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  • oregonboyoregonboy Member Posts: 1,650
    Judging from the basher-bumpers, the Dasher must be a post-73. I believe they went to quad-headlights about that time.

    That grand prix is certainly a smooth design. As a fan of simplicity, I hate to say this, but it's almost too plain. :blush:

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Yep it's a Slasher...uh...Dasher..uh Passat, a 1974 model.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    That grand prix is certainly a smooth design. As a fan of simplicity, I hate to say this, but it's almost too plain.

    Not IMHO, Billy Mitchell's GM Stylists were on a roll in 1964, the GP, like the Riviera and the GTO were among the best American designs ever offered.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    It helps that it has such a good paint job - not Maaco, I guess!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Frankfurt Preview: Suzuki and Opel City Siblings

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    The Agila should make a Splash. :shades:
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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    Extra points if you can identify anything in the background!

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Good morning - sorry I've been away, but actually while I was gone I went to the national kit car show so the above has some relevance although I must admit that the various old kits produced in the backyars of Britatin are a confusing bunch ...

    I think the main car is a Fairthorpe Electron Minor - age probably early sixties, but they made this from about 1958 -70 and as with most limited productions, no two are exactly alike.

    In the background, the green car with roundel on the door is either a Warwick or a Peerless,
    the red car next to it is a mystery, as I don,t recognise it on this lousy monitor (at work), but the other red car obscured by the main subject is a Rochdale Olympic, the Alfa look-alike green roadster is, I think an RGS-Atlanta, but I would have to look it up in a book to be sure, while I am fairly certain that the cycle-winged green car on the right is a Dellow, which is quite a respectable sportscar with a good following in Britain, mainly used for trials work (off-road rallying, really).
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Second thoughts... The cycle winged green car may not be a Dellow, in which case it may be a Buckler...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    The cycle winged green car may not be a Dellow, in which case it may be a Buckler...

    Well you could've fooled me :confuse: . I've never even heard of a Buckler or for that matter an RGS Atlanta. In fact I'd have sworn the light green car was an Alfa 2000 or 2600.

    I think the red car behind the Warwick/Peerless is a 70s era Porsche 911 with the black center Fuchs five spoke wheels.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Cute little car. It's pretty hard to make something that small look that good.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    About a '76 Civic. Here's an ad:
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    About a '76 Civic.

    Nope that's a second-gen Civic ('79-'83), artwork by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth the creator of Rat-Fink>

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    Are you sure? Could be, but the side marker lights on the 2nd gen seem a little different

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    That said, I remember how similar the 2nd gen was, just a bit bigger all around.
    Edit: Actually, if it's a 1979, we're both right. Seems like 2nd gen started in 1980.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Actually no I'm not sure but the car in the photo seems to have the slightly more squared off styling of the Gen 2 cars, and it lacks the hood vents normally seen on Gen I cars>

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    FWIW this Honda fan site lists 1979 as the intro date for the GenII Civic. IIRC it wasn't intro'ed in the USA until 1980 so maybe that's the confusion there. ;)

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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    The Civic with the graffiti is a first gen Civic. More rounder than the second gen, and you can tell especially by the position of the rear tailights, the second gen Civic's tailights are more neatly integrated into the body.

    The grille makes the car seem like a second gen Civic, which it's not.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    The one on the left is a Delta Integrale. I know the name of the one on the rigth but iut escaped :confuse:

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  • seminole_kevseminole_kev Member Posts: 1,696
    The one on the right is a Lancia Stratos
  • karsickkarsick Member Posts: 312
    De-lurking here:

    The other Lancia models are the early 80's Monte Carlo 037 (a grpB rally car based on the Monte Carlo aka US Scorpion), and also the maroon Fulvia HF (with an "inline V4" similar to VW's VR6).

    BTW - The Civic is a '78-'79. The clues are no front turn signals mounted on the bumper, updated red/orange taillights and 'four-hole' steel wheels.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,353
    I'm pretty sure that the generation split on US Civics happened with the 1981 model that came out in the Summer/Fall of 1980.. (with the '81 model being the 1st year of the new generation).

    My girlfriend bought one... after much gnashing of teeth, etc...

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,665
    I think that's an Opel Diplomat ca. 1965
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Between you you have correctly ID'd all of the Lancia Rally cars.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Yup, it's a '64 Diplomat.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Aw c'mon I even gave you guys a clue in the Title of 10546. ;)

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Firebird? T-bird? :D

    As if!
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    Looks like some kind of mid '50s Japanese car (mirrors always a giveaway) Nissan had a Bluebird, right?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,665
    Yep that's a ca. 1958 Datsun Bluebird, a Shifty dream car
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Close enough, it's a 1957 Datsun Bluebird 1000. AKA simply as Datsun 1000.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Looks sort of like this guy but not quite:

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    I don't suppose I could convince you that yours is a later model. :P
  • karsickkarsick Member Posts: 312
    ....Guessing here by the, uh, "cohesive styling" that this is a Ssangyong (sp?) from Korea.

    Regardless, I'm certain the design was penned by that famous Italian, Andrea Bocelli.

    It resembles an Escalade with a nose-bob and then left in the dryer too long. :P
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    I don't suppose I could convince you that yours is a later model.

    Nope, nor is it a Ssangyong, Karsick.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    and when I get REAL OLD I can drive an "Early Bird Special"

    (that joke may go over the head of anyone who hasn't watched their retired parents go out for dinner).
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    The bus-like vehicle is a JDM Toyota Alphard.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    It's a red X. 2007 model :P

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  • karsickkarsick Member Posts: 312
    Toyota Alphard, huh?

    I do see some Avalon-esqe family looks.

    Wikipedia has a write up on the Alphard. Very interesting, too.

    It's a hybrid (I'm not a huge hybrid crusader, BTW), and has some VERY innovative features: 4wd using electric motors at the rear axle, a "distronic" system, 100V power outlets, etc.

    Too bad the body is so offensive, though, at least to my eyes. :(
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Pretty much all JDM vans are tall and narrow which gives them really odd proportions.

    The streets are tight so the only way to enlarge a vehicle is to give it height.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Bentley Continental...nickname "Sleeping Beauty".

    NICE NICE car....once it's rolling, you can do 100 mph all day long. Great cruiser. Everything a Rolls sedan is not.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
    Yep, specifically a Bentley Continental Type R, ca. mid 1950s. These are said to be some of the finest cars ever to come out of Old Blighty and I agree they make contemporary Rollers look like tanks.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,676
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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    426 hemi, '71 Charger?
  • urnewsurnews Member Posts: 668
    The only way someone could identify that mil:
    A. They owned one;
    B. They have spent a lot of time beneath hoods.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    There's a third way for id'ing that '68 Dodge Charger engine, but it involves a bit of cheating. :shades:
  • british_roverbritish_rover Member Posts: 8,502
    I need to see the reverse angle but my first thought was a Mercury of some sort.

    After reading the other posts I think yeah it is a 68 Charger and now after cheating I agree too.
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