Mystery car pix

xwesx · January 15

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explorerx4 · January 15

I grew up in Springfield MA, founded(incorporated?) in 1626.
Lived for about 38 years in Farmington CT, founded in 1645.
I like to say their roads were designed by the Pilgrims cows.

andys120 · January 15

tmart · January 15

Looks to be related to the Edsel!

fintail · January 15

Early 60s Aston Martin Lagonda Rapide

fintail · January 15

Can't remember if I have posted this before - Vienna, must be around 1960 (zooms ok but appears to be from a postcard so a little grainy):

ab348 · January 15

The Cafe Mozart looks like a nice spot.

Appears to be a ‘57 Ford retractable hardtop parked out front.

tmart · January 15

Yep, a 57 Skyliner. The top tells it all.

andys120 · January 16

fintail said:
Early 60s Aston Martin Lagonda Rapide

It's a 1962 Lagonda Rapide saloon . They didn't use the A-M name on it that early even tho Aston had bought Lagonda in '47.

explorerx4 · January 16

Any ideas what the white convertible with red interior at the bottom of the picture is?

magnette · January 16

In Vienna

Opel Kapitan (next to VW cabriolet) I think the little fins on the Kapitan mean it's 1958/9

to the left - obscured by the lamp post - is a white (British) Ford Zephyr Mk II

I can't make out what the two-tone wagon is behind the No Entry sign

magnette · January 16

Vienna Wagon

At first I thought a DKW but is it a Fiat 1100 ?

andys120 · January 16

explorerx4 said:
Any ideas what the white convertible with red interior at the bottom of the picture is?

Mercedes 190SL>

magnette · January 16

I even found a Fiat 1100 gardenia the same colour as the Vienna one

magnette · January 16

@explorerx4

the country lanes in the part of south Wales I grew up in were actually Drovers roads which were for farmers driving their cattle or sheep - generally towards English cities

Generally those were relatively wide and across open country.

The lanes in the valleys were, by contrast winding and narrow.

We reckoned the cows there were the ones that got away.

The towns you grew up in were older than my home town of Bridgend - or Cardiff - both of which were insignificant until the mid 1800s when Cardiff became the largest coal port in the world.

We did have a Roman Road though - and three Norman castles as the welsh were clearly difficult to control

(Especially when the pubs shut)

magnette · January 16

@fintail

Sorry - I missed your reply correctly identifying the Reliant Scimitar - a contrast to their three wheelers

Here's another three wheeler - but not a Reliant...

fintail · January 16

magnette said:
@fintail

Sorry - I missed your reply correctly identifying the Reliant Scimitar - a contrast to their three wheelers

Here's another three wheeler - but not a Reliant...

Some type of Bond? From 1967

magnette · January 17

Yes - its the Bond 875

Bond made a three-wheeler called the Bond Minicar in the fifties and they were still selling them into the early sixties.

Their original model was font wheel drive - literally - the single front wheel was driven by an engine which was mounted to turn with the single wheel below it.
they could turn in their own length

This chap is kickstarting his.

By the sixties they needed a new model to compete with the Reliant Regal and they developed the 875 which had a rear engine and course RWD.

The engine was a Hillman Imp unit, so quite sophisticated compared with it's predecessor but they didn't have much success and it led to the Bond company merging with Reliant eventually - when they brought out the Bond Bug.

see below

magnette · January 17

Guess the odd one out in this picture from the village of Broadway in the Cotswolds - should expand

fintail · January 17

Second from right appears to be a Toyota Corona Mark II estate.

I think I remember the Bond Bug from Top Gear.

ab348 · January 18

I'm not sure what the black car #3 in line would be. The taillights look Vauxhall-ish but I've never seen a Vauxhall coupe of that vintage. The rest seem pretty easy to ID: Renault 16, Marina, mystery car, a pair of MGB GTs, a Corona wagon, a Renault 4, and a 3rd-gen Cortina going out of frame.

magnette · January 18

I have to say I'd forgotten theToyota Corona Mk II was ever sold here as an Estate, but having posted it I managed to find a "barn-find" example online

If I'd not been able to see the nose of that car I would have thought it was a Vauxhall Victor by the roof line

magnette · January 18

Well - here's a clue for the big Maroon Coupe

It's British, but has a non British engine

andys120 · January 18

magnette said:
Well - here's a clue for the big Maroon Coupe

It's British, but has a non British engine

Bristol 410 /Chrysler HemiV8.

xwesx · January 18

magnette said:

If I'd not been able to see the nose of that car I would have thought it was a Vauxhall Victor by the roof line

And people say that cars today all look the same!

magnette · January 18

@andys120

Yes, it's the Bristol. It is probably the 410 but the 411 only differed in detail with the front grille so it could be one of those I suppose.

They really are exclusive cars - they hardly sold any abroad and only had one showroom but a high proportion of them survive

magnette · January 18

@xwesx

Yes, I started to wonder if they used Vauxhall components to build it !

magnette · January 18

This one should be easier

this one is in Ramsbury, a small village in Wiltshire, and was apparently taken in 1971

fintail · January 18

OYA 990 is an early 50s Austin A90 Atlantic coupe.

magnette · January 19

@fintail

Yes -the great hope for Austin exports when we were bankrupt after WW2 was never a success really.

It was a 4-cylinder and though it made all sorts of endurance records it never found success in bringing in the dollars

Here in the UK it was initially only marketed as a Drophead and I think it was launched in what turned out to be the worst winter in England for a century

They tried again with this coupe which had a wind-down rear window but it was subject to a huge tax burden and they never sold well

Nowadays - a bit liike Edsels with your car enthusiasts - they are sought after and are seen at car shows, with a thriving owners club.

magnette · January 19

note the car beyond it too

andys120 · January 19

This pic I think is ca.1950. The white Caddy has a one piece windshield so it may be the newest car. The blue Step-down Hudson was introduced ca. 1948. An older Hudson is behind it.

tmart · January 19

I see a couple of 49/50 Shoebox Fords.

andys120 · January 19

tmart said:
I see a couple of 49/50 Shoebox Fords.

Yup, Studebaker convertible in front of the brown Ford on right.

fintail · January 19

magnette said:
note the car beyond it too

I will guess Hillman Husky

fintail · January 19

In the "Skoot" town, a block back near the store with the round Coca-Cola sign, is a Buick contemporary with the white Cadillac. Must be that time when the new postwar cars were really flooding the market, lots of later models in the pic.

explorerx4 · January 19

Ferris wheel on the right.

andys120 · January 19

fintail said:
In the "Skoot" town, a block back near the store with the round Coca-Cola sign, is a Buick contemporary with the white Cadillac. Must be that time when the new postwar cars were really flooding the market, lots of later models in the pic.

I had to look it up but 1950 was the year that one piece front glass was introduced by GM (except Chevrolet & Pontiac) which would make that black Buick at least a year older than the Caddy. Yes there's lots of new iron in that pic.

texases · January 19

What town is that?

ab348 · January 19

texases said:
What town is that?

Seaside, Oregon. Not quite the same today. Here's another pic of the same place:

bhill2 · January 19

andys120 said:
This pic I think is ca.1950. The white Caddy has a one piece windshield so it may be the newest car. The blue Step-down Hudson was introduced ca. 1948. An older Hudson is behind it.

FWIW, the tail lights on the green Chevy driving away indicate that it is at least a '51.

tmart · January 20

@ab348 said:
Seaside, Oregon. Not quite the same today. Here's another pic of the same place:

52/54 Ford wagon and a 55/56 Ford wagon. I’m leaning towards a 55.

andys120 · January 20

stickguy · January 20

Avanti. Looks to me like an original Studebaker model not one of the continuation versions.

fintail · January 20

Round lights (which I prefer) = 1963 IIRC.

laurasdada · January 20

Given my father's proclivity for cars of another color e.g. Borgward, Saab, Datsun 260Z 2+2, Renault LeCar (yellow with black racing stipes. Speed holes would have completed the look), I'm surprised he didn't buy an Avanti.
I probably would have, at least once I was past crawling.

andys120 · January 20

I was really taken by the original Avanti. My college notebooks were covered with drawing of it. Looking bak I wonder what the big deal was.

stickguy · January 20

In 1962 or whenever it came out it must have looked like an exotic.

uplanderguy · January 21

One magazine at the time, can't recall which, wrote that the Avanti was "refreshingly free of ornamental excrescences", LOL. I'd have to agree with that.

It was curved side glass, long-hood/short-deck, before a whole lot of cars, too.

On this one, I detest the mirrors out on the fenders, LOL. The car looks best with no outside mirror, although I realize how inconvenient that is. I'd want the mirror on the door.

This car's bigger whitewalls slap me in the face, but I know I'm fussy.

andys120 · January 21

uplanderguy said:
One magazine at the time, can't recall which, wrote that the Avanti was "refreshingly free of ornamental excrescences", LOL. I'd have to agree with that.

It was curved side glass, long-hood/short-deck, before a whole lot of cars, too.

On this one, I detest the mirrors out on the fenders, LOL. The car looks best with no outside mirror, although I realize how inconvenient that is. I'd want the mirror on the door.

This car's bigger whitewalls slap me in the face, but I know I'm fussy.

Those whitewalls were commonplace even on sporty cars of the era bumper shapes and wheel covers were well done IMO.

Ther car shown is an Avanti R2 (Supercharged 289CID 243 hp).

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