Mystery car pix

dougb10

I had one of those babies...bought it new in 1958...three on the floor..I think it had 32 HP.
Really cheap to run...had the worst Dunlop tires on any car I ever had...no seatbelts of course...a real plastic steering wheel and the car was prone to rust. It saved my bacon though financially...we were just married and had a baby on the way. When our first son was born, we took the top off the carriage and laid it across the back seat and away we went...stuffed as much as we could in the front trunk. Thankfully we never hit anything because I shudder to think about the consequences!
More kids arrived and bigger cars took over.

Doug

andys120

texases

Last-gen Toyota Cressida, '92-ish?

fintail

I think it might be an 89 or 90 model - no belt buckle emblem

andys120

Yup, it's a late (Gen IV) Cressida ('88-'92). It's mislabeled as an '89 Camry in an LAT
article! (click on #4)

jlbl

Which brand & model, and where?

Regards,
Jose

stephen987

Fiat Panda 4x4, first-generation. Somewhere Italian is spoken.

magnette

They made this old shape Panda for a long time- they were still selling it until about 2003, in Italy, and the van version was still being used by the Italian Post Office and telephone engineers etc when we last went there in 2007...

This one has the grille for the Panda 45, so it isn't one of the earliest, but I think that grille was later standardised on the whole range.

Commune di Viallanova is presumably the Villanova in Piedmont, although I suspect there are other Villanovas - it sounds like a fairly common name....

andys120

Steering wheels and fuzzy dice are aftermarket.

stephen987

'64-65 Pontiac Tempest LeMans?

bumpy

The red truck looks like a late '50s-early '70s IH.

andys120

Close but no cigar Stephen. Anyone else?

jlbl

To Stephen and Magnette,

Fiat Panda 4x4, often in use even by the Police in Italy. You've got it right. This one in the picture was for multi use in a small village in Sardinia Island, Italy, as recently as five days ago during their 'La Festa de la Pecora'. Not one of the oldest Pandas, anyway.

Regards,
Jose

kodi24

Please help: http://forum.gram.pl/upl/forum/2010_27/20100709192513.jpg

michaellno

Looks to be a '76 or '77 Chrysler Cordoba which has been modified into a convertible. No convertibles were made for that car from the factory.

kodi24

It is probably a early Cordoba, but i was confused about the lack of the roof too, maybe it really is a special version, i wonder who made it

omarman

63-64 Pontiac Grand Prix.

texases

Found this when I googled it: "1 of 200 made in california by global coaches of orlando,fl "

wgrafer

1964 Pontiac Catalina 2+2! Verrry tricky!

andys120

Yep, it's from a 1964 Pontiac GP

andys120

You know how tricky Alfa nomenclature can be>

Mr_Shiftright

Tricky indeed...that car, with the "stepped hood" must therefore be a "Giulia Sprint GT", a pre 1969 version of the more familiar GTV 1750.

andys120

Dang, I was hoping to trick someone into saying it was an Alfa GTV but you are correct; it's a 1966 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT

Giulia Sprint GT>

GTV 1750>

Mr_Shiftright

The tip off is the "stepped hood"--well the easiest thing to spot along with the lights.

These are wonderful cars. Along with the Volvo 123GT, among my very favorite 60s foreign coupes that are a) fun to drive b) durable, c) attractive, and d) actually worth something so that you can spend $$$ on them. Not too many coupes of that era meet all 4 criteria.

You can stump a lot of people with just photos of various Alfas. They can be quite confusing.

Try a 1965 Type 101 Giulia Spider 1600 -- most people miss that one, too.

andys120

The tip off is the "stepped hood"--well the easiest thing to spot along with the lights

The angle of the photo of the blue Giulia coupe obscures the stepped hood which is why I thought it'd fool someone.

The other cue is the turning signal on the front fender which got moved under the outer headlights on the GTV.

We'll save the Giulia Spider for another time.

andys120

haunted420

I found this at a garage sale, no idea where they picked it up. Pics posted up here..

http://s740.photobucket.com/albums/xx41/haunted420/

It's got a transmission temperature gauge

fintail

Reminds me of a previous generation Escalade, definitely GM.

andys120

wgrafer

1953 Panhard Dyna Junior Roadster

jlbl

… a nice Renault 4CV at the back of the scene.

Regards,
Jose

andys120

Actually it's a 1954 Panhard Dyna Junior Roadster, not that it looks any different from a '53.

I've never been able to figure out how the French went from building perhaps the most beautiful cars in the world from the mid 30s til 1950 to making cars as ugly as that.

andys120

boomchek

Fintail is right, it's from an older Escalade.

I found a photo of the entire dash:

Mr_Shiftright

Mr_Shiftright

Not that the transmission temperature gauge really helped :P

stephen987

Riley 1.5, early 1960s.

andys120

Riley 1.5, early 1960s

Right Stephen987. I'm not sure but IIRC this was a badge-engineered version of the Hillman Minx/Sunbeam Rapier. The Rootes Group seems to have adopted this strategy even earlier that British Motors.

The Riley 1.5s of a decade earlier were a lot classier looking than their 60s namesakes>

stephen987

Nope. Riley wasn't a Rootes brand. The Riley 1.5 and Wolseley 1500 were based loosely on the Morris Minor. But the front end does bear a resemblance to a contemporary Rootes car--take a look at this Singer Gazelle.

fintail

That older one is essentially a 1930s car made well into the 50s. Aah the Brits.

stephen987

The Rileys of the late '50s through mid '60s were caught up in the mergers that led to the formation of BMC--hence Riley, Wolseley, Austin, Morris and MG all had variations of the same B-series engine, and eventually all had their own version of the BMC 1100. IIRC they all also wound up with versions of the Mini, except MG.

andys120

lemko

It appears to be a 1946-48 Plymouth.

wgrafer

Looks like a '46 or '47 Plymouth (I don't remember
any difference between them).

I do remember my parents talking - after WWII there
was such a demand for new cars you had to go on a
waiting list, so the manufacturers really didn't need to
do a lot of re-designing right away!

Mr_Shiftright

After WW II, you could sell a wine barrel on roller skates as a new car---and it looks like some automakers did.

andys120

Yup it's a '47 Plymouth Deluxe

andys120

jlbl

At first sight, looks like a Simca Ariane or Simca Ariane 8 (either 4 or 8 cyl, both in early Sixties). My guess is Simca Ariane just plain. Though the plates are not French, the back scene can be it.

Regards,
Jose

lostwrench1

Hmmm, I thought the "double" tail light feature didn't arrive until 1948. If we knew the tire size as being 15 inch, then that would be the clincher that it's a 48.

andys120

It's a Simca Vedette ca. '54 so it probably started on the design boards of Ford of France.