Mystery car pix

fintail

I think some of those were exported (maybe privately) to Australia and maybe South Africa...quite a few RHD 70s and 80s American cars can be found in Australia especially, or so it seems from ebay motors.

andys120

Kev comes close, it's an '84 Trans-Am, I got it from a South African site whuch may account for the differences to what we knew in US versions.

odie6l

This is one of my dream cars that I will eventually have after hitting a Powerball jackpot someday. :shades:

Odie
Odie's Carspace

P.S. - bonus points if you name the movie.

fintail

Looks like a Mad Max car...based on an Aussie Ford Falcon?

odie6l

good call Fin.



It is the Mad Max Ford Falcon xB Interceptor.

Odie
Odie's Carspace

andys120

gsemike

Buick Reatta.. "hand crafted luxury for 2" was the advertising slogan. I'm glad that somebody assembled all those parts bin GM bits by hand. whoop-d-effin-doo.

Going back to that TA I have to differ. Didn't the 84s retain the same header of the 82/3 but have a solid grill insert? I think that's an 82/3. The pic could have been mislabeled of who knew what happened when it was exported.

boomchek

I saw a Reatta on the road last night, with the LCD dash, and CRT centre console.

fintail

It would be pretty cool to have one of those. Most people wouldn't know what it was, but those who did would be in shock at the sight of it.

odie6l

you can actually order the cars (both of them) for about $12,000 each imported (RHD) and they don't need to meet emissions because they are over 25 years old.

Odie
Odie's Carspace

andys120

seminole_kev

Shot in the dark, but is it one of those rebodied Mini's?

andys120

Nope, sorry Kev.

fintail

Something Zagato I think

andys120

Something Zagato I think

Yes, but what?

magnette

I think its a Fiat-Abarth Zagato, but the exact model is difficult - I'm guessing 750Tc but it could be 600/800 etc.....I've even seen pictures of a very similar body on a Fiat with no Abarth bits where it was known as the Fiat Zagato 600. Great fun though, and Abarth made cars that would really fly !

andys120

As usual, it's Magnette that nails it. I was unaware that there were Fiats that wore the "double-bubble" bodywork but lacked Abarth mechanicals. Sports car racing fans of the 50s and 60s delighted in watching the pint-sized Fiat- and
Simca-Abarths tear up the race tracks.

I was one of them. :shades:

andys120

boomchek

Looks like the Ford Mustang 2 coupe 1974-1978. I can't tell what engine this one has.

seminole_kev

Is that a Ghia model?

andys120

Yep it's a '74 Mustang II Ghia, basically a pimped out Pinto.
Cars like this are why I refer to the 1970s as the Dark Age.

fintail

Not a US license plate...were these exported?

seminole_kev

"Not a US license plate...were these exported?"

More like Deported.....

seminole_kev

andys120

Austin Princess ca. early '70s. Oh how I heted '70s cars!

seminole_kev

It's a 1965 Vanden Plas Princess

fintail

Is that pic at the Imperial Palace museum in Las Vegas? I swear I saw that car there, and it sure looks like the background.

seminole_kev

I haven't a clue as the site it is from provides no additional info.

andys120

andre1969

At first I was going to say it was a BMW 635, but then noticed it looks a bit older than that style. Isn't this the one they called the 3.0 CSI or something like that? Maybe around a 1971?

I never cared for those little homemade-toaster-looking 2002's from that era, but that hardtop coupe is sexy.

kyfdx

You've got it...

3.0 CSi..

I once owned a '67 2000CS.. (4-cylinder.. no side grills)

andys120

Actually it's either a 3.0 CSi or a plain old 3.0 CS (no fuel injection when it was intro'd in 1971), the caption doidn't specify, I'm not sure what year BMW went to FI, somewhere in the '73-'75 range.

This car is an exception to my previous remarks about '70s cars (it's basically an update of Kfdyx's 2000CS from the mid 60s.)

andys120

seminole_kev

Not a Jag. I'm a little schetchy on them, but is it a 50's Bristol?

andys120

Nah, it's way too pretty to be a Bristol. :P

Hint: It's not British.

magnette

Talbot Lago, but the model? I am taking a blind guess, at the 15cv - coachwork Farina ?

magnette

You call the 70's the dark age ? Same here - Allegro, Avenger, Marina, Princess, Maestro, Chevette, etc.etc.etc.

magnette

Thats a British plate, the M suffix is 12 months from August 1973. They did sell this Mustang here, although not through regular Ford dealers - there are/were dealers who imported American cars, usually the more sporty models as they are smaller, ie Corvette, Mustang, Firebird, Camaro. Generally they didn't convert them for RHD, although quite a few US cars were available that way in places like Australia,South Africa, etc at various times - and they also sold LHD in Europe so this one may have come from there. Only really seen in the main cities though- esp. London. This model of Mustang is still around here- I've seen a couple in the last few weeks - were they always white?

magnette

The Vanden Plas is a 4 litre Princess R - and the British plate with C suffix would be 12 months from Jan 1965 - strange how it is LHD, though. The 4 Litre R was the same car as the previous 3 litre, but with the Rolls Royce FB60 engine, which was really a derivative of an engine developed in the fities for the British army, used in the Austin Champ, which was a sort of jeep designed by a committee - it was too heavy, too expensive, too complex, etc - of course, as a result our Dept. of Defence bought thousands of them (do the military anywhere actually have someone who can do sums?), and meanwhile the rest of the world were buying the LandRover, made just up the road, for about half the price. After a few years they pulled the plug on the Champ, and bought L-R like they should have from the start, and left Rolls Royce and Austin sharing an engine which was redundant (actually it was used for things like fire pumps, etc, but only in small numbers). Hence the 4 litre R.
You can tell it from the previous 3 litre by lower rear fins, a slightly lower roof line and various bits of trim.

andre1969

This model of Mustang is still around here- I've seen a couple in the last few weeks - were they always white?

I think white was a common color on the Mustang II, but here in the US, at least, it seems like they were common in earth-tones, like brown, beige, copper, puke-green, etc.

For all the ragging that the Mustang II takes, I actually don't mind them, if you just take them at face value. I think they're fairly good looking, and they have pretty nice interiors. But the engine choices sucked by that time. I doubt if you could ever get anything stronger than a 130-140 hp 302 V-8 as an option. And most of them probably just had little Pinto 2.3 OHC units.

I wonder though, how the Mustang II would compare, performance-wise, to the original Mustang if you'd compared equivalent models? For example, the 4-cyl Mustang II against a 1965 Mustang with the 200 straight six? Or a 302 Mustang II against a 1965 with the 289-2bbl? I imagine they'd be pretty close.

andys120

The Talbot-Lago is a 1950 T-26 Gran Sport, I don't know the coachbuilder, Farina is a good guess tho.

andys120

A buddy of mine had a'66 Mustang 6 with a three on the floor (!?), I'm pretty sure it'd blow the doors off a '74 with a 4-banger. a 302 vs. the 289-2v would be a little closer.

andys120

seminole_kev

Daewoo........uh......Nubria? (their model names are forgettable at best)

andre1969

I think that's the upscale model which was called Leganza, IIRC. In the home market it was called the Magnus I believe. It's been redesigned since then, and nowadays we get it as the Suzuki Verona. In Canada they sell it as the Chevy Epica.

andys120

Yep, that's the Leganza,which IMO was good looking for a Korean car of that era.

andys120

british_rover

Is that one of the old RWD straight 6 powered Nissan Maximas?

andre1969

That one has me stumped. At a quick glance it looks like an '81-84 Toyota Cressida, with tape or something covering the little window in the C-pillar. But then not quite. The rear deck looks higher and blockier than a Cressida, and the way the side marker light cuts down in the front also doesn't seem quite right. And I don't think a Cressida back then would have had 5-lug wheels, would it? The door handles look like they're off of an AMC product!

It looks to me like someone took a car and tried to make it resemble an early 80's Fairmont, Accord, Cressida, and 626, all at the same time!

magnette

Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 - this was the facelifted version judging by the vents behind the rear doors, so 1983-4 ?