Mystery car pix

texases

The Magnum gets a prize for 'tiniest windows, given how large they look' - those rear windows are mostly covered on the inside.

andys120

Yup, that's the late Dodge Magnum, the last big wagon made in America (at least with a normal ride height)-2005-08. I believe that's the SRT-8 version.

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bhill2

OK, it's a Jag XKxxx, but I'm not well versed enough to tell whether xxx is 120 or 140 or even 150.

andys120

bhill2 said:

OK, it's a Jag XKxxx, but I'm not well versed enough to tell whether xxx is 120 or 140 or even 150.

Anybody gonna say which XK?

texases

I'll go with XK140, with the small light above the bumper.

fintail

Yep 140 has integrated turn signals

Mr_Shiftright

andys120 said:

bhill2 said:

OK, it's a Jag XKxxx, but I'm not well versed enough to tell whether xxx is 120 or 140 or even 150.

Anybody gonna say which XK?

lYep, It's a XK140 coupe---used to own one. Very nice car. A bit of a bear to drive as I remember, with a very clunky Moss gearbox, heavy steering. It was, if you pardon me saying, a "man's car" through and through. But ah, those huge leather seats, the burl dashboard, all those gauges wiggling around.

Speaking of gauges, and in particular the heat gauge------It always mystified me how, on a winter's day, I would be overheating wildly in traffic, and yet somehow Jaguar couldn't get all that heat (enough to process iron ore) just 4 inches through a firewall into the passenger compartment, which was a meat locker.

andys120

Yes it's a 1956 Jaguar XK-140 FHC but you sure can't tell by the little "trafficator lamps"
("turn signals" in American English) on the fenders. Those are common to all XKs until the E-type.

Truth is it's very difficult to tell an XK-120 from an XK-140, especially from that angle but you don't expect me to give you easy ones, do you?

fintail

I mean the lights lower on the fender. Barely visible at bottom right in the above image, absent on this XK120:

texases

Yep, that lower light is what I used to ID the 140.

andys120

Interesting, I've never noticed those before and they are probably the best way to tell a 140 from a 120.

In addition it seems that most XK-140s sport a pair of Lucas auxiliary lamps mounted on the bumper>



Similar lights are seen on a few 120s but they are usually spaced closer together.

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stever

My family had one of those 1959 Chevy tabletop fin jobs. Would barely go 60 downhill with a tailwind. IIRC, ours was a Bel Air, also a 2 door hardtop.

lostwrench1

'59 Dodge
'56 Olds
'54 Chevy
'55 to '71 mail collection box.

andys120

stever said:

My family had one of those 1959 Chevy tabletop fin jobs. Would barely go 60 downhill with a tailwind. IIRC, ours was a Bel Air, also a 2 door hardtop.

I'm guessing it didn't have a 283 or 327 under the hood.

fintail

Saab 93 parked at left. Must be somewhere in the northeast/New England, or west coast.

stickguy

looks like vermont to me

bhill2

andys120 said:

stever said:

My family had one of those 1959 Chevy tabletop fin jobs. Would barely go 60 downhill with a tailwind. IIRC, ours was a Bel Air, also a 2 door hardtop.

I'm guessing it didn't have a 283 or 327 under the hood.

OK, PITA time. The 327 came out in '62. I'm guessing it didn't have a 283 or 348 under the hood.

stever

andys120 said:

stever said:

My family had one of those 1959 Chevy tabletop fin jobs. Would barely go 60 downhill with a tailwind. IIRC, ours was a Bel Air, also a 2 door hardtop.

I'm guessing it didn't have a 283 or 327 under the hood.

Nope. Good thing too, cause there was a leak in the brake system somewhere and I was always topping up the master cylinder. I actually didn't mind driving it too much - at least it was an automatic and not a 3 on a tree. My brother used it for an occasional three hour drive home from college and hated it.

andys120

stickguy said:

looks like vermont to me

It's not antplace in New England but you might get a little closer if you take a good look at those license plates.

stickguy

NY? I can't read those without the Hubble Telescope.

stever

That's my guess too. Setting reminds me of Cornwall-on-Hudson where my FIL was from.

stickguy

that part of NYS resembles NE anyway.

fintail

Those look like 50s era California plates.

lostwrench1

NY license plates, black on gold, 1962-1963.

andys120

lostwrench1 said:

NY license plates, black on gold, 1962-1963.

The pic was taken in 1960 in a town whose name would someday identify an event that actually took place nearly 60 miles away.

NY plates were actually blue and orange then, a scheme which was recently brought back. The colors are those of the Dutch royal house of Nassau and Orange going back to Nieuw Amsterdam.

stickguy

woodstock most likely

stever

That would explain the rain.

That was a good one Andy - especially enjoyed the blue mailbox ID.

andys120

stickguy said:

woodstock most likely

Yep, Woodstock NY, a few years before it became a favored retreat for NYC-based musicians, artists and other figures. Woodstock is at the opposite end of the Catskills from Bethel/White Lake where the "Woodstock Music and Arts Festival" took place in 1969. The festival was moved because the town fathers wanted nothing to do with a massive rock fest.

Back to the cars, there's a 1940s black sedan parked under a tree. It looks like a MoPar to me but other than that, I couldn't say. To it's left is a 2-tone Olds ca. 56-58 and a '55-'56 Ford wagon. I think the red car is an early 50s MoPar with a '57-58 MoPar wagon next to it.

andys120

Then there's the "other" Woodstock. Plenty of cars to ID here and note that the colors on the plates have been reversed.

fintail

That must be a 69 Mustang at background right.

tmart

Corvair behind the Chevy?

stickguy

and a rambler in front of it.

stever

Three Bugs in a row.

stickguy

actually, if front of the white rambler, I think the convertible is another rambler. and in front of that, with the top up, a Camaro convertible.

and 2 back from the bugs, I think a Volvo 140

andys120

Apparently passing the VWs to their right-an International Scout.

The Chevy w people on the trunk-1967MY? (no side markers visible)

andys120

A panoply of winged wonders>

Mr_Shiftright

Bad link there Andys

stever

This is what I get - fin city. Can't get it any bigger here:

berri

We're big on Chevy's today; 59 and 60. I still don't see how the 60 is considered a styling improvement over the 59, although the back end of that 59 Chevy wagon is a little different. Like the 59 Olds.

fintail

Wow, this pic brought to you by the 1959-60 GM full size lineup.

Looks like a 59 Ford in the background, to the right of the 59 Chevy wagon.

stickguy

looks like a jeep by the store.

andys120

In the traffic facing the camera- 1)1959 Olds, 2)60-Poncho? 3)61 Chevy (newest car)

lostwrench1

1960 Cadillac.

stickguy

can anyone tell what the wagon is next to the jeep (behind the guy in the white shirt?)

lostwrench1

I think it's an International Travelall.

bhill2

lostwrench1 said:

1960 Cadillac.

That is probably right, but the shape of the back of the roof just seems wrong. It's not a flat-top, but doesn't look like the six-window sedan or the coupe either. The lower tail lights seem wrong too. Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations for a good optometrist?

andys120

bhill2 said:

lostwrench1 said:

1960 Cadillac.

That is probably right, but the shape of the back of the roof just seems wrong. It's not a flat-top, but doesn't look like the six-window sedan or the coupe either. The lower tail lights seem wrong too. Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations for a good optometrist?

It looks like a bubbletop coupe to me.