Mystery car pix

imidazol97

Park Avenue
New Yorker

andre1969

Well, there's the Acadia National Park in Maine. So would GMC Acadian be close enough to that?

Where is Newport at? I've heard of a Newport News in VA, but never a plain old Newport

kyfdx

Newport, RI or Newport, KY.. You were about 12 miles away from Newport, KY, when you picked up your LeMans...

bumpy

And when was the last time a car or truck used a place name from East of the Mississippi?

Subaru Tribeca, GMC Acadia (national forest in Maine, IIRC), Buick LaCrosse (Wisconsin). Next one should be the Chevy Traverse (City, Michigan).

And let us not forget the Toyota Corolla, N.C. :P

magnette

Seat Ibiza,
Bentley Mulsanne/Brooklands/Arnage
or if you want to go back a bit, Austin did a sort of tour of the counties, in the early post-war period; Dorset/Devon/Somerset/Hampshire/Hereford/Cambridge/Westminster
or Morris Oxford
or Ford Cortina, Capri, Granada

hudsonthedog

I think I read over in Straightline that final assembly (20 - 25%?) of the Mahindra Appalachian will be done in Ohio to avoid the Chicken Tax.

The plan had been to produce it in Mexico, but that has apparently fallen through. And the company who wants to bring the Mahindra to the States has a sketchy past (with Aro), so I'm not counting these chickens (with or without the tax) before they hatch.

andys120

Alright enough!

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karsick

New Lancia Ypsilon?

Only the Italians could put such elegant & restrained features on such a small car (& pull it off, unlike the Korean makes :sick: )

andys120

Si, Lancia Ypsilon. :shades:

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fangio2

Chrysler New yorker,Plymouth Saratoga,Chrysler Newport,Fifth Avenue,Chrysler Sebring-hmmm seems like only Chrysler products.

andys120

Not to forget the Pontiac Laurentian

bumpy

Jeep Cherokee, circa 1970.

andys120

It's a '74 Cherokee, Bumpy.

hudsonthedog

Jeep Cherokee, circa 1970.

The Cherokee wasn't introduced until 1974.

bumpy

The front bumper had me thinking it was a bit earlier, but I suppose the 5-mph rule didn't apply to trucks?

andre1969

The front bumper had me thinking it was a bit earlier, but I suppose the 5-mph rule didn't apply to trucks?

I don't think the 5 mph rule ever applied to trucks. Unless it was briefly applied to them and then repealed? My '85 Silverado doesn't have 5 mph bumpers. They're just big slabs of steel bolted to heavy brackets that, in turn, are bolted right to the frame. No shock absorbers or anything like that. The only thing in the truck that will absorb the impact is the passengers! :surprise:

andre1969

Speaking of which, wouldn't LeMans be considered east of the Mississippi? If you go far enough east, that is. :P

lemko

...a Plymouth Sapporo? That's about as far east of the Mississippi as you can get before you cross the Pacific Ocean.

andre1969

I always thought Sapporo was a beer? :shades:

hudsonthedog

Yes...Sapporo is a beer and it was a Mitsubishi-built Plymouth model. The sibling to the Dodge Challenger (don't tell the 2008 Challenger fans about this!)

kyfdx

I remember those being pretty pricy.... maybe a little more than a Scirocco..

andys120

Yes...Sapporo is a beer and it was a Mitsubishi-built Plymouth model

Just for the record, before it was any on those things, Sapporo was/is Japan's third largest city and the capital and principal city of the Northern island of Hokkaido.

andys120

andre1969

I always thought those Sapporo/Challengers were neat little cars. I've heard that the automatic transmission used in them is a Torqueflite 904, and supposedly a Mopar smallblock V-8 will fit under the hood.

Was a Mitsubishi-badged version of that car ever offered, or just the Plymouth/Dodge models?

magnette

We had the Mitsubishi Sapporo, not the Plymouth clone, although it was initially sold here as a Colt, as Mitsubishi didn't sell under their own name here for a few years after they were introduced in the mid seventies.. Apparently they thought Colt was more likely to appeal to British drovers than Mitubishi, which sounded like ( indeed was ) the maker of the Zero etc.. ( Didn't cause any problems for Messercshmitt ( however you spell it) a few years earlier !)
I always thought Sapporo was a model name they chose because the city of that name hosted the winter olympics at about that time, but I am not at all sure of the chronology, so that may not be correct.

magnette

MGB - a bit later than any of mine, although you guys had different interiors as yu had crash padding before we did - all mine had metal dash, with a thin bit of plastic on top...

andys120

Yep, it's a '72 MGB, we had the metal dashes until about '68.

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kyfdx

'72 Opel Manta?

hudsonthedog

I've been told that Ford 351w V8s will mate up to Mitsubishi drivetrains very well. I worked with a guy who had a Mitsubishi (Dodge D50) pickup with a 351 under the hood.

Was a Mitsubishi-badged version of that car ever offered, or just the Plymouth/Dodge models?

The Mitsubishi version of the Challenger/Sapporo was replaced by the Starion about the time Mitsubishi started selling cars in the US, so American buyers were never offered a Mitsubishi-badged Sapporo (initially called the Mitsubishi Galant Lambda). The 4-door Mitsubishi Galant Sigma offered in the US in the late 1980s was sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Sapporo, though.

andys120

Close enough, it's a 1973 Opel Manta A (as it was called in Europe).

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oregonboy

Looks like a Rover 2000 TC from the late 60s (British version)

andys120

Yep, it's the Rover 2000, known here as the 2000TC.

andys120

stickguy

early 70's Renault. Just don't ask me which one. 17?

cosworth2

The green one is a Renault TL and the orange one is a Renault 17 GTX

magnette

Green is a Renault 15 - still see one from time to time, locally
Orange is a Renault 17
No idea of the exact spec, ie TS/TL etc

hudsonthedog

The Gorweinie! I went to school with a someone who had a friend who had one. The Renault 17 Gordini...they called it the Gorweinie. I had one very similar to the orange car pictured in Matchbox form.

andys120

Green is a Renault 15 - still see one from time to time, locally
Orange is a Renault 17
No idea of the exact spec, ie TS/TL etc.

Right you are Magnette.

andys120

The still is from Pleasantville (1998).

tmart

'57 TBird and a '52 Buick Roadmaster.

andys120

That's right, Tmart.

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kyfdx

'74 AMC Gremlin?

oregonboy

Definitely a Gremlin. A Gremlin figured prominently in a movie that I watched last night "Ten Items or Less", an interesting. small-budget, character-study staring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega (the Hispanic beauty from "Spanglish").

What was strange about the Gremlin in the movie was that it appeared to be a post-1974 model, with big bumpers, but it had low-back seats with no headrests. I suspect that the original seats were swapped out for cinematic reasons (much like rear-view mirrors are frequently MIA in through the windshield shots).

james

andys120

Yep, it's a '74 AMC Gremlin.

andys120