Mystery car pix

imidazol97

I also see the C6, a very nice car indeed.

If you copy the address for the picture in Properties of the picture and then paste that into a new browser window in IE, you get the right picture. Somehow some sites are able to block referrals calling for their graphics from other sites. I know some sites warn they don't want you to link to their graphic that they're giving away. Like this one, manybe:



Instead they want you to copy it to your own hosting location. They don't want the bandwidth taken up by people using their site to host the picture which is being view from another forum or site--because they don't get the view count on their advertisements that way as well as they do have bandwidth problems in some cases.

fintail

I'm still seeing the Prelude, driving near the ocean. Weird.

stephen987

If you refresh, you'll get a nice silver C6 droptop with a very bold logo. I've no clue how to fix it at this point.

fintail

I've restarted my machine since I last viewed, and refreshed, and I still see the Prelude :confuse:

andys120

I'm still getting the C6 but here's a Prelude v..2.0 like the one I bought in '85>

stephen987

Yup--and behind it in the driveway is an '91-94 Nissan Sentra B13--a car that is still being made twenty years later as the Nissan Tsuru for some Latin American markets .

fintail

Out here in slow rust land I still see an old Prelude like that now and then.

ateixeira

My roommate had one - not a bad little coupe. Sportier than it looks.

Mr_Shiftright

GET OUT!! :surprise:

A toilet in a Rolls Royce? Ewwwwwwwwwwww.....

Shifty Sez: "The nice thing about bad taste is that you don't know when you have it".

magnette

That was so horrible it deserves a remake of the old film ie... "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Vignale"

boomchek

Apparently the toilet was used to store champagne bottles :confuse: :sick: :lemon: (This car is getting weirder by the minute).

Here's the article:Toilet of a Rolls Royce

Mr_Shiftright

That would be perfect---that original film really stunk, too.

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

Looks like an MGB but something about it says....??

bumpy

The taillights make it a 93-94, and they finally quit building the Tsuru within the last year or so.

andys120

Nope, not a B; take a good look at the windshield surround (it's satin silver on an MG-B).

stephen987

I'm guessing it's a Mk3 Midget.

Mr_Shiftright

Yes I noticed that the windshield pillars were painted.

But it's SO British....Jensen Healey?

andys120

Same deal, Midgets didn't have body color windshield surrounds. Shifty's right about it being British but it's not a Jensen-Healey either. I know you guys know this one!

stephen987

The wheel and seats look very MG to me (or at least BL). The angle's weird, making it hard to see the shape of the car overall.

andys120

Any chance it's an MGA?

With headrests on the seats, not bloody likely!

stephen987

Yeah, I thought better of that suggestion and retracted it almost instantly. . .

andys120

Here's a similar car from a different angle>

stephen987

Spitfire?

andys120

Spitfire?

Yes, it's a Triumph Spitfire. The only real clue to it's ID were the B-L style seats, the Raydot racing mirror (a popular accessory on Brit sportsters of the day) and the painted windshield surround. The painted surround was peculiar to all Triumphs from the TR-4 and Herald on. Almost every other roadster of the day had chromed, aliminum or stainless steel framing.

The caption does not give the year of the Spit the little guy is "driving" but the seatback headrests make it '68 or later. The thick-rimmed steering wheel suggests a late car. The otherwise undistinguished Spitfire had an unusually long run; it was in production from 1962 'til 1980.

Mr_Shiftright

I like Spitfires, despite their cheapness. When I was younger and the earth was still cooling, my friend Art had a Spitfire and I had a Morgan. We'd race down the west side of Manhattan. I would easily humiliate him. The Morgan was faster and handled better (understandably, with the 2L Triumph engine). Then we bought motor scooters. He had a Vespa and I had a Lambretta. I used to beat him with that, too. Then he got married and well, his life of fun was terminated. :P

I continued on without him, moving up to Jaguars and a Norton P11, which was in its time a pretty fast bike. I'd visit him as he was loading up the station wagon.

british_rover

Twist the rusty knife in why don't you ouch.

I continued on without him, moving up to Jaguars and a Norton P11, which was in its time a pretty fast bike. I'd visit him as he was loading up the station wagon.

Did you go up more often on the Norton or the Jag?

andys120

A Morgan with it's primitive ox-cart suspension would be at a distinct disadvantage on the pot-holed roadways of Manhattan, Peter Revson (a long-time resident of Manhattan), described his Mog as riding "like a coal cart".

Even a Spitfire would maintain more contact with the road, relatively speaking. IIRC they got IRS ca. 1964 (before the TR-4A!)

Morgans were pretty good on smooth race tracks because they were relatively light, ash wood framing being lighter than it's wrought iron equivalent. :P

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

It's true, Morgans were dog carts, but the low end torque was good compensation. West Side Hwy was pretty good back then--NYC wasn't quite the crowded circus it is now.

I'd ride the Norton to get around the city from about late April to mid October, then I called it quits.

ANDYS -- my brother had that exact car! Talk about torque! You could pull a house down with that engine.

fintail

ca. 1948 Packard, bodystyle from 48-50, I will guess it is an "Eight".

I prefer the 41.5-47 style.

andys120

Back when I was buzzing around NYC in sports cars I thought that a race around Manhattan vis the West Side Highway, the FDR and the Harlem River Drive would be really cool, especially if there was moderate to light to traffic. :shades:

Mr_Shiftright

Way fun. Back then, you could be poor and live there, so late at night the cops retreated and the streets were open territory to all who dared. Law and order returned about 6 AM. Now it's just rich people, young people living 12 to an apartment, tourists, and a few commuting crazies. Still fun if you got lotsa cash but driving isn't much fun anymore.

andys120

Yup, it's 1948 Packard, don't know the model.

stephen987

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Shifty. In my high school, most of the "cool" kids had either pony cars or late 60s-early 70s midsize American iron. This was the early '80s, so you can imagine the parking lot. Among the "best" of that ilk were my neighbor's '66 Mustang convertible (in which he died a fiery death shortly after graduation), a '71 Torino GT, and a '69 Skylark with a "built" 350. Among the worst? Well, there was a '73 LeMans, a hideous '75 Torino Elite. . . and a cute, sweet, smart girl who drove a perfectly maintained, but perfectly awful white Datsun B210.

At the other end of the spectrum. . . in the marching band section of the parking lot. . .

I drove a '70 Fiat 850 Spider with the "oversized" 903cc engine. It would turn 7000 rpm--with pushrods--but little old ladies in Ramblers were passing me on both sides. Meanwhile, Joel from the trombone section had a yellow '75ish Spitfire 1500 and Michael from the french horn section had a restored '64 Midget in red.

My 850 was hopelessly outclassed by the Spitfire in both acceleration and handling, but I could easily outrun Michael's poorly tuned Midget. I'm sure we all seemed perfectly ridiculous when a six-cylinder '74 Camaro could've wiped the floor with all of us, but we thought we were so much better/smarter/more creative because we had "real sports cars."

Nearly thirty years hence, I'm sure all three of us have graduated to silver Camcords with automatic.

Mr_Shiftright

I was weaned on big American iron but as NYC got more and more crowded, I realized that flooring the car and then jamming on the brakes was not nearly as much fun as driving fast around the curves---which in those days an American car simply could not do, without dire consequences. American cars of the 60s and 70s were pathetic handling cars unless the movie Bullitt was your idea of a night out on the town.

andys120

American cars of the 60s and 70s were pathetic handling cars

Absolutely, with rare exceptions those American blimps were nose-heavy pigs, in fact even my pathetically underpowered VW 1200 was nicer to go around corners in -only spun it once .

stevedebi

"Absolutely, with rare exceptions those American blimps were nose-heavy pigs, in fact even my pathetically underpowered VW 1200 was nicer to go around corners in -only spun it once"

Not surprising, since with the engine over the rear wheels, they would hold the corner better than a front engine vehicle...

I had a type 2 for a while, and in the winter I used to put 40 lbs over the wheels for added traction - over the front wheels.

Mr_Shiftright

part of the problem was American automakers dogged resistance to radial tires. On a sharp turn, those baloney-walls just caved in, even though Detroit probably lavished at least $3 a tire on them.

lostwrench1

I agree. Because of its displaying the simplest of the hood ornaments used on 1948 Packards, it is a 1948 Packard Eight.

bumpy

stephen987

I'm thinking that's a particularly badly customized recent GAZ/Volga--don't recall the model number, maybe 2105?

Then again, I could be hallucinating. Please, tell me I'm hallucinating. . .

bumpy

Perhaps a slightly different angle might help?

Mr_Shiftright

Looks like it was painted with a broom.

stephen987

Nope--still just as ugly, and just as Soviet-looking. Unless it's Chinese. . .

bumpy

andys120

Looks like a Volga to me, except for the wheels, which could've come off my '71 Fiat.

fintail

Some kind of Japanese taxi...doesn't look like a Toyota Crown, the only one that comes to mind

stephen987

I'm out of ideas too--"Japanese taxi" doesn't give me anything to go on, aside from not being Russian or Chinese.

jwilliams2

Looks like a tuned Nissan Crew.