Mystery car pix

stever

Now you know why we tent camp....

stickguy

Mercury or Lincoln. Has to be a fomoco.

andys120

fintail said:

288 GTO

Yup that's a Ferrari 288GTO (184-87), harking back to the days when F-cars were beautiful as well as blindingly fast.

The two-tone next to it looks like a 250Europa/Boano but it could be a Superamerica.

Mr_Shiftright

Ok, Stick is getting closer....it's Lincoln...here's a dead giveaway

stever

Belongs to Mark someone going by the label on the door sill.

Mr_Shiftright

His father, grandfather and great grandfather apparently owned lincolns before him.

It's a 1972 model Lincoln MK IV, and although that dashboard could make a baby jump out of his car seat, I have to say the car drove very nicely, as long as you didn't do anything radical, like turn left or right.

Those marks on the steering post were the only blemishes on the car. It was quite sanitary.

stickguy

I always despised that ford steering wheel. One of my quirks I guess.

kyfdx

stickguy said:

I always despised that ford steering wheel. One of my quirks I guess.

Continuous rubber rim on inside of steering wheel was the horn "button". Hard to find, if you drove another car. 460 V-8 was pretty sprightly for it's day.

Oh yeah, doubt any babies were in car seats in 1972.

tjc78

You all beat me to the Mark. That one was easy, but I'm a land yacht junkie.  The Mark IV is my least favorite of the 70s.  The III and V are so much better looking.  

fintail

I am still amused at how those Marks and T-Birds were so close. My mom had a T-Bird of that style when I was a little kid, and I still remember the cruise control rocker switches on the steering wheel - that and the 100 way power seats. The things that stick in memory 35 years later.

berri

Lincoln became Ford so many years ago that I Wonder if it is even feasible to re-establish the brand as true luxury?

andys120

Michaell

RX-7 ... about a '90?

kyfdx

I think that 2nd Gen model started in 1986. Not sure how long it lasted (certainly until 1990). I was thisclose to buying a slightly used '89 convertible in 1990.

Michaell

kyfdx said:

I think that 2nd Gen model started in 1986. Not sure how long it lasted (certainly until 1990). I was thisclose to buying a slightly used '89 convertible in 1990.

I think you're right .. my sister owned an '85 that she absolutely adored. I loved driving that car when I had the chance. Not terribly quick (only 100HP), but extremely nimble.

qbrozen

I still want an '83-'84 GSL-SE. My dad had an '84 silver over red. He loved it.

andys120

It's an '87 Mazda RX-7. I just happened to see a sharp convertible version today.

andys120

stickguy

Blue Fiat 500 in front next to the light blue VW van? and middle row on the end, next to the bronze bug, an MB Ponton?

fintail

I am surprised by the lack of fintails in that pic, especially given its proximity to Stuttgart, although it might just predate the car. I think there might be a fintail, off-white, in the back row towards the left, but it could be something else. There's another Ponton in the background at right, in front of what might be a yellow Opel.

Oddity in the pic appears to be a BMW (or possibly EMW) cabrio, between the blue Beetle with the large sunroof and two tone Opel Rekord, in front of the Fiat 500.

magnette

I'll take two of the cars further back. Beyond the BMW/EMW the blue car with the central spotlight above the grille is a Ford 12M - the version introduced in 1952, but they made that version as the basic car for a few years.
Behind that,the smaller blue and cream car is a Goggomobil 600 or 700 Isar. They made those fro 1957 and presumably as this must be abut 1961 the car is more likely to be the 600.

Mr_Shiftright

Looks like a couple of DKWs, one next to Bronze VW, another over the head of the woman on the right.

andys120

Behind the old BMW (327/328?) Cabrio is a light blue sedan w an odd bulge to the nose. I thought it might be a Borgward or a Glas of some kind but I couldn't find a match for it. Anyone got a good guess?

fintail

The car with the nose is the one magnette identified, I think, the early 50s style Ford 12M.

magnette

The grey estate car to the left of the Fiat is an Opel Olympia Caravan.
In the far distance to the other side of the central road is a smaller car with fins and a brownish stripe and roof - that is a DKW Junior. Next to it is a VW (mud coloured) and on the far side of that is a cream car which I think is a Borgward Isabella.

andys120

texases

Fiat Multipla 600, 1960-ish? That interior spare had me going...

andys120

Good eye, that's a 1965 Fiat 600 Multipla, the original minivan and it really was mini (built on a stretched Fiat 500/600 Chassis)

stever

Nice - had to find some pics of it.

texases

Saw one on a driveway a couple of years ago not far from me. Never have seen it on the road. Too bad.

magnette

Still on the station forecourt, there is a grey BMW 700 it's on the second row just above the blue VW van.

fintail

I think the dark car to the left of the maybe-fintail in the back row, left side, is a Ponton.

andys120

This one is from the 1965-66 TV show Honey West in which actress Anne Francis portrayed the title character, the first Female private eye ever to be featured on a TV series. She also had perhaps the coolest ride of any TV character ever >

stickguy

Very early 289 cobra? Or even a 260.

andys120

There are some slight differences between the 260 CID Cobra and the later 289s. Honey's 1964 Shelby Cobra/289 has the small side vents and extra grille protectors which the 260 version (1962-3) did not have.

260 Cobra>

fintail

Should be something here for everyone:



Bonus points if you can ID the movie - it's one I fondly remember from when I was a kid, just saw it again a couple weeks ago, it was still amusing.

texases

Hmmm...what could that black car be....

qbrozen

License to Drive is the movie. That was grandpa's caddy ('72 DeVille) that they proceeded to destroy while grandpa took the father's BMW on his trip and proceeded to destroy that. I don't recall the BMW, but I'd guess it was a late '80s 5-series.

texases

The red car is a late '70s Plymouth Arrow.

fintail

Yep that's the movie, I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. Cheesy 80s stuff, but fun.

The BMW was an E24 (there's a car in the background here, too:

qbrozen

ahhhh... 6-series. Hadn't even thought of that. Huh. Interesting choice with 2 teenage kids. haha.

Michaell

fintail said:

Yep that's the movie, I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. Cheesy 80s stuff, but fun.

The BMW was an E24 (there's a car in the background here, too:

Bustle-back Seville?

tjc78

Yeah that's definately a Seville.  

berri

That guy and his Caddy would have fit right in on the streets of the Chicago area back then

fintail

Yep, bustleback in the background. The 72 (maybe not the same car, I read several were used, this one looks like it just received a quick paint job for the movie) ends up looking the worse for wear at the end:



Here's another good one for spotting, showing the wonderful diversity of a now-vintage California street scene:

berri

Always liked the first gen Monte carlo

kyfdx

berri said:

Always liked the first gen Monte carlo

That's a 2nd gen, though..

Heading away, I see an Accord hatch.. '80-'81, I think, and what looks like an '82 Accord hatch in front of it.. And, maybe a BMW 320i in front of that.

stickguy

nice Duster on the left. Looks like same vintage of the one I had in HS.

far right in front of the early Accord, a Citation, 2 over on the curb a Stanza, I think some sort of Nissan in between them (or maybe a gen 2 Accord), and a BMW 320i in front of them.

The yellow PU looks like a Toyata hi Lux

berri

kyfdx - you're right, I looked too quickly! For whatever reason I forget about that version during the Cutlass heydays and jump to the downsized one that followed in 78. I like the 70-72 best, although I owned a 79.

stever

Feel free to guess the asking price too.