Mystery car pix

jamc128

Did you know that they still sell that model in mexico as a 2007 model? And it's the top selling vehicle there. And it's called Tsuru

bumpy

http://www.nissantsuru.com.mx/

The Tsuru headlight conversion is reasonably popular. They are a bolt-on for the '93-94 Sentras built at Aguascalientes, but you have to redo some wiring and drill some extra holes for the earlier B13s built at Smyrna or Japan.

ateixeira

You got a great deal. Perhaps demand cooled down, 'cause I looked at '91 models. My Escort was $10.7k with tax, so just over $10k before taxes.

The Nissan dealer wanted closer to $14k, and I'm sure they would have come down some, but not to the price you paid. They actually had a markup above MSRP to begin the negotiations. Naturally, I walked.

-juice

andys120

"Duck Wucky" indeed, it's a DKW Enzmann 500 Sport . Enzmann was a Swiss outfit that started building sports two-seater bodies on VW Bug chassis but switched to DKW when VW dried up their supply of chassis so they couldn't compete w the Karmann Ghia.

Another fascinating automotive dead end brought you by Mystery Car Pix.

andys120

From the old Andy Griffith TV Show

Mr_Shiftright

Of COURSE! An Enzmann! It was right on the tip of my tongue--LOL!

Never heard of it. Good one, stumped me completely. But I DID recognize that DKW-ness about it I guess

It's interesting to just STARE at a car you know nothing about and try to figure out nationality and time period...

andre1969

I'm going to guess that the small wagon is a '62 Mercury Meteor, while the big one is a '62 Country Squire. I'd imagine the 2-door in back with its hood up is a '53-54 Ford. And all the way in the back is Ange's squad car, probably a '62 Custom 500 or Galaxie. Dunno about the dark colored roadster or the pickup trucks though.

fintail

The old roadster looks like the ca. 38 Ford that I remember seeing on that show. I bet the pickups are Fords too, the closest being ca. 1940 and the other maybe ca. 1956.

Andy Griffith = Ford.

andys120

I'm sure you're right about most of 'em Andre but the small wagon
isn't a '62 Meteor, it's a '63 Comet. I think Fin might be wrong about the 30's Ford Roadster. It appears to have a flat windshield which would place it anywhere between '32 to '36.
A '38 would've had the two-piece vee windshield but the Vee wasn't very pronounced, so who knows :confuse:

Andy Griffith=Ford

As you know it was common back in the day for TV shows to make exclusive product placement deals with car makers.

imidazol97

The car with hood up looks like a 1954 Mainliner. The car behind the pickup truck looks like a 1955 Plymouth 2-door hardtop; Belvedere?

andys120

Never heard of it. Good one, stumped me completely

Honestly I never heard of it either, just happened to stumble on it. At least I didn't post a shot of the even rarer
VW Enzmann. :P

andre1969

I'm sure you're right about most of 'em Andre but the small wagon isn't a '62 Meteor, it's a '63 Comet.

I know that's what the ICMDB has it listed as, but that's not a compact wagon, it's an intermediate. I was wrong on the year though...it's a '63 Meteor. The Comet was about as long as the Meteor, but narrower. At a quick glance they look similiar (and that's probably the main reason the Meteor failed in the marketplace), but the Comet's headlights are spaced out more, yet the overall "face" of the car is narrower. Here's a pic of a 1963 Comet convertible, too big to post here. Oddly, the '63 Comet shares more of a family resemblance up front to the '64 Ford Fairlane and big cars than it does the '63 Meteor or full-sized Merc.

stevedebi

""Duck Wucky" indeed, it's a DKW Enzmann 500 Sport . Enzmann was a Swiss outfit that started building sports two-seater bodies on VW Bug chassis but switched to DKW when VW dried up their supply of chassis so they couldn't compete w the Karmann Ghia."

Apparently the VW based model had no doors!

Here is a 2004 model:



DKW Enzmann Site

Man, that thing is SMALL!

andys120

Apparently the VW based model had no doors!

Well 1950's sports cars were very minimalist, stuff like windshields and doors were for sissies!

Note that the Enzmann shown in your picture has no wipers. :P

andys120

My bad Andre, I can't get anything past you guys. I cxan't keep my Meteors and Comets straight, in fact I'm not sure if a Meteor is an intermediate Mercury or a Canadian Ford. :sick:

stevedebi

Buy my German has fallen off in recent years, and it was a Swiss site. Bonus points for the one behind it...

imidazol97

ICMDB???
International Country Music Data Base?

andys120

The roadster is a Shelby 427 Cobra SC, ca. 1965-'67 or more likely, a clone/replica. Replicas outnumber originals by at least 1,000:1 because the old ones are simply too valuable to risk on the street.

The blue car in the background is a Nissan
Primera, perhaps the white car is too.

andre1969

ICMDB???
International Country Music Data Base?

Well, it was that Internet Car Movie Data Base, but maybe I got my C&M transposed!

andys120

IMCDB=International Car Movie Data Base.

www.imcdb.org

How cool is that?

andys120

jbollt

Here's the current version.

andys120

Here's the current version.

Geez, that doesn't look anything like a Land Rover :confuse:

imidazol97

I just googled the initials and got country music. I like Dolly Parton and George Jones as well as anybody... but that didn't seem to fit here. Grin...

Thanks!

mark156

That woody wagon looks like a '61 Country Squire to me. My brother, as a teenager, had a '61 two-door in high school. It was green with green clothe interior.

I caught my brother poking holes in the muffler to give it a "better" sound. My Dad would have killed him if he knew (maybe I'll tell him now, LOL!) Dad is 86!

Anyway, the little fins in the back of the wagon look reminiscent of the '61 my brother had. It had round lights under the fin.

Mark156

andys120

strange one from the B&W era>

magnette

Marauder A1/100 circa 1950-2 They built about 15, and most of them are still around...Based on the contemporary Rover 75 P4..

andys120

Wow, I'm pretty sure no one else would've gotten that one.

It's pretty modern looking for 1952, are those roll up windows?

andys120

magnette

Mazda 616 - the non rotary version of the RX2 ? JDM versions were known as the Capella, but I don't know if they were sold as that inAustralia - they certainly weren't in UK.

andys120

Well no, it's the Rotary powered RX-2, ca.1971, never sold in the USA.

andys120

oregonboy

Well no, it's the Rotary powered RX-2, ca.1971, never sold in the USA.

Actually, 1971 was the first year that the RX-2 was sold in the USA. I owned a 1972 4dr and a 1973 2dr. (see my CarSpace).

I always thought that the RX-2 was the best of the Mazda Rotary sedans: slightly bigger than the RX-3 and smaller than the RX-4. More cleanly styled than either. I wished at the time that the RX-2 was available as a wagon, as were the 3 & 4.

james

Mr_Shiftright

I had an RX-3 wagon....I loved that car.

blew up....

andys120

oregonboy

blew up....

Yeah, both of my RX-2s suffered seal failure: the big o-rings between the aluminum rotor housings and the iron end-plates would fail due to differential expansion (or so I was told).

I paid for a factory replacement engine for the 2-door. Years later, I received a check for 80% of the cost, as a result of a class-action lawsuit.

So Shifty, did yours do the post-shutdown explosion trick? I can remember that after shutting off the car... sometimes even after I had gotten out and was walking away, the unburned fuel in the exhaust thermal-reactor would ignite with a deafening BOOM!!! One of it's less endearing qualities.

james

oregonboy

See more at:

My CarSpace

johno111

1955 Willys Bermuda. The color is President Red and Concert Ivory. It is fitted with the 226 6 cylinder engine and hydramatic transmission. That's about all I could find on this. Nice looking 50's ride, I like to see it in person.

andys120

1955 Willys Bermuda. The color is President Red and Concert Ivory. It is fitted with the 226 6 cylinder engine and hydramatic transmission.

You got it brother!

andys120

boomchek

VW Passat Synchro AWD, early 90s. As for your last post it's not showing.

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

That's a bee hive hairdo! (oh, we're talking about cars, I forgot) :P

RX-2/RX-3 -- oh, yeah, those early Mazda rotaries would go KA-BOOM and it sounded just like a rifle shot...I cant' imagine how many Vietnam vets hit the dirt every time that happened!

johno111

Looks Italian. Some sort of Fiat maybe ??

andys120

Looks Italian. Some sort of Fiat maybe ??

Well it's based on Fiat 600 mechanicals. It's the little known Autobianchi Stellina ca. 1962-64.

andys120

What's the movie, the car, and the actor who played Curt?

johno111

Movie : American Graffiti
Car : 1955 Cetroen 2cv
Curt : Richard Dreyfuss played Curt Henderson

andys120

I dunno about the year but it is definitely a Deaux Chevaux

andys120

kyfdx

'70 Lemans convertible?