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  • oregonboyoregonboy Member Posts: 1,650
    How about a mid-80s E30, 325is
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Exactly, the big air dam is the giveaway for the is model. In BMW-speak, it's an E30, about the same size as the new One Series but the badge sez "325is" and it is an '87.

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    We did that one a while back, IIRC it's a mid-70s Brazilian Ford...Corsair?

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    It isn't Brazilian....
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Australian Ford Falcon?

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    It's not Australian, either...(it is a Ford, though...)
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    .(it is a Ford, though...)

    As if you couldn't tell from the "F-O-R-D' on the hood. Geez, I'm stumped, it can't be South African, since it's LHD.

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

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Aha! I found it!>

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    Ford Taunus 12M (1966-70)

    Nice Challenge, Magnette!

    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

  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    The one on the right is a 1959 Oldsmobile (I think I see the beginning of 'Ninety-Eight" on the side).
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Thats right Andy - its a German Ford Taunus 12M Coupe, (I think the model is the P6) which was sold circa 1966/70, and this one was registered - and indeed photographed - in Norway. Here's the back...image

    We missed a ferry, and consequently dinner at the hotel on the other side of the fjord, to get that photo...
  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    The one on the left is a 1954 Oldsmobile - I think I see "88" on the side.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Yep '59 Olds is correct.

    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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Wild guess - Felber Oasis ? (it's the Swiss plates)
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    I'm having a good day when I can put one over on Magnette. :D

    This Swiss plates are a clue.

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Ok - the only other one I can think of is the Monteverdi Safari
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    You can take a hint, it is indeed a 1981 Monteverdi Safari. ;)

    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

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    It's Ferrari red, so I'll guess...

    Early 80s Ferrari 328.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Nope, sorry.

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Lancia Beta MonteCarlo ?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Nope it's not a Lancia.

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

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    The gray car is a late 40s Allard P1, dunno what the trike is except it's an Allard.

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

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Last call for 15671, Here's a look under the hood>

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

  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    I know, I know! It's a Ferrari V12! :P
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Sorry Bumpy, it's not a V12. Surely someone can figure this one out!

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

  • gussguss Member Posts: 1,167
    Wild guess....Enzo?
  • rcinmdrcinmd Member Posts: 139
    Berlinetta Boxer, or an early one. can't recall the designation for the original model

    at the NY auto show, when it was introduced, I "begged" to have my picture taken standing beside the show model, so they let me behind the ropes, and my brother snapped a picture.....
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Berlinetta Boxer

    Yep not an early Boxer (365GTBB/4) but a later 512 BBi. The Boxer engines were FLAT 12s, not V12s. Took you guys a while to get that one. :P

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    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

  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Buick Reatta, not sure what year. 1988?
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,425
    Buick Reatta... '89?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Could be any year from '88-'91. :shades:

    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

  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    '64 Bonneville?

    That Reatta, the Regal, the Riviera... how many FWD coupes did GM think Buick could move in the late '80s?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I think it's a 1968 Pontiac Catalina per the hubcaps and the chrome "beak." I think the 1969 model had an Endura nose.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Sorry for the delay Andy, but what with the time difference and the fact that today at work was too hectic to even look at the site, I haven't had a chance to come back to you.

    Yes, they are Allards. The grey one is a P1, 1949/51, I believe. Ford 3.6 or 3.9 V8, and it was actually Allard's best selling model - about 550.

    The little red one is an Allard Clipper, they only made these for about ten months in 1954/5, and I gather only about 22 were made - this one is reckoned to be the only survivor in a complete state in the UK, so there aren't likely to be many more out there. Air-cooled Villiers two-stroke engine,346cc, 2-cyl. It was one of the first cars in Britain to have a fibre-glass body (what there is of it), but even by micro-car standards this was a very crude beast, and I doubt all 22 found buyers...
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Well, I'd go along with the 1968 Pontiac - is this an Executive Hardtop? The trim looks different from the Bonneville somehow, and I think the latter had skirts over the rear wheel arches.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Dang, you ARE good. Most of us had long ago forgotten the Pontiac Executive, if we ever knew it in the first place. Yep it's a 1968 Pontiac Executive, a short-lived model intended to slot between the Catalina and the Bonneville (replacing the 2+2?).

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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    I thought it was a Bonneville, but didn't know because of the missing skirts. So I looked in a book - I had heard of the Executive, but I don't think I've ever seen one.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    That's a Fiat Croma, late 80's or early 90s. I used to own it's platform-cousin the SAAB 9000, (other cousins were the Lancia Thema and Alfa 164. It has the same greenhouse and windshield.

    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

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Well, done Andy - it's a Fiat Croma, 1987/8. Here's the rear.image
    This one has clearly been imported from a different market, as it is LHD, but the car was available in UK when new.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    This looks like a pre-war DKW F8, but as it is presumably post-war, I think this is an East German IFA F8.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Yep it's an IFA based on the DKW, made up until the mid 50s in its prewar shape IIRC
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