Mystery car pix

stickguy

1951 J(mumble something here) Jupiter. Not that ugly though.

jarret?

fintail

Jowett Jupiter

And 3415 is a Riley from the early 50s

yoribe2

and it's not by that Japanese maker.

yoribe2

stickguy

is it a Rover varient of a Civic? Or just a blatant copy of the front end?

the silver one looks english. It also looks like it is on it's tippy-toes

boomchek

Triumph Acclaim, early 80's. Looks like a Honda Civic cause it was based on the Civic.

boomchek

It's a early 80's Talbot Solara. :P

imidazol97

After these two who can say the Aztek is ugly?

fiatowner

You don't seem to have had a reply to this one - it's a Talbot Samba - that one is a 'cabrio' but the saloon was more common - close relative of the Peugeot 104Z .

fiatowner

Wasn't the hot NSU Prinz 4 called TT or TTS? They also made a 1200 which was similar but had a fake chrome grille.

fiatowner

These weren't just ugly... the engine on the Alpine/Solara was like a bag of nails...they were often used as minicabs here but were falling apart when they were new!

fiatowner

At last - a decent looking car, this is an Alvis TF21 - the double headlights differ from the more familiar TD21 - they made this circa 63-67, and if the registration is original then this one isn't later than 1964. There is a back-street garage just up the road from this office which services old Alvises, and this is typical of the beauties that he has in... one of Coventry's finest cars.

lemko

...but that black 1960 Buick looks like an export model. Note the yellowish headlights. They don't look like sealed beams, but composite lights with yellow bulbs similar to pictures I've seen of home-market French cars.

lemmer

kyfdx

Renault Fuego.. '84-'85?

lemmer

You got it. I think it is an '82, Motor Trend's car of the year. They sure can pick 'em.

ateixeira

Jowett Jupiter looks like a cheap knock-off of a Jaguar.

Fuego makes me cringe. My dad almost bought me one when I was in high school. I didn't like it at all and talked him out of it.

I guess my instincts were pretty good.

-juice

Mr_Shiftright

Maybe they meant "Car That Might Last a Year"?

fintail

Geez and when I was like 6, I actually liked the Fuego. I remember on one of my dad's Sunday car dealer visits (he was a bit of a CCB at the time), the dealer gave me a big stack of Renault posters and materials (probably because they were about to go out of business). I actually had a Fuego poster.

If those wheels don't say "80s", I don't know what does.

lemmer

I was sure the Fuego won a "Car of the Year" award, but I can't find it anywhere. The wonderful Renault Alliance did win in 1983. Maybe this is what I was thinking of. I know the Fuego at least got rave reviews.

fiatowner

I had a 1.6 litre Fuego in about 1989, it was a nice car to drive, but a bit heavy on the fuel, and there were problems with the electrics, but that probably related to its age, as I was the third or fourth owner, but it was very smooth compared with my previous car which was an ancient Capri. I sold it after about eight months, but I used to see it running around for a couple of years, so at least it kept going!
Renault Alliance was what we knew as a 9 or 11, I think, but wasn't it marketed and even assembled by AMC? I used an 11 for a short while, but that was a company car, and not particularly memorable.

stickguy

the Alliance won MT COY award. The Fuego didn't do much of anything.

I almost bought one in 1985 (a family down the street had one). Thankfully I passed.

ateixeira

They actually made those posters?

If you put it up in your room, I'll lose respect for you. :P

-juice

fintail

Hey, I was 6

I also had a poster of a Renault 18, I must have had it up as well as I remember it pretty vividly.

ateixeira

OK, then you get a free pass. My daughter is 6 and the most I can get her to do is point out convertibles.

-juice

andys120

When I was six I could readily identify Cadillacs and pointed them out whenever I sighted one. :P

They weren't all that common in 1949.

boomchek

1982 Import Car of the Year was won by the Toyota Supra. Neat car for the timesd.

fintail

I liked all kinds of weird junk when I was that age...MG midgets, VW pickups, really anything small, with my fave of the time being the RX7.

I saw a really nice looking silver blue 80s Supra like that in traffic on my way over Snoqualmie Pass Sunday. It was moving right along.

andys120

I liked all kinds of weird junk when I was that age...MG midgets, VW pickups, really anything small,

We won't hold that against you . I'm so glad I came of age in the 60s. :P

Mr_Shiftright

Genuflect when you say "MG"....after all, a Midget is just a Miata with oil leaks and wet carpets.

andys120

imidazol97

According to a coworker who owned cars like that throw in "bad electronics" also.

fintail

That's probably by the time I was 10 or so I was really turning to 50s and 60s cars, with the exception of period (c.1987) MB

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subearu

Isn't that an International Scout towing another International Scout, maybe a II

-Brian

fiatowner

Arnolt Bristol circa 1952/3

stickguy

they are Scout IIs I believe, from somewhere in the '70s. Tough little beasts.

I have no idea what that white monstrosty is.

lemmer

stickguy

lets overlook the "production car" rule for a second...

Odd looking, I'll guess the Homer Mobile, given the driver. Looks like fins from a '59 Caddy

lemko

Powell Homer - the car for the average man! It plays "La Cucaracha" when you press the horn - several buttons placed strategically throughout the interior. Some things never go out of style - like tailfins! They forgot the raccoon tail on the antenna.

fiatowner

I'm going out on a limb here, but this looks VW based to me, they made a local version in the late 60's in Australia called something like a Land Car and the proportions look similar although it looks newer than that - maybe Brazilian VW?.
It probably never won Car of the Year anywhere, what ever it is- or if it did I don't want to go there!

stickguy

funny, I thought it looked like a Vdub kit car too.

andys120

Hey, isn't that the front end of a Thing/Type 82/Kubelwagen? It was known by many different names in markets around the world.

andys120

Arnolt Bristol circa 1952/3

Absolutely!

andys120

stickguy

I'll guess Bonneville, unless it is a ringer.

andys120

Yeah it's a ringer but you've got the '67 Pontiac part right. It's a Parisienne (Canadian)
and there's likely a Chebbie powertrain under the Poncho bodywork.

'Course it's impossible to tell any of that from the photo.

andys120

manifold

Yes they are Scouts. The white monstrosity is a rare VW country buggy derivative.