the tails.

fintail

Bellevue WA, mid 60s, should zoom ok. This "Marina style" Safeway was just a few blocks from where I used to live, it existed until the early 2010s, replaced by a semi-pretentious shopping complex:

fintail

Michaell said:

stickguy said:

67(?) Barracuda looks like an antique here.

very new Corolla about to be rear ended by a Chevy panel chassis-cab.

When I graduated college in 1985, my dad wanted me to buy a Corolla of that vintage.

I passed and found a year old Accord Hatchback.

That style Corolla was MY 1984-87 in the USDM, also spawned the NUMMI Nova.

stickguy

white nova wagon front left. and a big fin red Mercury Comet bottom right.

tmart

59 Ford wagon, 62 Thunderbird

Lostwrench3

1961 Dodge wagon.
1958 Chevy wagon.
1961 Chevy wagon.

Michaell

fintail said:

Michaell said:

stickguy said:

67(?) Barracuda looks like an antique here.

very new Corolla about to be rear ended by a Chevy panel chassis-cab.

When I graduated college in 1985, my dad wanted me to buy a Corolla of that vintage.

I passed and found a year old Accord Hatchback.

That style Corolla was MY 1984-87 in the USDM, also spawned the NUMMI Nova.

Yeah, when GM tried (and failed) to learn about Japanese production methods.

Now building Teslas.

The Corolla was a bare bones model my dad wanted me to get. And, an automatic (yuck!). The Accord was much nicer, inside and out, plus a 5-speed.

bhill2

Lostwrench3 said:

1961 Dodge wagon.
1958 Chevy wagon.
1961 Chevy wagon.

That was my first thought; all the wagons. Really took me back. Bellevue was even close to where I lived.

Lostwrench3

bhill2 said:

Lostwrench3 said:

1961 Dodge wagon.
1958 Chevy wagon.
1961 Chevy wagon.

That was my first thought; all the wagons. Really took me back. Bellevue was even close to where I lived.

Me too. I was at Fort Lewis for 7 months.

andys120

Little blue convert parked near wagons is a Hillman Minx (early 60s)

explorerx4

Back half of a white 62(?) Bullet Bird on the right.
Not sure what the big black GM hardtop is. My impression is a Buick but not sure.

stickguy

Behind the red car looks like a Pontiac to me.

fintail

I think the big dark car behind the red Comet is something uncommon, a ~65 Mercury Montclair or Marauder 4 door HT

Lostwrench3

I was going to place two chips on the 1963 Buick Electra 225 because of that long thin side badge on the side of the rear fender.

magnette

The Minx convertible shows how your compact cars of that era, like the Comet were never going to be sold widely here as they were a size larger than the average saloon - which then pretty much would have been a Minx / Victor / Cambridge etc

fintail

I've noticed USDM "compacts", especially the 63+ Dart/Valiant, were sold as normal full sized cars in other markets. Of course, in much of the world, a USDM full sized car would end up like this:

magnette said:

The Minx convertible shows how your compact cars of that era, like the Comet were never going to be sold widely here as they were a size larger than the average saloon - which then pretty much would have been a Minx / Victor / Cambridge etc

andys120

Yes, Detroit cars of almost any era were designed for the wide open spaces of the West and Midwest. We Easterners found out that even "compacts" of the 50s and 60s were problematic. This was one of the reasons for the rising popularity of imports such as Volswagen, Renault and later Datsun and Toyota.

Nowadays gigantic pickups and SUVs are everywhere and they're even bigger and way heavier than the Yank Tanks of yore. Maybe some folks will figure out that an electric SUV is harder to park than most small EC cars.

fintail

Stockholm, 1983 - something here is unlike the others:

sda

72 Malibu

imidazol97

I had to look it up. It was called Chevelle in those days.

Is there another US car 5 behind the Chevelle (2 behind the black car).

tmart

Mustang ?

andys120

tmart said:

Mustang ?

Where, I don't see one.

fintail

The car 2 behind the black car (which is between two Volvos), with round lights, makes me think period VW Polo or Golf.

tmart

andys120 said:

tmart said:

Mustang ?

Where, I don't see one.

Ninth car. Second car behind the second black car. Was a WAG based on the headlights.

andys120

explorerx4

1970 Sport Fury convertible. I had a 4 door hardtop version.

andys120

explorerx4 said:

1970 Sport Fury convertible. I had a 4 door hardtop version.

Yup, possibly one of the biggest 2-doors ever made!

kyfdx

andys120 said:

explorerx4 said:

1970 Sport Fury convertible. I had a 4 door hardtop version.

Yup, possibly one of the biggest 2-doors ever made!

Looks like a '67 Bonneville 2-door is about 7" longer.

andys120

stickguy

1960ish Triumph Herald?

tmart

Looks like some kind of Triumph based on the hood.

ab348

The car James May of Top Gear unsuccessfully tried converting to wind power to cross the Channel.

andys120

stickguy said:

1960ish Triumph Herald?

Yup,a 1962 Triumph Herald, a somewhat popilar item in that era.

andys120

ab348 said:

The car James May of Top Gear unsuccessfully tried converting to wind power to cross the Channel.

James would have done better trying one of these>

stickguy

Kinda looks like what amphicar started with.

texases

I saw one of those restoration shows do an Amphicar. LOTS of rust/corrosion. Not a great design.

andys120

texases said:

I saw one of those restoration shows do an Amphicar. LOTS of rust/corrosion. Not a great design.

A lousy boat, and a worse car.