Mystery car pix

andys120

fintail

To be fair, all cars then rusted - just on the Brits and Italians, you could actually hear it taking over :shades:

Fintails can rust with a vengeance and I know 57-59 Mopars can really be eaten up, along with late 50s and early 60s Fords.

fintail

I think it's a just-postwar Delage, I don't know the model

andys120

You're right, it's a 1946 Delage D6. Fin.

andys120

stickguy

how does that kids song go?

"one of these things is not like the others..."

wgrafer

I'll take the newest - 3 1960's: white '60 Chrysler In front of something 'different), light '60 Oldsmobile 2 cars ahead, and the black '60 Studebaker Lark front left.

fintail

I think the odd man out there is an early-mid 50s Rolls Royce Silver Wraith.

andys120

Yup, it's a '52 R-R Silver Wraith, body by Mulliner.

lostwrench1

With the keys locked inside?

lostwrench1

On the left - 1954 Buick

lostwrench1

On the right - 1954 Dodge.
(Central Park?)

stickguy

au1994

is that a Laforza (sp)?

ateixeira

Sounds right.

Looks like a Fiat Uno that took too much HGH.

stickguy

Yup, it is a la Forza. Yours for $2,500 (I found it on Craig's).

same guy has a '91 Alfa 164L for sale that looked nice enough. talk about a glutton for punishment!

I was excited that I got the picture posting to work 1st shot.

ateixeira

Impossible to afford keeping both running.

fintail

There's a LaForza sitting outside in my area - one of those cars where the vegetation underneath is much longer and more dense than that around it. Had that car came out 10 years later, it would have been a minor hit - in 1990 the mass market wasn't ready for a SUV any nicer than a loaded Exploder.

qbrozen

The 164 isn't a bad car. Typical electrical gremlins, but the drivetrain is fairly reliable.

I'd still like one for myself, but it seems impossible to find a clean one.

Mr_Shiftright

Dont' buy an automatic 164L--that's another weakness.

stickguy

A 5 speed. Cheap!

http://southjersey.craigslist.org/cto/2850412470.html

I don't see the ad any more for the one that was close to me (the guy that has the La Forza too). And can't remember if it was a stick or AT.

ateixeira

190k miles on an Alfa. The owner deserves a medal.

Mr_Shiftright

The bottom ends on Alfa engines are very sturdy.

ateixeira

Yeah, I would have expected the heated seats to catch on fire, or other electrical gremlins to creep up. He's advertising heated seats front and rear so they must work!

Mr_Shiftright

You have to have an experienced, honest, clever, sober Alfa mechanic in your back pocket before you buy one--it you do, all is well. If you don't, then tough luck.

andys120

Mr_Shiftright

Ah, the price of fame.

ateixeira

The jokes just write themselves...

imidazol97

>Miss Lube Rack

OMG. Don't let the MSM and Ms. Fluck find out about this. They'll have the advertisers withdrawing from Edmunds and will try to close down this afront against women!

LOL

Mr_Shiftright

fortunately, that ad is as old as the car it pictures, which is.......??

imidazol97

1951 Olds?

qbrozen

Dont' buy an automatic 164L

Oh good god. Who would do such an awful thing?

lostwrench1

Because of the horizontals under the headlights, I'll go with a 1950 Olds.

berri

OMG. Don't let the MSM and Ms. Fluck find out about this

You don't really believe Rush was smart saying what he did, do you? Contraception is as much a male as female issue. I seriously don't think most of us believe our wives or girlfriends are whores or prostitues because they use employer sponsored insurance to purchase birth control. Rush stepped in it big time and that's why he is profusely apologizing right now while losing even more sponsors. You can't help wondering if he's fallen back into that illegal pain drug mess again after doing this. Personally, I'd never sponsor any right or left wing demagogue show because you end up alienating more potential customers than any business gain it might bring.

Mr_Shiftright

Gentlemen! Back to topic, please...let's not go "there" :surprise:

grahampeters

G'day

Actually the 164 was very pleasant to drive and a good motorway cruiser. It shared the basic platform with the Saab 9000 (another great long distance cruiser) Fiat Croma and Lancia Theta.

The Alfa had the lovely 2.0 l Twin Spark 8 valve engine which was particularly sweet; very Italian. Handling was good for a largish (by European standards) saloon.

I thought it looked best in a Dark Green although red Alfas are always popular.

Inevitably, they rusted and had electrical problems.

Cheers

Graham

andys120

qbrozen

We didn't get the twin spark here. All were V6s for us. But, yes, a nice drive. I was about to buy one back in... oh.... must have been around 2000 or 2001, but just couldn't cut a deal with the seller.

uplanderguy

1969 Impala SS427 Custom Coupe.

Up through '70, I like the Sport Coupe roofline better. This '69, although gorgeous, looks a little goofy since the "Impala" nameplate on the Custom Coupes is on the roof sail panel, hence leaving the "SS" looking to me like something is missing right above it, but it isn't. Sport Coupes had the "Impala" nameplate right above the "SS".

andys120

Exactly right.

andys120

ateixeira

Hmm, Lotus did a lot of tuning for folks. The body looks British to me. I know they had ties to Isuzu (Elan, Stylus, Impulse) but no way is that body an Isuzu...

stickguy

isn't that the mid-60's Ford that they rallyed? A version of the Cortina maybe? I know the name but am blanking on it. Jamie Kitman has one! and it has those little fins...

andys120

You're right Stickguy. The Ford Lotus Cortina Mk.1 was a race and rally champion in the hands of some of the worlkd's great drivers back in the 60's.

andys120

berri

International Travelall. I know these go back at least to the mid fifties, but think this one may be from the sixties since its lines look a bit more modern.

fintail

I'd say that's a late 60s one too.

The earlier ones had more flair, and are very rare today:

andys120

Yup, it's a 1968 International Travelall.

andys120

ateixeira

Looks like a Pagani Zonda to me.