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  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    They've sold Civics under many nameplates and model names.
    Jazz?, Concerto?

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  • derrado1derrado1 Member Posts: 194
    Honda Domani?
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...once sold in England as the Triumph Acclaim? I'm sure everybody remembers the British version of the Acura the Sterling 825i. I believe it was sold there under the Rover nameplate.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Nope, the Triumph Acclaim was a badge-engineered Civic, as you can see from the pic>

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • yankeryanker Member Posts: 156
    The carmel colored car is a 54 0r 55 Oldsmobile and the car in the intersection two shades of green is a De Soto about 1955
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Oh the Plymouth Acclaim, IIRC one of the final K-car spinoffs.

    Is that rebadged Civic some kind of Acura EL variant?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Fiat Panda, mid 80s model. I think they were available with 4wd IIRC, hence the high suspension. I used to see tons of those when i lived in Italy as a kid in late 80s.

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  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    Yep, the Plymouth Acclaim, which was just like the Dodge Spirit and Chrysler LeBaron. DW had one when I met her.

    -Brian
  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    Domani it is, basically a 1992 Civic with different front and rear ends. The Domani was sold in Canada as the Acura EL.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • chikoochikoo Member Posts: 3,008
    Honda City?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Looks like a 47-48 Studebaker. I have NEVER seen one of those as a woodie before, I can't recall seeing a Stude woodie at all. I bet that car is unique now, if it survived.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    It's a '47 Stude Commander.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Early Hyundai Pony
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Yep, the Pony was not imported to the USA but was apparently quite popular in Canada during the 80s.

    There seems to be a big market in CDN for any small cheap car, no matter how crummy. ;)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    I beg to differ on that Hyundai Pony. I have never seen a Pony that looks like that. I think the one in the picture was an Asian market one.

    Here's what our Pony looked like:
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Yeah, I think that was the first Pony. Canada didn't get it til 1983 IIRC, but the car was born in 1978 or so I believe.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    A little VW dropside pickup ca. 1960
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    It's so rare to see any Ponys on the road right now. And all the ones you do see or saw looked banged up like the one in the picture. A lot of people that had the first Ponys sold here had such a bad experience that they won't touch another Hyundai in their life.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    A little VW dropside pickup ca. 1960

    Yep, mighty clever that dropside design, one wonders why it didn't catch one. The Corvair Greenbriar came w a dropside as well dubbed "Rampside". The reason they used drop-sideas Type 2 and the Chevy were both rear-engined which made rear loading problematic but you can see the utility of it for loading big objects into front engined trucks as well.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I saw a Hyundai Stellar when I was in Van last...Sonata ancestor I believe.

    I knew a guy who had an early Sonata and had nothing but trouble with it, it was junkyard material by the time it was 10 years old. I wonder how many current Hyundai loyalists owned one pre-1995 or so.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I thought the rampside was especially innovative - you could walk right in. But it was nothing more than a curiousity.
  • rockyleerockylee Member Posts: 14,017
    Man, you guys can sure come up with the ugliest cars ever made. ;)

    Rocky
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Chevrolet had a rampside pickup based on the Corvair platform. Unfortunately, the rear engine didn't allow for a level bed. I believe Jeep also had a series of what they called "forward control" vehicles.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I've seen one of those Jeeps, like baby cabovers. Just didn't catch on I guess.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,815
    From the side, it looks like an early (late 70's) Celica, but something about the slice of front end that you can see doesn't look quite right. Also does not seem to have DOT bumpers.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,205
    Looks like a JDM version of the original Celica Supra..

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  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
    Except the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Probably some Euro-market variant.
  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
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  • rockyleerockylee Member Posts: 14,017
    WOW....not that is fuggly !!!! :surprise:

    Rocky
  • bumpybumpy Member Posts: 4,425
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  • rockyleerockylee Member Posts: 14,017
    What is that ? :shades: seems pretty sharp from my angle. :) A guess would be a Eclipse :surprise:

    Rocky
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Opel Manta (B)? Dutch plates...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    It's a Berkeley T60, ca. 1960...

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    Berkeley made four wheel roadsters as well as the three wheeler shown.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    The green three wheeler is a Berkeley T60/4 which was made from 1959 to about 1961. The usual T60 was a two seater, but the model shown has space for two children in the back, so it became the T60/4. This is an early one from 1959, because it has a metal frame windscreen, whereas in 1960 they went over to a different screen with a thicker surround. The 4 seater is quite rare as they only made a couple of dozen, but the two seater was a good seller - several hundred at least - so there are still a number around. Berkeley also made a number of 4 wheeled cars, all powered with motor bike engines, but the arrival of the Austin Healey Sprite and then the MGMidget etc finished them. The 3 wheelers were popular in UK because they enjoyed a tax advantage over 4 wheelers at the time, and you could drive them on a motor-cycle licence...
    Berkeley was a major manufacturer of trailer-caravans in the fifties, and one of the pioneers of glass-fibre construction in the industry.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    We got the Hyundai Pony that you showed, from about 1978 or so, I think, and they went over to the slightly modified version in the later photo in about 1982...
    Interestingly there is a link to the Triumph company which is the subject of an earlier post (re the Acclaim, Triumphs last car), because George Turnbull, who basically ran the Triumph part of British Leyland, was the outside help for the Koreans when they started making Hyundai cars in 1974 or so...
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Re the Fiat Panda, the version shown is one of the early ones, and with the small grille I think it was known as the Panda 30 (it was here, anyway). This one had the 652cc twin engine, while the Panda 45 had a 4 cylinder 903cc unit, for the first couple of years, and then they brought out the Panda 1000 with the 999cc engine. The 4's had a proper grille rather than the little one shown, though. They did indeed make a 4x4 version, with Steyr-Puch in Austria..
    Styling was by Giugaro, who said in an interview that he was more proud of this car than the Countach, because they sold literally millions - just about everybody in Italy must have learnt to drive in one, the post office were still buying a fleet version until about 2002, etc.
    I drove a Panda 45 to Scotland once, toured for about ten days, on about one lighter full of fuel, and surprisingly the thing I remember most about the car was how comfortable the seats were - really soft, and yet they were shaped so even when it was tipping over on corners you were held in your seat ! It was slow on the motorway though...
    Fiat made this car everywhere, and despite the inevitable rust they are still quite common, I've seen two or three in the last week, so there are plenty out there - a great little car for the impoverished....
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,205
    Is that a Mazda MX-6? Around '93?

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    We certainly had a Celica that looked like that, with the same headlights etc, and I would think it was common in Europe at the same time - obviously ours was RHD - but the bumpers were the same too - we didn't get the hefty ones until later...
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Almost looks like a Peugeot Coupe, but it isn't...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    1959 Oldsmobile (wagon)

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