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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    edited January 2013
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    lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    I'll grab the 57 De Soto wagon and the 66 Dart in the lower left.
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    46-48 Ford sedan (still called a Fordor?), I guess. Can't tell the year.
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    according to the ad, it is a '47 Ford super deluxe. with suicide doors.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    Nice call on the DeSoto wagon the photo is from 1965 but I can't see enough of the car on the lower left to tell the make model or year but it does look a bit like the nose of a '65-'66 Mustang to me.

    So far no one has mentioned the most identifiable car in the shot, at least as far as make/model if not year. Just past the red ('58?)Buick you can see the top of a white Volkswagen Bug.

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    grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    edited January 2013
    G'day

    As a very small boy growing up in a small town in rural Victoria, Australia, I was (compliments of two indulgent older sisters who would take me to Saturday afternoon matinees at the local picture theatre), a keen, albeit uncertain, follower of Batman's adventures. This was a 1940's series (repeated in rural Australia in the 1960's because it was really, really cheap entertainment) where Batman drove a black saloon (maybe a Cadillac - someone can correct me, but I think Alfred was the chauffeur). Everything was in black and white, so the Batmobile could had been anything from dark grey to blue or maybe brown.

    In the mid '60s there was the TV series (very camp) with a wildly futuristic Batmobile, based on a mid fifties show car, the Lincoln Futura. (okay, I will admit that the most appealing aspect of the show was the car and a remarkably skin type costume, defying fluid dynamics, draped over Eartha Kitt as Catwoman). In the past week, that car, modified by George Barris, has sold for over $4.2m.

    The trigger for pondering this is sitting in our garden as our local megabats fly within a metre. The grey headed flying fox has a wingspan of 1.0m (3'3") and makes a clearly audible flapping sound as they seek fruit and insects. They do not have the echo-location of smaller bats and the prospect of being hit by 500g (1lb 2 oz) of rapidly flying bat known for carrying lisavirus (rabies like) and Hendra virus (fatal in all casse of human infection), is a little concerning. They are however magnificent and remind me of the motif of the camp '60s show.

    Can anyone recall what the car used in the 1940's serial was. I am hopeless at American cars.

    Cheers

    Graham
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    explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,320
    Those foxbat's are huge!

    I founds a couple of these images, although I don't know what kind of car it is.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    edited January 2013
    Your photo is of a late 1930s GM Convertible Sedan, either a Cadillac, LaSalle or a Buick, probably a Buick.

    1937 Buick Series 40

    Great looking cars weren't they?

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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    Definitely 1939 Cadillac, looks longer than normal so probably a 75/Fleetwood.
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
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    lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    A Garfield?
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    lotus Elan?

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    explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,320
    LOL!
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    Lamborghini Jarama, never cared for half hidden lights.
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    Yup, the Lamborghini Jarama was the last front-engined Lambo, It was built on a shortened Espada chassis.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
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    BIGGER, more cars!

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    tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,242
    57 Ford Skyliner, Falcon wagon, early 60's Galaxie, early Mustang, yellow Fairlane hardtop
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    explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,320
    The morbid attraction parked in the back has a Buick in it.
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    Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    and a morbid but untrue story about how she died.
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    imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,154
    edited January 2013
    >Is this a Buick? I can't tell.

    There are other pictures of the car, but I didn't want to post one because it shows a covered body.

    A site with some photos--may be offensive to some.
    http://mredviolinlost.blogspot.com/

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    Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Oh----- I always thought it was a truck that hit James Dean's Porsche. Man, that car really got creamed.

    Whoever shot the Bonnie and Clyde car certainly got an excellent grouping using a Thompson submachine gun. Those things are very hard to point straight.
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    magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,156
    The only import I can see is the MG 1100 (I'm guessing it is too early for a 1300) to the extreme left ( two-tone blue over cream).
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    Galaxie is a 63 (.5, according to some) fastback. I like the Falcon wagon. I think I see a white 61 Impala 4 door HT further back.
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    Cool site. I still say Di would have survived had she used a seatbelt. I've also suspected Patton's accident wasn't completely accidental, but I guess that's something for somewhere else :shades:
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    imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,154
    edited November 2012
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield

    I guess it was a Buick Electra 225 before the accident.

    The parking lot photo looks like a tractor/trailer as an exhibit with a hidden walkwalk to observe the car after paying...?

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    robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    I didn't know Mariska Hargitay was her daughter.
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    '67 Camaro and a '70 Road Runner convertible on the far right.

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    lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Yes, it's a .5
    A hardtop made to look as though it is a convertible.
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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
    There's continuity blunder. Notice how bad the paint is on the '66 Chevy Impala parked between the two Fords with its top down. This scene is obviously supposed to represent 1968 or '69 since the newest car is the yellow 1968 Impala H/T parked in the next row(to the right).

    How'd the convertible get so beat up looking in a few years?

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    berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    ...maybe a greaser got a hold of it!
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    edited January 2013
    Thunderbird, hmmm...1975? When I was a little kid, my mother had one of that style, but white on white (!), 460, huge. My parents were fond of that car. I remember it fairly vividly for something had when I was young - I seem to recall ours had a wider body side molding than the pictured car.
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    tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 15,927
    Mid 60s Olds Toronado, I presume.

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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    Close enough. That one is a '74

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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    A '66 to be exact.

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    lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    I'll pick off the flattened 64 Ford wagon towards the bottom, with a flat ~62 Dodge or Plymouth sedan, upside down, on top of it.
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    fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,169
    Painful! But they were just old clunkers.

    60 Ford in the middle.
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    wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    I think the colors are so much more vibrant here than in the Philly junkyards...
    Top right - '54 Chevy on top of a red '57 Ford, left brown '63 Chevy, '59 Olds, green '58 Chevy, left white '62 Ford with 2 '57 Chevys under it (and another '57 Chevy up top), the brown forementioned '60 Ford, a white '60 T-bird on top of the red Falcon with the white '58 Chevy under it, aqua '63 Caddy, a really old yellow '47 Chevy on top of a 'brown '59 Chevy wagon, and a poor white '59 Nash Rambler and a white '59 Dodge at the bottom. Whew!
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    lostwrench1lostwrench1 Member Posts: 1,165
    Deja Vu - see #32721
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    Kennedy continental in the middle. hard to miss that one!

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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,708
    "Kennedy continental in the middle. hard to miss that one"

    I think it says something that I can now recognize crushed carcasses of '60s iron...not sure WHAT it says....
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
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    berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    Is that one of those conventional Willys Jeep pick ups? Looks like it might be a converted military vehicle. I also liked the FWD Willys Jeep vehicles.
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    stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,557
    not a willy's or a Jeep.

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    andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,392
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    robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    Pontiac Aztek with the tent option.
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    Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Looks better that way. They should leave it up. :P
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