Mystery car pix

fintail

Michaell said:

I saw that same picture recently.

Yeah it popped up in a bunch of MB and old car groups lately.

Date estimation is via a couple of Audis, I think I see a C2 100 and a B2 80.

Lostwrench3

Ah, the German Autobahn.
Been there, done that.
We could never get more than 70mph out of our small Army jeeps. We were passed by everything including the VW Bugs.
We were in a German Mercedes taxi on the Autobahn and watched its speedometer climb and climb. After we returned to the barracks, we converted the kilometers per hour we saw on the taxi's speedometer to miles per hour. We were going 108 miles per hour.

ab348

"BMW, the Ultimate Towing Machine."

andys120

White BMW 2002 pulling impossibly huge trailer on left.

kyfdx

It's still that way in Germany. When we were there in 2019 at a festival, the whole riverbank was little cars with camping trailers.

explorerx4

The car I posted is a Lincoln Continental. I think it's a Black Label trim based on the wheels.

ab348

explorerx4 said:

The car I posted is a Lincoln Continental. I think it's a Black Label trim based on the wheels.

I thought it was a Continental but wasn't sure. When Ford switched the rear doors to being hinged at the B-post instead of being suicide-style as on the prototypes they showed, it kind of destroyed the cachet of the model.

texases

I got one of those Continentals as a loaner car a couple of years ago. I wasn’t impressed, it was fine, not special.

fintail

My friend with the CT6 also has a thing for those Continentals. He's growing less thrilled with the CT6 over time, I wonder if he would be more enthused about the Lincoln.

Re: towing in Germany, people there will tow anything with anything. To be fair, those little trailers are pretty light.

On the Autobahn, no fewer than 4 MB W114/115s, 2 Peugeot 504s, and what looks like another Toyota Mark II up front. I think an Audi 100 towing a trailer behind the BMW - the USDM 5000. I think the MB W116 in the pic was the king of the road - notice it is a single mirror car, for less wind resistance.

fintail

Washington DC, 1988 apparently, zooms fine:

stickguy

C4 up front, in that very common blue. Silver Ford sedan, looks too fancy for a Granada. Could it be a Lincoln Versaille? a Horizon TC3 behind that (unless in it an Omni)

I think the white low car far left is an 85 vintage Celica.

Michaell

Burgundy Grand Am nose ('85-ish?) in the lower right corner.

Brown Corolla sedan and brown Honda Civic wagon in row 2 or 3 (depending on how you count)

texases

That Omni variant looks like a Dodge Charger.

tmart

What? No one called the Vette! Or the Jeep behind it.

explorerx4

C4 was mentioned.

tmart

Opps, didn’t recognize the term “C4” as a Corvette.

fintail

W123 beside the Omnirizon, looks like an A body in front of the Celica.

andys120

texases

That electric Morgan thing? Odd wheels...

fintail

Aliquippa, must be mid 70s, zooms well:

stickguy

maverick (looks like a grabber based on hood stripes) next to a Ford F100 with a capper. old school truck baby! Butt up to a 4 door Torino.

upper right, half of a 70ish Firebird with Enduro nose.

texases

Duster with that half-vinyl roof front right.

stickguy

middle right, end of row, a Gremlin parked next to a 70 or so Impala or Caprice.

andys120

texases said:

That electric Morgan thing? Odd wheels...

The 2024 Morgan Super3 is powered by a Ford V-twin gasser.

ab348

Not sure if I posted this years ago or not but a search turned up nothing. My hometown, Halifax, in Centennial year 1967 observing the Canadian Navy fleet in the harbor. That view would be very different today.

texases

andys120 said:

texases said:

That electric Morgan thing? Odd wheels...

The 2024 Morgan Super3 is powered by a Ford V-twin gasser.

Interesting! Checked out a review, sounds like fun, but would be tough to wrangle my body in there. You had me going with the engine, turns out "The Ford three-cylinder makes 118 eager horsepower with 111 lb-ft of torque, more than enough to launch the 1400-pound Super 3 off the line and out of a corner. The Mazda-Miata five-speed manual feels short, precise, and engaging."

So it's that tiny Ford engine (they put a 1.0 L block in a carry on to show how small it is), the 1.5L non-turbo version.

stickguy

Corvair nose at the back.

texases

Did they move that clock tower building up into the park? Here's the closest I got on google maps:

fintail

So many British cars in Halifax. I will pick the Envoy Sherwood wagon (aka Vauxhall Victor FB) at front, in front of a 63 Chevy.

andys120

ab348

texases said:

Did they move that clock tower building up into the park?

Uh, no. It's been in that location since it was built in 1800 or thereabouts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Town_Clock

I think the pic I posted was taken by someone standing either at the top of the hill or on the garrison wall that surrounds the fort, so you have a different angle. You can see the roadway the cars in my pic are driving along to the right in this modern pic:

texases

Ok, I couldn’t get a view from that road, odd since they have views from everywhere else, it seems.

stickguy

andys120 said:

looks like a Stinger corvair.

andys120

stickguy said:

andys120 said:

looks like a Stinger corvair.

Yup it's a 1966 Yenko Stinger S (modified Corvair).

andys120

kyfdx

Is that a Fairmont? Or, a bigger model?

fintail

With quad lights I believe an 82-83 Fairmont.

stickguy

it's a fairmont. actually a nice looking car for the time. Tidy size.

texases

When they first came out Car and Driver’s introductory article was very positive, talking about all the advanced weight saving engineering in the car. Of course, anything would be advanced compared to the Granada/Maverick/Falcon. I’ve always liked how they look.

sda

I think the 2.3 4cylinder performed better than the 200 six in the Fairmonts. Hardly impressive.

texases

Didn’t C and D retrofit a 302 into one at some point?

andys120

texases

Import road test, Corona on left?

Michaell

texases said:

Didn’t C and D retrofit a 302 into one at some point?

Maybe. Perhaps in one of their "Boss Wagons" that they built over the years.

andys120

texases said:

Import road test, Corona on left?

1967 MY, one down 6 to go.

Michaell

Beetle, Renault 4

andys120

Michaell said:

Beetle, Renault 4

The Renault is Renault 10 not a 4.

Michaell

andys120 said:

Michaell said:

Beetle, Renault 4

The Renault is Renault 10 not a 4.

Ah well.

There is a BL vehicle of some sort, and likely a Fiat, in that picture as well.

stickguy

the Fairmont came with a 302 option at least some years. That would have been pretty energetic in something that light.

fintail

The BL car is a BMC car, MG 1100, ADO16