Mystery car pix

hudsonthedog

There ya go, it's a Plymouth Champ, the badge twin of the Dodge, or is it a badge triplet since there was a Mitsubishi Colt?

That model Mitsubishi Colt was never sold in the US, so all three were never marketed in the same region. But the NEXT generation, sold as the Mitsubishi Mirage, saw three brands. The generation after that saw FOUR brands when the Eagle Summit was added to the mix.

andys120

magnette

Fiat Stilo Abarth - at least that's what it says above the windscreen. Current, or last season...

andys120

Fiat Stilo Abarth - at least that's what it says above the windscreen. Current, or last season

Doh! Evidently you didn't need the clue in my headline.

andys120

guss

2008 Volvo XC60 ?

andys120

I think the XC60 will be a 2009 model.

texases

hudsonthedog

The red car in the front is an Arnolt-Bristol. The hardtop behind it seems to be a Gilbern, but I'm not entirely sold on that answer.

texases

"The red car in the front is an Arnolt-Bristol"
Yep, bonus points for the model/year...
(I don't know about the hardtop)

andys120

The car behind the Arnolt is a Bristol 409, pic must've been taken at a Bristol meet in the UK. I don't think there's enough on this side to have a meet.

Bristol 409, 1968-69

hudsonthedog

Your photo subject is similar to the 1960 Arnolt-Bristol I photographed...shown here.

texases

My pic was listed as a '54 type 404/x. For all things Bristol, you can go to
Bristol Info

andys120

According to that site the car behind the Arnolt is indeed a 409.

magnette

Nice cars, Bristols.. I see the odd one around town - very few were ever exported, so most of them are still in UK, and most of those would be around London .
A little known fact about this model of Bristol, and the similar 410/411 that succeed it is that the spare wheel is carried behind the front wing, and I think the battery and tool kit, or something are in the other one, to balance the car...
Never a sports car, but a really grand tourer, in that old fashioned way, all leather seats and burr walnut...Chrysler V8 helps push it along, though it is a bit of a drinker...

andys120

kyfdx

Mondeo?

andys120

Nope not a (Ford) Mondeo.

karsick

Loud paint?
Bodykit?
Big rims?
Full-size body?

This has to be a competitor for the Holden Commodore.

I'm guessing Ford Falcon (Aussie model) with a V8.

andys120

I'm guessing Ford Falcon (Aussie model) with a V8

Dunno about the V8 but I suspect it has one even if it's called the Ford Falcon XR6
(2004 model).

andys120

tomica

The hatch lid calls it a Rover Ambassador.

hudsonthedog

The hatch lid calls it a Rover Ambassador.

Does it say "Rover" or "Austin?"

lemko

...I don't know how many people ever saw the BBC show often shown on PBS stations called "Keeping Up Appearances" starring Patricia Routledge about a pretentious middle-aged middle class woman. Anyway, what kind of car does her husband Richard drive? It looks like some kind of a Rover.

stickguy

Oh, I know this! Or at least I did..

I think he actually had a Civic. Unless there was a Rover knockoff at the time.

It's not "Bucket", it's "Bouchette"

lemko

It's a light blue metallic car and I did see the Rover nameplate on it. Just don't know what model or year. I believe Onslow's beater is a 1970s Ford Capri or something similar.

andys120

Does it say "Rover" or "Austin?"

It's a 1984 Austin Ambassador

bumpy

Naah, the XR6 had an Australia-only 4.0L inline six. The turbocharged XR6T was and is the one to get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_XR6_Turbo

magnette

I think it is a Rover 214 or 216, a product of the Honda / Rover tie-up of the time.

I saw the bloke that played the husband, funnily enough, coming out of Baker Street tube station, last year.

magnette

This is one of those confusing bits of Rover/Leyland history. They made a car called the Princess 1800 or 2200, indeed initially, in the mid-70's they launched as a Morris/Austin or Wolseley but when they updated it to provide a hatch back, in the early 80's, they had decided that the Princess name would be dropped, and this car was launched as the Austin Ambassador...( the name Princess was or at least had also been used by them before, as a model in the luxury VandenPlas range, and even earler (1948-59) they had made Austin Princess limo's, but that is another story.)
This Austin Ambassador is one of those cars which was so common 20 years ago that it wouldn't have attracted any attention, (except when it broke down - they were pretty lousy cars) but now they are virtually extinct - I have been looking out for one of these for a while, because I used to know someone who had one, and he reckoned there were hardly any left when he sold his, for scrap...I haven't seen one on the road for years, although there is an owners club...

ateixeira

That XC60 kinda looks like the Mazda CX9. Wonder if they share any DNA beneath the skin?

bumpy

It's basically a CX-7 with a Volvo nose.

xhe518

The CX-7 and CX-9 look exactly the same anyway

andys120

This car was the 2007 favorite among readers of the NY Times Collector Car Gallery section:

stickguy

'61? TR3 (although I always foget what a 2 looks like..)

ateixeira

They look similar but they don't share platforms, interestingly enough.

andys120

'61? TR3 (although I always foget what a 2 looks like..)

It's a '59 TR-3A, it has a wider grille than the earlier TR-3 or the TR-2 which had a deeply inset grille.

This is what a TR-2 looked like>


The TR-3A had a bigger (2.1L vs 2.0L) engine, which was the same as used in the TR-4/4A, the same chassis was used as the TR-2 (and for that matter TR-4 and non-IRS TR-4A).

andys120

hudsonthedog

That picture of the Austin came from an online classified ad...

Unmolested Austin Ambassador

michaellno

Updated Aussie Ford Falcon.

Alan Mullaly has expressed a desire to have one of these for his own.

Now, does that mean that we'll ultimately see the Falcon sold in the US?

Don't count on it.

magnette

Thanks for the link, 20 miles north of Edinburgh is a long way to go to see a car, though - about 475 miles - which isn't much on your roads but is a major pain on ours... £ 995 is not bad for a car which is probably rarer than a Veyron, though... !

texases

"...probably rarer than a Veyron"

Now how many times has a Austin Ambassador ever been compared (in any way) to a Veyron...you read it here first!

andys120

Updated Aussie Ford Falcon.

Alan Mullaly has expressed a desire to have one of these for his own

Yep, it's the new Aussie Ford Falcon G6E Turbo. Can you believe we get the frumpy Taurus and they get that rocket? :mad:

If the Aussie-sourced G8 does well I wouldn't be surprised if Mullaly gets his way.

andys120

magnette

I know which one I'd rather drive - but I'd prefer to insure the Ambassador !

magnette

Armstrong Siddeley 234/236 ( I can never tell them apart). Late 50's, although this one has been re-registered.
Spot-On cars made a model of this car at the time, and I've got one somewhere in my parent's loft - it would look a lot more battered than this example, though

andys120

Yep, it's a 236.

andys120

ateixeira

Just a wild guess - '57 Chevy Bel Air?

andys120

Nope, sorry Juice.