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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Magnette got it, R100, 1972 - predecessor to the RX badged cars. Slightly modified.

    Here's another view:

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    Probably enough to be filed under "incredibly rare".
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    edited March 2018
    Here's the original car. It was also known as the "Familia Presto Rotary"



  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    ab348 said:


    Great photo of an early (late 40/early 50s) "step down" Hudson. I couldn't say which model (Commodore/Pacemaker/Hornet etc.)

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    I can't stop laughing. I didn't think anything was uglier than an Austin Atlantic, but here it is...whatever it is...
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,275
    Hard to get a sense of size, but I wonder if it would fit in the back of the Suburban across the street.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    edited March 2018
    Has a weird early postwar Euro vibe with that grille, but the house in the background is very middle American.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Ah - this is a Panhard (Dyna) Junior - really quite an advanced car with good performance from a twin carb flat twin 845cc engine with FWD and they even fitted a supercharger to some of them.

    Weighed nothing, too so quite efficient in its day - which was the early 50's...
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    magnette said:

    Ah - this is a Panhard (Dyna) Junior - really quite an advanced car with good performance from a twin carb flat twin 845cc engine with FWD and they even fitted a supercharger to some of them.

    Weighed nothing, too so quite efficient in its day - which was the early 50's...

    Yup, that is indeed a 1952 Panhard Dyna Junior cabrio. The Dyna came in various forms including sedan , coupe and wagon. Panhard was a pioneer French auto maker (as Panhard et Levassor) starting in 1891 that eventually came under control of Citroen thence PSA. It still exists as a division of Renault trucks as a maker of light military vehicles.

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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    So quirky, so French.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Early 60's Singer Gazelle (it says so right on it). This was a badge-engineered version of the Rootes Group's popular Hillman Minx which sold pretty well here but I don't think the Singer version was ever sold in the US market. Perhaps Your LHD Gazelle is a CDM version.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Convertible?


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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,280
    edited April 2018
    Dodge Mirada? Late ‘70s?

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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    They should've made that an actual convertible!
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Indeed a Mirada, but those are MY 1980-83.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478
    andys120 said:

    Early 60's Singer Gazelle (it says so right on it).

    I should have shrunk the picture!! :@

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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Is that Ferris' sister Jeanie in the Mirada?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    fintail said:

    Indeed a Mirada, but those are MY 1980-83.

    That's correct Fin. Here in the Museum of Rightfully Forgotten Mediocre Cars we still have Mirdadas. There's one in my nabe.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    When I was a kid, a friend's mother had a white Mirada CMX with T-tops - I thought it was a pretty cool car.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,827
    people around the corner from me have a Mirada sitting on the side yard. Along with some other similar vintage Mopar.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    stickguy said:

    people around the corner from me have a Mirada sitting on the side yard. Along with some other similar vintage Mopar.

    The difference is that Miradas and Luminas don't just sit here in the MORFC, they're driven and most appear to be in decent driver shape.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478

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  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    A 49 or 50 Ford Club Coupe. I always found it interesting back in that era that many 2 door sedans came in a regular sedan and then an abbreviated looking club or business coupe.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478
    Nope. It's not a Ford.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Going by the plate, I will guess it is a Meteor, like a shoebox Ford with a Mercury style grille, as for some reason Canada needed a unique model line.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    I never understood the Detroit philosophy back then on Canadian models. Seemed like they just tacked on or mixed stuff from various models and frequently it didn't seem to enhance the vehicle.
  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    For Ford, it goes deeper. At that time Ford of Canada was an separate company from Ford in the U.S., but with similar ownership. So there was some additional separation.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478
    Correct, here's the front pic that would have given away the answer, though the emblem on the trunk lid is also a clue. I took this pic at a show a couple of years ago and it is the only one of these of this vintage I have ever seen around here.


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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    1954 Siata 200 CS?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited April 2018
    texases said:

    1954 Siata 200 CS?

    Yes, I was afraid this one would bring everything to a halt, it's a Siata 208 8V with a body from an obscure coachbuilder, Baldo (not even listed on coachbuild.com!)

    This exact car was featured wearing red paint on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin. it suffered a mechanical breakdown in that episode forcing the comics to borrow another car.

    The same car later suffered accident damage on another occasion and was completely restored and repainted it's original blue and went on to win a prize at the Amelia island Concours.

    Siata 208s were usually seen with open Spider bodywork from Bertone. Steve McQueen owned this one>





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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    For some reason I haven't seen one of these in the MORFC lately:


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,827
    Chrysler Córdoba. With rich Corinthian leather I assume.

    I forget the years on these so will guess 1978

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    stickguy said:

    Chrysler Córdoba. With rich Corinthian leather I assume.

    I forget the years on these so will guess 1978

    Good guess, except for the leather part>


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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Corinthian leather fully explained!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9g3JCZv1E
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  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Ah, the BMW I love to hate -- 1M. That said, I wouldn't mind driving one everyday as long as I didn't have to look at it.

    What a silly name, too.
  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,802
    I still think the 1'er is a good-looking car, regardless of popular opinion.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414
    andys120 said:

    For some reason I haven't seen one of these in the MORFC lately:


    Pardon my ignorance, but what is the "MORFC"?
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Mr_Shiftright said:

    Corinthian leather fully explained!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9g3JCZv1E

    That's rich!
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  • jpp75jpp75 Member Posts: 1,535
    qbrozen said:

    I still think the 1'er is a good-looking car, regardless of popular opinion.

    Actually so do I, for some reason the look has always appealed to me.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    I think the 1er/2er are what the 3er used to be.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    jpp5862 said:

    qbrozen said:

    I still think the 1'er is a good-looking car, regardless of popular opinion.

    Actually so do I, for some reason the look has always appealed to me.
    Man, you guys, I just don't get it I guess. The front end is stylistically......chaotic would be the word I'd use. Subjectively speaking of course, I like car designs to be harmonious, not having one part of the car fighting the other. I think the 1M is something of a mess. The roof line has nothing to do with the rest of the car. It really looks home-made to my eyes--something you'd build out of a catalog on eBay.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,280
    It's the "dorky is cool" look. I like it, too. ;)

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,478
    omarman said:


    That's rich!


    The way "Corinthian" and "Corboda" just roll off his tongue is exquisite.

    He was a very suave character.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    I don't like the looks of the 1ers either except when they're black or convertibles.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited April 2018
    tmart said:


    Pardon my ignorance, but what is the "MORFC"?

    The Museum of Rightfully Forgotten Cars, AKA the Phoenix AZ metro where you can routinely see Aleros, Miradas, Allantes, Celebritys and other passe cars that were junk the day they were made. ;)

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Here's one that you'll know but what a great picture!>


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