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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Maybe you know this one @magnette:

    Vintage Car Identification : Ireland 1936
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Excellent. Gold star for that one!
    magnette said:

    Mr_Shiftright said:

    Das ist ein wenig Wartburg!

    Now here's one that will stump you----yes, a production car!



    Yes - my car is a Warburg - I think this model was a 311/3.

    Yours is a PTV from Barcelona - made about 1958/63 and was powered by a 250cc motor.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Ouch!


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Jaguar XJ220 - and a Ford Ka -possibly the insurance claim is going to be difficult - "The post just pulled out..."
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    edited November 2015
    Sorry - grainy picture on this.... and I posted it on the wrong page earlier.


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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    That should buff out.....geez, what a maroon!
    magnette said:

    Jaguar XJ220 - and a Ford Ka -possibly the insurance claim is going to be difficult - "The post just pulled out..."

  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,539
    at least the engine is in the back.

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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    edited November 2015
    But heck, the suspension will set you back plenty all by itself!
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    How much to fix a smashed up 1/2 mil car? Looks like about $50K damage to me, minimum, more if you paint the whole car.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,539

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    magnette said:

    Sorry - grainy picture on this.... and I posted it on the wrong page earlier.



    Nobody want to have a go at my grainy old picture?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Grainy picture is a British car, a make that was established here for about sixty years and in its day made thousands of cars every year. This is a late example of the make....
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    1950s Hillman Minx or a badge-engineered Rootes Group relative?

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I'm pretty good on British stuff but in this case I had to flip through my magnificent old "British Cars" hardbound encyclopedia (scored many years ago in a thrift store). So this car must be a Standard, circa mid-50s.

    The book notes that when this venerable company started, way way back in the dim mists of automobile history at the turn of the 20th century, the term "Standard" had a different meaning in everyday English parlance--it meant an aspiration, a watermark to be striven for---like Cadillac's "Standard of the World". But by the 1950s, the word took on a more mundane meaning---"standard", as in ordinary, stripped down, "the usual and commonplace". This was a serious marketing problem.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,539
    Anybody seeing the gray coupe I posted a few comments up? Not showing on my iPad.

    And any guesses?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,135
    Can't see it.
  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Can't see it.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited November 2015
    That's odd, I saw it fine when you posted it. I can paste the link and grab a screen shot okay. Reminds of a Piper Cub where the two occupants have to sit, er, behind each other. Narrow beast, or at least an odd camera angle.


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    I'm pretty good on British stuff but in this case I had to flip through my magnificent old "British Cars" hardbound encyclopedia (scored many years ago in a thrift store). So this car must be a Standard, circa mid-50s.

    The book notes that when this venerable company started, way way back in the dim mists of automobile history at the turn of the 20th century, the term "Standard" had a different meaning in everyday English parlance--it meant an aspiration, a watermark to be striven for---like Cadillac's "Standard of the World". But by the 1950s, the word took on a more mundane meaning---"standard", as in ordinary, stripped down, "the usual and commonplace". This was a serious marketing problem.



    Yes = it is a Stndard Ensign, the more basic version of the Vanguard mark III - this is the first Ensign from 1957-59, there was a later one when the Vanguard range got updated which shared that car's roof line (the rear window was larger).
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    stever said:

    That's odd, I saw it fine when you posted it. I can paste the link and grab a screen shot okay. Reminds of a Piper Cub where the two occupants have to sit, er, behind each other. Narrow beast, or at least an odd camera angle.




    Its this Italian?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Those hubcaps are not Italian. They look French.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,539
    yes, it is French. But there is an Italian connection.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Simca would be French but with an Italian link at least at that time. So a Simca Huit / 8 Sport. Body possibly Facel or similar - this is all guesswork
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    OK, time for a stretch....

  • jwilliams2jwilliams2 Member Posts: 910
    '55 Olds Super 88 stretch limo....
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,539
    Yup. it is a Figoni & Falaschi Simca Sport 8 Coupe from 1949.

    Italian being owned by FIAT and running their engines.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    That's right...a '55 Olds stretch, from Sunset Limo, Stoughton, Wisconsin. Don't know how much they charge.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    Seriously, I would have never thought of that car :o
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    stickguy said:

    Yup. it is a Figoni & Falaschi Simca Sport 8 Coupe from 1949.

    Italian being owned by FIAT and running their engines.


    Never know any coach builders - but as soon as you said French I realised the car in the distance was a Citroen so should have guessed French connection somehow.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    I like that stretched 55 Olds...
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    This is another limo ...



  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Oh is that a Humber or something?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited November 2015
    This is a concept car, so it doesn't follow our rules---thus I will identify it. Thought you all might be curious.

    I'm not sure what drugs Dick Teague was taking when he designed this 1954 Packard Daytona...you can't really see them, but the tail fins are this car are huge in real life. To be fair, it doesn't look all that different from late 50s Chrysler products.


  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    And people complain about the maw on the new Scion. From a 50's catfish to Darth Vader and beyond.

    Can't wait to see what kind of front ends we'll wind up with as EVs hit the market en masse.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Just can't satisfy you. Last year you were complaining that cars all looked alike. :D
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited November 2015
    lol, best be careful what I wish for.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,522
    Fins were cool - optimism, space/jet age, tomorrow will be wonderful, etc. Gaping maws are sycophant copycat designers being different for the sake of being different (hint, everything becomes the same) and workaday appliances trying to look aggressive to assuage the fears and ego of typical consumers.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    Oh is that a Humber or something?


    Not a Humber - it's actually something more grand although a rather basic model from this illustrious marque...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,522
    Pretty sure I see a Daimler grille
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    fintail said:

    Pretty sure I see a Daimler grille

    Yes - although Daimler limos were mostly associated with Royalty,diplomats etc there was always a market for the wedding & funeral services, and the DK400 model filled that role in the mid 50's. Some of those were coach built by Hooper and a few others, but there was also a 'standard' limousine which was made by Carbodies of Coventry - this was that model.
    It was a bit more basic although still a proper car, but like a large London taxi really - and there are very few survivors - I can't remember when I last saw one - they are not the sort of cars that show up at shows - and they only built about 90 so there can't be many left.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,522
    Interesting. No doubt used up and thrown away.

    I see it appears to have both a bustle back, and fins.
    magnette said:

    fintail said:


    It was a bit more basic although still a proper car, but like a large London taxi really - and there are very few survivors - I can't remember when I last saw one - they are not the sort of cars that show up at shows - and they only built about 90 so there can't be many left.

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,673
    edited November 2015






    Its this Italian?

    Looks like an early- mid 50s French Ford Comete (note the similarity of wheel covers.)>



    These were bodied by Facel (who later built the Facel Vegas)

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Another forgotten saloon


  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,135
    Sure looks Ford-ish
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    Memories of a Falcon.
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 263,880
    Nah, I think it's GM related. Vauxhall?

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  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Nose lettering reads Vauxhall.
    Side lettering reads Cresta.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    Yes - its a Vauxhall PC Cresta - this is the basic version, as the Deluxe ones had double headlights. In previous Cresta series the more basic version was named Velox, but they moved the Cresta name to cover them all when this model was launched in 1965 and then had to have a new brand above Cresta for the top of the range model which became the Vauxhall Viscount a year later.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    On the production line...


  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 263,880
    Lada Samara?

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