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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Tigers are fun to drive---*very* tight driver compartment, so I could never own one without serious modifications.

    Mostly, you drive it with the gas pedal in the twisties--you need a bit of skill or you'll be in the weeds.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
    What's they gray car next to the red Jag?

    That's a favorite of mine, a Ferrari 2+2, either a 250GTE or a 330GTE. I think I can just about make out the headlight surround for a four headlight 330GTE like this one>

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    There was a two headlight version later in the production run, most people consider it better looking but IMO the 4 headlight car looks more the part of a luxury four-place Gran Turismo.

    If I ever got to heaven (doubtful) I'd walk into a room of cars like that!

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,517
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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,471
    I believe that this is a '63 Buick Wildcat. The barn find looks like a Datsun 210.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,517
    correct on the Buick. Close but no cigar on the Datsun.

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,094
    I knew the Buick, and I'd have also guessed 'B210' on the other.

    Not a fan of that era Buick--overly decorated IMHO, but good cars I think. I remember a friend when I was little whose parents had a '63 Electra 225...I loved that the radio said "Sonomatic" and the speedometer had a buzzer when the Dad exceeded 80. I remember hearing the buzzer once or twice!

    For folks who like Buicks of that general era, probably my overall favorite flick, "Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, Olivia deHavilland, and Bruce Dern features a '64 Special and two different '64 Electra 225 six-window sedans, as well as a '64 Dodge Dart that is shown briefly as the Doctor's car! ;)
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,140
    Datsun 1200?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited February 2013
    I say Datsun 210, just 210 with no B in front.

    RWD but no power, skip the Starbucks and save up to get a 510 instead.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
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  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    3 series Gran Turismo
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    BMW Crosstour. ;)
  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 32,935
    BMW just needs to stop. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Taking away the wagons and giving us these nasty looking things turns my stomach.

    The only thing I'm currently looking forward to is the 2-series, although changes are it will be overweight.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    And the 5 GT is not even selling well.

    The X6 did so that probably emboldened them.
  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 32,935
    edited February 2013
    And the odd thing (to me, at least) is that the 5GT looks slightly better than the 6. Personally, I think the x6 should be considered one of the ugliest vehicles of all time. Right there with a Pacer. I think the Aztek was inoffensive in comparison.

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,094
    Now that I think about it, I say Datsun 1200 or....was there a 1600?
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,140
    I think the 1600 was the roadster. Car in the pic looks like a 2 door, which I recall once seeing as a 1200.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,094
    3 series Gran Turismo

    For a second I was excited, thinking there was a photo of a Studebaker here. ;)
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,140
    BMW now has an old Mopar name "Gran Coupe" and an old Stude name "Gran Turismo". Funny.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Gran Turismo is a term taken from the great Italian cars. I think it really meant a car you could race with competitively and then drive home in comfort.

    It really makes little sense with 60s American cars but "GT" is a sexy marketing term, so hey, why not?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    My 1968 Buick Special Deluxe had a Sonomatic radio with the letters BUICK spelled-out on the five station selector buttons.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,094
    Right. GTO stood for "Gran Turismo Omalagato".
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,517
    yes, it is a 1971 Datsun 1200. reportedly having been stored in a barn since the 1980s until recently being pulled back out into the world.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 236,830
    I actually think the 3-Series GT looks good.. Lines flow a lot better than the dowdy looking 5-Series GT...

    Nothing wrong with a 4-door hatchback..

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390

    Nothing wrong with a 4-door hatchback..

    I quite agree (having owned three five door Saabs) but most of our fellow Americans do not like them. As for the 3-er GT, I'll reserve judgement til I see one, It could be quite nice in the right color.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    It's longer than the wagon was, too. Weird.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
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  • stevedebistevedebi Member Posts: 4,098
    I suppose that is what Barney drives (Fred has the car we all remember).
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Service parking from my previous workplace:

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited February 2013
    C6, F430, F430 Spyder.

    Do they use Spyder or Spider?

    599 on the left.

    I wish I worked there!
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    It's spider. I never knew why they use that term. :confuse:

    Any guesses on the cars in the back?

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,240
    Do you mean the out of placed Corvette? Or should I say out classed?
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Yeah, that was a trade in. We kept it for a few weeks and then wholesaled it.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    599?
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    No, not a 599

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 50,517
    GTO?

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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    nope not a GTO (which is based off the 599).

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,308
    How about a 458?
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Yup the one in the far back corner by the car elevator is a 458.

    Any guesses on the red one :P Ok, on the far left red one by the street?

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Actually no one knows for certain where the term "spider" comes from, other than that it originates from horse carriage terminology---but no one knows why they called horse carriages that either.

    My theory is that a "spider" horse carriage was configured to have the driver riding on a shelf at the back of the carriage, and that this is how actual creepy crawly spiders carry their young. :P
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    That's pretty funny. Thanks for the history lesson!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
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  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    Looks like a '66 Mercury Comet Cyclone.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,094
    That's a good looking Comet IMHO. I think the Fairlanes of the '66-67 era are good-looking cars too.
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
    Yup, it's a 1966 Mercury Cyclone GTA/390.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 19,308
    Ferrari California?
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Got it!

    So that's a California and a 458 in the back,

    2X F430 (spider and coupe)

    and a C6

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 57,140
    Looks like a little van based on a postwar Fiat 500/Topolino
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,390
    Looks like a little van based on a postwar Fiat 500/Topolino

    Yup, precisely. The original Fiat 500 was the prewar Topolino ("Little Mouse") a front-engine RWD car, the Nuova 500 followed in 1957 using the then in vogue rear-engine RWD set up. The current Fiat 500 apes the styling of the '57 but uses a typical FWD chassis and, unlike the other two, displaces a lot more than 500cc.

    I wonder how a Topolino styled Fiat 500 would sell?

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