Mystery car pix

andys120

Thanks Stephen. The Ghibli is a '72 and the other is a 1960 pre-production version of the 3500GT Vignale Spider which has long been a favorite of mine, it's the first I've ever seen in the metal.

In the background you can make out an orangish 1970 Camaro Z-28 as well as a blue '67 Mustang fastback.

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stever

2010 Kia Soul?

My wife thinks she'd like to test drive one of these. In the Alien Green.

andys120

2010 Kia Soul?

Nope, sorry Steve.

stever

I did wonder if the rake of the side windows wasn't quite pronounced enough.

Whatever it is, I think she'd like it too.

andys120

Last call for the weird green box in #19934!

stever

Heh, I think my wife got it. She says it's a Citroën Picasso. Apparently the Soul designers got their ideas from it (she's been researching Souls for a while now).

Looking online, I guess there's a couple of flavors of Picasso's, and this one appears to be the C3.

She definitely likes it.

andys120

Yep, that's the 2010 Citroen C3 Picasso.

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berri

Those earlier postwar Mopars looked a lot alike. I'm going to guess its a 49 DeSoto behind the jeep because of the waterfall grill.

andys120

That's right Berri, it's a 1949 DeSoto Diplomat. I think the Diplomat was an export model, it seems to show up a lot in French movies.

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imidazol97

That's a 1958, Eighty-Eight, Fiesta by Oldsmobile.

andys120

It's a Holiday, not a Fiesta.

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stephen987

Hmmm. It's RHD, but the coachwork's nothing remotely British looking, and it's gotta be coachbuilt. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say it's a Delahaye 235, early 1950s, pretty much end of the line. No idea who did the body.

berri

It's a Holiday, not a Fiesta

In any event, along witn the Buick Caberello these were a couple of Harley Earl 57/58 painted ladies! Probably looked better than the sedans then though.

andys120

That's right Stephen, it's a 1953 Delahaye 235M, body by Chapron, one of the last Delahayes.

berri

Looks a bit like some of those early 50's Virgil Exner show cars

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qbrozen

'72-73 Volvo P1800 hatchback/wagon thingy.

And I had NO idea they offered PINK!

tmart

Volvo 1800 in Playmate Pink. Don't know the year, but with that picture, who cares? :shades:

fezo

Wow. I knew the car right away but have never seen a pink one! OTOH if she comes with it....

Very 70s picture!

andys120

No matter how many times I tell you guys it doesn't register, there's no "P" in the model name of the Volvo sports models after 1963 when production was switched from Britain (Jensen) to Sweden (Volvo). Therefore correct name for all the wagonbacks (only made from '72-'73) was 1800ES.

That beauty is the 1973 Playmate of the Year, Marilyn Cole and the paint job was custom, not factory. All the POTYs got a pink car, IIRC one unfortunate winner got a pink Ford Pinto.

qbrozen

sorry, Andy, I don't remember the conversation.

In any case ... meh! it'll always be P1800 to me. :b

lokki

Is there any more gaudy example of American Excess than that Olds Holiday wagon? Wow!

I seem to remember that my Great Uncle (Grand Father's brother) had a 58 Olds Super 88 which, at 4 years old, left an intense impression on me. I know for sure it was a 58 Olds, and the picture below fits my memory except for one thing: I though that there was even more chrome on the rear quarter panels or even an aluminum colored panel there... but I can't find pictures of anything like that.

In any case, the 58 Wagon's less practical sister:
Note - I failed miserably at trying to post a resized image here - it showed up fine in the preview, but didn't appear in the posting, so instead of the picture, here's a link to the page

http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/157847,12715,0,0/1958-Oldsmobile-Super-88_- Photo.aspx

bhill2

Is there any more gaudy example of American Excess than that Olds Holiday wagon? Wow!

I would like to humbly submit the 1958 Buick Limited as an answer to the above question. I won't even try to get a correctly sized picture into this post, Google gives many fine images of this beast. Feast your eyes especially on the tastefully restrained grille.

fezo

When you talk gaudy American Excess it's hard to beat a 1958 anything.

One of my dad's infamous $150 cars was a 58 Pontiac wagon in alovely faded out pink and purple two tone. It ran as bad as it looked.

bhill2

Yeah, another thing about 1958 was the available colors and combinations of colors. That lovely bubblegum pink was a perfect example. My dad had a '58 Chevy that combined white (very boring) with a shade of green that could rearrange the rods and cones in your eyes. The point being that those colors on the acre of car that was typical in 1958 was an effective precursor to the hallucinogens popular in the '60s.

andys120

You raise an interesting point Steve, '58 seems to have been the year in which Big 3 styling AND build-quality began heading South. IIRC it was a banner year for VW and other imports....the beginning of the end(?).

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berri

Hey, maybe she sells Mary Kay cosmetics on the side, or maybe this was Volvo's delayed answer to the mid 50's Dodge LaFemme. See that girl all dressed in pink, she's the one who made my...nevermind!

stephen987

Volvo 850 GLT?

andys120

Right Stephen.

wgrafer

Extra points: Anyone remember where the gas filler was??? Either the '58 Olds or Buick? It seemed to be a contest to make it more challenging to all the gas jockeys of the day.

fezo

They weren't ones that hid it the tail light were they? That dated back to at least the 54 Caddy and was a pretty wacky thing in retrospect. When I was 10 I thought it was cool.

tmart

It was usually in one of the tail lights or behind the license plate, which was my favorite place.

wgrafer

On the '58 Olds the gas pipe was under the left rear light - the top flipped open on a hinge! Even the '57 Chevy got into the act with the filler hidden behind the hinged left fin. And those Caddys - usually you pushed the small round reflector to unlatch the secret access and get the left tail light to hinge open. What fun!!!

lemko

The 1956 Chevrolet had it hidden behind the left taillight assembly as well. You twisted a chrome piece and the assembly, hinged at the bottom, flipped open.

fezo

I actually think of the flip down license plate as downright mainstream. what cars we had that didn't do the tail light trick tended to his them behind the plate.

I thought that 54 Caddy with the little reflector button was the coolest. It was that sort of Caddy that my dad had his sights set on. By the time he could actually have his own it was probably the late 80s or very early 90s and that kind of things was long gone.

qbrozen

wow. That's pretty observant. I was going to ask how you knew, then I figure its gotta be the black trim and turbo wheels that give it away.

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kyfdx

Renault Alliance convertible?

fezo

`Gotta be. I'd forgotten they made them.

fintail

Must be a GTA with all of that sporty cladding.

andys120

Yep, it's a 1988 Renault Alliance GTA.

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lemko

My 1989 Cadillac Brougham has the filler neck behind the license plate. From a practicality standpoint, it makes sense as it doesn't matter on which side the pump is located. I guess center fuel filler necks went away was due to safety regulations.

stephen987

1971ish Intermeccanica Indra 2+2.

stephen987

We had a Monte Carlo with that layout, but unfortunately the springs that held the plate in place were attached directly to the plastic bumper. Over time, the springs proved to be stronger than the plastic, so we wound up having to wire the license plate in place and untie it every time we needed to tank up.