Mystery car pix

Lostwrench3

Lockheed F117.

texases

Odd, I'm not seeing the pic on my Windows 10 laptop running Edge.

ab348

No picture here either.

andys120

tmart

Hudson Hornet?

andys120

Right Tmart, it's a1951 Hudson Hornet, my personal favorite from that era.

andys120

tmart

Mid 50s Buick. Nice looking convertible.

stickguy

Needs wider wheelz

bhill2

'53 Buick Skylark

Lostwrench3

Interesting story about that Buick, GM wanted the focal point on that model to be the wheels, even painting the areas near them white and eliminating the car's portholes.

andys120

The '53 Skylark was a special edition designed for limited sales to"elite" buyers each division had one,
Chevy's was the Corvette, Olds had the Starfire, Caddy's was the ElDorado. I can't remember the Pontiac.

ab348

Pontiac didn't have one. The Corvette really wasn't in the same category since it wasn't begun as a special edition but as a regular production offering.

fintail

John F Kennedy Catholic High School (now Kennedy Catholic High School), Seattle (now Burien), 1970 - zooms fine:

stickguy

one of those funny Mavericks without a bed. Next to the Falcon it replace, but which actually looks bigger being squared off. and taller.

Lostwrench3

1955 Buick.

sda

67 BelAir wagon. The school has vibes of a business building.

ab348

Late 1970s I believe, Beaver Stadium, Penn State University. Expands nicely.

texases

Surprising how few imports there are. Is this an IH Travelall on the 5th row?

stickguy

IH for sure. Hard to tell but looks small for a travel all so might be a scout?

stickguy

I see a gremlin hiding next to a barge big Oldsmobile.

Imports, a 240z and 1st gen Celica.

texases

You're right, a Scout.

fintail

At Beaver Stadium I see nothing definitively newer than 1978 (Fairmont, Celica, GM A-body).

For oddities, at far left in front of a Coupe DeVille and beside a clamshell wagon, I see a 2 door Dasher.

ab348

texases said:

Surprising how few imports there are.

I think they get overlooked just due to the sheer number of vehicles in the pic, but there are a bunch of imports. Parked directly across from the IH are a pair nose to tail, the first might be a VW Type 3 fastback or perhaps something else, and directly behind it is a little hatchback econobox I can't ID. Next to the IH appears to be an early Rabbit, and 4 to the left of it is a Datsun wagon, probably a 2nd-gen 510.

andys120

texases

1953 Mercury Monterey? Must be tough keeping up all that wood!

andys120

Yup, a '53 with the flat-iron tailights unique to that MY. I don't know if they were still using real wood.

andys120

{expands}. I think that is a black MGA coupe parked on right.

kyfdx

andys120 said:

Yup, a '53 with the flat-iron tailights unique to that MY. I don't know if they were still using real wood.

Sure looks real, with the raised trim pieces. I'm guessing it's real, in 1953. Although, the stuff around the windows doesn't look as good.

texases

I think it’s real wood. Other pics show the veneer with raised areas along the grain.

On second thought, it looks like bubbles under the ‘veneer’ on the tailgate, and the thick parts look like some of the bolts were over tightened, bending in the metal at those locations. Probably fake wood.

imidazol97

andys120 said:

I have never seen one of these Mercury wagons at a car show/cruise-in.

fintail

andys120 said:

{expands}. I think that is a black MGA coupe parked on right.

Yep, and looks like a 58 Impala convertible 2 in front of it.

andys120

Yup a white '60 Olds down the hill and then the '58 Chevy .

andys120

kyfdx

Hummer H2?

ab348

kyfdx said:

Hummer H2?

That's what the badge on the side says.

andys120

kyfdx said:

Hummer H2?

I saw one the other day for the first time in years. I don't think they still make 'em. That one's an '07.

kyfdx

andys120 said:

kyfdx said:

Hummer H2?

I saw one the other day for the first time in years. I don't think they still make 'em. That one's an '07.

The only Hummers still made are the new EVs from GM

stickguy

A Chevy Colorado with terrible visibility and a bed cap.

Michaell

stickguy said:

A Chevy Colorado with terrible visibility and a bed cap.

That's the H3; the H2 was based on the Suburban platform, IIRC.

stickguy

2, 3, close enough for government work.

andys120

Brochure art>

stickguy

a Nash?

ab348

1953 Nash Ambassador Statesman.

bhill2

It's an Ambassador Country Club (2-door hardtop)

ab348

Ah yes, my mistake. Bad on me for not checking the daily Hemmings page. I abandoned that site some time ago. It's been so long since I visited that I just returned to log in and they no longer would accept my password. They now require a 12-character password with the usual permutations and combinations of letters, numbers and special characters. 12 characters! I've never seen that before. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot.

kyfdx

ab348 said:

Ah yes, my mistake. Bad on me for not checking the daily Hemmings page. I abandoned that site some time ago. It's been so long since I visited that I just returned to log in and they no longer would accept my password. They now require a 12-character password with the usual permutations and combinations of letters, numbers and special characters. 12 characters! I've never seen that before. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot.

The latest password for the company laptop requires 16 characters..

imidazol97

ab348 said:

Ah yes, my mistake. Bad on me for not checking the daily Hemmings page. I abandoned that site some time ago. It's been so long since I visited that I just returned to log in and they no longer would accept my password. They now require a 12-character password with the usual permutations and combinations of letters, numbers and special characters. 12 characters! I've never seen that before. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot.

kyfdx said:

The latest password for the company laptop requires 16 characters..

I hate that. Now many sites won't accept # as a special character. So I've had to start using $.
Soon they'll ban that. Having all sorts of password variations makes it hard without my little
blue book to look up the latest if I can't remember. Most I remember, but...

Also #ab348
When I renewed Hemmings Classic Car, they do automatic renewal--just like Sirius XM, except
they really emphasize the auto renewal will occur and to make sure you know you'll get an email that's it's renewing. BUT you can cancel that "feature" by calling or doing something.

magnette

I went to the Frankfurt Motor show in about 2007 and again in 2009 and at one of them I got into Hummer H2.

The salesman was doing his best but the thing was not in any way my ideal transport particularly given I told him I lived in London (it had no LHD)

It was not much bigger than a Volvo 200 estate in the back and the legroom was pretty restricted as well.

It was also difficult to see out of and the fittings were basic considering the price they were aiming it for

They did start marketing the H2 in the UK at about that time and a few showed up - you could aways see them as they were the ones who parked with the commercial vehicles and couldn't fit in our car parks.

They do live on as stretched limos - typically carrying drunken hen night (bachelorette) party goers to night-clubs I suppose

fintail

I remember there were howls of disapproval about the H2 when launched - too big and heavy, too brash - launching before a massive economic crisis probably didn't help image either, kind of the poster child for the subprime bubble. Almost 20 years later, everything is big and heavy.