Mystery car pix

texases

Looks like a mouse, but I don't know the car connection...

stever

Very good. It's a BMW. Well, from BMW DesignWorksUSA. And it's $100 (figures, eh?). (link)

andys120

fintail

Ferrari 330GT

ateixeira

Tomayto, Tomahto.

ateixeira

it's $100 (figures, eh?)

Yeah but it's overengineered and has a teutonic soul so it's clearly worth every penny. :P

Service is free for the 1st four years, to offset some of that extra cost.

The iDrive interface you use to install and configure it is a real bear! And I hear the run-flat wheel is easily damaged.

uplanderguy

The '62 Fairlane in your top photo could be our old one (except ours had red interior). It's the car that turned my Dad off of Fords forever.

imidazol97

I had a 62 Fairlane. It used to be white but I had it repainted bright red to match the red interior. Dad bought it at a local shop who had picked it up because it had been hit in the rear. So he repainted it as he repaired it.

I think it was a 2-door and it had a 260 V8.

andys120

andys120

Ferrari 330GT

Yup, it's a '66, they are sometimes called 330GTEs or 330GT 2+2s.

stickguy

'61 Vette with the bad park job?

on the other side, a Jeep woody wagon of some sort.

and way up at the front of that row, an early 60's Falcon?

andys120

Keerect on the '61 Corvette, which was the only one to combine the ducktail with chrome edges on the side cove.

The Willys All-Steel Wagon as the name suggests was a fake woody and not sold under the Jeep name in most markets.

Nice eye on the Falcon. There are several more identifiable cars in that shot, anyone?

bhill2

I'll take a couple, the detail being guesses; the wagon behind the Falcon is a Mercury (I'll say '57) and the Ford ahead of the Willys is a '56.

andys120

Good guesses. The wagon behind the Falcon is hard to make out, could be almost anything. I looks a little like it could be a '60-'61 Valiant or Lancer.

The two-tone H/T is either a 55 or '56 Ford Fairlane Victoria. Frankly I don't know how to tell which year.

I'm surprised no one has called the cars direct in front of and behind the Corvette.

bhill2

I'm surprised no one has called the cars direct in front of and behind the Corvette.

Didn't want to be greedy (yeah, right). The car in front of the Corvette is a Mercury, '54 I think, and the one behind is an early '60s Caddy ('61?)

andys120

You're off by just a year on both. Those steam iron-shaped taillights were a very distinctive feature of 1953 Mercurys, not '54s. I have trouble remembering which is which too.



There isn't much of that Caddy to work with but it has rounded fender tops denoting a 1960 model. The 61s had a more distinct crease IIRC.

No one has mentioned the '53 or '54 Buick in front of the Vic. I can't make out what that is in front of the Buick. :confuse:

bhill2

Darn. I looked at the front fender of the Caddy and decided it had the more creased look of the '61 and '62 models. Oh well, can't win them all. Good catch on the Mercury.

andys120

Darn. I looked at the front fender of the Caddy and decided it had the more creased look of the '61 and '62 models

It's not a very good picture, I still don't even know the make of a couple of the cars in it. :confuse:

andys120

stickguy

2nd generation mazda RX-7? With the scoupe, it would be the turbo model. GSX maybe? There was a model name for it I ampretty sure.

kyfdx

Yup.. RX-7 turbo.... maybe an '89?

Don't remember if they had any specific nomenclature... unless it was GT.. The old one use GSE for the top of the line model, but no turbo then...

texases

I think the 1st-gen top model was the GSL-SE:

kyfdx

Yes.. that's it... (I'm wrong again! lol)

andys120

If my information is correct, this car was sold as a 1987 Mazda RX-7 Turbo II. It was the first RX-7 to have a Turbocharger but the "II" is for the twin-scroll turbo. :confuse:

andys120

jwilliams2

Looks like a Lancia B 50 Cabriolet with a Pininfarina body, probably from around '50, or '51.

andys120

Lancia B 50 Cabriolet with a Pininfarina body, probably from around '50, or '51.

Exactly, you know your Lancias. The Aurelias were very sophisticated designs featuring the first production V6 motors and rear-mounted transaxles. According to Jay Leno, the pre-Fiat Lancias were beautifully built.

andys120

grahampeters

G'day

Volvo 300 series (probably 340) from late 1970's. They were an orphan child, the product of DAF in Holland which was acquired by Volvo. I think they ran for about 15 years from 1976-91.

There is some way to tell the model years apart. As this has no reversing lights and unpleasant brown shade, I presume pretty early in model cycle.

They were a rear wheel drive hatchback and later sedan, made, I think, in Holland. The gearbox was mounted to the rear axle. I think that a CVT was available, DAF being the first manufacturer to adopt this. I have a vague recollection that the engine was French, possibly from Renault.

There is a faint hint of British Leyland about their body design which was, I think, by Michelotti

A colleague had one of the last which I drove in the early 1990's in England but it has left absolutely no impression on me.

Cheers

Graham

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lostwrench1

1946 Buick Special.

wgrafer

Well, that was fast! Great job!!

I think it's a '46 or '47 Buick Special, but you'll have to call Juneau Taxi Service to confirm! We were on a trip to Alaska and in Juneau I kept seeing this taxi all over town. I finally managed to get this pic on the 3rd sighting, and at the time I couldn't figure it out. I really don't remember seeing any of this particular model Buick rolling around when I was a kid, but as a tour taxi this is great!

lostwrench1

It's a rare model. The double horizontal chrome strips indicate a 46.

odie6l

I used to watch this cartoon as a kid and just laugh at its cheesiness. This was right up there with M.A.S.K. (thank god they haven't made the movie for it). What is next Go-Bots? Anyway... what is the Car?



Odie

fintail

Looks like a Lotus Elise.

Go-Bots - from GoBotron! Seeing as the Transformers movies are more or less GM commercials, maybe a GoBots movie could be an ad for Korean or Chinese cars :shades:

kyfdx

Did you see the last line of the ad?

Written, directed and dumped on by Michael Bay

Sounds like maybe it went straight on to video, and the director trashed it in the media, before they had a chance to release it.

andys120

fezo

Canadian Mercury, though they called them something other than Mercuys. Monarch was the make. Don't know the model.

imidazol97

If we put headlights where the taillights are, we could have a frontal appearance similar to the agressive look of some cars today! Shark attack!

andys120

Yup Monarch was the Make name but some cars and (Ford!) trucks were also sold in Canada under the Mercury name as well.

The pictured car is similar to the '59 Mercury Monterey I learned to drive on (what a pig!). It's a 1959 Monarch Lucerne.

bhill2

Canadian Mercury, though they called them something other than Mercuys. Monarch was the make. Don't know the model.

I'll stick my neck out and say a '59, one of the lower trim lines.

fezo

YEah, has teh look of a 59 Monterey but maybe a bit of the cheaper Ford in it? I remember being in Ontario maybe 10 year ago and seeing this Pontiac Tempest. It was no such thing it was a Chevy Corsair in a little bit of Pontiac skin.

andys120

berri

Heck, that 59 Merc looks good compared to the 60! Of course by 61 Mercury was just a Ford with more lipstick.

fezo

Hard to believe the in 58 Ford felt the necessity of having a make in between Ford and Mercury.

berri

Ah, the Edsel! I saw some pix the other day of what Packard had planned for 57 before they were forced to merge and put out the Packardbaker. They would have had the horse collar front end too. Some car design articles say that look was meant to imitate a woman's - well, you know.

bhill2

Heck, that 59 Merc looks good compared to the 60!

Yeah, the '60 Mercury was one odd looking duck. Odd looking from the front, anyway. From the back it was just fugly.

stever

stickguy

I don't know, but if it was out now in the US I would have made my wife look at it!

actually seems to be shaped correctly to have usable cargo space.

andys120

That's the Skoda Yeti Soichi, named after the upcoming Winter
Olympics in Soichi Russia IIRC.

Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear gave the Yeti a rave review some years back. I assume it's related to the VW Tiguan.