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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    I always get these latter 60's Buick's mixed up, but I'll guess 67 Wildcat.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,136
    I think it's a little older- '65 Wildcat?
  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Two chips on '66.
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    Is that ya final ansah?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,136
    I fold, it looks like a '66.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Yep, '66. The 67s had this weird sculptured line down the sides.
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    Wildcat, eh?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    That is indeed a 1965 Buick Wildcat convertible. I'm not a big fan of land yachts but I had occasion to drive similar cars back in the day and there is something special about them.

    It beats me why Buick, with great names like Wildcat, Riviera, Invicta and Roadmaster in their stable, uses dopey names like Verrano, Regal and Enclave nowadays.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    I hear you but at least Buick is still using names.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,564
    1961 Alfa Giulietta Ti

    odd looking little beast

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I'm still going with '66 unless you convince me. :p
  • lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    I'm still going with '66 unless you convince me. :p

    That hood ornament + no circular nose "badge" on the grille = '66.

  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,700
    stever said:

    I hear you but at least Buick is still using names.

    I agree. Some cars, especially the special unaffordable models motorweek or the mags test that I can't afford, have names that choke a horse--SExMtiSkybluMAndrogen, e.g.. Only $450,000 and a limited edition of 3 of them are being built and they're all already sold. LOL

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    I'm still going with '66 unless you convince me. :p

    Shifty, I thought you, of all people would know that '66 Alfa sedans were the boxy Giulias which were quite different from the delicate Giuliettas>



    Giulias of that era were the cop cars in nearly every Italian film classic and thus perhaps the most recognizable Alfa berlinas from the company that pioneered the modern compact sport sedan.

    The Italian Job (1969)>

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    andys120 said:


    Mr_Shiftright said:

    I'm still going with '66 unless you convince me. :p

    Shifty, I thought you, of all people would know that '66 Alfa sedans were the boxy Giulias which were quite different from the delicate Giuliettas>



    Giulias of that era were the cop cars in nearly every Italian film classic and thus perhaps the most recognizable Alfa berlinas from the company that pioneered the modern compact sport sedan.

    The Italian Job (1969)>

    No, no, I was commenting on the Wildcat! I didn't even see this Alfa.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674


    Shifty said-


    No, no, I was commenting on the Wildcat! I didn't even see this Alfa.

    My bad! you're right Shifty, the Buick is a'66.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674

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  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    edited November 2016
    My bad! you're right Shifty, the Buick is a'66.
    Hey, anyone who knows so much about these:


    ...has just got ta know a bit about those 60's Buick's. :p

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  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    edited November 2016
    The aforementioned '68 Datsun 411 Bluebird sold for only $3,000 at auction in Oklahoma City, OK, in the early summer of 2016. Would've loved to have poached this pup for my 2nd car, car hounds. That was the best specimen of its type I've spotted in person, in print, or online, anywhere.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,564
    Is that blue one a Sunbeam?

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Can you tell what this car was before surgery?


  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    '68 VW Squareback Convertible.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 264,312
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    Can you tell what this car was before surgery?


    BMC 1800?

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,564
    I'm going with the BMC

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    You guys are close but I'm thinking of a particular model.

    HINT: Top Gear presenter, Richard Hammond once said of this car: "I'll guarantee that nothing exciting, vibrant, dynamic, new, creative, hopeful, or beneficial in any way to humanity has ever been done, thought of, or driven to in this drab, dreary, entirely beige, willfully awful pile of misery".

  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,404
    MG-B?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited November 2016
    Oh, no....no genuine car lover would say mean things like that about an MGB! MGBs are fine little cars.

    OK---it's a chopped Austin Marina, 1971 model. (see edit/correction in my next post).
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,136
    A pretty new one, subject of debate in another forum. I have no idea:

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,537
    I don't know if the faux RR is a Marina. That A-pillar sure looks like a BMC 1100 to me.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Good eye! I just used the label from the website I found it on, but as I look at it more closely, I think it's an Austin America. So it would be a kind of re-badged Austin 1300 2-door. 1971.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,404
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    Oh, no....no genuine car lover would say mean things like that about an MGB! MGBs are fine little cars.

    OK---it's a chopped Austin Marina, 1971 model. (see edit/correction in my next post).

    Sorry, didn't mean it to be mean. I just thought the rear fender looked a little like an MGB.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,404
    edited November 2016
    texases said:

    A pretty new one, subject of debate in another forum. I have no idea:

    I know it's not one, but it looks like a refreshed Scion xB.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,136
    edited November 2016
    That's what the other guy guessed. But I can't read the name plate on the front. I'm thinking some people mover   Wheels look too small for an xB 
  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,769
    Took some work, but that is a Daihatsu Materia.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 264,312
    qbrozen said:

    Took some work, but that is a Daihatsu Materia.

    Since Daihatsu is owned by Toyota, it's an xB that was left in the dryer too long.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    stickguy said:

    Is that blue one a Sunbeam?

    Nope, not a Sunbeam.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    The converted BMC is probably an 1100/1300 but the proportions look wrong somehow. The rear wings are 1100/1300 mk II but the front end looks a bit too low relative to the windscreen.

    The blue car is not from Rootes / Chrysler - try another US company based here...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,537
    Blue car is a Ford Cortina ca. 1965 or so.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    fintail said:

    Blue car is a Ford Cortina ca. 1965 or so.

    Exactly right.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 264,312
    Early 70's Holden Monaro. Aussie muscle car.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    Yep, but a 1969 Holden Monaro GTS the Aussie version of a Chevy Malibu Super Sport.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481

  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,404
    edited November 2016
    Mercury Meteor Commuter, WAGing a 62.

  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    I'm going to guess 62 Mercury?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Yep, '62.

    Here's one that might cause some head-scratching:


  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,674
    My first thought was that it was some variant of Kurtis Kraft roadster like this one>



    Then I noticed the Volkswagen wheels! There were probably dozens of obscure VW kit cars that would enable you to make your ugly slow Beetle look like a swoop front engine sports roadster. All of them earned their obscurity.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,136
    I was thinking VW-based, until I saw the exhaust pipe in front of the rear wheel - decorative?
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Not a kit car but some were sold as kits. A few dozen or so were built as factory cars, so it's not a one-off either.

    And no, not VW powered. Various engines were used, and as far as I know, they were V-8s of one sort or another.

    The car is actually associated with some rich automotive history and it commands a certain respect in collector car circles.

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