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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Unbelievably, the black car at far left looks very much like a fintail.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Early 1960s Mercedes, small tailfins.

    Fintails
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    I agree the car under the Mobil sign is probably a Merc Fintail.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    mid-1980s VW Quantum (US version of the Passat, sold in China and Latin America as the Santana well into this century).
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    I like the Willys Jeep forward cab pickup by the fintail. Is that maybe an early fifties Olds woodie next to it?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    mid-1980s VW Quantum

    Yep, the Blue/Yellow California plate is the giveaway that this is the USM VW
    Quantum. The Chinese version (Santana) is still being made there according to Jalopnik.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    I like the Willys Jeep forward cab pickup by the fintail. Is that maybe an early fifties Olds woodie next to it

    That could be a Willys/Jeep FC-150/170 but it's hard to say, ditto the wagon. I think I can make out the headlight trim that would indicate it's an Olds but I sure can't see any wood trim.

    FC=Forward Control, they were popular as gas station vehicles.

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  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    I agree about the Willys/Jeep FC. Way back in the old days I worked midnight shift at a Phillips 66 truckstop on the NJ/NY border for a few summers. They had one with a hydraulic snowplow attachment on the front, and while I wasn't supposed to drive it I do remember taking it for a few spins. All I recall was that it was all torque and little to no speed, and how weird it was wrestling with the steering wheel with nothing in front of you but the hydraulics outside the windshield.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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    I can't figure out what the little car behind the Mercury is.

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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    56 Plymouth wagon, 56? Mercury, 59 Chevy and maybe 54 Chevy behind it in front of "Wong", not sure, maybe Triumph Herald?, VW pickup and maybe a 57 Pontiac?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    maybe Triumph Herald?

    I thought of that, it looks a bit like a Herald but normally there wouldn't be any hood scoop on those and the grille looks a bit wider than on a Herald. I though of a Triumph Italia as well but those were pretty rare and had no scoop either. :confuse:

    Triumph Herald photo

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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    Looks like a turd lemko. I think its a mid 70's Cougar, ya I believe Ford degraded the Cougar name to even a station wagon.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    If the pix is from the west coast, it might be some kind of odd japanese vehicle, maybe a Datsun?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Actually, it's a 1972 Mercury Montego wagon. This particular example starred in the spoof "A Very Brady Sequel."
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    GM had almost exactly that same turd brown paint in 1972. My dad's 72 Impala was that color. A real argument against used cars..... We never would have picked that color....
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  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    GM had almost exactly that same turd brown paint in 1972

    I think everybody used it .. my folks bought a '73 Corona (new) in that same shade of brown. The next door neighbors had a similar era 2-door Corolla that was the same brown as well.
  • au1994au1994 Member Posts: 3,701
    My parents had a Buick in a similar color. If you owned a car in the 70's there's probably a good chance it was some nasty earth tone variation.

    The Buick gave way to a black Olds, then a silver Olds so I guess Dad developed some taste at some point.

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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...a 1971 Plymouth Fury Gran Coupe easily comes to mind. I believe the brown color was actually called "Chestnut" and the car had a vinyl top and interior trim with a paisley pattern.
  • cooterbfdcooterbfd Member Posts: 2,770
    My '75 Apollo was similar in color, just a little lighter. What were they smokin back in the '70's anywhoo???
  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    What were they smokin back in the '70's anywhoo???

    Something about that color, I'd say.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    And if it wasn't bad enough, often they'd offer several shades of brown at the same time in the '70's! For example, take that 1972 Montego Bradymobile Lemko posted. Well here's the paint chart from that year. They offered three colors that I'd classify as "brown": "Medium Brown Poly", "Ginger Poly", and, get this, "Ginger Glamour Poly" :surprise:

    I think some of those colors are very attractive. But unfortunately, they gave us TOO much variety back then (I'm counting 29 colors for the non-Capri Mercurys), too many bad choices, and, well, the buying public just didn't have good taste at that time.

    I think some of the lighter browns are okay though, on the right car. But they tend to be more caramel, I guess. For instance, here's a buckskin brown beauty I wouldn't mind having (I linked it because it's probably too big to post).
  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    Andre, is that a '76 or '77?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Whatever it is, it's gorgeous.

    The silhouette says Ferrari, even the split grille up front is something they've done recently.

    But some details are Lambo-ish.

    Then the air intake behind the doors is textbook Saleen.

    I dunno, I'm stumped. I'll go with Ferrari, my original gut feel.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    I think that's the new McLaren
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Indeed it is. Copy says the engine is a 3.8L V-8 but does not identify it. Anybody know?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Good call, it does resemble the F1.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Fintail is right, it is the new (2011?) McLaren MP4-12C. Juice is right too,
    it's good-looking enough to be a Ferrari, which is more than I can say about the new California or the F458. :sick:

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Ain't that funny.

    I didn't really like when Ferrari got away from a single grille and went with a split one on the F430. But the Enzo was the first ugly Ferrari in my mind.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    That's a '77 Grand LeMans. I never thought I could bring myself to like a brown car, but I find myself liking this one alot. It showed up at the GM show in Carlisle PA in 2007 and 2008. I was going to ask the owner to give me first shot at it if he ever decided to sell it, but the car wasn't there in 2009.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    The split grille isn't the problem, I'm fine with the F430 which has the visual panache a Ferrari needs. The twin grille recapitulates Carlo Chiti's Ferrari race cars of the 1960s, as do the fender scoops>

    Dino 246SP at Targa Florio (von Trips-Gendebien).

    F430 Spider>image

    The 458 Italia by contrast strikes me as a shapeless blob with no discernable grille or air intakes>

    image :sick:

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,229
    Back in May you posted a picture of a Kettenkrad thing, and we were trying to work out the red roadster in the background, with the Luxembourg plates. Well I was looking for something else in a French classic car guide magazine I found somewhere, and I turned up references to a make called CG, who used Simca mechanical bits, and made a range of roadsters and coupes in the late sixties early seventies...The only link can find to any pictures is this,

    http://gtfrance.free.fr/cg.html

    but I think what we have there is a 1000 or 1200 spider, but with a spoiler fitted - not really sure though, and there aren't any pictures I can find that are quite right...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    That could be it, yeah. No rear end pics of those models...that rear end, with its kind-of-lumps at each end, is very distinctive. But I can't link it to anything.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Neat heritage pic, thanks andy.

    I still liked the single center-mounted grille better aesthetically.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    This photo was taken of a Swedish town the day they switched
    from driving on the left to driving on the right in 1967, there's a
    wide variety of cars in it>

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Were people afraid to walk on the sidewalks? :confuse:

    I think I see a fintail in front of the Checker at left, both wearing taxi signs.
    I think nearest left is a German Ford Taunus (another taxi), and of course a VW behind it. At right it looks like a TR-4 is trying to get on the sidewalk...otherwise...everyone else can have the rest :shades:
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    If that's Stockholm where are all the Swedish cars??

    I think there's a Volvo 140 series in the middle of the road....
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  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    In the lower right hand corner, I think I spot a 1964 or 1965 Plymouth Valiant with a "taxi" globe.
  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    And it looks to me like a 1966 Falcon taxi in front of the Valiant!
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Nobody noticed the TR-4 next to the truck?

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  • stephen987stephen987 Member Posts: 1,994
    I think I see several German Ford Taunus sedans--one in the lower left is a taxi, and two more about halfway up, by the curb on the right.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Yup, they're hard to make out but I can see the two Taunus cabs on the right, past the two truck. Fintail has already mentioned the Taunus cab in the left front.

    It must be easy to get a cab in that town! I think the Volvo in the center is a cab too.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    If you're old enough you'll recognize this guy, and his car>

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  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    Well, the car is a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere, and I guess the then-current 'King' was Richard Petty.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    Well, the car is a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere, and I guess the then-current 'King' was Richard Petty.

    Right on both counts!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    73 Plymouith Satellite Sebring, maybe road runner? Boy, I thought they uglied them up from the 71/72's!
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    but a fabulous rallye car:

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