Mystery car pix

stickguy

just a WAG but a 1960 Sunliner?

explorerx4

@stickguy,
WOW you are good!

tmart

1960 Ford Sunliner. Nice picture.

andys120

tmart said:

1960 Ford Sunliner. Nice picture.

My bad, posted the wrong picture.

stickguy

explorerx4 said:

@stickguy,
WOW you are good!

What can I say, It's a gift.

fintail

That Sunliner illustration is one where they didn't make the people look smaller to make the car look bigger, if anything it seems like they made the people look big to mask the size of the car.

stickguy

the guy in the back seat is quite the stringbean.

and not much passing for rollover safety in that car.

andys120

kyfdx

Nice wheels! Not sure I love them on that model, though.

stickguy

I almost bought that version GTI new.

Lostwrench3

Ah, memories of my bought new 1980 non-turbo 1.5L diesel Rabbit. Same color combination.
Connecticut to Mt. St. Helens to Seattle to the Great Salt Lake and back to Connecticut. 125 gallons of fuel.
Final mileage after 8 years, 289,000 miles. What a car.

xwesx

Lostwrench3 said:

Ah, memories of my bought new 1980 non-turbo 1.5L diesel Rabbit. Same color combination.
Connecticut to Mt. St. Helens to Seattle to the Great Salt Lake and back to Connecticut. 125 gallons of fuel.
Final mileage after 8 years, 289,000 miles. What a car.

I was thinking similar.

My best friend from childhood had a 1979 diesel Rabbit (5-speed). Aside from his being yellow, this one here instantly reminded me of it.

andys120

bhill2

xwesx said:

Lostwrench3 said:

Ah, memories of my bought new 1980 non-turbo 1.5L diesel Rabbit. Same color combination.
Connecticut to Mt. St. Helens to Seattle to the Great Salt Lake and back to Connecticut. 125 gallons of fuel.
Final mileage after 8 years, 289,000 miles. What a car.

I was thinking similar.

My best friend from childhood had a 1979 diesel Rabbit (5-ed). Aside from his being yellow, this one here instantly reminded me of it.

I'll make it three. Mine was a slate gray 1981, base trim level (L). It did have A/C, and you could stay cool or you could accelerate - take your choice. The most honest car I ever owned. Took me everywhere, got 40+ mpg, couldn't pull the cork out of champagne bottle. I still miss it.

ab348

I bought a 1990 GTI new. It was black outside - I wanted a metallic blue one they had on the lot but the black one was a demo model with just a few miles on it that they gave me a better deal on. It was really a good car. Amazing amount of room in those because it has a 2-way folding rear seat. You could just flip the rear backrest forward for the usual expansion of the cargo area, but if you had a need for more space, the bottom cushion was hinged at the front and could be flipped up 90 degrees and allowed the backrest to drop all the way to the floor. When I moved to a new apartment that took a lot of my stuff quite easily. It rode and handled really well too, typical German car-feel.

andys120

I got a first gen VW GTI back in 1983 but ended up trading it after a couple of years. The final drive was set up for the cut and thrust of urban traffic but was way too low for highway trips (3800rpm @70mph!).

I now own a 2020 GTI (mk.VII) which I like but I find the brakes way too "touchy" @ the low speeds I need for entering my very tight garage. I don't car for the farty exhaust sounds and I'll probably sell it as my need for practical wheels ends once I move from a house to a "retirement community".

andys120

andys120 said:

No takers on this black beauty? Hint: Once the most popular model in Italy and in India (built there under license)

fintail

Must be the Indian Premier Padmini with that plate.

andys120 said:

andys120 said:

No takers on this black beauty? Hint: Once the most popular model in Italy and in India (built there under license)

fintail

A couple eras in view, should zoom well:

andys120

fintail said:

Must be the Indian Premier Padmini with that plate.

andys120 said:

andys120 said:

Yup, the Premiere Padmini was a Fiat (Nouva)11100 built under license.

andys120

Lostwrench3

1954 Buick.
1955 Ford.
1960 Chevy.

stickguy

I don't know who made that Hornet Camino, or why, but I want one!

tmart

fintail said:

A couple eras in view, should zoom well:

Two 55 Fords, Falcon convertible, Fairlane.

ab348

stickguy said:

I don't know who made that Hornet Camino, or why, but I want one!

I remember reading that AMC made a prototype or two of those. Don't know if that's one or a homebuilt.

stickguy

Could be factory. I was thinking it looked really well done. Most of those home builts, really looked like it.

explorerx4

The black coupe is a Rambler Ambassador.

stickguy

far left, the little red with black top buggy is either a Jeepster or Mini Moke. Hard to tell from that angle, but it looks too short for the Jeep but it's probably just optics.

bhill2

explorerx4 said:

The black coupe is a Rambler Ambassador.

I generally like AMCs. But that style Ambo always struck me as a swing and a miss.

andys120

Nice 64-ish red Falcon convertible w top down in mid-pic

explorerx4

Is that a ship with all those radar dishes on it?
A blue and white Econoline van to the left and below the red water tower.

stickguy

I thought the van was a Chevy

andys120

Michaell

Suzuki X-90.

Briefly considered this as our son's first vehicle, until we found out that insurance on 2-seaters of any type were more expensive than on a 4-door sedan.

fintail

I am guessing France, mid 60s, a smorgasbord here (a little grainy but zooms OK):

explorerx4

Bridgette Bardot walking down the aisle splitting the cars.

ab348

Interesting France picture. Several Renault 4s, a couple of Citroen Ami 6s, a couple of what I believe are Panhards, and I think a couple of American Fords, a mid-60s Thunderbird and a Falcon wagon.

andys120

About six cars up from bottom appears to be a DKW F=6

andys120

One of these does not belong>

tmart

The little foreign car does not belong, but the 59 Ford does. A point could be made that none belong considering the banner!

texases

Fiat 600?

explorerx4

@texases,
I think Fiat 600, too. Bigger than a 500.

texases

Hard to come up with a better contrast between US and European cars.

magnette

In France the approaching couple are just alongside a Volvo Amazon

Two cars up from it I think that is a Ford Anglia 105 Estate - it would probably be one assembled in Italy at that time, for the French market, due to tariffs on our cars as we were then (as sadly now again) not part of the European Community

andys120

texases said:

Fiat 600?

Yup, the similar Fiat 500 had fewer louvers on the engine lid. The Plymouth on left is a '57 or '58. I think the fender lettering says "Belvedere"

andys120

fintail

I notice the Fiat 600 doesn't have rear hinged doors, maybe a later example more contemporary with the date of the image.

Looks likea 65-66 Country Sedan or Squire to the left of the Belvedere.

magnette

@andys120

I think that Maserati is a Sebring - circa 1963-6

texases

I think it's a 3500 GT Spyder by Vignale. From what I can find the Sebring only came as a coupe.

andys120

texases said:

I think it's a 3500 GT Spyder by Vignale. From what I can find the Sebring only came as a coupe.

That's right, it is a 1961 Maserati 3500GT Spyder bodied by Vignale. IMO one of the best looking cars ever made anywhere by anyone. I've been in love since I first saw it in the 1962 Road and
Track yearbook, they called it a "Modenese masterpiece for the touring enthusiast .