Mystery car pix

texases

Movie: "Diner" - about whole thing was shot inside the "Fells Point Diner"

andys120

55 Buick, Mercury?, 56 DeSoto, 1954 Buick, 1954 Dodge, from left to right.

The car on the extreme right looks more like a '55 or '56 Chevy to me but it certainly could be a Buick. The H/T closest to the Diner looks more Chrysler than Dodge to me.

I think you're right about the others but the Buick looks earlier than'54, perhaps a '51 or '52?

Fintail is right about the TR-3, it's driven by (Six Degrees of)Kevin Bacon and the movie is Diner a big favorite of mine since I came of age in that era, more or less.

kyfdx

It's a big favorite of mine, as well... Wasn't that set in the late '50s? I would have been very, very small...

bumpy

go the spoils.

andre1969

is a DeSoto, but I can't tell if it's a '53 or a '54. It almost doesn't look like the DeSoto/Chrysler hardtop roofline, though. I think it's just the lighting/picture quality, but it makes it look like it has a reverse-slant C-pillar, like what a '53-54 Bel Air would have.

fintail

Early postwar Bristol, developed from liberated/stolen BMW ideas and technology. More or less a BMW 327 clone.

Funny thing, as BMW was of course located in the American zone, but the Brits still made off with this stuff. And what a fine job they did with it...the company is now one of the weirdest of the weirdo small British makers.

andys120

Fin's right I believe the model name was Bristol 401. I'm not sure it was a 327 or 328 clone but they are certainly closely related.

The note on the Brit's passing it up is ironic. Wolfsburg was also in the British Zone of Occupation but the Brits passed up the chance to confiscate or seize the Volkswagen factory.

How different would the postwar British auto industry have been if they had taken over BMW and VW? :surprise:

andys120

this model is currently in production>

kyfdx

I like it.. I wish cars would go back to the low-beltline look..

ateixeira

Probably a LADA/FIAT/GAZ or Indian/Chinese buyout of old assembly line parts for one of those cars.

texases

Yep, I remember being amazed at having enough headroom in the back seat of a friend's BMW 2002. No chance of that with a 335i.

fintail

Sure looks like the Lada

andys120

Yep, you and Juice have hit it, it's a Lada 2107. I see a lot of Fiat 130 Berlina in that one.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who misses low beltlines and tall glass.

andys120

kyfdx

I want to say it is an early E28 530i, but I think it might be the model before that.. If it is the 530i, then it's a '77?

Gorgeous...

fintail

BMW Bavaria?

kyfdx

It looks awfully pretty for a Bavaria.. It is a good camera angle, though...

andys120

BMW Bavaria?

Not exactly, it's a Euro version of the E3, sold there as the BMW 3.0Si.

The 1971 "Bavaria" version was essentially a carberuated 2500 fitted with the larger displacement 2800 engine but lacking some of the luxury equipment of the 2800. It was introduced at the suggestion of Importer Max Hoffman, who also had a hand in creating the Porsche Speedster and the BMW 507.

The car shown is a later (mid-late 70s) FI version.

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

Oh man I love those cars. That's a super rare 444 (split windshield)...don't know if they called them Kombis or something else...Caravans?

fintail

I think it was called a "Duett"

imidazol97

Exactly right. Not Dodge that I said. It has 9 teeth in the grill. I finally found a picture of a 54 DeSoto with 9 teeth.

The car at the far left sitting sideways and all you see is the rear taillights profile looks like a 55 Buick rear tail.
Then a black 1953 Mercury, 1956 DeSoto, 1954 Buick, 1954 DeSoto.

andys120

Well you're all right, sort of....

Wikipedia sez in their article on the PV444:

It should be mentioned that this car was also made as an estate or wagon version, that was known initially as a P445 and later as a P210. Regardless of designation, the wagons were commonly referred to as "Duetts".

In Shifty's defense I'm sure I've seen "Kombi" (or Combi)
used to refer to early Volvo wagons. Euros seem to have an entire vocabulary devoted to wagons (which are more popular there than they ever were in the USA).

Estate, Brake (Break) and Universal are some other terms I've seen for station wagons.

andys120

"Country Squire">

michaellno

When I was in HS, one of my car-pool mates would occasionally be lucky enough to take us to school in her sister's Bavaria.

Man, was that a nice car to a 17 year old!

I remember how much space there was inside, especially headroom, and how quiet and powerful the engine was.

Of course, if I were to drive one today, it would just be a 30+ year old sedan.

But, that picture sure is nice!

boomchek

Aston Martin DB7 Shooting Brake

I think this car showed up on these forums some time ago.

As for the low beltline cars I miss them too. Especially the old Civics, Accords, and Preludes from the early 90s. Everything nowadays is so bulky and near claustrophobic.

andys120

Sorry Boomer, that's no DB-7, it's a DB-5 (ca.1963).

Apparently the owner of A-M, David Brown went to the Radford coach company and asked for a special body that would enable him to carry his hunting gear around and the DB-5 Shooting Brake was the result. A small number of DB-5s and DB-6s were fitted with Raford or Tickford Shooting Brake bodywork.

Given the choice I'd pick one of these over the standard GT fastbacks in a heartbeat.

boomchek

I never really liked these wagon type bodies. I'll take a fast back please and thank you.

kyfdx

You'll learn.. once you get past 40, wagons become cool..

andys120

bumpy

1970 Grand Prix? Whatever it is, it's vomitously ugly.

andys120

1970 Grand Prix?

It would be if it weren't sold in Canada, so it's a 1970 Pontiac Parisenne.

Whatever it is, it's vomitously ugly.

Amen to that. :sick:

andys120

boomchek

Those must be the Chevy LUVs. Early 70s I assume?

Mr_Shiftright

Looks like something someone got in a box and put together wrong doesn't it?

kyfdx

I think the LUV trucks were made all the way into the early '80s....

andys120

Yep, those are 1973 Chevy LUVs, hecho para Isuzu.

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

Not sure of the make of car but pretty sure it's EYE-Talian and a Vignale body.

How'd I do?

andys120

How'd I do? Not so good.

EYE-Talian Naturlamente

Vignale body. Nope, Ghia!

googuse

It's a Fiat 1500 GT!

http://home.datacomm.ch/rely/images/ghiaprosp1.JPG

andys120

It's a Fiat 1500 GT!

It's based on the Fiat 1500 but as your link shows it was sold as the Ghia 1500 GT in several markets including
the UK. During the 1960s there were a lot of coachbuilt variants of garden variety Fiats sold by Vignale, Ghia, Morretti and others.

andys120

From I Spy with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. It's pretty fuzzy but you should be able to tell make model and MY:

Mr_Shiftright

Wow...Ghia actually made one car that wasn't outright hideous....coulda fooled me.

fintail

1965 Ford Galaxie

lemko

Not a Grand Prix. The 1970 Grand Prix was a rather attractive midsize car. That's a 1970 full-size Catalina or Bonneville.

andys120

Wow...Ghia actually made one car that wasn't outright hideous....coulda fooled me.

Actually, I did fool ya.

While I agree that Ghia made lenty of cars that were hideous
they also made a lot of nice designs, the Pantera
and Mangusta, the Dual-Ghias, the Karmann-Ghias and this little number>

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andys120

Anybody know it? Going, going....

Mr_Shiftright

oh dear, you think a Dual-Ghia is good looking? We need to talk :P

That looks like a Ghia 450 (American V8 in there) but I remember it with a much more handsome front end, like this---not that chromey mess that looks so American (1964 Oldsmobile?)....



Maybe the reason we both like the Pantera is that Ford owned Ghia by then and appointed Tom Tjaarda to design it.

bumpy