Mystery car pix

andys120

magnette

BMW 700 - circa 1960/63

andys120

Yep!

andys120

ateixeira

I see the Cadillac crest.

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

Year? Reminds me of my dad's '77 Buick, so I'll go with 1977 as a tip of the hat to my pop.

andre1969

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

andys120

Well you're 1/3 right, Juice :P It's not a Brougham or a '77.

andre1969

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.

kyfdx

Is that an Eldo?

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

andys120

Yep, 1970 Eldorado.

andys120

lostwrench

Which port has the machine gun?

andys120

Thet all do except the one on the roof, that's for rockets. :P

wgrafer

And behind the Wildcat??? Looks like a '61 or '62 Ford Falcon Ranchero to me. Any support/dissent ???

andys120

Yep, that is a Gen1 Falcon Ranchero.

guss

Spyker C8 ? Interestingly that top port is an air intake for underwater driving .

karsick

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

andys120

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>

andys120

lemko

1961 Buick LeSabre.

magnette

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.

stever

Or is it?



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

Spoiler over in today's Straightline

ateixeira

Too late for me, I saw the blog entry.

kyfdx

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

andre1969

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?

andys120

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>


By no means was BMW the first to employ this styling feature.

1960 Dodge Phoenix (Virgil Exner)>

andys120

tmart

It's the new and improved Red X Box version!!

fintail

The little kink goes back even further than that

tmart

Mid 40's Caddy?

andys120

It's the new and improved Red X Box version!!

Anybody else having trouble with it?

andys120

Mid 40's Caddy?

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

stever

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:

andys120

Weird grille and license plate, maybe is Soviet copy of Cadillac?

stever

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....

kyfdx

Red X for me, as well...

andys120

kyfdx

Right to left...

Early '70s 2800CS

'67 2000CS

'67 2000CS

'69 1600

The red one? Is that the 700 from before?

texases

I'm thinking the red one is a 503.

kyfdx

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..

tmart

:confuse: The trunk shows the Caddy crest above the "V". Will change my guess to '48.

stever

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).

tmart

Guess I was confused, senior moment Thought we were talking about 16297, the green Caddy! Sorry

andre1969

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

oregonboy

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:

texases

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):

fintail

Yeah I guess it's a 48, that's what I googled to find an image with the rear quarter window kink

andys120

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"

andys120

lostwrench

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.