Mystery car pix

andys120

cooterbfd

'86-'87 Shelby GLH turbo. The original pocket rocket.

andys120

Yes it is an '86 Dodge Omni GLH but isn't the original "pocket Rocket, this is>



I owned one.

texases

Absolutely! My GTI was great, from '83 until '96. An surprising number of posters at Edmunds have owned these, along with Sciroccos.

andys120

magnette

I think the larger grey car beyond the yellow Dyane is an Opel Rekord while the older dark grey car nearer us than the Dyane is a Peugeot 203 - possibly a break which would be a Famille I think. Furthest grey car in middle row is a Renault 16, and is that orange car beyond the Dyane a BMW- perhaps a 1602 or something?

magnette

Koeningsegg - but not sure what model..

fintail

I was thinking there's a BMW back there too.

tmart

Koeningsegg CCR

andys120

Oh yes that's definitely a BMW Neue Klasse two-door (1602/2002), that Inca Orange was popular on US-spec 2002s. It's definitely a late 60's/early 70s color.

andys120

Kopenigsegg CCR is correct.

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jwilliams2

Looks to be a Siata (Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori) Berlina. Body by Bertone, probably Fiat powered. Not many made, kind of obscure.

tmart

51 Ford going away.

explorerx4

It looks like there is one American car in the picture. Sky blue with a dark top on the left.

wgrafer

I agree with '51 Ford going away. '47-49 Studebaker parked next to the Fod, and a '49 Chevrolet next to the Siata.

andys120

If you're talking about the car I think (it's fender is bisected by the lampost in the foreground) it is most likely a late 50s Simca Vedette>
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57 Simca Vedette Versailles

The resemblance to an early 1950s US Ford comes from the fact that Simca bought Ford of France from FoMoCo in the mid 50s and inherited the Vedette. Ironically Chrysler Corp. then bought Simca in the 1960s (when it was France's biggest carmaker) thus giving Simca links to two of America's big 3.

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explorerx4

To me, it looks really big compared to the other cars, but maybe the other cars just 'Got Small'.

tmart

Ferrari's new mini station wagon! The FF stands for "Ferrari Four" in reference to the fact that all four of the wheels are driven.

Mr_Shiftright

makes a man want to weep.

tmart

Do you mean weep for joy, or sadness? :confuse:

explorerx4

How long before we see the Ferrari Cayenne or Ferrari x6?

texases

We can always 'hope':

Mr_Shiftright

Need you ask?

andys120

Just wipe your tears and think of it as a Shooting Brake.

Mr_Shiftright

I hated those, too. Besides, Italians don't hunt, they eat and make love. :P

stever

When Micheal Polland decided to go hunting for his food in Omnivore's Dilemma, he enlisted an Italian, Angelo, for whom hunting was “not so much pigs as prosciutti”.

Of course they didn't shoot the boar in Italy, but in another well known bastion of hunting, northern Sonoma County. :shades:

No FF though, they used an ATV.

jwilliams2

Just wipe your tears and think of it as a Shooting Brake.

Or put snow tires on it and use it for your winter beater......

stever

stickguy

boxster speedster?

Porsche of course.

andys120

That peculiar top could only belong to the Porsche Boxster Spyder.

No thanks, I'll take mine with the regular folding top.

Mr_Shiftright

I think that Ferrari is utterly ridiculous.

stever

Yep, and the top is really, er, different. Looks a bit fragile.

Shifty, you always say that you buy the engine and Enzo throws a body in. You could tell your friends that it's a stealth Ferrari that you got to avoid speeding tickets.

andys120

ateixeira

Dodge Journey Fiat Freemont.

Badge job for Europe set to debut in Geneva.

At least it'll get a diesel engine.

andys120

I can think of several MoPar designs that would be greatly improved by putting in one of Fiat's fuel-sipping diesels. If they'd put one in a Wrangler I might have to buy one.

ateixeira

It would seem to make sense in a Wrangler, for instance.

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lemko

The green car heading toward the viewer appears to be a 1954 DeSoto. The red car going away may be a 1950 Pontiac. The blue car parked on the left side of the screen is a 1951-52 Buick. The car behind the DeSoto looks like a 1949 Buick. The parked taxi on the cross street down the hill could be a 1949-50 Plymouth. The parked cars on the right side of the screen: can just about make out the taillight of a 1949 Mercury. There may also be a 1947 Studebaker in the mix. Down the street may be a 1949-50 Chevrolet fastback and the white car parked at an angle on the other side may be a 1949-50 Ford.

andys120

I'm pretty sure that the red Pontiac going away on the right is a '53-'54

wgrafer

The green DeSoto is a '53, not a '54. And the red Pontiac looks like a '53 to me. There's also a '49-'50 Lincoln parked on the right (visible only if you expand the pic).

jwilliams2

Yep, I agree. A '53 DeSoto. Was my first car, even the color is the same. The 54's had the parking lights in the grill as I recall.

andys120

Anyone know where it might have been taken? My first thought was Santa Monica but the pier there looks much larger. It sure looks like somewhere in So Cal.

explorerx4

I guess they are feeling the pressure of BMW selling X6's and Porsche selling Panamera's.

jwilliams2

Looks like the Manhattan Beach pier in California.

Mr_Shiftright

Yeah but Ferrari pre-sells every car they make pretty much.

Put a Fiat badge on it if you want the SUV market.

explorerx4

So why are they making it? :confuse:

andys120

magnette

Fiat 500c - I think the estate version of the late Topolino like this is called the Belvedere ?

I keep my MG Magnette in a lock-up garage in a block round the corner from our house, and the guy with the next garage has a two-door car version of this car - his one is I think a 1952, but they made them up to about 1954, possibly later with the estate. Also I have a 1/43rd scale model of this exact car, although without the woody bits.