Mystery car pix

andys120

mac24

Occasionally two-toned, which matches the sweep of the front wings (fenders)and running boards very well, this is a 1947 example which must be pretty close in age to the one in question, which is a Bristol 400.

fintail

The first wave of British-German hybrids. Fast forward around 60 years, and you have Vauxhalls and British Fords with German design, BMW engines in Morgans, VW-Bentleys, and BMW-Rolls.

andys120

Yup, it's a 1947 Bristol 400 with the BMW-designed Six under the hood.

andys120

jwilliams2

Looks like a Triumph Spitfire...Mark l or ll....

andys120

There's little if anything visually to tell a Mk. I from a Mk. II but the clothing (frumpy dress!) and poses suggest a Spitfire Mk. I ('62-'64).

kyfdx

I don't know... I think my mother was wearing that same dress in 1969...
(of course, we lived in Kentucky...lol)

stever

andys120

Bigger, more cars!

grahampeters

G'day

A bit hard for a foreigner. Perversely, I did not see the title but had figured out that it looked like Chicago. The single headlights on the two door hardtop middle of frame might suggest 1957, but I am stretching it to put a name to any of them...

There is a Beer truck to the right and a coal truck in centre of image.

Cheers

Graham

stever

The flying car is a Volkswagen btw. (Straightline)

mac24

The beer truck outside the 'Club House Lounge' looks strangely like an ERF?

andys120

I don't know what an ERF is but I think the Schlitz truck is a GMC.

I'm surprised to see a coal truck in a 1957 photo, I think they disappeared in NYC around 1950 (most were prewar chain-drive Macks.)

wgrafer

Sympathies to Graham ('bit hard for a foreigner'). Probably just as hard for me to tell the difference between a '47 and a '48 Bristol!

I'll try a few, just the moving ones...
-Coming at us a '55 Plymouth 2-dr sedan, a '57 Ford, and a '55 Plymouth wagon.
-Going away a '54 Chevy, a '56 Cadillac, and a '51 Plymouth wagon.

Lots left!

ps: I think the Schlitz beer truck is a White.

lemko

The bread truck looks like a Divco.

Mr_Shiftright

Nope I remember coal trucks in Brooklyn in 1958 or so. I recall this because one of them ran over a kid in my neighborhood. :surprise:

lostwrench1

At the curb, I'll take the 46 Plymouth and a case of the refreshments.

bhill2

I'll have some of those refreshments too, thank you. I think that the car at the upper right is a '56 Chevy. Can anyone identify the car behind it? Oh, and I will hazard a guess that the one whose rear end can be seen beside the coal truck is a '55 Mercury.

andys120

Yes, the two-tone car at the upper right is a '56 Chevy, probably a Bel Air and it's curious to me that it's the only hardtop in this 1957 photo. The car behind it is a '52-'54 Ford.

The car next to the collier looks like a '55 or '56 Merc to me as well.

andys120

magnette

Well, I'll start with the pale blue Simca 1000 facing to the left in the background, and beyond it, framed by the three vertical lines of the lamp or whatever it is there is a blue Simca Aronde. Do you think the dark grey car in the distance, above the red bit, and blocked by the blurred woman, is a Peugeot 403 convertible, as driven by Colombo?

kyfdx

If I'm going back in time for refreshments, I'm pretty sure it's not for a Schlitz... :surprise:

mac24

MG TA, Sunbeam, probably an Alpine but possibly a Tiger, Citroen 2CV.
Can't properly place the first car background left, but maybe a Volvo or Peugot?
Next to it is a Simca 1100 and next to that a Mk1 Ford Cortina.

magnette

That first car in the background on the left is a Panhard PL17 - and I think the extra chrome strip across the front of the bonnet means it is a PL17 Grand Standing - a sort of deluxe trim.

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mac24

Ah! So not a Volvo or Peugot then.

hoosiergrandad

"ps: I think the Schlitz beer truck is a White."

Me too.......been a while since I've seen one , but they used to be everywhere. It'd be easy to tell from the front. You knew when you were meeting one at night because the headlights were so narrowly spaced.

jwilliams2

I would guess the Sunbeam is a Alpine Series IV....

andys120

That's exactly right, it is a Sunbeam Alpine S4

The funky sedan next to the Simca 1000?/1100? is indeed a Panhard PL17 Grand Standing.

The light blue roadster with the Folded windshield sure loooks like an MG-TC or PA but seen from another angle it is clearly neither>

magnette

The blue Simca is a 1000 - rear engined square little saloon - third car in on one of my model photos above - the Simca 1100 was a different thing altogether with front wheel drive and a hatchback body...

As for the slightly out of period blue roadster, I'll leave that for you guys.

jwilliams2

Perhaps a Singer 9 Le Mans?

mac24

......the Simca 1100 was a different thing altogether.......

I guess I'll put that down to fat finger trouble on my part then..... :shades:

andys120

Perhaps a Singer 9 Le Mans?

Yup, circa 1935, the same vintage as the MG-PA.

andys120

My bad too, I figured the 1100 was just an up-engined Simca 1000 but I see that it looked quite different>

andys120

fintail

Neat stuff, oddball cars.

At far left looks like a Spanish Biscuter

grahampeters

G'day

1977 Lotus Esprit S1

Oversize front bumper suggests USA delivered

Clearly a posed image as both headlights are closed at the same time; British auto-electrical circuits left something (usually a lot) to be desired!

Cheers

Graham

andys120

Clearly a posed image as both headlights are closed at the same time

LOL Graham! Yup, it's a Lotus Esprit S1.

andys120

lemko

1972 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate with 1977-78 Caprice wheel covers.

Mr_Shiftright

And don't forget about the Esprit's Auxiliary Heating System, also called "engine fire". If you look on the Lotus Owners website, you will see on the masthead a "Fire Marshal" who keeps track of these incidents in order to help make the cars safer.

andys120

Dunno about the wheel covers but it is indeed a '72 Kingswood.

jwilliams2

British auto-electrical circuits left something (usually a lot) to be desired!

So true. These t-shirts used to be quite popular...

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fintail

magnette

It is a Biscuter, although this particular one is a Voisin according to the badge - only because it comes from a set of French models, and Voisin did make it under licence.

I tend to collect obscure model cars, or models of less fashionable ones - hence the Ford Vedette, the Simca Ariane, the Renault Juvaquatre but best of all the Sachsenring P240 which I found for only a couple of pounds in a shop in London a few weeks ago...

andys120

magnette

Re the Lucas smoke, my MG Magnette is actually being rewired at the moment, as the 1955 wiring has given too many problems - really it is too unreliable, but having done that I have got rid of the flashing indicators, and resurrected the old semaphore ones - they are still legal here for cars of that age, and will pass our MOT test, but of course are not totally suitable for regular use on busy modern roads - however for generally fair weather use, I can manage with them supplemented by handsignals - the right indicators - which are more important here than those on the left - packed up in the Spring and I have managed ok without so I think semaphore trafficators will be an improvement....

magnette

Thats a Sunbeam Alpine. mid 50's

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