Mystery car pix

andys120

ateixeira

Saab?

-juice

kyfdx

I actually thought it was a Crosley... another WAG..

fintail

Mid 50s Austin amybe A35/A40 or something

andys120

Austin A35, late 50s actually,a '59.

Mr_Shiftright

Save that photo for next time somebody says "all old British cars are beautiful". :P

andys120

LOL, Shifty,no one familiar with popular British sedans of the 50s 60s and 70s would ever say that.

andys120

always have.

rsholland

Me too. '50 Ford Customline.

Bob

andys120

for nice red convertibles=>

Mr_Shiftright

I'm cheating here--this is a one-off but I thought you might like to see an unusual rendition of a car you see every day:

negative

'63 Plymouth. The only question is what model. We had one briefly, a blue sedan that was a hand-me-down from my aunt after our '66 Pontiac Catalina was wrecked. (In 1971.) I believe ours was a Belvidere. (My aunt had nicknamed it "Blue Boy.") It had the pushbutton automatic transmission. I'll bet this one is a Fury.

andys120

I'll bet this one is a Fury

Close enough, it's a '63 Plymouth Sport Fury.

Mr_Shiftright

Oh sorry, forgot to reveal the mystery "one-off".

It's an early Porsche 911 spider from Bertone.

Little known fact: Porsche generally sells more 911 convertibles than coupes per year.

andys120

rsholland

A real beauty, the Continental Mark II, from the late '50s.

Bob

navigator89

Sure, you know it's a Kia, but which model?

ateixeira

But a Korean domestic model?

-juice

Mr_Shiftright

Nice clean design, very well built. No not a classic (too new) but a second-tier collectible. Kinda hard to unload one on anybody but people enjoy looking at them.

negative

What you can't quite appreciate from the picture is how large the car is. I saw one at the auto show a few years ago, and everything about it was massive.

andys120

Yeah they are quite big, I like 'em but I'd love en if they were about 3/4 of the real size.

andys120

kyfdx

Citroen?... This is the model I think of, whenever that name comes up..

lemko

That beautiful car is the 1956-57 Continental Mark II. They sold for the princely sum of $10,000 back then and were shipped in fleece-lined bags. Frank Sinatra had one.

fintail

And the Citroen is an early 70s SM...I hear there are a couple left in roadworthy condition

navigator89

Whi's going to guess post #1351??

andys120

Yes, it's the legendary Citroen-Maserati, a car so wonderfully strange you expect it to be driven by Martians. There's something about the sleek arrogance of this car that has always appealed to me.

andys120

seminole_kev

Not really up to speed on Triumphs. Maybe a TR3?

andys120

'59 TR-3A, IMO the best Triumph ever.

andys120

fintail

I dunno about that KIA...not a NA spec car. Maybe I could dig though some old CAR mags and look for it...but I don't know if it was even sold in the UK.

The Subaru is badged as a Leone, I think it was sold here as a GL10 or something.

navigator89

Anyone else wanna take a guess at post 1351?

lemko

Looks like a JDM Subaru - 1980 perhaps?

negative

My Corgi (toy) version is still in good shape.

andys120

Yep, that's a JDM Subie Leone, the car we know as the Subaru GL or Loyale.

Sorry, Nav, one old KIA looks like another to me. Is it a Sephia?

andys120

seminole_kev

While I love Mustangs of that era, it does make it a little less of a task when the tape at the bottom along the door sill shows the info!

stickguy

a '67? A 500, so it's the big block (428 lump motor probably). IIRC, the KR stands for "King of the Road", although maybe that was just made up after the fact.

It's also Green if that helps.

stickguy

sorry, I try to know as little as possible about KIAs

Mr_Shiftright

That's a nice car. Some people think that the GT500 must be better but they'd be wrong :P

Citroen SM -- a very WEIRD car to drive, but fun. One very odd thing about it is that the steering does not self center when you go around a turn. That may not sound like a big deal but try it sometime---very disconcerting. You take French hydraulic engineering and mate it to Italian mechanicals and...phew....you gotta be brave and you gotta want something really different. Certainly a technical tour de force and a very interesting car for its time, however.

andys120

One very odd thing about it is that the steering does not self center when you go around a turn
I would think that's nearly impossible in a front-drive car, I wonder how or why they did it that way.

Sorry Stickguy but that's a '68 Shelby 500KR, not a '67 (the KR was new in '68).

andys120

This car is the subject of a discussion in another topic.

rsholland

'64 Plymouth Barracuda, which was basically a Valiant fastback.

Bob

navigator89

It's a Kia Clarus, sold overseas

Mr_Shiftright

Oh I missed that....thought it was a 350GT...what do I know?

I wouldn't mind a regular '67 Mustang Fastback K code 4-speed.

navigator89

What is this funky looking car? :P ">

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ateixeira

Odd car.

-juice

Mr_Shiftright

An Italian Xb with a sense of humor?

I saw an old Multipla once with the license plate THESLUG

Fun car but he wore the engine hood hinges out.

ateixeira

What's really odd is that in Brazil they are trendy, and it's executives that buy them. They have tons of room inside and space like that is seen as a major luxury in a country full of mini cars.

My brother has the egg-shaped Cirtoen Xsara Picasso. He's pretty brave, having owned a Renault before that.

That Picasso had a manual tranny and little fold-out trays for the rear seats!

-juice