Mystery car pix

tmart

58 Ford, 55/56 Ford

explorerx4

My sister had a Gen 2 Prius. She told me it wouldn't run if you ran out of fuel.

xwesx

explorerx4 said:

My sister had a Gen 2 Prius. She told me it wouldn't run if you ran out of fuel.

I do not think you posted this where you think you posted this.

explorerx4

@xwezx,
Oops!

ab348

A '58 Ford lurking behind a space-age Valiant, with some funny furrin car next to it partly out of frame on the left of the pic.

fintail

The white Galaxie at lower left might be a 61? And the white two door post at right maybe a Chevy II or equivalent. Surprising lack of 60 Fords but the fintail makes up for it

fintail

Merry Christmas, I hope that's fog and not smog in LA, 1980, zooms fine enough:

Michaell

fintail said:

Merry Christmas, I hope that's fog and not smog in LA, 1980, zooms fine enough:

LAX is pretty close to the ocean, so I'm gonna guess fog.

And, it's probably June ("June gloom", it's called)

fintail

Michaell said:

fintail said:

Merry Christmas, I hope that's fog and not smog in LA, 1980, zooms fine enough:

LAX is pretty close to the ocean, so I'm gonna guess fog.

And, it's probably June ("June gloom", it's called)

I hope they take the "Happy Holidays" banners down before that

But yeah, "June gloom" is a thing in western WA/OR too.

stickguy

Valiant taxi. Interesting. Next side a gremlin and late 70s curvy Celica. 1970ish el Camino ny I

bhill2

fintail said:

The white Galaxie at lower left might be a 61? And the white two door post at right maybe a Chevy II or equivalent. Surprising lack of 60 Fords but the fintail makes up for it

The Galaxie looks like a 62.

fintail

bhill2 said:

fintail said:

The white Galaxie at lower left might be a 61? And the white two door post at right maybe a Chevy II or equivalent. Surprising lack of 60 Fords but the fintail makes up for it

The Galaxie looks like a 62.

Looking now, I guess that's right - for some reason I thought the horizontal C-pillar trim wasn't as tall on a 62, but it appears to be.

fintail

Vernon BC around 1960, zooms enough to ID several:

Lostwrench3

1959 Chrysler.

stickguy

Studebaker on the far curb.

tmart

Red 53 Ford

texases

‘50-ish Studebaker heading this way.

bhill2

And a 60 ish Studebaker Lark nearest the camera on the right curb.

gsemike

The blue car is a Pontiac..... I will guess 59 or 60 Catalina or Bonneville.

Could the Aqua car all the way down on the right be a 55 BelAir?

bhill2

gsemike said:

The blue car is a Pontiac..... I will guess 59 or 60 Catalina or Bonneville.

Could the Aqua car all the way down on the right be a 55 BelAir?

My money for the aqua car is on a 56. May be a 210, it doesn't look fancy enough to be a Bel Air.

fintail

Must be late 70s - source at lower right, zooms fine:

stickguy

early 911 Targa in front of a Corolla wagon.

Michaell

70's Eldorado 'vert (with probably the 500 cubic inch engine) on the left.

fintail

In LA the car between the Porsche and Caddy looks like a mid 70s Fury. Car approaching at R maybe a LeBaron or similar? And an intermediate mid 70s GM coupe at far L.

fintail

1710 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, 1985, zooms enough to pick out many:

explorerx4

MG Midget behind the 79(?) Mustang.

roadburner

The Mustang is a 5.0 so I'm thinking maybe a 1982.

Michaell

Two door Jetta parked along the curb.

stickguy

Downsized Monte Carlo in front of the mustang. And nose of a duster or dart behind it.

fintail

Mismatched wheels on the Mustang made me wonder if that's because of the difficulty/expense of finding tires for TRX wheels (or maybe the front is just a spare).

explorerx4

That Must is probably an 82. Only the Pace Car Edition had that front bumper in 79.
Didn't realize you could still get the TRX wheels in 82 either.

texases

explorerx4 said:

That Must is probably an 82. Only the Pace Car Edition had that front bumper in 79.
Didn't realize you could still get the TRX wheels in 82 either.

From what I can find TRX was available through '84.

roadburner

@texases said:
From what I can find TRX was available through '84.

And both my 535is and M6 had those miserable tires as well.

texases

Lots of replacement wheels sold for all those I bet. Saw that one can buy TRX look wheels in 16” rim size for those Mustangs. Those are about the only 3-spoke wheels I like.

roadburner

texases said:

Lots of replacement wheels sold for all those I bet. Saw that one can buy TRX look wheels in 16” rim size for those Mustangs. Those are about the only 3-spoke wheels I like.

I bought new E34 take-offs for the 535is and bought Borbet five spoke wheels for the M6.

fintail

I wonder what was the motivation for TRX wheels/tires, seeing as the idea was mostly hated in the market. Was it the metric fad that the US rejected? Someone goofed. AFAIK MB never had a TRX offering.

On that note, there is a wheel option seen in earlier Tempo/Topaz promo material that has a look that to me could be TRX, but might not be. I have never seen these on a Tempo aside from in period maker-provided material, and only once on a Topaz, a high spec coupe. I saw data online saying they existed from 84-87 but that might just parallel the first gen cars as I have only seen these wheels on 84 models. I really like these wheels for being a period design, as I do for the checkerboard Chevy wheels - I think they are cool in an 80s way:



Also seen in funny period commercials, the Jackie Stewart one amuses me for his careful choice in words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ws_Bp7WYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7h47Dwm5I4

These cars are a guilty pleasure for me, and one that if I found an ultra low mileage twin to the car my mom had (same color combo and trim level) it would be hard not to buy it - I know results for these were typical for a period domestic in that either the car took a licking and kept on ticking or was in the junkyard before the odometer rolled over - ours was the former.

stickguy

same with early versions of the Odyssey which came with the PAX system. Run flat tires, but some kind of special version that was a tire and wheel combo, that IIRC most tire shops could not handle. Dealer or nothing, and not all of them. Pretty sure that most owners just bought replacement wheels and normal tires at some point. Not even sure you could replace the tires now.

fintail

LAX 1964 per the source - anything with the Theme Building and those lights has an atmosphere, maybe of a future that was promised but didn't evolve as many expected, zooms well enough to ID several:

stickguy

Blue Beetle (look at me picking off the tough ones!). And a big fin Cadillac with an interesting, but awkward, formal roofline. Is that a Calais?

ab348

I’ll take the ‘62 Coupe DeVille. Always liked that design.

Lostwrench3

1957 Pontiac.
1959 Ford wagon.

fintail

Some unusual things in Vancouver, must be early 50s, zooms fine: