Mystery car pix

stever

Ok, let's think 1930 and the "rest" of the name then. I'm seeing 2010, but Maybach is calling it a "future" model.

jwilliams2

Future Maybach Zeppelin.....which will probably crash and burn like the Hindenburg...saleswise, that is. :P

stever

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).

jwilliams2

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_Shiftright

They might as well epoxy the tires to the showroom floor. You'd think they'd know when to throw in the towel.

imidazol97

>They might as well epoxy the tires to the showroom floor.

That picture made my morning.

fintail

I bet they sell in China!

andys120

magnette

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

magnette

Can't see a picture Andy

Mr_Shiftright

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

andys120

Me neither, sorry.

andys120

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!

fintail

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.

fintail

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.

andys120

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

stickguy

a stude pickup, and some kind of mid-60s plymouth (fury?)

lemko

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.

andys120

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.

andys120

fintail

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

andys120

Yup, cute ads.

andys120

boomchek

Olds Toronado, I say early 70s? 72 perhaps?

stephen987

Earlier--I'd say it's a '68. The new body style with the coffin nose and the formal greenhouse came out in '71.

andys120

Olds Toronado, I say early 70s? 72 perhaps?

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

andys120

stephen987

Alpine A108?

andys120

Close, it's a 1971 Alpine A110S.

andys120

vcheng

andys120

orrect! Perhaps Magnette can ID the plate for us.

andys120

stephen987

Fiat 124 Special TC?

andys120

Nope, not a 124 Twin cam. Here's another piece>

stephen987

definitely Italian. . .

andys120

Si, es Italiano

stephen987

Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. Ferrari, sixties vintage, so probably a 275 GTB or GTB/4.

andys120

Ferrari, sixties vintage, so probably a 275 GTB or GTB/4.

Yowzah! 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4



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

andys120

stephen987

Veritas, ca. 1948?

andys120

You're hot today Stephen, it's a 1951 Veritas Nurburgring.

ecalabrese

See 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

andys120

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

lemko

It appears to be a 1931 Chevrolet Series AE Independence.

texases

One way to eliminate the Model A - don't they all have a cap (radiator? gas?) at the base of the windshield?

fintail

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.

andys120

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.

andys120

imidazol97

1955 Chevrolet.
Looks like a hardtop and a BelAire.