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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    BMW 700 - circa 1960/63
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep!

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I see the Cadillac crest.

    I'll guess BRO-HAMM only because I like saying that name. :D

    Year? Reminds me of my dad's '77 Buick, so I'll go with 1977 as a tip of the hat to my pop.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    Hmm, I had forgotten that Diamond T made small trucks. When I was a kid, there used to be an old junk Diamond T tractor rig, rusting away at the edge of a cornfield near my house. Not sure of the year, but it looked kinda like this
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Well you're 1/3 right, Juice :P It's not a Brougham or a '77.

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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    1970 Cadillac Eldorado? One thing I always hated about those early FWD Eldorados is that the bumpers seemed really fragile. The slightest bump seemed to distort them, and give the car kind of a pinched-in look up front. I guess a lot of cars with strongly peaked bumpers had that problem, though.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,930
    Is that an Eldo?

    I was going to guess '68 DeVille, as it reminded me of my stepfather's car...

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep, 1970 Eldorado.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • lostwrenchlostwrench Member Posts: 288
    Which port has the machine gun?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Thet all do except the one on the roof, that's for rockets. :P

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  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    And behind the Wildcat??? Looks like a '61 or '62 Ford Falcon Ranchero to me. Any support/dissent ???
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep, that is a Gen1 Falcon Ranchero.

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  • gussguss Member Posts: 1,167
    Spyker C8 ? Interestingly that top port is an air intake for underwater driving .
  • karsickkarsick Member Posts: 312
    Is that BMW rear-engined? :confuse:

    It looks very similar to the VW notchback (although you can tell they share no parts).

    This BMW was also obviously designed before they copied the "Corvair Look" for their 1600/2002. :P
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep BMW 700s had the motor in the rear as was common among Euro cars of the late 50s and early 60s. They preceded the VW notchback/squareback/fastbacks
    by several years.

    The 1962 BMW 1500 was the first of the Neue Classe cars that were heavily influenced by the 1960 Chevy Corvair's styling. BMW wasted no time copying the Corvair's strong beltline and pointed nose, the 1500 debuted at Frankfurt in Sept. 1961>

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    1961 Buick LeSabre.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    One of the interesting design cues for that BMW 1500, which carries on today for the marque, is the dog-leg corner to the rear (C) pillar.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Or is it?

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    That's just a pic - the vid button isn't live.

    Spoiler over in today's Straightline
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Too late for me, I saw the blog entry.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,930
    One of the interesting design cues for that BMW 1500, which carries on today for the marque, is the dog-leg corner to the rear (C) pillar.

    AKA the Hoffmeister (sp?) kink

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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    I'm not that good with older cars, but it definitely looks Oldsmobile-ish. Something about it doesn't look quite right though, like maybe it's a prototype or something?

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say 1942 Olds. I'm just guessing that year because of the blackwall tires...weren't whitewalls really scarce once WWII started going?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    One of the interesting design cues for that BMW 1500, which carries on today for the marque, is the dog-leg corner to the rear (C) pillar.

    Ah the famed Hoffmeister Kink. AFAIK the 1500 was the first BMW to have it, albeit in a very subdued form.

    The"kink" on a current (E90) 3er Touring>
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    By no means was BMW the first to employ this styling feature.

    1960 Dodge Phoenix (Virgil Exner)>
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,399
    It's the new and improved Red X Box version!!
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,429
    The little kink goes back even further than that

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,399
    Mid 40's Caddy?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    It's the new and improved Red X Box version!!

    Anybody else having trouble with it?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Mid 40's Caddy?

    I wouldn't think so, more like '49 or '50 judging by the size and shape of the tailfins.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Can't see the Bimmer here either - when I try to paste, it wants to open in a picture manager program instead of my browser.

    And are you sure the tan one isn't an Amphicar? :shades:
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Weird grille and license plate, maybe is Soviet copy of Cadillac?

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    GM, but not Caddy or a Caddy copy.

    Think about Rule #2:

    2) No pre WWII cars (MY 1946 and newer only)

    And think about the ones that straddled the war years. Then you can think whether it meets the flavor of Rule #2 or not.... ;)
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,930
    Red X for me, as well...

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,930
    Right to left...

    Early '70s 2800CS

    '67 2000CS

    '67 2000CS

    '69 1600

    The red one? Is that the 700 from before?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,108
    I'm thinking the red one is a 503.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,930
    I thought of a convertible...

    But, it seems it would sit lower than the other cars... That's what put me off of it...

    You may well be right.. I suck at this game, anyway..

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,399
    :confuse: The trunk shows the Caddy crest above the "V". Will change my guess to '48.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Caddy crest? Well, parts were hard to come by after the war I suppose, and maybe they grabbed any old emblems out of the bin, but that's not what the link says. And it's a '46 ... but really a '42 that was put on ice until late 1945 when the factories stopped making war material (thus my "off-topic?" title).

    Here's the spoiler link again (and I'm getting major brownie points from Bob for the links, lol).
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,399
    Guess I was confused, senior moment Thought we were talking about 16297, the green Caddy! Sorry :blush:
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    Actually that spoiler link says what my guess was, a 1942 Olds. The '46-48 Olds had a grille with heavy bars that curved down at the outer edges, giving it a bit of a "sad mouth" look to it.

    However, that 1942 Olds is technically not Pre World War II, since the United States was at war by that time. It's not Post WWII, but it's not Pre-, either. :P
  • oregonboyoregonboy Member Posts: 1,650
    I would guess that the 1600 is a 1967, as the turn-signal lenses are flush with the body rather than bulgey like the later (USA) ones were:

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,108
    That '42 Olds, a "B-44" - really playing up the military support! Here's the "real" B-44 (actually XB-44, an engine mod of the B-29):

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,429
    Yeah I guess it's a 48, that's what I googled to find an image with the rear quarter window kink
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    I saw your pic and thought, "He's mistaken, that's a B-50" but I checked it out on Wikipedia and discovered that the XB-44 was in fact the prototype for the B-50.

    I guess we could have some fun w "Mystery Plane Pics" ;)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • lostwrenchlostwrench Member Posts: 288
    It's a 48. The big clue was the rocker panel. Some 48s had a chrome rocker panel strip and some did not. All of the 49s had the chrome rocker panel strip.
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