While the guys are watching a 1975 movie called Mitchell, this car comes on screen and Tom Servo says, "The new Chrysler Fury...the car that thinks it's a house!"
The side of the car does look like an early-mid 70's Chrysler--but which one? I don't know but I doubt it's a Plymouth Fury or Satellite.
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Yup that's a Fiat 124 Sport Spider, UKDM. There aren't any bumps visible on hood so it's either a '66-70 Spider 1400 or a '71 Spider 1600. Hiood bumps didn't appear until '72 (on US models at least).
The son of the lady who emailed those family pictures to me thinks the earlier of the two cars could be a Studebaker Light Six, based on photos he's found>>
1924 Studebaker Light Six>
1922 Studebaker Light Six>
IMO the nose is too short in relation to the body, the nose on the family photo car is quite long>
I also vote for the Buick. In addition to your comment on the hood length, the number of hood louvers is a much better match, along with how the door line meets the cowl area.
The Stude just seems proportioned differently. Also, the part on the hood where the vertical side starts to curve seems much more abrupt on the Stude than the Buick or the old photo.
Maybe I will post it on the AACA forum if nobody else does.
Elan? The early 90s FWD version (isuzu engine, right?)
Wrong make/model, correct decade/drive config.
in the background, and early SAAB 900 (or 99?) convertible.
Couldn't be anything but a 900 Convertible (I don't recall any 99 'verts)
looks like a BMW badge on the green one infront of the yellow, but hard to make out what it is (fuzzy picture)
It looks like a Bimmer badge to me as well but I don't recall any BMW that had the full width taillights across the rear that one appears to have. :confuse:
Yes...I agree with the Alfa and the Saab. But the other car isn't a BMW...I don't think. My guess is that it's a Mitsubishi, which is relatively popular in Australia/New Zealand. It seems to be a 1993-1994 Galant, possibly with an aftermarket reflector tail.
What's with all of the Saab 900 convertibles in the back of each of these pictures? If Saab was really this popular, you know GM wouldn't be trying to get rid of it.
That's when a Saab had a personality and a turbo---at a time when many others did not. GM turned Saab into something that was probably more reliable, but also much more mundane and uninteresting to the Saab cult. Basically, GM fired all of Saab's customers.
A friend of mine ran a Saab club and he said after GM took over and re-did it the club just fell apart. As members sold their cars they didn't buy new Saabs.
What was GM thinking? The cult of the Saab was built around the 3-door, so what did GM do? The dropped it! Even if it sold poorly, it needed to be on the showroom floor to certify the 'Saabness' of the place.
Same kind of thing with Harley-Davidson buying, then quickly selling, MV Augusta. What common ground did the two share? Zero! :sick:
Back in the 80s, a Saab turbo was really an item. It would slap a BMW 320i silly, blew the doors off American and Japanese sedans, and in 5-door hatch form, was more utilitarian and way more fun than a Volvo wagon. AND got great gas mileage AND was very good in snow AND had good heaters AND handled very well except for the vicious torque steer.
So "in context" it is easy to see the cause of its popularity, but in retrospect, most people wonder what the fuss was about.
I think the car in front of the Alfa is a Holden of some sorts.
The Holden badge is a not a solid filled in design but rather a see through type so you can see the vehicle's color that it's mounted on through parts of the badge. On a blue car such as the one in the picture, it reminds us of the blue BMW propellers when in fact it's just the car's blue colors.
Forgetting about the Saab in the background for a moment, the blue beast is a 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu. I remember seeing an ad for this when it came it out comparing the size of the Chevelle to the size of the 1955 regular Chevrolet-they were the exact same length and wheelbase!
Now someone really shrp will probably ID the green one in front...
Back in the 80s, a Saab turbo was really an item. It would slap a BMW 320i silly, blew the doors off American and Japanese sedans, and in 5-door hatch form, was more utilitarian and way more fun than a Volvo wagon. AND got great gas mileage AND was very good in snow AND had good heaters AND handled very well except for the vicious torque steer.
Thanks for reminding me why I bought three of the damn things. :sick:
GM was the best thing, and the worst that happened to Saab. My GM-built Saab was an order of magnitude more reliable than the Saab/Scania-built ones I had, in fact it was so reliable I sold it to friends of ours but GM really did suck all the uniqueness out of Saab and they were criminally lax in letting Audi ans Subaru steal Saab's reputation as the car to drive in snow..
We had many long term SAAB customers who left to buy something else just because you couldn't get a hatchback anymore.
Some bought A3s some bought Golfs or other hatchback like cars but none of them were really happy with those cars because they were too small.
This is one medium sized SAAB dealership and I can think of a dozen plus people who left because they couldn't get a hatchback. Think about how many lost customers that is over the entire brand.
The power in a SAAB, especially in Third gear with the turbo already spooled up some, is just ridiculous. Back in the 80s through mid 90s there wasn't much else equal to a turbo SAAB for passing power.
Back in the 80s through mid 90s there wasn't much else equal to a turbo SAAB for passing power.
Oh yeah, they weren't much coming off the line but if it was already moving and you slapped that pedal to the floor, it was like the Hand of God pushing you against the seatback.
Speaking of seats, Saab (and Volvo-same supplier) had the best seats in the industry.
Nash Metropolitan? This one maybe a Mountainpolitan? :P
When I was in my early teens, there was an old guy in our neighbourhood that had a run down house with about 10 of these Nashes parked there. Most were in pretty bad shape but they were packed on his small lot.
I moved away and a few years later the house was torn down. I wonder what happened to all his cars.
LOL! Possibly improved them. I never drove a car so small that handled worse than a bread truck on bald tires. MG motor, 3-speed column shift, built by a refrigerator maker. It doesn't get much better than that.
These were sold in Poland under the Warszawa name. When I was a kid I remember taking one as a taxi in the 80s when we lived in Poland They were still around even in the 80s.
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
The side of the car does look like an early-mid 70's Chrysler--but which one? I don't know but I doubt it's a Plymouth Fury or Satellite.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Correct. Went looking for another car on the Movie Cars data base and found the MST3K car instead: 1970 Chrysler Newport according to IMCDb.
It must have only been in one scene of the movie because the data base pic was almost the exact same frame that I copied from a youtube video.
1924 Studebaker Light Six>
1922 Studebaker Light Six>
IMO the nose is too short in relation to the body, the nose on the family photo car is quite long>
Mystery car>
1922 Buick 45>
:confuse:
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Maybe I will post it on the AACA forum if nobody else does.
Gotta love a car where the trunk is about as long as the hood
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
in the background, and early SAAB 900 (or 99?) convertible.
looks like a BMW badge on the green one infront of the yellow, but hard to make out what it is (fuzzy picture).
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Wrong make/model, correct decade/drive config.
in the background, and early SAAB 900 (or 99?) convertible.
Couldn't be anything but a 900 Convertible (I don't recall any 99 'verts)
looks like a BMW badge on the green one infront of the yellow, but hard to make out what it is (fuzzy picture)
It looks like a Bimmer badge to me as well but I don't recall any BMW that had the full width taillights across the rear that one appears to have. :confuse:
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
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It could be, the Aussies must've gotten a version of the Mondeo.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
That first year Saab actually had record sales, IIRC.
But then 10 years later it was still the same car. Even other cars on that platform (Malibu for instance) got more updates.
Saab became the 2nd best car company from Sweden, i.e. a shadow of its former self.
Same kind of thing with Harley-Davidson buying, then quickly selling, MV Augusta. What common ground did the two share? Zero! :sick:
So "in context" it is easy to see the cause of its popularity, but in retrospect, most people wonder what the fuss was about.
The Holden badge is a not a solid filled in design but rather a see through type so you can see the vehicle's color that it's mounted on through parts of the badge. On a blue car such as the one in the picture, it reminds us of the blue BMW propellers when in fact it's just the car's blue colors.
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And the funny thing is that friend with the defunct Saab club ended up in a Legacy and founded the Subaru Club of America.
Now that Subaru is more mainstream you have to wonder if there are any quirky cars left? Besides the French, that is:
Name it!
Now someone really shrp will probably ID the green one in front...
Thanks for reminding me why I bought three of the damn things. :sick:
GM was the best thing, and the worst that happened to Saab. My GM-built Saab was an order of magnitude more reliable than the Saab/Scania-built ones I had, in fact it was so reliable I sold it to friends of ours but GM really did suck all the uniqueness out of Saab and they were criminally lax in letting Audi ans Subaru steal Saab's reputation as the car to drive in snow..
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Some bought A3s some bought Golfs or other hatchback like cars but none of them were really happy with those cars because they were too small.
This is one medium sized SAAB dealership and I can think of a dozen plus people who left because they couldn't get a hatchback. Think about how many lost customers that is over the entire brand.
I loved his Supra... but, when I asked him about his wife's car, he said it would leave him in the dust...
The wife was gone in a few years... but, he still had the Supra...
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Oh yeah, they weren't much coming off the line but if it was already moving and you slapped that pedal to the floor, it was like the Hand of God pushing you against the seatback.
Speaking of seats, Saab (and Volvo-same supplier) had the best seats in the industry.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Here's an odd duck:
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WTG1NKSy4
Speaking of Russian cars, I have no idea what this is:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/MechanixIllustrated/6-1959/air_car.jpg
Just for fun, since you all know what this is:
When I was in my early teens, there was an old guy in our neighbourhood that had a run down house with about 10 of these Nashes parked there. Most were in pretty bad shape but they were packed on his small lot.
I moved away and a few years later the house was torn down. I wonder what happened to all his cars.
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Here's a sedan version:
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