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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I think it's a Series 102...a 2000 Spider.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    I think it's a Series 102...a 2000 Spider.

    That's right Shifty, the Alfa 2000 was the flagship of the line in the late 50s. It didn't have the performance of the Giulietta/Giulia Spiders but was more of a luxury Gran Turismo. . unlike most Alfa Spiders of the day it was styled by Touring, not Pinifarina

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    I was hoping for a much more 'Italian' name...Series 102 2000 Spider...snore...almost sounds German!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    texases said:

    I was hoping for a much more 'Italian' name...Series 102 2000 Spider...snore...almost sounds German!

    The car itself kind of snored for an Alfa, come to think of it. Alfa's answer to the Mercedes 190SL?

    Back when, we Alfisti thought of them as somewhat of a slug.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    lostwrench1 said:

    1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan.

    Bingo!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    oh, that is nice - I always wanted the Dinky Toy of this...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    magnette said:

    oh, that is nice - I always wanted the Dinky Toy of this...

    Do you if they made a Dinky of it?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,439
    image

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Yes - it looks better in dark colours and I have never seen a two tone car in real life.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    This one is forgotten now...

  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    The coupe's an Aston Martin "DB Mk III", right?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    nope...look at the hood louvers.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    Only other name I can find for it is a "DB 2/4 Mk III" - is that what you mean?
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,400
    A C Aceca.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    edited September 2016
    Wow they look similar, I don't feel too bad:



  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    edited September 2016
    Sorry = I didn't realise that you hadn't named the AC Aceca when I posted my less exciting saloon..
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep, the green coupe is a 1958 AC Aceca/Bristol, the FHC version of the A C roadster Shelby based his Cobra on.

    As for your B&W saloon. It looks 1950s British, a bit like some Rileys but I don't think that's it .

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Yes, it is British and not a Riley. The make was well enough known but this model was not very successful...
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,599
    magnette said:

    Yes, it is British and not a Riley. The make was well enough known but this model was not very successful...

    OK, I surrender. I can't even give an intelligent guess consistent with the suicide doors. Sometimes it's tough being a Yank.

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  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    bhill2 said:

    magnette said:

    Yes, it is British and not a Riley. The make was well enough known but this model was not very successful...

    Sometimes it's tough being a Yank.
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,404
    Mets just clinched the WC 1st seed though. So everyone in NY has a team to be rooting for!

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  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    Mariner's are still alive, too. Whoo-hoo! As of right now, that is.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    I thought it might be a bit difficult as most people here have forgotten it too - it is a Singer Hunter which was made from about 1954 to 56 and was the last unique Singer - all subsequent models were based on Hillman models.

    The Hunter was a development of the SM1500 saloon which was current from circa 1949 -54. it looked similar but that had a more modern front - they went back to a traditional grille with this last gasp.

    There can't be more than a handful left now...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,439
    I bet cars in Britain depreciated fiercely back then. Imagine how old that Singer looked by 1965.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    I don't think many of those Singers lasted long enough to look old fashioned although it should be borne in mind that in 1965 apart from the Morris Minor which was still selling strongly you could also buy the Wolseley 1500, Riley 1.5 and the van version of the Austin A35 (a la Wallis & Gromit)...

    They all looked old fashioned but still sold. The Singer was old in many ways, though, and to be fair the rest of the BMC range was either radically modern Mini, 1100, 1800 or else be-finned Austin Cambridge and Morris Oxford etc which were really 1959 designs.

    Trends passed more slowly here at that time, I suppose.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    No takers on my boxy little sedan? Here it is again>


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,404
    Lancia Fulvia?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    edited October 2016
    stickguy said:

    Lancia Fulvia?

    Yep, it's a 1973 Lancia Fulvia 1.3 Berlina

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Meet me in St. Looie>


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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited October 2016
    If you can't see the pic, try this link.

  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 266,120
    stever said:

    If you can't see the pic, try this link.

    I'm forbidden. :(

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    lol, must not have the magic finger touch. Try this somewhat reduced in size version:


  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Center Stage - 1951 Nash Statesman.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    '51 Packard on the left, with cormorant hood ornament.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,439
    I see a few shoebox Fords, and in front of the drug store near the corner I see a woody - maybe a Chevy or Olds/Buick, with a 41 Chevy in front of it.
  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Behind the car hijacking, a '48 Buick.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165

    Behind the car hijacking, a '48 Buick.


    Nah, the guy doesn't have a big flat bill on his hat B)

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,599
    Let's play 'when is the earliest this photo could have been taken'. This is a little before my time (even I can't imagine that) but I can't identify anything later than '51. Any sharper eyes/minds out there?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    '51 looks about right to me but it's almost impossible to tell a '51 from a '52 for many of the cars in that photo.
    No one's mentioned the Oldsmobile parked on the extreme right (could be a '51 or '52)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 262,644
    Late 70's Alfa GTV6 .... ?

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,404
    late 70's Alfa Romeo Alfetta?

    Probably not many left if so that have not returned to the earth as dust.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,111
    Chrome bumpers = pre 1980 Alfetta GT, chrome trim in the grille = 1976+ Alfetta GTV 2.0
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    edited October 2016
    texases said:

    Chrome bumpers = pre 1980 Alfetta GT, chrome trim in the grille = 1976+ Alfetta GTV 2.0

    Nice going Tex, you nailed it. I'm not sure the 2 liter version was ever officially sold in the US.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 266,120
    Dodge Magnum

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