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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,105
    '55-'56 Packard Patrician?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    How about old logos? I'll try to pick some obscure ones and see if people recognize them, or what they became later.

    Ok, who can name them all?

    Do the rows from top to bottom, left to right.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    3 more.

    Note that I obfuscated some names that made it too obvious, but they are all recognizable in some ways.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,671
    My computer won't download files from #15445.

    I see three logos inline for #15446. And below tht is a Mystery Logos.jpg but it won't down either.

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  • tom1sharon2tom1sharon2 Member Posts: 40
    1956 Packard Patrician, or perhaps a 400 sedan?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    It's supposed to show a thumbnail, which you can then click to see a big photo.

    It won't load for you?

    Can other people see them?
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,671
    > thumbnail

    One shows a thumbnail, but won't load when I click it. I'm getting a page linked but I get a blocked download which I approve and the name of the page from which I'm downloading is about:blank.

    IE6, win xp

    Are they javascript links?

    In the past I've had photos I've checked on my computer and the posts didn't work but I saw them on my own computer because I had viewed the photos from the alien page and the photos were in my temp windows file. When I deleted all temp files (cleanup) and IE6 files (tools|internet options), the photos wouldn't load from viewing the Edmunds page even though they showed up earlier.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    I can see 'em. The one on the left is a Vabis logo, Vabis is part of Saab Scania Vabis.
    Saab-Scania is the emblem in the middle. The stylized swastika on the right is the original emblem of Volkswagen KDF, the prewar name of VW AG.

    Got any more?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Your first set is:

    Row 1: Alfa-Romeo, ?, Audi/DKW/Horch/Wanderer(=Auto Union=Audi AG), BMW M-Sport

    Row 2: ?, Cadillac, Cadillac, Fiat (Fabbrica Italiano Automobili Torino), Packard

    Row3: Maybach, Mercedes-?Benz, ?, Peugeot, Rolls-Royce.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Correct for Part II, wanna try part I? Can you see that one as well?

    It had many more.

    Not sure why some people cannot load it. It's not locally stored. I'm testing something for Edmunds.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    1956 Packard Patrician, or perhaps a 400 sedan?

    Yep, it's a '56 Patrician.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    wanna try part I? Can you see that one as well?

    I'm not sure what you mean by part I. :confuse:

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Stacked lights, must be Infiniti, I'll guess EX?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Post 15445, or click this link:

    ateixeira, "Mystery car pix...." #15445, 20 Feb 2008 7:11 am
  • hudsonthedoghudsonthedog Member Posts: 552
    First one in row 2 is Buick. The second one in row 3 is Mercedes (no Benz). The third one in row three is Mitsubishi.

    I'm still working on ideas for the second one in row 1.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Hudson got all 3, Andy a bunch more - but Packard is incorrect for the last one in Row 2. It is....Ford! FoMoCo.

    I believe we are still missing the 2nd one in Row 1. A-M means.....guesses?

    Row 2, it's not Buick, Caddy, Caddy, it's actually Buick, Buick, Caddy. You were very close.

    Row 3, the first one is not Maybach, interestingly enough. Thinking M was correct, but it was an early logo used by Mazda.

    Last one in Row 3 is not Rolls Royce! That was a trick question. I used the logo that I thought would be most misleading. It's Renault!

    Here is the full story:

    http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/18/evolution-of-car-logos/

    Note: page is not loading right now?

    Credit the cool find to Bob's Blog on Edmunds:

    http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/4331
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Stacked lights, must be Infiniti, I'll guess EX?

    Yep the new EX35.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    It's bizarre, so it must be French.

    The logo says Peugoet.

    Looks like a tall wagon thing-a-ma-jig. They use 3 number, middle number 0, so I'll toss out a guess: 507?
  • tom1sharon2tom1sharon2 Member Posts: 40
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    King Midget, ca. late 40's early 50s.

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    That looks like a King Midget, circa 1970.
  • tom1sharon2tom1sharon2 Member Posts: 40
    The web site I pulled the photo from says it's a 1957 King Midget Model III.

    In the late 40's they began offering the single seat Model 1 as a home built kit, containing the frame, axles, and sheetmetal patterns, so that the body panels could be fabricated by your local tradesman (or yourself...good luck with that). Supposedly any single cylinder engine could power it.

    I don't know how much content was included in the later model kits or what they cost. I do remember seeing those regular margin advertisements for this vehicle in Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, etc. through the 60's.
  • hudsonthedoghudsonthedog Member Posts: 552
    It's bizarre, so it must be French.

    The logo says Peugoet.

    Looks like a tall wagon thing-a-ma-jig. They use 3 number, middle number 0, so I'll toss out a guess: 507?

    You had me until the number. Peugeot hasn't made a new 50X in ages (the 505 was introduced around 1980, and this is obviously not of that era).

    It's actually a Peugeot 308 wagon.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    It's actually a Peugeot 308 wagon

    Keerect, the French probably call it a 308 Break.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Packard (baker)...1958?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Yep, the last of a long line. I think the logo on the fin reads "Clipper".

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • tomicatomica Member Posts: 23
    Well, at least they didn't put fake wood panels on it.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,105
    Those were dark days for Datsun styling. Maybe that's why I thought the '80 200SX was such a great design when it came out:
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Anyway you look at it, the Packardbakers were a hideous end to a once-respected marque. The Packard Hawk was a powerful ugly car. Packard would've been better off folding after 1956 and going out on a relatively high note than to have these monstrocities foisted on the public.

    I wonder what would've happened if American Motors was a combination of Nash, Hudson, Packard, and Studebaker. Packard was sick but still in better shape than Studebaker. Studebaker's worse sickness took Packard out. Would've Studebaker killed all three in such a merger or would've American Motors been a force to be reckoned with?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Actually that is the 1957 Packard Clipper wagon. The '58 is way uglier with pods grafted on the front fenders to accept quad headlights and fins on top of the Packard fins which makes it look a bit like a '57 Dodge.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    I checked some pix and I think Lemko is right, most '58 Packards (Hawks excepted)
    had the Quads and the ugly fender bulge to house them.

    Here's a '58 wagon>

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  • hudsonthedoghudsonthedog Member Posts: 552
    Citroen C-Crosser...built by Mitsubishi and based on the Outlander.
  • tom1sharon2tom1sharon2 Member Posts: 40
    It was as reliable as an anvil and had a "proper" five speed for it's day. But alas, it would inevitably add a whole new dimension to the term "body rust".
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Late 70's Datsun 200SX (JMD version was the Nissan Silvia S10).

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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    I actually see one of those from time to time at work. White with red contrasting that I know can't be factory-original. It appears to be rust-free, too, which has to be a miracle!

    When I was a kid, some friends of the family had one of those 200SXes. Forget the year, but I want to say a '77. My grandparents sold a rusted-out '72 Impala to them in 1982 which, while pretty ratted out, was still more structurally-sound than their 200SX!

    I used to hate the things when they were new-ish, but nowadays they're just oddball enough to be kinda cool.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Not showing up here ... unless that's a 2008 Little Red XBox. :shades:
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    It's the worst downfall in American automotive history - even Olds at its low point or Caddy in the 80s isn't as bad as a Packardbaker. It's the equivalent of Mercedes dying out, being bought by Kia, and a facelifted Rio being called a Mercedes. It must have been a shock in the late 50s, as many people had memories of glorious Packards from a mere 20 years before.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,671
    I thought the 50s and 60s Studebakers were neat. Even the Lark as they approached their fate had a pleasant style. Then things went bad in a handbasket. Packards were super. Then the merger.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    You should recognize that fellow even if you don't know the car. Model # and vintage please.

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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Rats, I can see it fine. :(

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Can you name the car (make/model/year) and the presumably proud owner>

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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Looks like a Ferrari 330 GT (1964-65 I guess) with Enzo himself
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    The Larks aren't too bad...kind of cheap in some versions, but the little hardtops and even the pickups have their charm. But those last Packards...inglorious. They should have just stopped in 56.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    One Studebaker/Packard model that I thought was kinda cool was the 1958-only Starliner 2-door hardtop. It had a graceful DeSoto/Chrysler-ish roofline, and would have been a nice looking car overall if it wasn't for those awful swollen quad headlight pods and the doubled-up tailfins.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Funky spoiler:

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