Mystery car pix

andys120

I dunno Guss, the pic appears in the R&T Buyer's Guide
as the 2008 Vibe, a refresh, not a new model.

andys120

Shifty's right, it is a '55 Speedster, nice looking car IMO, better looking than the later Hawks w their T-bird rooflines.

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urnews

1957 Plymouth, maybe a Fury?

guss

1958 Plymouth Fury. The story is cool, the boy gets older while the car gets younger.

andys120

1958 Fury is correct.

andys120

From The Seven Ups 1973. Me thinks we'll need Andre's help sorting out all those MoPars.>

kyfdx

The taxi looks like a '71 Plymouth Satellite.. with a '73 Cutlass behind it?

The beige car parked forward on the right looks like another Satellite... and maybe a '71 Green Impala driving out of the picture on the far left...

andys120

So far, so good but there's at least three other cars in the
picture.

texases

Front parked car is about a '71 Duster?

kyfdx

Am I really 4 for 4? I should quit while I'm ahead..

I've got a crappy CRT here.. but that first parked car looks a little like a Nova... but, I can barely make it out... The car above the taxi looks like some sort of Oldsmobile Delta 88... '70 or '71?

No idea on the old crappy brown Mopar..

With my luck, I'm wrong on all counts, now...

bumpy

Kinda hard to tell on this monitor, but the first red truck looks like a '64-66 GMC 2500 (1-ton) and the one behind it a '69-72 Chevy or GMC.

kyfdx

I think you are right.... not Nova... Duster....

andre1969

is a '66 Dodge Polara or Monaco coupe. The green Impala is either a '72-73...the '71 had the taillights above the bumper.

I think the light blue hardtop with the vinyl roof is a '71-72 Cutlass Supreme.

I can't tell about the beige Mopar, probably a '71-72 Satellite, but I think the taxi is a '71-72 Dodge Coronet in one of the upper trim levels. Sometimes Mopar would try to ape Chevrolet in giving the nicer cars three taillights, with fewer for the cheap models.

urnews

is a '66 Dodge Polara or Monaco coupe.

I owned a 1966 Dodge Monaco and there is no Monaco in that photo.

andys120

Nice going on the trucks, Bumpy. I think the first parked car is a Duster/Demon as well.

andys120

karsick

It's got to be a (late 1980's) Fiat Uno sedan, former Euro Car of the Year.

IIRC, the 2-door hot hatch version was MUCH more desirable.

andys120

Wrong Fiat, wrong decade, and it is not a Euro car. :P

andre1969

Okay then, it's a 1965 Monaco or Polara. Close enough for gov't work :P

urnews

Right on.

andre1969

How did you like your '66? Back in the early 90's, I used to give one of my co-workers a ride home on occasion. In the parking lot of his apartment complex there was a white '66 Monaco or Polara hardtop coupe. Looked pretty solid, but I never saw it move from that spot. I asked my friend about it, and he said some old man owned it. I was kinda tempted to try buying it, but at the time I was 22, making $7.03 an hour, still in college, and living with my grandmother. And already had a DeSoto, 2 Darts, and a Bonneville stashed at her place.

lemko

There was a decrepit old man in my neighborhood with an equally decrepit house and blue 1965 Buick Wildcat. The old man passed on and some young people are restoring both his house and his car.

urnews

How did you like your '66?
It was a really nice car that we ordered new, the way we wanted it, and picked up on Christmas eve 1965. It was really sharp looking but was not terribly fast, despite having a 383 cubic inch mil with a four-barrel carburetor. Alas my first wife got the car when we divorced in 1970.

lemko

Didn't Dodge have a rather small 277 cid V-8 at one time?

andre1969

Lemko, there was a 273 CID V-8, but I think it was limited to the compacts and intermediates. Around that timeframe, full-sized Dodges were still a step up from a Chevy/Ford/Plymouth, so they had a 383 standard in the Polara/Custom 880/Monaco. The Monaco had 315 hp, while the other two had 270. So I'm guessing that's 2-bbl versus 4-bbl? Dodge did offer a budget version of the Polara with a 318-2bbl, sort of a credit option I guess.

I had forgotten about it, but in '65 the Monaco was available as a hardtop coupe only, and pretty upscale. Sort of Dodge's response the the Grand Prix, I guess. For 1966, the Custom 880 was renamed Monaco, and the top-shelf hardtop was called Monaco 500.

andre1969

I had a '67 Newport hardtop coupe for a few months, with a 383-2bbl. I thought it should be faster than it was, but then 270 hp (gross) really isn't a lot of power for a 4,000 lb car!

lemko

I remember go to the Sunoco station this past summer and seeing a guy filling up a white and red 1965 Dodge Coronet. He told me it had the 273 V-8.

Back in college, I knew a guy who had a really nice red 1968 Dodge Polara convertible with a black top. Some idiot drunk driver ran into it and totalled it when it was parked. Sad.

karsick

A "Gotcha Car", huh?? :mad:

It seems this particular car was made on every continent but Antarctica, so I'll call it a 90's-era Brazilian-made Fiat (since the grille is still Fiat-ish) Mille.

andre1969

I have no idea on that thing. It almost looks like the Chevy Nova version of the Toyota Corolla, but facelifted into something else. Or some variation of the Mistubishi Precis/Hyundai Excel

andys120

A "Gotcha Car", huh??

Yep

It seems this particular car was made on every continent but Antarctica, so I'll call it a 90's-era Brazilian-made Fiat (since the grille is still Fiat-ish) Mille.

Pretty close, it's a 1993 Fiat(do Brasil) Siena. I suspect it is nothing more than a Fiat Uno w a trunk. Perhaps Juice or Magnette can enlighten us.

andys120

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british_rover

andys120

Chrysler Turbine Car concept ca. 1960. It looks more like a T-bird than a Chrysler.

andre1969

Close...those were actually 1964 models. And they were styled by Elwood Engle, a former Ford guy. He probably penned the '61-63 'Bird before jumping ship to Mopar.

stickguy

a SAAB 900, with RHD (duh).

kyfdx

A Saab 900 with the ignition key on the steering column? :surprise:

Shouldn't it be between the seats?

karsick

Key on the column (and no fishbowl windshield, UFO roof pillars or missing sills) makes it a Saab 9000.

The lack of airbags, even in the UK, would pin that as roughly a 1991 model.

andys120

Yep, 1990 SAAB 9000CDi=Trunk back, non-Turbo UK-market version, notice absence of leather seats that were in most US versions (not all).

andys120

ca. mid-70s, from Starsky & Hutch:

lemko

Well, the first car is a 1972 Ford LTD Country Squire as my Dad had one, (worst car he ever owned!) The trucks are Ford Couriers, the Pintos are 1971-73 models and the tail end of the beige car in the corner looks like that of a 1972 Ford Torino.

andys120

I think you've about nailed it Lemko.

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karsick

Just to add a bit of GM to this mix...

I'm guessing the distinctive greenhouse facing the camera is from an early 2nd gen Camaro or Firebird (the backlight is not the later wrap-around variety). :confuse:

karsick

1985 Dodge Daytona Turbo (in black), a "facelifted :sick: " 1989 electric blue Daytona on the left, and a 1997 Ford Crown Vic on the right.

:confuse:

andys120

I'm guessing the distinctive greenhouse facing the camera is from an early 2nd gen Camaro or Firebird (the backlight is not the later wrap-around variety).

Makes sense!

texases

One more GM - I don't think the front left car's a Torino, looks more like a Skylark.

andys120

1985 Dodge Daytona Turbo (in black), a "facelifted " 1989 electric blue Daytona on the left, and a 1997 Ford Crown Vic on the right.

Yep, the black one is a Dodge Charger Daytona Turbo Z
(I'm not sure what the distinction is between a Turbo and a Turbo Z) but wasn't '97 the firs year for the "aero" version of the Crown Vic?

andys120

One more GM - I don't think the front left car's a Torino, looks more like a Skylark.

Could be but it's clearly a Ford dealership so my money is on a Torino. "When you hear hoofbeats don't look for Zebras".

andys120