Mystery car pix

andys120

stickguy

1970?

lemko

...is a 1969 Plymouth GTX.

stickguy

close enough for me.

I saw a (I think) '73 Road Runner last night. Orange, with black and orange interior. Had that real pointy nose. had a pistol grip 4 speed at least! I think it was a 383.

andys120

Correct.

andys120

kyfdx

Is that a Buick? The portholes remind me of an Electra 225...

Mr_Shiftright

Let's see if I remember my Buickology....portholes mean AT LEAST a 1949...but that has 3, not 4, holes so maybe maybe...I'll guess 1950 but not a top of the line car.

lemko

...but it's either a 1951 or '52 Buick Special. Definately not a '50 or '53.

andys120

I'm impressed, Lemko, it looks like a '53 to me but in fact it's a '52 Special.

Mr_Shiftright

Shoulda remembered that spear on the side...

Mr_Shiftright

Okay here's one but be careful before you shoot.

rsholland

'52 Buick Special. Only Roadmasters had 4 portholes.

http://home.no.net/ayla/Buick/

Bob

rsholland

Shooting from the hip here: Nash Metropolitan, although Shifty may have something else up his sleeve here.

Bob

andys120

Looks like a Metro to me too but perhaps it's the same car w a different badge.
Dunno what it could be tho :confuse:

They may have been sold as Austins back in Blighty but that's a LHDer. :confuse: :confuse:

rsholland

The hubcap and wheels look a bit odd for a Nash, I must say; so maybe it isn't a Metropolitan?

Bob

fintail

Looks like a normal Metro to me, maybe they sold an Austin variant in Canada as Canada got lots more crap British cars than south of the border, it seems.

I think the hubcaps are right, they look like the Nash typeface.

Mr_Shiftright

okay big hint. It's a metro but not a Nash.

andys120

They were sold under the Austin and Nash nameplates according to this.

fintail

I wonder if they ever made them in South America or something

Mr_Shiftright

Okay you give?

It's a Hudson Metropolitan.

rsholland

Really! I didn't know Hudson also sold this car!

Bob

fintail

that's a new one to me too

But I see it here

http://www.nashmet.com/Met_History.htm

Mr_Shiftright

Save it for your next trivia game :P

andys120

stickguy

guaranteed the people I would play with won't know. And the only people that will even know what a Metro is will be my parents and older sister, because they had one before I was born!

stickguy

Meschershmidtt? I know I spelled that one wrong..

Mr_Shiftright

If you want to have a near-death experience, drive one of those over 40 mph.

andys120

Yep, a 1958 Messerschmitt KR200, built by the same Messerschmitt that built the Bf110 and Bf109=>

andys120

ateixeira

on the left. But I don't know which model.

On the right looks like an Alfa grille. Those are V shaped. Alfa Spyder?

-juice

oregonboy

BMW 1600 GT, body by Glas.
My first car was a 1600 sedan, which looked just like the famous 2002.

james

fintail

The BMW is a 1600 by Glas, I think that's the design company. The other car might be an in-house Glas car or something.

andys120

BMW 1600 GT, body by Glas.

Glas was a subsidiary of BMW, their old plant at Dingolfing is still cranking out Bimmers to this day. The styling was by Piero Frua.

andys120

fintail

Frua...I was kind of thinking that. Never seen one in person, but I know I've read about it.

No idea on the white car...some kind of Italian-American hybrid

stickguy

certainly reminiscent of an AC (aka Cobra) model, but seems bigger. Looks nice though

ateixeira

I was thinking AC also, perhaps an earlier variant of the Ace?

She's a beaut, though.

-juice

andys120

It's all-American.

davem2001

Whatever it is, the front end of it looks like it "inspired" the current Chrysler 300C

stickguy

and looked at the profile. never would have guessed that, but is "all american" true? I thought it was a hybrid like a Cobra (euro chassis/US power).

andys120

I can certainly understand your skepticism about the all-American nature of this car.

It's a Cunningham C-1, the first of Briggs Cunninham's successful sports/racing cars.
The motor is a Cadillac OHV V8, as for the rest :

Just as it was in 1951, the Cunningham is hand built, with a hand-hammered aluminum body and the innovative Cunningham dual tube chassis. This frame design was, and is, the most rigid ladder chassis ever devised.

more here

To be fair, the body looks like it may have been Italian coachwork but I could find no reference to a bodybuilder, the later C-3 was styled by Vignale.

navigator89

this small SUV?

Mr_Shiftright

A Kiotadaisanbishiwoo?

andys120

Dunno :confuse:, it looks Korean or possibly Japanese. Is that a German license plate?

ateixeira

Looks like a lifted Suzuki Wagon R, so I'll guess it's related to that in some way.

-juice

navigator89

You got the Dai part.

And it is Japanese.

And that is a German plate.

Any more guesses?

andys120

Daihatsu?

navigator89

Daihatsu is correct, but the full name of the car is the Daihatsu Terios.

That thing is tiny, it makes the Rav4 and Grand Vitara look big. And it's horsepower rating is 63kW, which is like 85hp!! Talk about underpowered!

gagrice