I believe that's the 1974 Fascination 700 - a thermonuclear car that never got off the ground. Only five were made and all are still rumored to exist. I imagine the EPA would go nuts over somebody building a nuclear car.
Yes it's a '53 Nash Healey, supposedly the first one to arrive in the USA. There's a couple of interesting (tracked) vehicles on the flatcars behind it, anybody recognize them?
Last call for someone to ID the big tracked vehicles between the Nash-Healey and the freighter in #31934.
Hints: They're highly modified from the original configuration but the shape of the hull and the track/bogey layout should be familiar. Almost 50,000 were made.
Did they have Sherman tanks as late as the Korean War which would've coincided with the Nash-Healey? The Sherman wasn't that great a tank, but we built a lot of them! We had produced something like 60,000 Shermans versus maybe 10,000 Panzers. The Panzer and Tiger tanks were superior, but they were overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of Shermans, not to mention the Russian T-34. The Sherman, however, was a huge improvement over the Grant tank with a gun that was mounted on the right side of the vehicle and could only move up and down.
Yup those are M4 General Sherman medium tanks, modified for some purose hence the odd looking turret and attachments but the shape of the hull and the track/bogey arrangement is unmistakable>
Some Shermans saw early action in Korea but they were obsolete by the time of the photo (1953) and had been replaced by the M47 Patton as the Army's main battle tank. I have no explanation of why these were at the Port of Milwaukee apparently being loaded or unloaded to this freighter.
Factoid- 500 Shermans shipped to Alexandria, Egypt in late 1942 were said to have been instrumental in Montgomery's victory over the Afrika Korps at El Alamein. The M4 was competitive with German tanks at this stage of WWII but as Lemko pointed out later German tanks like the Panther and Tiger were far superior and the Shermans prevailed by weight of numbers.
The lights are actually conventional looking, the other piece is just kind of an eyelash - not full on Toyota-esque lazy styling trying to look sporty when it is anything but.
I don't know of any Pug that is like, say, the Solara - the front and back lights both stretched way out in a weird attempt at being interesting. Then we have the goofy faces that Toyota likes. Dorky design for, well...
Well, there must be hundreds of pictures of the 1954 Hudson Jet convertible in books and on the web, and they are all red because they are all of this exact same car! It was a prototype that was never put in production due to money problems.
The Jet pretty much sunk Hudson as an independent automaker hastening their merger with Nash to form American Motors. The Jet was the wrong car at the wrong time. It was a compact that cost more than a full-size Chevrolet. It was too tall, too short, and too narrow when the public wanted long, low, and wide. It's oddball styling resembled a 5/8 scale 1952 Ford with an Olds rear.
206 also isn't as proportionally bad, maybe it was designed by a Toyota "stylist" before he jumped ship. The Toyolex influence isn't positive in terms of interesting cars, I just call it as I see it. :shades:
TV show was probably Top Gear. If not, there was a show hosted by a female racer. Don't remember the the name, something like Chasing Classic Cars, or Car Clubs.
good call. It is a 56 AC petitie, also known as an Invilid Carrage. As for the show,it was not Top Gear or any car review show. The Show was Mr. Bean (the color was Blue)
305 V6 equipped 1963 GMC Suburban. Apparently the "Scotch Plaid" valve covers were a 1963 only feature which denoted that the V6 had been revised by GM for better fuel economy. The story goes that the Suburban ads for that year emphasized the new "thrifty" nature of the 305 V6.
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
Like the Studie Scotsman...don't see many companies playing on national stereotypes these days. And which V8 was the starting point for the 305? I hadn't heard of it before.
I think the GMC 305 was a unique 60 degree V6 engine. And the 305 was the "baby" of the V6 family. Some larger versions included a 351, 401, 478, and even a 702 V12 double six - which was one engine block but used many parts derived from the 351 V6 engine.
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
Solara wasn't pretty, but it wasn't ugly either. Perhaps a bit ahead of its time?
I think the first generation was. I got nothing but compliments on my 2000 V6, however, it does look dated to me now. The next generation I always liked, even with some of its quirky features.
I just knew there had to be a Mustang somewhere at Bobby's (in the bigger shot) so I'll take the 65/66 Mustang convertible on the lower right corner. :shades:
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
Calling that imitation is either joking, intellectual dishonesty, or deception, take your pick. If you want to see imitation, just look at first LS vs W126 or second LS vs W140.
Solara, with its stretched lenses, was twice as bad as the weird rear of the CLS. An 80K+++ car sold on the global market isn't going to imitate a modern day Monte Carlo sold in one market.
This is posed, right? All the cars jammed in there, all of them clean, no rust.
The photo is something of a mystery, but no I don't think it's posed, the cars are at all sorts of odd angles, it must've taken a traffic cop to get them out.
My first thought was that it was of the gas crunch of '73 that followed the Arab Oil Embargo but I don't see any 1970's automobiles there and oddly for a late 60s scene, although all sorts of make/models are represented, there's not one import.
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Hints: They're highly modified from the original configuration but the shape of the hull and the track/bogey layout should be familiar. Almost 50,000 were made.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
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Some Shermans saw early action in Korea but they were obsolete by the time of the photo (1953) and had been replaced by the M47 Patton as the Army's main battle tank. I have no explanation of why these were at the Port of Milwaukee apparently being loaded or unloaded to this freighter.
Factoid- 500 Shermans shipped to Alexandria, Egypt in late 1942 were said to have been instrumental in Montgomery's victory over the Afrika Korps at El Alamein. The M4 was competitive with German tanks at this stage of WWII but as Lemko pointed out later German tanks like the Panther and Tiger were far superior and the Shermans prevailed by weight of numbers.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
That and the taillights stand out as unique.
I like it.
But what am I thinking, Toyota does no wrong.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Infamous? Why so?
Well, there must be hundreds of pictures of the 1954 Hudson Jet convertible in books and on the web, and they are all red because they are all of this exact same car! It was a prototype that was never put in production due to money problems.
Please.
Puegoet 206 pre-dates that Solara. They sell tons in Brazil.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Extra points if you can name the TV series this was featured in.
Odie
It is an AC Petite from about 1956. I never got the whole British fascination with three wheelers.
I think that it had a small Villers engine of about 360cc. There may have been some tax advantage to using this.
No idea on the TV series
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(the color was Blue)
Odie
So do it, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:
http://publicanfashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2012-Mercedes-Benz-CLS550-- Rear-Side-View-800x600.jpg
Maybe M-B hired the same stylist to do those tails.
Solara wasn't pretty, but it wasn't ugly either. Perhaps a bit ahead of its time?
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I think the first generation was. I got nothing but compliments on my 2000 V6, however, it does look dated to me now. The next generation I always liked, even with some of its quirky features.
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This is posed, right? All the cars jammed in there, all of them clean, no rust.
Solara, with its stretched lenses, was twice as bad as the weird rear of the CLS. An 80K+++ car sold on the global market isn't going to imitate a modern day Monte Carlo sold in one market.
That is how this conversation started.
The photo is something of a mystery, but no I don't think it's posed, the cars are at all sorts of odd angles, it must've taken a traffic cop to get them out.
My first thought was that it was of the gas crunch of '73 that followed the Arab Oil Embargo but I don't see any 1970's automobiles there and oddly for a late 60s scene, although all sorts of make/models are represented, there's not one import.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93