Mystery car pix

Michaell

Fort Collins, CO in the 1960s

ab348

Curious Falcon Ranchero. Looks like it might be a mobile billboard.

stickguy

I thought it was a tow truck and that seemed really weird.

Red 1967 Camaro.

fintail

10 year old 50s cars looked like things from a different world then.

I see a big white 64 Galaxie parked at left, alongside a black 59 Chevy wagon.

texases

@ab348 said:
Curious Falcon Ranchero. Looks like it might be a mobile billboard.

I’m thinking it’s from a glass repair shop.

explorerx4

I thought it was a mobile drilling rig.
Two 67 Chevy's, 2nd cars in on left and right. Impala on the left and a Caprice on the right.
60 Ford just past the white 64 Ford on left?

andys120

Gen2 VW MicroBus (white over blue) parked on right past two wite pickups.

texases

I'm thinking this is another of those photos that has been 'juiced up', several bright yellow vehicles of the same shade, but the distant cars are all in pretty much black and white...hmmmm.

texases

Here's what a modern-day glass repair rack looks like:

I be surprised if the rack in the Ranchero pic was actually painted yellow, they were usually just wood, maybe varnished.

xwesx

Maybe. Yellow vehicles weren't uncommon in those days.

fintail

Vancouver, 1984 maybe, zooms fine:

stickguy

later run Volvo 145 with the extension bumpers in the center. Nose of a gen 2 Prelude at the far right.

xwesx

I saw a Volvo that looked very similar to that today. No hood.

bhill2

The car in front of the Volvo is a 70s Mercedes, likely a 450SEL. It has the same wheels as my 85 380SE

fintail

I was trying to discern if that W116 is a LWB or SWB. I agree it appears to be a longer car, likely a 450SEL. Bundts were offered on W126 through the 1985 model year (along with many other models, wheels replaced by flat face "gullideckel" wheels for MY 1986 but appeared on the W201/190 series cars from launch in MY 1984).

texases

In front of the MB a '77-ish Cutlass?

fintail

I think the Cutlass might be an 81+ style.

texases

Yep, '81+

fintail

Olympia WA, 1970, zooms fine:

tmart

61&64 Fords?

Lostwrench3

1962 Pontiac.
1963 Pontiac.

kyfdx

texases said:

Yep, '81+

I remember similar wheels on my sister's '73 Cutlass that she got at college graduation.

ab348

That basic style of wheel was called SSII (if finished in metallic gray) or SSIII (if finished to match the body color). Olds used them from 1968 onward in a number of different variations.

kyfdx

Yeah, her car was pale yellow, with matching colored wheels

Michaell

I always like those wheels on the Cutlass. My cousin had one of that era ('78?), but it had wheel covers instead of these special wheels.

fintail

In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

explorerx4

67/68 Mustang fastback behind the stacked headlight Pontiac Lemans/GTO.
Look at the shadow.

tmart

@fintail said:
In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

Based on the chrome stuff on the rear fender, I think it’s a 60 Thunderbird not a Bullet Bird.

fintail

tmart said:

@fintail said:

In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

Based on the chrome stuff on the rear fender, I think it’s a 60 Thunderbird not a Bullet Bird.

Maybe a 62? Not a squarebird with that rear quarter window (required zooming):

tmart

Your zoom much better than mine! I agree a 62.

andys120

Havana, Cuba/2025>

tmart

Colorful. 55,57 and 58 Chevys.

explorerx4

57 Buick. Funny, just about all those cars have the same windshield.

fintail

I suspect at least one of those is a cut down non-convertible. Apparently those are in demand as tourist taxis.

fintail

Vancouver again around 1970, same general location as a prior pic, zooms fine:

tmart

White Falcon wagon

explorerx4

Wow! a 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Cale Yarborough Edition.

stickguy

White 4 door nova.

The interesting piece is the AMC. Looks like a Rebel machine from the paint scheme.

explorerx4

@stickuy,
That's a Mercury.

stickguy

Might be distorted on my phone. I thought after I posted it that it could be a mercury (cyclone?). Back window looked off

ab348

stickguy said:

Might be distorted on my phone. I thought after I posted it that it could be a mercury (cyclone?). Back window looked off

Yeah, suuuuure.

explorerx4

Damn autocorrect.

roadburner

explorerx4 said:

Wow! a 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Cale Yarborough Edition.

The Ford equivalent was the Torino Talladega.

fintail

I was thinking that Cyclone was an AMC too, color combo relating to a special edition was not in my mind.

texases

fintail said:

I was thinking that Cyclone was an AMC too, color combo relating to a special edition was not in my mind.

Like the '70 'Rebel Machine':

Michaell

San Fernando Valley, undated photo:

Lostwrench3

I thought Mystery Car Pix was rated G.

tmart

1st gen Cougar.

tmart

@Lostwrench3 said:
I thought Mystery Car Pix was rated G.

Confused. No more topless cars? Convertibles have to have their tops up?

texases

Here it (Sunset Strip) is today, calmed down quite a bit: