Mystery car pix

imidazol97 · February 2008

Park Avenue
New Yorker

andre1969 · February 2008

Well, there's the Acadia National Park in Maine. So would GMC Acadian be close enough to that?

Where is Newport at? I've heard of a Newport News in VA, but never a plain old Newport

kyfdx · February 2008

Newport, RI or Newport, KY.. You were about 12 miles away from Newport, KY, when you picked up your LeMans...

bumpy · February 2008

And when was the last time a car or truck used a place name from East of the Mississippi?

Subaru Tribeca, GMC Acadia (national forest in Maine, IIRC), Buick LaCrosse (Wisconsin). Next one should be the Chevy Traverse (City, Michigan).

And let us not forget the Toyota Corolla, N.C. :P

magnette · February 2008

Seat Ibiza,
Bentley Mulsanne/Brooklands/Arnage
or if you want to go back a bit, Austin did a sort of tour of the counties, in the early post-war period; Dorset/Devon/Somerset/Hampshire/Hereford/Cambridge/Westminster
or Morris Oxford
or Ford Cortina, Capri, Granada

hudsonthedog · February 2008

I think I read over in Straightline that final assembly (20 - 25%?) of the Mahindra Appalachian will be done in Ohio to avoid the Chicken Tax.

The plan had been to produce it in Mexico, but that has apparently fallen through. And the company who wants to bring the Mahindra to the States has a sketchy past (with Aro), so I'm not counting these chickens (with or without the tax) before they hatch.

andys120 · February 2008

Alright enough!

andys120 · February 2008

karsick · February 2008

New Lancia Ypsilon?

Only the Italians could put such elegant & restrained features on such a small car (& pull it off, unlike the Korean makes :sick: )

andys120 · February 2008

Si, Lancia Ypsilon. :shades:

andys120 · February 2008

fangio2 · February 2008

Chrysler New yorker,Plymouth Saratoga,Chrysler Newport,Fifth Avenue,Chrysler Sebring-hmmm seems like only Chrysler products.

andys120 · February 2008

Not to forget the Pontiac Laurentian

bumpy · February 2008

Jeep Cherokee, circa 1970.

andys120 · February 2008

It's a '74 Cherokee, Bumpy.

hudsonthedog · February 2008

Jeep Cherokee, circa 1970.

The Cherokee wasn't introduced until 1974.

bumpy · February 2008

The front bumper had me thinking it was a bit earlier, but I suppose the 5-mph rule didn't apply to trucks?

andre1969 · February 2008

The front bumper had me thinking it was a bit earlier, but I suppose the 5-mph rule didn't apply to trucks?

I don't think the 5 mph rule ever applied to trucks. Unless it was briefly applied to them and then repealed? My '85 Silverado doesn't have 5 mph bumpers. They're just big slabs of steel bolted to heavy brackets that, in turn, are bolted right to the frame. No shock absorbers or anything like that. The only thing in the truck that will absorb the impact is the passengers! :surprise:

andre1969 · February 2008

Speaking of which, wouldn't LeMans be considered east of the Mississippi? If you go far enough east, that is. :P

lemko · February 2008

...a Plymouth Sapporo? That's about as far east of the Mississippi as you can get before you cross the Pacific Ocean.

andre1969 · February 2008

I always thought Sapporo was a beer? :shades:

hudsonthedog · February 2008

Yes...Sapporo is a beer and it was a Mitsubishi-built Plymouth model. The sibling to the Dodge Challenger (don't tell the 2008 Challenger fans about this!)

kyfdx · February 2008

I remember those being pretty pricy.... maybe a little more than a Scirocco..

andys120 · February 2008

Yes...Sapporo is a beer and it was a Mitsubishi-built Plymouth model

Just for the record, before it was any on those things, Sapporo was/is Japan's third largest city and the capital and principal city of the Northern island of Hokkaido.

andys120 · February 2008

andre1969 · February 2008

I always thought those Sapporo/Challengers were neat little cars. I've heard that the automatic transmission used in them is a Torqueflite 904, and supposedly a Mopar smallblock V-8 will fit under the hood.

Was a Mitsubishi-badged version of that car ever offered, or just the Plymouth/Dodge models?

magnette · February 2008

We had the Mitsubishi Sapporo, not the Plymouth clone, although it was initially sold here as a Colt, as Mitsubishi didn't sell under their own name here for a few years after they were introduced in the mid seventies.. Apparently they thought Colt was more likely to appeal to British drovers than Mitubishi, which sounded like ( indeed was ) the maker of the Zero etc.. ( Didn't cause any problems for Messercshmitt ( however you spell it) a few years earlier !)
I always thought Sapporo was a model name they chose because the city of that name hosted the winter olympics at about that time, but I am not at all sure of the chronology, so that may not be correct.

magnette · February 2008

MGB - a bit later than any of mine, although you guys had different interiors as yu had crash padding before we did - all mine had metal dash, with a thin bit of plastic on top...

andys120 · February 2008

Yep, it's a '72 MGB, we had the metal dashes until about '68.

andys120 · February 2008

kyfdx · February 2008

'72 Opel Manta?

hudsonthedog · February 2008

I've been told that Ford 351w V8s will mate up to Mitsubishi drivetrains very well. I worked with a guy who had a Mitsubishi (Dodge D50) pickup with a 351 under the hood.

Was a Mitsubishi-badged version of that car ever offered, or just the Plymouth/Dodge models?

The Mitsubishi version of the Challenger/Sapporo was replaced by the Starion about the time Mitsubishi started selling cars in the US, so American buyers were never offered a Mitsubishi-badged Sapporo (initially called the Mitsubishi Galant Lambda). The 4-door Mitsubishi Galant Sigma offered in the US in the late 1980s was sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Sapporo, though.

andys120 · February 2008

Close enough, it's a 1973 Opel Manta A (as it was called in Europe).

andys120 · February 2008

oregonboy · February 2008

Looks like a Rover 2000 TC from the late 60s (British version)

andys120 · February 2008

Yep, it's the Rover 2000, known here as the 2000TC.

andys120 · February 2008

stickguy · February 2008

early 70's Renault. Just don't ask me which one. 17?

cosworth2 · February 2008

The green one is a Renault TL and the orange one is a Renault 17 GTX

magnette · February 2008

Green is a Renault 15 - still see one from time to time, locally
Orange is a Renault 17
No idea of the exact spec, ie TS/TL etc

hudsonthedog · February 2008

The Gorweinie! I went to school with a someone who had a friend who had one. The Renault 17 Gordini...they called it the Gorweinie. I had one very similar to the orange car pictured in Matchbox form.

andys120 · February 2008

Green is a Renault 15 - still see one from time to time, locally
Orange is a Renault 17
No idea of the exact spec, ie TS/TL etc.

Right you are Magnette.

andys120 · February 2008

The still is from Pleasantville (1998).

tmart · February 2008

'57 TBird and a '52 Buick Roadmaster.

andys120 · February 2008

That's right, Tmart.

andys120 · February 2008

kyfdx · February 2008

'74 AMC Gremlin?

oregonboy · February 2008

Definitely a Gremlin. A Gremlin figured prominently in a movie that I watched last night "Ten Items or Less", an interesting. small-budget, character-study staring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega (the Hispanic beauty from "Spanglish").

What was strange about the Gremlin in the movie was that it appeared to be a post-1974 model, with big bumpers, but it had low-back seats with no headrests. I suspect that the original seats were swapped out for cinematic reasons (much like rear-view mirrors are frequently MIA in through the windshield shots).

james

andys120 · February 2008

Yep, it's a '74 AMC Gremlin.

andys120 · February 2008

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