Mystery car pix

bhill2 · January 9

Wow! Am I the first to note the iconic 60 Ford front and center in the seashore picture?

texases · January 10

The front Honda may be an S90 like the one I rode in high school. Wish the picture was clearer, the other Honda looks like a bigger one, likely a twin, but can't tell what model.

fintail · January 10

bhill2 said:
Wow! Am I the first to note the iconic 60 Ford front and center in the seashore picture?

60 Fords are so normal here, they blend into the background!

bhill2 · January 10

fintail said:

bhill2 said:
Wow! Am I the first to note the iconic 60 Ford front and center in the seashore picture?
60 Fords are so normal here, they blend into the background!

Point taken. How about the 63 Ford slant back with rear wheel spats? That's, uh, imaginative.

fintail · January 11

bhill2 said:

fintail said:

bhill2 said:
Wow! Am I the first to note the iconic 60 Ford front and center in the seashore picture?
60 Fords are so normal here, they blend into the background!
Point taken. How about the 63 Ford slant back with rear wheel spats? That's, uh, imaginative.

Skirts on the Galaxie are not a choice I would have made.

fintail · January 11

Another German scrapyard, Karlsruhe, 1974, zooms fine - something unexpected

sda · January 11

65-66 Pontiac coupe.

roadburner · January 11

BMW 1500 or 1800.

andys120 · January 12

I think the car on the left is a Peugeot 403 cabriolet w removable hardtop. Wreck on tyop of pile in center could be a Fiat 124 sedan.

explorerx4 · January 12

I'm trying to figure out if the car in the backgound on the right, you can see the roof peeking out just beyond the BMW in the foreground.
It has a domestic wagon look to me.

ab348 · January 12

explorerx4 said:
I'm trying to figure out if the car in the backgound on the right, you can see the roof peeking out just beyond the BMW in the foreground.
It has a domestic wagon look to me.

Good luck with that!

I was going to say there was a Lada on top of the pile until I saw the date was 1974. That would make it a Fiat 124 sedan, which sounds about right. The Soviets bought the design and I believe a lot of the tooling from Fiat to go into the car business. Unfortunately they picked the wrong car.

andys120 · January 12

stickguy · January 12

early 60s Aston Martin DB4. The best Bond car! Gorgeous.

Michaell · January 12

DB5

stickguy · January 12

that's what I meant.

fintail · January 12

DB4 and DB5 look similar.

Back in Germany I think I see the wagon explorer mentions - I almost can imagine there being a Rambler Cross Country in that, but there's so much low resolution clutter that it's hard to say. Doorless/frontless VW notchback beside that, There is a 4 cyl MB Ponton in front of the pile with the Fiat on top, in the pile with a luggage rack looks like a Volvo Duett and a DKW 3=6 type model beside it. Shame about the Peugeot, those are pretty cars.

stickguy · January 12

the nose is slightly different. that one is a 5.

explorerx4 · January 12

@fintail,
I agree, that kink in the roofline has me thinking the same thing.

ab348 · January 12

Michaell said:
DB5

Imagine trying to insure one of those…

https://youtu.be/6O7stxoFPlM?si=Yz5BzfVrKBgK-y2s

fintail · January 13

Back again in Prince Rupert 1979, another one where the cars look small but zoom surprisingly well, many can be identified here:

stickguy · January 13

green Corolla followed by a bash bumper Maverick. The rams on that car did it no favors. And a 58 Chevy terrorizing a little red car.

Black Ford Rancero.

and in the alley, looks like a white Porsche 914 pulling in behind a green TR6 Triumph.

roadburner · January 13

stickguy said:
green Corolla followed by a bash bumper Maverick. The rams on that car did it no favors. And a 58 Chevy terrorizing a little red car.

Black Ford Rancero.

and in the alley, looks like a white Porsche 914 pulling in behind a green TR6 Triumph.

I remember when the Feds proposed the 5 mph bumper standard; Ford endorsed it. I was hoping that their engineers had a trick up their sleeve to make the bumpers look attractive. Boy was I wrong; Ford didn't even make a token attempt to integrate the bumpers- they just slapped a piece of guardrail on each end and called it a day.

xwesx · January 13

hahaha; that's so true!

sda · January 14

I believe those 5 mph were required not to have damage after controlled impact. That isn't the case today.

ab348 · January 14

Yeah, they were all pretty bad but for whatever reason, Ford seemed to have the worst, most protruding ones. I remember our '74 Maverick had the license plate mount in the rear bumper and the factory bracket for it protruded a couple of inches below the bumper itself. Whenever you'd pull into a steep driveway the bottom of the bracket would make contact with the road surface and bend the license plate. Ooops.

magnette · January 14

in Karlsruhe isn't this a VW type 3 Notchback?

fintail · January 14

Yep that's a Notchback.

On the bumper subject, MB did it to the point where it seems like they were kind of making a parody.

USDM bumper:

Euro bumper:

And it was like this for all models, "park bench bumpers" as some nickname them.

fintail · January 14

stickguy said:
green Corolla followed by a bash bumper Maverick. The rams on that car did it no favors. And a 58 Chevy terrorizing a little red car.

Black Ford Rancero.

and in the alley, looks like a white Porsche 914 pulling in behind a green TR6 Triumph.

Pretty diverse assortment for the location. I believe I see another early Audi 5000, parked across the street from the 914.

explorerx4 · January 14

In the alley where the 914 is presumably backing out, a Country Squire and a Fiat 124 convertible(?).

texases · January 14

1st gen silver Accord, great design.

fintail · January 15

Now to LAX, maybe just shy of 1970, zooms fine:

Michaell · January 15

Do I count 5 Impalas?

stickguy · January 15

sharp looking early Cougar in the center lane.

is the shred of a tail of a black car ahead of the cougar a Jag FHC?

explorerx4 · January 16

A Cadillac ambulance and a Lincoln Continental next to the curb at the terminal.
Boeing 707 behind the treminal.

texases · January 16

Ghostbusters inspiration

andys120 · January 17

fintail · January 17

Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona, one of the most iconic designs of the brand.

fintail · January 17

Seattle World's Fair, zooms fine, I see a blue one:

tmart · January 17

54 Ford, Edsel, a pretty blue 60 Ford Sunliner. Chevy wagon.

andys120 · January 18

I think the Edsel is a '59. Chevy wagon is a '62.

fintail · January 18

I think the Edsel is a 58 and the Chevy is a 61

fintail · January 18

Now we go just a little north to Granville and W 12th in Vancouver, 1974 - zooms fine and a lot can be picked out, some a little obscure:

stickguy · January 18

MGB, barge Pontiac (Granville?) and a BMW Bavaria on the far curb. Hornet 2 door heading away from the camera. In front of what looks like an English Ford wagon.

xwesx · January 18

I love that brick building. I didn't see any cars.

fintail · January 18

xwesx said:
I love that brick building. I didn't see any cars.

The building has survived in fine form:

tmart · January 18

VW Window Van

explorerx4 · January 18

The convertible behind the MGB is an Oldsmobile.
A Hornet in front of the euro wagon and a Torino wagon in front of that.

fintail · January 20

Back to Prince Rupert maybe one last time for awhile, appears to be mid 60s, image might be from a postcard via the resolution but zooms enough to pick out several:

stickguy · January 20

green with white roof 64ish Falcon.

magnette · January 22

@fintail
In Vancouver the car parked to the right of the Cortina Estate is a Humber - probably a Hawk - circa 1960-62

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