Mystery car pix

andys120

Looks like a DKW-Vemag Candango....not sure what year, but probably late 50's or early 60's....


Exactamente! Candango was the term for the workers who built Brasilia around the same time (late 50s-early 60s)

andys120

uplanderguy

I believe that is a Lancia.

I believe the Chevy Vega sedan (later called 'Notchback') was influenced by this car. Check out the shape of the rear quarter window and simulated louvers in the bottom corner, and the rounded corners of the top of the windshield moldings.

jwilliams2

That looks like a Fiat 124 Coupe, late 60's or early 70's.

grahampeters

G'day

Fiat 124 Coupe; one of the prettier little mass produced coupes ever. A friend's mother had a 124 sedan in the late sixties and it seemed incredibly exotic in rural Australia. I have this vague recollection that it had a small reserve fuel tank or a warning light that the tank was about to run dry; an extraordinary innovation at the time!

Cheers

Graham

andys120

Yup it's a 1970 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe, the second series with four headlights.

andys120

It wasn't a reserve tank, just a small red light in the fuel gauge that came on when the tank was low, my 124 Sport Spider (a mechanical twin of the Coupe) had this feature and it probably saved me from several long walks as I've run out of gas in every car I've owned with no low fuel warning light.

andys120

Lots of nice iron in this shot.

bhill2

I'll call out the Austin-Healey 3000 on the left of the salmon colored Bug (as we are viewing), because I have always thought they were beautiful.

stickguy

finally, stuff I like and actually know, as opposed to early 50's Detroit iron!

snazzy green late 70's gen 1 RX-7 next to an MGB coupe. A big Healey next to a pink Bug. Down the row a bit a '67 Mustang.

Fintail can quote all the series #s for the Benzes

bhill2

Fintail can quote all the series #s for the Benzes

Yeah, Fin, how close can you get with that black ponton?

fintail

The ponton is impossible to identify exactly, but it is definitely a 6 cylinder car, a 220/220S/220SE. There were two platforms (W numbers - W128 W180) for the identically bodied 6 cylinder cars, so that much can't be seen here.

There's also a low grille 280SE (W111) cabrio to the left, and a likely 70s era R107 SL at far left.

Car to the right of the RX7 looks like an Opel Manta GTE

bhill2

Thanks, Fin. I was pretty sure that it was one of the 220 series, from the amount of chrome if nothing else, but it's good to have it verified.

uplanderguy

Ah, I had the right country, wrong manufacturer!

andys120

The black/red Healey is a 3000 Mk.I or Mk.II. The VW has the big post '73 bumpers so it's probably a Super Beetle.

The orange car next to the RX-7 doesn't look like an MG to me, it's probably a Vauxhall/Opel (are those German plates?)

I don't think that's a Mustang, it looks more like a Euro Ford of some kind, possibly a Capri.

fintail

I think the car next to the ponton is a Mustang, quite a few have made it over there now.

I'm sure the orange car is an Opel. All cars in the shot have German plates.

bhill2

I'll go along with the car next to the Ponton being a Mustang. It looks '68ish to me; the one with driving lights within the grille (GT?).

andys120

uplanderguy

I believe that's either a Chrysler New Yorker or an Imperial, '52-54. Not very specific, I know!

stickguy

what opel was that shape? I based it on the roofline, and wheels that looked a lot like MG ones.

andys120

Here's a 1970s Opel Manta with the similar wheels (Rostyles). Note that the B-pillar is the same.



That style was very popular on Opels, Capris and various other cars of the era as well as MGBs.

Mr_Shiftright

Handsome wheels, and a lot less trouble than wires on MGBs.

lostwrench1

That looks like Beaver's school but I don't remember his father's driving a 54.

stickguy

well, that is something that I have never seen before. Actually looks like a Chevy Monza (if someone that knows how to post pics could find one!)

fintail

It does look similar to this in a way:



Probably no coincidence as they are both GM cars which debuted in 1975.

andys120

Ask and you shall receive>



The notch back versions were much less common than the Monza hatchbacks. I don't think there was much mechanical commonality between the Opels and the Vega-based Chevy Monzas.

PS- to post an image simply copy the url of the image, click the "img" button at the bottom, paste it and then close it using either the same button or the "Close All" button.

andys120

andys120

Good eye! the shot is from LITB and the car is a '54 Chrysler Custom Imperial.

stickguy

the flat iron building. and some cars.

wgrafer

Well, from left, looks like a '55-'56 Mopar taxi, a '59 Ford taxi, a '51-'52 DeSoto taxi, a '57 Ford... and I think I spy a '58 Plymouth on the right.

andys120

Sorry Stickguy, the famous Flatiron Building is located several blocks to the South and east of Greeley Square at the intersection of W23rd and Fifth Avenue. Greeley Square is at 33rd and Sixth Ave. It is misnamed in that it is actually a triangle formed by the Diagonal intersection of Broadway and the other two.

Broadway, W23 and Fifth form another triangle on which the Flatiron building is located.

uplanderguy

Loved the '75 Monza 2+2 V8 when it came out new. The Towne Coupe? Not so much.

fintail

There's a Buick version of that car still on the road in daily service in my neighborhood, I see it a few times a week. It's not mint but it's all there - makes me appreciate the climate here.

stickguy

I looked at a V* monza hatch when I was in HW or early college (probably HS). the mechanic who looked it over said it seemed OK, but asked that it not be brought to him to work on, not a good sign. I do recall that to get to the rear plugs you had to unbolt the engine and jack it up.

Cool car for the time though. Stickshift of course.

kyfdx

The Buick was the Skyhawk..

uplanderguy

I had two high school friends who got them ('75's) as new cars. Cool looking at the time I thought, and neat to hear V8 sounds emanating from a car that small. The one guy still has his...bright red with light beige interior. The other was orange with brown cloth inside, but I'm sure that car has long since been crushed...the difference in 'car thinking', and thus, maintenance, between the two guys was night-and-day.

andys120

ateixeira

I'm back in college, early 90s era.

Benz SL, were the two-tone ones the higher end models? Ford Explorer behind it, Nissan Pathfinder behind that.

Acura Legend, sedan since it seems upright? Followed by a Pontiac Trans Am.

Not sure about the brown car, but the peek-a-boo car in top right looks like a Cadillac Seville?

tjc78

The brown car is a Monte Carlo (75?). The Explorer is one of the early ones and an Eddie Bauer edition. I swear 80% of the early Explorers were that teal color.

ateixeira

My friend had one in that color. Then a 2nd Explorer, then an Aviator, now a Range Rover Sport. I think he had that Ford credit card with the rebates.

fintail

More R129 300SL seem to be monotone than 500SL, but the 6cyl model was often two tone as well. The monotone has certainly aged better. Cool thing about the 300SL is that it could also be ordered with a 5-speed, even in NA.

Car at top right is a K-car LeBaron.

andys120

lostwrench1

1965 Rambler 440

Mr_Shiftright

convertible no less! Actually not a bad looking car at all, but they did cheap out on it to keep costs down.

What's that white stuff on the ground?

stever

Just an over-exposed pic Shifty - that's gotta be Santa Monica beach sand. No convertible would be on the street in a snow zone.

explorerx4

Good thing it took the reply page so long to load, I think that car is from Mass.

berri

Is that a Rambler or a Rambler American which I think became a Rambler Rogue later in the 60's?

explorerx4

I just figured out the plate, It's Illinois. Snow works there too.

odie6l

Taken from the top of the hill at Lake Christy in the Rausch Creek Off-roading Park near Pine Grove, PA (just off i-81 north of Hershey, PA). If you want a good laugh, just look up Lake Christy on YouTube.

Odie

bhill2

Is that a Rambler or a Rambler American

It was still the Rambler American at that time. The other Rambler lines that year were the Classic and the Ambassador. Oh, and the Marlin (but the less said about that the better).