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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,167

    With those horizontal taillights I think that’s a Duster, ‘70-‘71.

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    I also spy a clamshell wagon in the distance.

    The old Arena in Seattle, must be ~1959 - smorgasbord here, a little blurry in zoom but many are identifiable:


  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414

    54 Ford wagon

  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,991
    The 57 Desoto looks quite a bit more modern than most of the other cars in the picture.
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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519

    The 57 Desoto looks quite a bit more modern than most of the other cars in the picture.

    That's because suddenly, it's 1960! :D

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    1947 Buick.
    1958 DeSoto.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    The car in front of the 54 Ford looks like an Opel; I want to say a Rekord but it looks more like a Cresta.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519
    The Bronx, early ‘70s.


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895

    Valiant looks like an antique.

    Left front, is that a Marquis? Looks mercury not ford to me.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414

    I see a Mustang and a Valiant.

  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,694
    70 LTD, 71 Cutlass wagon, 70 LeMans

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,661
    You sure that’s the Bronx? Nothing is on fire!

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519
    Two pics of Reynolds Buick-GMC-Jaguar, W. Covina, CA, circa 1971. Should expand a bit.



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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    Jag E type 3 door, next to what appears to be a Myers Manx dune buggy. Gotta love LA, where else would you see that at a Buick dealer?

    light green Riviera in the top picture is a good looking car. Bottom picture, in the back, the rear of a Black Riv.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,167
    Bottom pic - is that the front corner of an E type, bottom left?
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895

    Yup

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,661
    For the record, the dealer is still there. Family owned since 1915.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,167
    And the IHOP is still across the street:

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    texases said:

    Bottom pic - is that the front corner of an E type, bottom left?

    That's a post-1968 E-Type with side markers and the taller headlights lacking glass covers.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    looks like they got rid of the Jag lineup though.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    white Triumph spitfire (early model year) in the background. The red abomination is a Maserati of some sort.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    The first Quattroporte, a Frua design I think.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    520 toll station , Lake Washington, 1979 - I think the tolls were off this bridge by the time I was old enough to remember, I don't recall this. Zooms well:


  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    front, 2 tone mid 70's Camaro. I think it is a Rally Sport trim.

    2nd row, 75ish Corolla wagon/hatch (I loved that body style in SR-5 trim). I would take one today if not rusted out.

    in the lot at the back, a yellow Ford Courier.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,661
    Silver Datsun 810 wagon, front and center.
    Nose of a beige Toyota Corona, lane 3

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,737
    stickguy said:

    front, 2 tone mid 70's Camaro. I think it is a Rally Sport trim.

    2nd row, 75ish Corolla wagon/hatch (I loved that body style in SR-5 trim). I would take one today if not rusted out.

    in the lot at the back, a yellow Ford Courier.

    Definitely a hatch. The Corolla wagon looks like a straight wagon.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895

    I meant it was the king roof hatch. They also for some reason had a traditional slant back hatch. This one was more like a kammback

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,737
    stickguy said:

    I meant it was the king roof hatch. They also for some reason had a traditional slant back hatch. This one was more like a kammback

    Gotcha.. I really liked that body style, as well.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,661
    This:



    versus this:



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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,167
    The Corolla really was a 'Swiss Army Knife' back then, so many different versions from sporty to practical.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    fintail said:

    The first Quattroporte, a Frua design I think.

    It's the second version of the Maserati Q-porte (1966-69) styled by Frua but actually built b y Vignale.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519
    Mitsubishi Jeep J3 I believe.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    ab348 said:

    Mitsubishi Jeep J3 I believe.

    C.lose enough for Govt. work as they say. Mitsu made copies of Korean war era Kaiser military
    Jeeps under license. Note steering wheel on right.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519
    Location and year as stated on the pic.


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    early Vega and a VW fastback.

    looks like the nose of a Capri poking out from behind the Dodge van

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Next to the VW is either a 70-ish Plymouth Barracuda or Dodge Challenger. Late 60s Ford Country Squire
    next to the Vega.

    Big grey job is an Essex class carrier modified for Jet aircraft with angled flight deck and steam catapults.

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,991
    I think the car behind the van is a Camaro.
    Blue Ford pickup parked near the ship.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    stickguy said:

    I meant it was the king roof hatch. They also for some reason had a traditional slant back hatch. This one was more like a kammback

    It's one of these, when I was a kid a neighbor had one, also in yellow - I think a lot of them were yellow:


  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    In the Hancock pic there's a 53-54 Chevy sedan and a 61-67 Ford pickup in the distance.
  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,694

    The early Vegas were nice looking cars, never mind the poor reputation they would quickly earn.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    sda said:

    The early Vegas were nice looking cars, never mind the poor reputation they would quickly earn.

    I especially liked the Kammback versions>



    Too bad they were junk.


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,691
    Seattle, 1976 - zooms extremely well:


  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,895
    white Torino driving away from the camera. and a Volvo 145 parked on the far curb.

    that looks a lot more like 1970 than 1976.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414

    Didn’t a version of the Vega require dropping the engine to change a spark plug? Or was it an urban legend?

  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    tmart said:

    Didn’t a version of the Vega require dropping the engine to change a spark plug? Or was it an urban legend?

    Not the Vega, but its platform cousin the Monza. GM, in its infinite wisdom, decided they needed to offer a v-8 in it. Needless to say, they hadn't designed the engine bay for it.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    '70 or '71 Pontiac.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,519
    A '64 Ford peeking out from the left side of the pic parked at the curb. A couple of vehicles ahead of it may be an IH Scout.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,167
    bhill2 said:

    tmart said:

    Didn’t a version of the Vega require dropping the engine to change a spark plug? Or was it an urban legend?

    Not the Vega, but its platform cousin the Monza. GM, in its infinite wisdom, decided they needed to offer a v-8 in it. Needless to say, they hadn't designed the engine bay for it.

    Yep, but it required unbolting one or both engine mounts, jacking up the engine, and going through the wheel well for access, I think.
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