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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    Was it something on the order of a 350/350 with a quad carb and close ratio Borg-Warner (Muncie) 4 on the floor?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,460
    You'd most likely see a 327 in a rig like that, no 350 til around 1968 IIRC.

    I was never able to find an affordable one when I was 16.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    College buddy had one. I guess I can't remember the motor size-but 350 hp seems to stick. I guess too many brain cells succumbed to the Budweiser virus in those early days.

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  • negativenegative Member Posts: 107
    You can usually tell a '68 Anything, because (pursuant to new federal standards that year): 1) first year for side marker lights, and they were usually tiny; 2) generally, still no head restraints (they appeared on the '69s); and 3) first year the parking lights illuminated with the headlights.

    I have a bone to pick with this particular Dodge. Its wheel covers are from a Pontiac. Our '70 Catalina Safari had them, and I'll bet they say "Pontiac Motor Division."
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    have a bone to pick with this particular Dodge. Its wheel covers are from a Pontiac. Our '70 Catalina Safari had them, and I'll bet they say "Pontiac Motor Division."

    I think you're right, they do look like the PMD covers.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    To me that looks like it's trying very hard to be exotic-looking, but doesn't quite hit the spot. I think the C-pillar really kills the design.

    -juice
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    1954 Packard Clipper, 4 dr.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    1954 Packard Clipper, 4 dr.

    Correct, right down to the number of doors! :P

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,436
    some varient of a late '60s FIAT 850?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,460
    It's RHD...gotta be Japanese, as it looks like it...very similar front to a Toyota 2000GT
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,601
    Wasn't that Toyota's first sports car? Something like 800cc if I remember correctly.

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  • acura_el2000acura_el2000 Member Posts: 19
    "><img src="http://www.priceofhistoys.com/museum/carli99/unknown/saab4.jpg"
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Ah, von of doz svoopy doopy sportscars from Sveden!

    What were they thinking?
  • lemmerlemmer Member Posts: 2,689
    Saab Sonnet?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Wasn't that Toyota's first sports car? Something like 800cc if I remember correctly.

    It was Toyo's first "sports car" beating the 2000GT to market by about a year IIRC and it was powered by a boxer twin of 800cc capacity.
    It's a '67 Toyota Sports 800, a pioneer of what came to be known as the Targa roof.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,460
    62 Ford Country Squire
  • firemanjackfiremanjack Member Posts: 123
    Interesting that you should ask that...I have no idea how that would work..I just recall..shoot..I just had a revelation.. it was the stop lights that worked off the master cylinder...I recall realizing this when changing the cylinder and the brake lights working again...My brain is not working too well..It was a long time ago..Sorry bro..Got ya thinking though, huh..Hehe Jack
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Please check the size of images before adding them to your posts. If the pic is wider than 500 pixels, please just type the URL in your post so the image can be viewed in a new window. The wider images are forcing the margin of the message area out under the right side video bar.

    Posting the links instead of adding the lager pic IN the posts helps us avoid this issue.

    Thanks!

    hey... we could play mystery car pix at the chats too!

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  • navigator89navigator89 Member Posts: 1,080
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  • lemmerlemmer Member Posts: 2,689
    2007 Nissan Sentra? Just a guess.
  • navigator89navigator89 Member Posts: 1,080
    It's not the future Sentra, but perhaps the future Sentra will be similar to this.
  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    Nissan Bluebird Sylphy, the JDM equivalent of the North America-only 2002 Altima.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    Ewwwwww. A what, 78?, Thunderturd.
  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    ...but I think that the car pictured is the T-Bird's cousine, the Lincoln Continental Mark V.

    Perrier edition, perhaps? ;)
  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    ...a pluxury car.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    It's a '79 Mark V.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    Were the Thunderbird of that era and the Marks based on the same chassis? You commented they're cousins; I can't recall if they were related or not. The Marks certainly were longer but it's easy to lengthen a car especially with that extra long front on that thing.

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  • navigator89navigator89 Member Posts: 1,080
    Bumoy you're right, 4609 is a Nissan Bluebird Sylphy. It has a great interior. Check it out.

    http://press.nissan-global.com/TOKYO_MOTOR_SHOW_2005/COMMON/IMAGES/SHOW_CAR/BLUE- BIRD/HIGH/bluebird_03.jpg
  • gsemikegsemike Member Posts: 2,417
    You're right. That is nice. I wish my Altima had an interior like that.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    no one has a clue what this one is>>
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    It's a 1947 Talbot-Lago T26 Cabriolet. If I told you that it was French you'd say it was too good-looking and too conventional to be French but in the half decade after World War Two French coachbuilders consistently came up with beautiful designs that were among the best in the world.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • acura_el2000acura_el2000 Member Posts: 19
    an Aussi ford of some sort?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Yep it's an Aussie Ford Fairlane.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Of some sort. The headlights flare out.

    -juice
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    It is beautiful in understatement of its shape. It should have Audrey Hepburn driving with a scarf flying in the breeze... :blush:

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    I looks like the Lincoln a few years back.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    To be exact it's a Peugeot 304 Coupe ca. 1975.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,681
    1955 Plymouth, 6 cylinder. The V8 had a V8 symbol on that center portion of the grill bar where the black stripes are. Teacher had one same color at school with the V8 symbol. The tail fins were painfully understated. The next year they went UP and were flamboyant, IIRC

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  • firemanjackfiremanjack Member Posts: 123
    Yeah, it's a '55 Plymouth Belvedere...But the rear end looks odd to me..What size was that first v-8 they put in this car?
    I don't think it was the hemi that they'd had in the Chrysler for a few years..I believe it was the forerunner of the 318; an engine that lived in infamy for many years..I'm thinking 271 c.i. for some reason.
    Seems like 1955 was the year of the V-8.. Jack
  • csandstecsandste Member Posts: 1,866
    Ah Packards... growing up in the early 60's in South Dakota I stripped blue grass for an old guy who collected early fifties Packards. He'd give about four or five teen agers working for him Packards to drive back and forth to the fields. Mine looked just about like that one.
  • navigator89navigator89 Member Posts: 1,080
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,670
    Renault Laguna

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  • firemanjackfiremanjack Member Posts: 123
    Yes, the T-birds and Marks were very similar cars for a few years around this time..One unusual feature was the horn..There was a soft piece of plastic affixed to the wheel, all around it a thin long strip that, when squeezed, sounded the horn..Kinda nifty. These cars were large loads...
    Jack
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