Mystery car pix

Michaell

Thunderbird. 1964?

andys120

Michaell said:

Thunderbird. 1964?

That's it Michaell, it's a '64 Ford Thunderbird convertible. I'm not a big fan of four seat 'Birds but the '64 convertible is surely the best looker.

Michaell

andys120 said:

Michaell said:

Thunderbird. 1964?

That's it Michaell, it's a '64 Ford Thunderbird convertible. I'm not a big fan of four seat 'Birds but the '64 convertible is surely the best looker.

Wasn't that also the year of the T-Bird used in Thelma and Louise?

andys120

Michaell said:

Wasn't that also the year of the T-Bird used in Thelma and Louise?

Sure was!

fintail

Nice, there's an old MB in the background too, parked between a Taurus and a mid 80s Civic. It appears to be a W109 300SEL, by the full chrome window frames - a somewhat rare car.

Michaell

That car was featured on Jay Leno's Garage last week.

A typical '64 T-Bird convertible is work about $50K. Because the car featured was one used in the movie shoot, multiply the value by 4.

Mr_Shiftright

Michaell said:

That car was featured on Jay Leno's Garage last week.

A typical '64 T-Bird convertible is work about $50K. Because the car featured was one used in the movie shoot, multiply the value by 4.

That would be an atypical Thunderbird convertible--perhaps a concours-level car that you would never see on the street.

Absolutely appearance in a well-known movie will be a value multiplier, and especially that one.

andys120

Appropos of our recent discussion about Fender spats (AKA skirts) they really work well on '64 TBirds, and most of the 4seaters.

Mr_Shiftright

If the spats are missing on that car, it really does look awful for some reason.

texases

Cars that were designed from the get-go with them seem to look ok, and bad without. It's the add-ons that really look bad to me (often seen in the company of a 'Continental kit')...

kyfdx

We had them on DeVilles and Lincolns... Without them, looked like a piece of trim was missing. The edges of the wheel well were designed for them to fit, and weren't "finished" without them.

Pro TIP: don't back over one, after changing a tire..

texases

Olds 98 and Buick 225 also had them, same thing. Usually no problem getting them off at the gas station, but some come in pretty rusting/packed with dirt, hard to get the lever free to remove them.

andys120

Mystery dash>

stickguy

Triumph TR4?

andys120

stickguy said:

Triumph TR4?

1966 Triumph TR-4A identical to the one I bought in '67 and to this day that might be the nicest dash I ever had. In retrospect it might've been the nicest feature of the whole car (I miss analog dials!).

Pre-66 TR-4s had metal instead of wood dashes. After '67 (TR-250/5/6) they went to a much lighter wood that wasn't as attractive IMO.

Mine was this color but had disc wheels >

stickguy

I always loved them.

berri

Nice looking ride. TR3 and 4's were popular in the Chicago area while I was growing up.

iluvmysephia1

Love the Triumph TR-4's!

andys120

All the TR love is interesting to me because I had a love hate/relationship with my '66 TR-4A.
I loved the styling and the way it drove and I didn't mind how primitive it was but the downside was reliability which was extremely poor. Almost everything electrical broke at least once and lots of other stuff as well.

Then there was the time it tried to kill me when a brake line broke as I was heading for a steel wall on the Queensborough/59thSt Bridge. A quick downshift and hand braking saved my butt but things were never the same afterwards.

All that said when I see a nice restored one there's a part of me that still wants one.

omarman

"Then there was the time it tried to kill me..."

Wow, this could be an interesting separate track for mystery cars:


"...when I see a nice restored one there's a part of me that still wants one."

andys120

The moral of that video-Don't try to beat up cars, they're stronger than you are.

Late 70s Caddy of some sort.

Michaell

No, I think that's an 80's FWD Cadillac

kyfdx

My first time driving a stickshift any distance was an early '70s Spitfire with no bonnet. My friend had to take the car and the hood to the body shop. He drove the pickup with the hood, and I drove the Spitfire. It was about 15 miles, through town. I think the farthest I'd ever gone was about a mile, before that (in that pickup, with column shift).

fintail

1990 or so Coupe DeVille, with the "full Florida" (or NJ/NY) package that beset most of these cars.

omarman

Yep, it looks like this 1990 DeVille coupe with the "full" pkg.


Interesting lesson in physics too. I like how the bat and batter hit the ground at the same time.

andys120

kyfdx

Help identifying a motorcycle needed, here:
https://forums.edmunds.com/discussion/50265/general/x/trying-to-identify-some-old-kansas-city-police-vehicles#latest

Thanks!

texases

andys120 said:

A 1977-ish Maserati Khamsin, can't forget that asymmetric hood grill.

andys120

Right you are. The Khamsin is surely one of the most radical front-engined designs ever

andys120

stickguy

Volvo wagon is easy. I’ll shoot for 760, because of taller grill. Somewhere in late 80s.

texases

Just saw an article explaining the diagonal bar on Volvo grills. Started out as a mounting bar for the logo, they just kept using it.

qbrozen

stickguy said:

Volvo wagon is easy. I’ll shoot for 760, because of taller grill. Somewhere in late 80s.

I don't believe there is a way to distinguish the 760 from the 740 from the outside. As far as I know, they only differed by options.

stickguy

I based it on the fancy wheels. But I believe you are right.

qbrozen

Heck, could even be a 940, I think.

Yes, the wheels threw me, too. Seems like an 80s design, which would eliminate the 940, but I can't be sure.

Mr_Shiftright

That's a 740. I know because I blew one up A car of iffy reliability at best, with a cranky turbo. The 760 was worse, with the PRV V-6 from France or a clattering old diesel. Not Volvo's finest hour.

stickguy

The 900s I think have the more pinched front end.

Mr_Shiftright

That's right, and different headlights, which I'm pretty sure the 760 shares. But you know, year to year might differ. Of course, the VIN would tell you right away.

andys120

It is indeed a 1990 Volvo 740 wagon

andys120

magnette

The Hamburg numberplate gives it away - BMW 503 - late 50s.

Mr_Shiftright

I'll take it! Oh, wait, I don't have $350,000 handy.

This early postwar BMW 503 was a very exclusive car back then, made in small numbers--only 413 coupes and convertibles. Aside from some putt-putts and a few 507 roadsters, BMW wasn't building many "real" cars in the 50s. They did build a boatload of those Isettas, though. I guess it's the best they could do, recovering from The Great Unpleasantness.

texases

'57-ish BMW 503? Can't say I'm a fan of the front view:

kyfdx

texases said:

'57-ish BMW 503? Can't say I'm a fan of the front view:

Well.. that's why the 507 was such a hit.. they fixed that look.

magnette

RHD

qbrozen

Mr_Shiftright said:

That's right, and different headlights, which I'm pretty sure the 760 shares. But you know, year to year might differ. Of course, the VIN would tell you right away.

They did differ by year. You could get the 760 with the same turbo 4 as the turbo 740. Go figure. As for appearance, there are some years that you would swear was the same car as a different model of a different year.

For example... '93 940:


'90 740:

lostwrench1

I'll grab the 1950 Hudson.

andys120

texases said:

'57-ish BMW 503? Can't say I'm a fan of the front view:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess and I think it's a beautiful car, if I had seen one back in 1958 or so I'd have felt it even more.

The 503 like the 502 and the 507 did not sell well and was wicked expensive to make and by the late 50s BMW was nearly taken over by the Daimler-Benz but was rescued by the Quandt family who came up with the cash they needed to develop the very successful Neue Klasse lines

andys120

Michaell

andys120 said:

Oldsmobile.

Can't tell you the model.

'63-ish.