Mystery car pix

andys120

BIGGER, more cars!

bhill2

Wow! Well, my monitor prevents me from doing much with the cars on the far side of the telephone pole ( I think I see a '55 or so Buick and a '53 or so Lincoln), but on the closer side I see a '57 Chevy 210, a '55 Ford (V-8), a '54 Chevy, an early '50s ChryCo product, and up on the riser, a '52 (I think) Ford, a '57 Plymouth, a '55 (possibly '56) Plymouth, and a '56 Ford.

andys120

Me thinks you got 'em all bhill2. I can't make out the ones on the far left either.

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michaellno

Jaguar XJ220

andys120

Seven minutes! I figured the Jag would be good for at least 10.

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stickguy

Ferrari F40? Or is that a GTO?

kyfdx

Definitely not an F40..

Mr_Shiftright

That thar is a Ferrari 512, I reckon. I'm gonna guess 1981 and a BBi, but not sure.

12 cylinders, 302 cid, 360 HP 188 mph.

andys120

That's right Shifty.

You might be surprised to learn that this car is being advertised as a Testarossa!. We know that it is in fact a 1982 Ferrari 512BBi, the last iteration of the "Boxer". The Testarossa (as opposed to the Testa Rossa) began production in 1984.

Would you buy an expensive exotic from a dealer that didn't know the correct name? :lemon:

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Mr_Shiftright

Well maybe it has red cylinder heads.

ateixeira

Looks like a Fiat 500 wagon, what did they call those?

fintail

The old Fiat wagon term was "Giardiniera"

andys120

Keerect it's a Fiat 500 (or 600) Giardiniera. There is talk of one based on the new FWD Fiat 500.

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kyfdx

Giardiniera.

Isn't that what they put on the sandwiches at Al's Italian Beef, in Chicago?

ateixeira

Giardiniera

Shucks, usually my fluent Portuguese helps me, but I would not have guessed that in a million years. Sounds like the Portuguese word "Jardineiro" for gardener.

lemko

I'm thinking a Jaguar XK120. Sometimes the rear wheels were skirted, other times not.

andys120

That's right Lemko. It's generally the earlier cars that wore skirts but if you ask me they look very cool with 'em.



They made about 240 of these aluminum-bodied XK120 Roadsters in 1949-50 before switching to steel for volume production.

grahampeters

G'day

The only car that has ever looked good with skirts is the Citroen DS.

Cheers

Graham

andys120

The only car that has ever looked good with skirts is the Citroen DS.

They weren't exactly skirts, at least not the kind that could be removed. In order to change a rear tire you had to reach in and undo 3 or 4 latches and remove the entire rear quarter!

magnette

In fairness, on the DS you did save time on the other part of the job though - the hydraulic system allowed you to just pump the car up and lock it, then drop one wheel, unbolt and replace it, and then let it all back down.

andys120

then drop one wheel, unbolt and replace it, and then let it all back down.

...and put the rear quarter/fender back on.

Mr_Shiftright

I've heard that the skirts on the Jag 120 tended to overheat the rear brakes, which were none too good to begin with. Also no wire wheels if you have skirts.

andys120

Might be why there were seen only on early 120s.

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Mr_Shiftright

Well the hupcaps suggest that someone is calling for BATMAN!

Oh, I know, we just have to wait until the wheel turns 180 and then we'll have the answer.

fintail

Willys Aero, ca. 1953...don't know if it's the colors or something, but I don't think it looks too bad.

ateixeira

Or Super Mario Bros.

I bet this guy drives it:



http://userlogos.org/files/logos/zigzag/mario_0.png

andys120

Yup, it's a 1953 Willys Aero Eagle. It looks as nice as the Pontiac Cheftain my Dad bought that year.

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tjc78

That has got to be an Alfa Romeo with that front end. I can't tell you what model.

ateixeira

Maybe I should have said Wario instead, the yellow guy. :shades:

lemko

wgrafer

Nice turntable! What the heck is this????

On the table, a '57 Oldsmobile; front left a '52 Buick; in the middle a '56 Lincoln; and on the right a '50 Ford behind a '49 or '50 Mercury.

lemko

This was Dawn Donuts, located on 6th and Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia. You drive in, the turntable moves your car around, and you pull up to the drive up window

imidazol97

> Dawn Donuts

Wow. I was wondering more what the setup and business was than I was about the cars!

magnette

Where I learned to drive in Wales we had roads like that,without the turntable - but smaller cars, admittedly.

grahampeters

G'day

Wales still has roads like that; only the cars are bigger than you remember!

Cheers

Graham

andys120

andys120

Last call for #32069. Going...going....

andys120

Gone! #32069 was a 1967-ish Trident Clipper, produced by a small British company that combined Fissore coachwork with 289 Ford power. '67 cars were built on Healey 3000 chassis, later TR6 chassis and Ford V6 power
were used.

Later models had four headlights>

explorerx4

I like the glass above the doors of the building in the background. 'HOHO'.

odie6l

Odie

andys120

Volkswagen Shwimmwagen, the amphibious, military version of the VW KdF (aka Beetle) used by the Wehrmact in WWII.

fintail

Typ 166, as usual the baddie gets all the cool stuff :shades:

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kyfdx

BMW Z8