Yep, the Blue/Yellow California plate is the giveaway that this is the USM VW Quantum. The Chinese version (Santana) is still being made there according to Jalopnik.
I like the Willys Jeep forward cab pickup by the fintail. Is that maybe an early fifties Olds woodie next to it
That could be a Willys/Jeep FC-150/170 but it's hard to say, ditto the wagon. I think I can make out the headlight trim that would indicate it's an Olds but I sure can't see any wood trim.
FC=Forward Control, they were popular as gas station vehicles.
I agree about the Willys/Jeep FC. Way back in the old days I worked midnight shift at a Phillips 66 truckstop on the NJ/NY border for a few summers. They had one with a hydraulic snowplow attachment on the front, and while I wasn't supposed to drive it I do remember taking it for a few spins. All I recall was that it was all torque and little to no speed, and how weird it was wrestling with the steering wheel with nothing in front of you but the hydraulics outside the windshield.
56 Plymouth wagon, 56? Mercury, 59 Chevy and maybe 54 Chevy behind it in front of "Wong", not sure, maybe Triumph Herald?, VW pickup and maybe a 57 Pontiac?
I thought of that, it looks a bit like a Herald but normally there wouldn't be any hood scoop on those and the grille looks a bit wider than on a Herald. I though of a Triumph Italia as well but those were pretty rare and had no scoop either. :confuse:
GM had almost exactly that same turd brown paint in 1972. My dad's 72 Impala was that color. A real argument against used cars..... We never would have picked that color....
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GM had almost exactly that same turd brown paint in 1972
I think everybody used it .. my folks bought a '73 Corona (new) in that same shade of brown. The next door neighbors had a similar era 2-door Corolla that was the same brown as well.
...a 1971 Plymouth Fury Gran Coupe easily comes to mind. I believe the brown color was actually called "Chestnut" and the car had a vinyl top and interior trim with a paisley pattern.
And if it wasn't bad enough, often they'd offer several shades of brown at the same time in the '70's! For example, take that 1972 Montego Bradymobile Lemko posted. Well here's the paint chart from that year. They offered three colors that I'd classify as "brown": "Medium Brown Poly", "Ginger Poly", and, get this, "Ginger Glamour Poly" :surprise:
I think some of those colors are very attractive. But unfortunately, they gave us TOO much variety back then (I'm counting 29 colors for the non-Capri Mercurys), too many bad choices, and, well, the buying public just didn't have good taste at that time.
I think some of the lighter browns are okay though, on the right car. But they tend to be more caramel, I guess. For instance, here's a buckskin brown beauty I wouldn't mind having (I linked it because it's probably too big to post).
Fintail is right, it is the new (2011?) McLaren MP4-12C. Juice is right too, it's good-looking enough to be a Ferrari, which is more than I can say about the new California or the F458. :sick:
I didn't really like when Ferrari got away from a single grille and went with a split one on the F430. But the Enzo was the first ugly Ferrari in my mind.
That's a '77 Grand LeMans. I never thought I could bring myself to like a brown car, but I find myself liking this one alot. It showed up at the GM show in Carlisle PA in 2007 and 2008. I was going to ask the owner to give me first shot at it if he ever decided to sell it, but the car wasn't there in 2009.
The split grille isn't the problem, I'm fine with the F430 which has the visual panache a Ferrari needs. The twin grille recapitulates Carlo Chiti's Ferrari race cars of the 1960s, as do the fender scoops>
Back in May you posted a picture of a Kettenkrad thing, and we were trying to work out the red roadster in the background, with the Luxembourg plates. Well I was looking for something else in a French classic car guide magazine I found somewhere, and I turned up references to a make called CG, who used Simca mechanical bits, and made a range of roadsters and coupes in the late sixties early seventies...The only link can find to any pictures is this,
but I think what we have there is a 1000 or 1200 spider, but with a spoiler fitted - not really sure though, and there aren't any pictures I can find that are quite right...
That could be it, yeah. No rear end pics of those models...that rear end, with its kind-of-lumps at each end, is very distinctive. But I can't link it to anything.
This photo was taken of a Swedish town the day they switched from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967, there's a wide variety of cars in it>
Were people afraid to walk on the sidewalks? :confuse:
I think I see a fintail in front of the Checker at left, both wearing taxi signs. I think nearest left is a German Ford Taunus (another taxi), and of course a VW behind it. At right it looks like a TR-4 is trying to get on the sidewalk...otherwise...everyone else can have the rest :shades:
Yup, they're hard to make out but I can see the two Taunus cabs on the right, past the two truck. Fintail has already mentioned the Taunus cab in the left front.
It must be easy to get a cab in that town! I think the Volvo in the center is a cab too.
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Yep, the Blue/Yellow California plate is the giveaway that this is the USM VW
Quantum. The Chinese version (Santana) is still being made there according to Jalopnik.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
That could be a Willys/Jeep FC-150/170 but it's hard to say, ditto the wagon. I think I can make out the headlight trim that would indicate it's an Olds but I sure can't see any wood trim.
FC=Forward Control, they were popular as gas station vehicles.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I can't figure out what the little car behind the Mercury is.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I thought of that, it looks a bit like a Herald but normally there wouldn't be any hood scoop on those and the grille looks a bit wider than on a Herald. I though of a Triumph Italia as well but those were pretty rare and had no scoop either. :confuse:
Triumph Herald photo
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I think everybody used it .. my folks bought a '73 Corona (new) in that same shade of brown. The next door neighbors had a similar era 2-door Corolla that was the same brown as well.
The Buick gave way to a black Olds, then a silver Olds so I guess Dad developed some taste at some point.
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Something about that color, I'd say.
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I think some of those colors are very attractive. But unfortunately, they gave us TOO much variety back then (I'm counting 29 colors for the non-Capri Mercurys), too many bad choices, and, well, the buying public just didn't have good taste at that time.
I think some of the lighter browns are okay though, on the right car. But they tend to be more caramel, I guess. For instance, here's a buckskin brown beauty I wouldn't mind having (I linked it because it's probably too big to post).
The silhouette says Ferrari, even the split grille up front is something they've done recently.
But some details are Lambo-ish.
Then the air intake behind the doors is textbook Saleen.
I dunno, I'm stumped. I'll go with Ferrari, my original gut feel.
it's good-looking enough to be a Ferrari, which is more than I can say about the new California or the F458. :sick:
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I didn't really like when Ferrari got away from a single grille and went with a split one on the F430. But the Enzo was the first ugly Ferrari in my mind.
Dino 246SP at Targa Florio (von Trips-Gendebien).
F430 Spider>
The 458 Italia by contrast strikes me as a shapeless blob with no discernable grille or air intakes>
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but I think what we have there is a 1000 or 1200 spider, but with a spoiler fitted - not really sure though, and there aren't any pictures I can find that are quite right...
I still liked the single center-mounted grille better aesthetically.
from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967, there's a
wide variety of cars in it>
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I think I see a fintail in front of the Checker at left, both wearing taxi signs.
I think nearest left is a German Ford Taunus (another taxi), and of course a VW behind it. At right it looks like a TR-4 is trying to get on the sidewalk...otherwise...everyone else can have the rest :shades:
I think there's a Volvo 140 series in the middle of the road....
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
It must be easy to get a cab in that town! I think the Volvo in the center is a cab too.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Right on both counts!
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93