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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Ok, let's think 1930 and the "rest" of the name then. I'm seeing 2010, but Maybach is calling it a "future" model.
  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    Future Maybach Zeppelin.....which will probably crash and burn like the Hindenburg...saleswise, that is. :P
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Bingo.

    But I still can't tell if it's standalone or if they will have a Maybach 57 Zeppelin and Maybach 62 Zeppelin.

    More interesting links at the Straightline story. (Semi "safe" link, unless you scroll down beyond the first pic).
  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    There are pictures on netcarshow.com of both the Maybach Zeppelin 57 S and the 62 S, and it sounds like these will be ............... very limited in number as a special edition to the run of the mill Maybach. Both very expensive...

    Interesting pictures by the way....
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    They might as well epoxy the tires to the showroom floor. You'd think they'd know when to throw in the towel.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,705
    >They might as well epoxy the tires to the showroom floor.

    That picture made my morning. :)

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,576
    I bet they sell in China!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    You've got them all Fintail, although I think the BMC Farina is a Vanden Plas 4litre R, rather than the Wolseley 6/110.

    I hadn't noticed the sticker on the windscreen of the Zastava...

    ps - still can't get used to these useless margins
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Can't see a picture Andy
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Well China is an interesting market in that there isn't really strong brand identification, except maybe to Rolls Royce and Mercedes.

    Buick sells well in China because they have no prejudice against American cars, for instance. They only had to suffer under Mao, not under Detroit in the 1980s. :P
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Me neither, sorry.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Well China is an interesting market in that there isn't really strong brand identification, except maybe to Rolls Royce and Mercedes.

    As a one time practioner of advertising its strange to me that China has developed into a manufacturing/exporting superpower without developing any brand names widely recognized out side its borders. Probably the most recognized is the name of a pretty good beer, "Tsingtao", but almost everything else they make has someone else's name on it.

    Very curious!

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,576
    I think some Maybachs must go to China...when I was at the AMG facility, there was a contingent of (mainland) Chinese people being taken for rides and being allowed to drive a fleet of high end AMG and Maybach models. New money is new money no matter where it lives, and it tends to value impact over style. No doubt RR, MB, and BMW are extremely positive brands there.

    Wasn't there an old royal family connection to Buick? And I think pre-commie China admired American products as a whole. There's a future for some American brands there.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,576
    I think it might be a quality issue. China is a legitimate manufacturing superpower, but if we are honest, most of the items are not of the best quality. If desirable products can be made, perhaps those brands will gain recognition.

    Kind of like postwar Japan, but with a nice dose of social and envionmental injustice. For Japan, something happened maybe in the 70s that made the brands become wanted. That's what hasn't happened yet for China.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    image

    Let me know if you can't see this one.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,631
    a stude pickup, and some kind of mid-60s plymouth (fury?)

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Circa 1961 Studebaker Champ pickup, (Studebaker used the front portion of the compact Lark as the cab) and a 1965 Plymouth Fury. I guess a Fury II by what little trim I can see.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Yup, it's a Studebaker Champ (1960-64), which indeed was a Lark front end grafted onto a half-ton Pickup chassis, the result being a surprisingly good looking truck which was arguably better proportioned than the Lark cars.

    I don't know the exact trim of the Plymouth behind it but it is a '65 Fury of some kind.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,576
    Goggomobil 250 Coupe

    A couple can be seen in one of my favorite old car commercials

    You know a car is good when a selling point is that you don't have to garage it
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Yup, cute ads.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Olds Toronado, I say early 70s? 72 perhaps?

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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Earlier--I'd say it's a '68. The new body style with the coffin nose and the formal greenhouse came out in '71.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Olds Toronado, I say early 70s? 72 perhaps?

    Very early '70s Boomer, it's a 1970 Olds Toronado

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Alpine A108?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Close, it's a 1971 Alpine A110S.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • vchengvcheng Member Posts: 1,284
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    orrect! Perhaps Magnette can ID the plate for us.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Fiat 124 Special TC?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Nope, not a 124 Twin cam. Here's another piece>

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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    definitely Italian. . .
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Si, es Italiano

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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. Ferrari, sixties vintage, so probably a 275 GTB or GTB/4.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Ferrari, sixties vintage, so probably a 275 GTB or GTB/4.

    Yowzah! 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4

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    They're asking over $1mil for it, even more for an alloy bodied '65 275 GTB!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Veritas, ca. 1948?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    You're hot today Stephen, it's a 1951 Veritas Nurburgring.

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  • ecalabreseecalabrese Member Posts: 2
    imageSee more Car Pictures at CarSpace.com

    Can anyone tell me the make and model and year of this car? I know its not much of a picture but it's all I have to go on. Thanks
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Iy looks a bit like a Ford Model A (1927-31) but cars didn't look that different back then
    so it could be a contemporary Studebaker, Hudson, Chevy, Whippet etc.

    It was almost impossible to tell the exact year because they didn't change the styling from year to year but your pic is definitely of a late 20s/early 30s car.

    link to picture of '31 Model A

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    It appears to be a 1931 Chevrolet Series AE Independence.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,143
    One way to eliminate the Model A - don't they all have a cap (radiator? gas?) at the base of the windshield?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,576
    Yeah, a Model A has a cap in the middle of the cowl near the windshield. The radiator shell on that car is also not Ford.

    I agree with lemko, looks like a Chevy.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    It's a good thing I wan't around back then, I'm not sure I could tell a Packard from a Hudson but I think you guys are right, This '31 Chevy looks similar,
    Model A's have curvier grille shapes.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,705
    1955 Chevrolet.
    Looks like a hardtop and a BelAire.

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