Mystery car pix

boomchek

Mr_Shiftright

Lagonda sedan is worth about $20,000--$25,000 for a nice one all sorted, no problems, lookin' good, etc. If you shopped with a basket of money in your possession, most sellers would probably take $18,000.

fintail

LaForza

boomchek

Yup it is a LaForza. So rare that the only ones I've seen was in the duPont Registry in the early 90's when they were worth something. You can't even find pics of them on the web except a couple I found from one site. :confuse:

It shows that rare luxury cars like that from unknown manufacturers are not the best investments. :sick:

andys120

Anyone can tell it's a Jeep but who can tell us the Manufacturer, MY and designator for this one?

stickguy

I had the Jeep part though!

Let's see, other than Willy's, I think Ford assembled them during WWII, and AMerican Bantam sounds familiar. SO, I will go with Bantam 1950.

Of course, I might also be hallucinating this all.

andys120

No, it's not a Bantam.

fintail

I'll guess a 48 Willys. Sure is primitive

andys120

Pretty close Fin, it's a '47 Willys Jeep CJ-2A.
It's primitive cuz essentially it's an update of the Willys MB which is the classic WW II Jeep.

Frankly, I like them just because they're primitive. It probably weighs about half what
a luxed-up Wrangler does. :P

Bantam built the first Jeep-style vehicles but the Army, concerned about their limited financial resources, decided to award production contracts to Willys and Ford. American Bantam Motors folded shortly afterwards.

andys120

imidazol97

'54 Chevy - Woody? I thought the woodies were covered with wood on the side, not just the windows.

fintail

Yep it's a 54. The 52-54 Chevy woodies were only partial, just like the other GM woodies.

The people who bought 54 Chevies must have been pissed with the 55s came out...the 54s suddenly looked prehistoric.

imidazol97

I found a pic of a BelAir Townsman, but this doesn't have the side chrome in the middle vertically like the Bel Air. Anyone know the name for the "cheap" model?

andys120

According to the ad, this particular '54 Chevy wagon was labelled as a "Suburban". I'd thought that was reserved for truck-based sws. Anyone know the scoop on that?

Next up>>

stickguy

1975? Not my specialty, so I'll stick with Bonneville

corsicachevy

Is it a 1975 Pontiac Grandville? My aunt's boyfriend (are they still boyfriends at 76?) had one of these up until just a few years ago. It was his daily driver.

andys120

Is it a 1975 Pontiac Grandville?

Yep.

andys120

fintail

MG Arnolt IIRC

About the LaForza, they show up on ebay fairly often. That thing was just 5 or 6 years ahead of its time. Ford V8 I think

boomchek

The LaForza did use a Ford 5.0L V8. It's funny with that the Pontiac Grandville came up cause I was at my 10 year high school reunion tonight and one of the guys actually has one in white with 80k original miles.

andys120

MG Arnolt IIRC

Yep, it's usually rendered in reverse order, i.e."Arnolt MG". It's an interesting car, basically a '53 MG-TD fitted with a Bertone body (coupe or cabrio). It was the brainchild of an American industrialist named Stanley Arnholt who ordered a hundred from Bertone.

andys120

fintail

Certainly an Opel from c.1966 - I'll guess it's a Diplomat, as it kind of looks like a Matchbox Diplomat from the same period.

andys120

It's a '64 Opel Rekord, except for the roofline it looks a lot like a contemporary Chevy II.

andys120

Place these cars in chronological order>>

stickguy

red 1st then green.

Looks like an early ('64/) Cobra 289 (based ont he scoop), and a Morgan which could be old or from last week I guess, but probably newer than the Cobra

fintail

I'll have to say it's a trick question, and indeed the red car is oldest.

The green car is a MGTF c.54-55. I am not sure what the red car is, apart from being some kind of early 50s Italian job.

andys120

The red car is the oldest by a year, a '53 Siata
208S Spider, power was by a Fiat 8V engine (so-called because Fiat assumed that Ford Motor had trademarked "V8").It closely resembles
early Ferraris that wore Vignale coachwork.

andys120

stickguy

so I didn't do too go with cars older than me. Maybe I should look closer at these little pictures.

The new green one is a jeep without a grill (tyring to trick us?) I think it is a Jeepster.

au94

Jeep Commando from the ealry 70's

andys120

Correct it's a '70 Commando, not a Jeepster

stickguy

I actually had that name come to me as I was logging on. I really need help I think.

andys120

about all the cars being older than you are>>


......unless you're under 14. :P

fintail

Aussie built Mercury Capri

ateixeira

And that's a base model, because the turbo had that ugly rear spoiler.

Nice exterior design but it was FWD and had poor quality control, so it never really challenged the Miata.

-juice

stickguy

You throw out a meatball, and I had to do some work and missed the first cut!

imidazol97

What is the brown thing sticking up from the trunk?

gsemike

Wasn't that the third brake light? Since it was an Aussie design, that country didn't require it and it was oh so tastefully tacked on.

stickguy

actaully, Porsche had the worst one (I think on the convertible) early on. Looked like Mr. Crabs' eye sitting up on a big stalk, poking out of the air intake grid.

au94

Wow, I forgot about that hideous bit if styling.

Anybody remember the ones you could buy at Autozone and put in your back window?

kyfdx

Oh.. you mean the ones that blinked along with your turn signals?

andys120

fintail

I wanna say 330GTC, Ferrari of course

andys120

Nope, it's the similar 330GTE, which unlike the GTC is a 2+2, MY 1966.

andys120

subearu

Integra, by Acura.

-Brian

andys120

Wanna take a stab at the model year, Brian?

andys120

subearu

Probably a '90, though the block headlights were available '90 - '93, IIRC. The '88-'89 had pop-up lights and the '94+ had projector beam type lights.

-Brian