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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    edited September 2010
    Good job Lemko. I'd add that the two-tone Ford in the distance is a '55 or '56">

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,536
    can't tell you the exact model, but it is as big as a whale and about to set sail!

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  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    edited September 2010
    Looks like the 66 Chrysler Newport I used to have.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    Looks like the 66 Chrysler Newport I used to have.
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    Possibly because it's a '65 Chrysler Newport. ;)

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Which one is it? Oh, that's a *building* on the left....sorry.......I got confused there for a minute.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,931
    That six-window sedan bodystyle is very rare in the Newport series.
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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I've seen quite a few of them in the New Yorker series. The early 1965 New Yorkers also had glass headlamp covers and clear taillight lenses that glowed red when illuminated. The clear taillight lenses were later discontinued due to production problems and high scrappage rates.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
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  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    Ford Fox based Ranchero, or actually a Durango. from '80 or '81.
  • colin_lcolin_l Member Posts: 591
    Late 80s - early 90s Mustang 5.0 five star wheels... that is atrocious.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Color combo doesn't help it, either.

    Looks like a 50s yellow with a Gold Two-Tone from a 90s Subaru Outback.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I saw a car yesterday that puzzled me...it was obviously a Mercedes 190, 2.3, early 90s, you know the car....but the trunk lid said "190L". Is this a model I haven't heard of, or is someone messin' with us?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Maybe the top two prongs of the "E" broke off?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    That's what I was thinking. Or maybe it was one of those funny entry-level Euro Benzes, you know, with the manual crank windows and cardboard upholstery that they use for taxis in Istanbul?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    Ford Fox based Ranchero, or actually a Durango. from '80 or '81.

    Yep, 1980 Ford Durango, they're actually fairly rare.

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    There's one that shows up at Carlisle all the time.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Yeah, it's a broken badge. Maybe even broken on purpose just to be different. I am not aware of MB using different letter model name badging for some markets and not others.
  • kadenjkadenj Member Posts: 7
    isn't that an elcamino? :confuse:
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    You have to be "of a certain age" to know that guy; it's schlocky radio/TV band meister Lawrence Welk ( "a vun an a two") demonstrating the 45 rpm record player that was optional on certain mid-'50s Dodges. It didn't prove very popular possibly because it would skip on every bump in the road.

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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    . . . and the license plate reads "A1ANA2"
  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    Well, Mr. Welk is definitely posing in a 1955 Dodge (the only
    year with the gear selector on the dash!). The optional 45rpm
    record player was offered at least through 1960 as I remember
    reading about it in the owner's manual for my Dad's 1960
    Plymouth Belvedere.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    I remember finding out about that record player and being so upset dad didn't get one in his Plymouth!

    Of course he could barely afford the car even without the silly option....
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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Correct. The man is Lawrence Welk and the car is a 1955 Dodge. Anyway, I always thought the Highway Hi-Fi used special 16 RPM platters?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    I always thought the Highway Hi-Fi used special 16 RPM platters?

    Could be but that would be another reason why it didn't catch on.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    A nice variety on a Paris street>

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited October 2010
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    See, not all of Virgil Exner's designs were controversial.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    edited October 2010
    Robby The Robot from Lost in Space. He was in a movie before that (Forbidden Planet?).
    He probably played 8 tracks. :P

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    I'll just take one and let others play - Peugeot 505 parked at front right
  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    edited October 2010
    OK, can't see the second car, but the third is a Citroen 2CV. Course it's pretty much a gimme..... :P
  • jlbljlbl Member Posts: 1,333
    edited October 2010
    The car in the middle of the street and the third card on the left hand, as seen, are Renault 12. The first car on the left hand is a Fiat 127, and the second one, a Mini Cooper (not a Cooper Mini, ;) ).

    No time for more guesses. I yield my turn to others :cry: .

    Regards,
    Jose
  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Sorry but I think the white car at front left is a Peugeot 104, not a Fiat 127.
  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    I think the car that's between the 505 and the 2CV is a Fiat 600.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,605
    I always thought the Highway Hi-Fi used special 16 RPM platters?

    If anyone is still interested (I was away for a day) you are right, Lemko, or anyway essentially right. The Highway Hi-Fi used 16-2/3 rpm records (1/2 the speed of a 33-1/3 LP). Must have stretched the meaning of 'Hi-Fi', but working through one of the standard 2 inch speaker of the time nobody probably noticed. Besides, with the arm skipping all over the record whenever you hit a bump or expansion strip, distortion was probably the least of the distractions.

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  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Wow. The only thing I knew that played at 16-2/3 were recorded books for the blind!

    Hey! That robot was previously a jukebox on Dobie Gillis and played 45s.
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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    another cool thing to have in your car, along with the record player, was an automatic cigarette lighter....you loaded the chrome tin box with cigs, then pushed a button which ignited an electric coil and dispensed a lit butt.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
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  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    edited October 2010
    Nope, believe that's a Renault ALPINE A106, based on a 4CV platform.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    Sorry but I think the white car at front left is a Peugeot 104, not a Fiat 127.

    I think you're both wrong. That car has the North American market style side markers
    so I think it might be a variant of something that was sold on this side, namely a Honda Civic.

    Gen II Civic 5-door.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    Yes on both counts. Styling was by Michelotti.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
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  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    edited October 2010
    2011 Renault Latitude...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    Yep, the Latitude replaces the Laguna as the flagship Renault.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    You might need to shrink that photo down a bit....

    The Packards and Studebakers are tough because they were so broke by then that they hardly changed a thing year to year, and the photos aren't very clear but.....

    I'd say 56 Packard based on the grill

    to *our* left of the Packard is a '56 Studebaker maybe a Golden Hawk based on color scheme and to our *right* is a.....'56 (?) Studebaker President Classic

    In the doorway, looks like a '54 Buick

    I'll leave the rest for now...
  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    I'll take a few...from left, red '55 Plymouth, white '55 Chevrolet (probably a 210),
    lt. green '51 Cadillac, then the above-mentioned Studes & Packard. Something says the black one in the doorway is not a '54 Buick, but I really can't be sure what it is; the 2-tone in the store looks like a '55 Ford.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,695
    And now the second and third rows?
    Anyone?

    ;)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    No one has ID'd the smaller car just to the left of the door next to the B&W Packard.
    The clue to it's identity can be found in the lettering atop the doorway where it says
    English Ford.

    It is a late 50's/early 60's Ford Zodiac or Zephyr. Perhaps Magnette can narrow it down.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    edited October 2010
    The grey car on the right, beyond the white 2CV is a Simca Aronde, while the car nearer than the 2CV, obscured by the Peugeot 505 is a Fiat 500.
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