Interesting collection. Looks like a '79 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a Mitsubishi Eclipse, and I wish I could tell what that little one in the back was.... maybe a VW Rabbit? Some foreign little sedan or hatch, but period with the rest of those machines (except the Eclipse, which just looks out of place there).
Edit: Oh, wait, no. I just blew up the picture and I think that "eclipse" is actually one of those sad late-model Camaros before they discontinued them around 2001.
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If it is numbers matching-- that Trans Am would be a great find/ buy. It is a 79 with T/A 6.6, so it is a Pontiac 400 and would have a four speed in it! Last year you could get that combo!
You may also have noted it has an odd Registration code - QH
In the days when tourists travelled by liner it was common for US travellers to collect a car from a main dealer in London and to tour Europe and then ship it back home on the Queen Mary or whatever.
Thy wouldn't have to pay taxes in Britain on the car and presumably the import taxes in the US weren't as steep.
QH was a series issued by the Royal Automobile Club.
They are an equivalent of your AAA organisation.
They would cover breakdown and insurance as part of the package and it was quite common - it also applied here for other foreigners so the same thing happened with the European nations too.
@fintail said:
There's also "Erlangen", a city in Bavaria, I wonder if the settlers had that background.
Let's go back to Seattle, again around 1980, zooms well enough to pick out several:
“Erlanger was founded in the 1880s. The city was named after the Parisian family bank Emile Erlanger & Co. and its founder, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, who helped finance the town's early development.”
Looks like an X car Skylark with snow on the hood oncoming at left with maybe an 85+ style Cressida behind it facing the other way. Maybe to the R of that a 700 series Volvo.
my generation! So many cars I wanted back then that I either cheaped out on or just couldn't make work with life. Cheap being the usual reason.
facelift Vega up front (I think the slant nose makes it look a lot more substantial. MItsu Montero 2 door in period 2 tone tan and brown. Corolla hatch with brake lights on. and parked pointing toward us, a white 4 door Colt 85+ vintage. I had a 2 door version of this generation. 70's Monte Carlo (downsized version) in front of the Toyota.
Also in Bremerton, a then-new Tempo or Topaz behind the Vega.
I guess the Duke boys Charger hadn't arrived yet in Hazard. Maybe a couple 64 Impalas in the back row near the building, and in the back further to the left maybe a dark colored 62-65 Fairlane 2 door.
Remember the Lexus CT? Kind of a Corolla looking Lexus, and it flopped.
A Lexus xB would have been cooler for sure. Most xB I see anymore are looking their age.
The CT was a Prius.
The Corolla looking thing was an HS, or something like that.
Ah crap brainfart, you are right, and the CT at least sold a handful too. The H in HS was for Hybrid, the Hybrid HS250 Hybrid H, did you know it's a Hybrid? I remmeber they were glued to the local lot and ended up as loaners, can't recall when I last saw one.
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Edit: Oh, wait, no. I just blew up the picture and I think that "eclipse" is actually one of those sad late-model Camaros before they discontinued them around 2001.
It is a Rover P4 behind my posted car
The latter has a transatlantic origin.
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Center front a 73ish duster next to a GTO (66?). Granada heading the other way. 71 mustang 3 back from the duster
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Erlanger, the gateway to CVG...
Indeed it's the Arnolt Bristol.
You may also have noted it has an odd Registration code - QH
In the days when tourists travelled by liner it was common for US travellers to collect a car from a main dealer in London and to tour Europe and then ship it back home on the Queen Mary or whatever.
Thy wouldn't have to pay taxes in Britain on the car and presumably the import taxes in the US weren't as steep.
QH was a series issued by the Royal Automobile Club.
They are an equivalent of your AAA organisation.
They would cover breakdown and insurance as part of the package and it was quite common - it also applied here for other foreigners so the same thing happened with the European nations too.
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Let's go back to Seattle, again around 1980, zooms well enough to pick out several:
“Erlanger was founded in the 1880s. The city was named after the Parisian family bank Emile Erlanger & Co. and its founder, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, who helped finance the town's early development.”
behind the early Mustang is a Honda (I think a gen 1 Prelude), rabbit and a Volare
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Most of that skyline is Cincinnati.
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1957 Ford Fairlane middle left, brown/white.
1953 Oldsmobile, left lower.
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Sorry, the black Ford is a 55 not a 56. Note the parking lights are round.
Sorry, the black Ford is a 55 not a 56. Note the parking lights are round.
DOH!
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facelift Vega up front (I think the slant nose makes it look a lot more substantial. MItsu Montero 2 door in period 2 tone tan and brown. Corolla hatch with brake lights on. and parked pointing toward us, a white 4 door Colt 85+ vintage. I had a 2 door version of this generation. 70's Monte Carlo (downsized version) in front of the Toyota.
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I guess the Duke boys Charger hadn't arrived yet in Hazard. Maybe a couple 64 Impalas in the back row near the building, and in the back further to the left maybe a dark colored 62-65 Fairlane 2 door.
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Today you would see the skyline with all the casinos.
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Yes I think so.
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Expressway? Not so fast..
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A Lexus xB would have been cooler for sure. Most xB I see anymore are looking their age.
The Corolla looking thing was an HS, or something like that.
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Ah crap brainfart, you are right, and the CT at least sold a handful too. The H in HS was for Hybrid, the Hybrid HS250 Hybrid H, did you know it's a Hybrid? I remmeber they were glued to the local lot and ended up as loaners, can't recall when I last saw one.