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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,570
    andys120 said:

    kyfdx said:

    andys120 said:


    '70 Trans Am
    Yup, the best Looking T/A of them all.

    And perhaps the quickest, before emissions choked the fun?

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  • transamsd73transamsd73 Member Posts: 38
    edited October 2019
    Nice T/A! I Love, Love, Love these cars!
  • transamsd73transamsd73 Member Posts: 38
    Is the third car down the first row a DeSoto?
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,105
    Fiat 850 Spider. Police pulled four of us teens over, let us know he’d be putting the two of us sitting on the rear hood in body bags if we kept up our antics.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    Sport spider technically I think. When I was in middle school my sister had one. Tiny little thing. Hers was yellow.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    image

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    Gorgeous. Looks like a Ferrari mated with a triumph butt.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Thorndyke Special
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    An Apollo, right?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    texases said:

    Fiat 850 Spider. Police pulled four of us teens over, let us know he’d be putting the two of us sitting on the rear hood in body bags if we kept up our antics.

    Yup, that's a 1970 Fiat 850 Sport Spider in Positano Yellow. Positano is a picturesque fishing village with pastel cored homes and buildings. My 1971 124 Spider was the same color.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    stickguy said:

    An Apollo, right?

    Yessir! 1960s Buick engine and front end suspension components. Pretty car.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    Forgot about the two tone car with doors open, Austin Cambridge of some variety, A50/A55
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    fintail said:

    Forgot about the two tone car with doors open, Austin Cambridge of some variety, A50/A55

    Right, it's a 1957 Austin Cambridge A55. Supposedly it was sold in the USA as the Austin Cambria but I have never seen one.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    that little Triumph is pretty brave turning in front of the Chevy wagon. and is that a '61 Valiant behind it (black with white roof)?

    what's the wagon heading away, front right? Is that a Suburban?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,105
    Two questions-why is a train going down the middle of the street, and why did the Ford dealer paint “Falcon” on the building? Was it more than just a model?
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    It was not uncommon back then for train tracks to use streets as a ROW in certain spots. Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood was notorious for that:

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    stickguy said:

    that little Triumph is pretty brave turning in front of the Chevy wagon. and is that a '61 Valiant behind it (black with white roof)?

    what's the wagon heading away, front right? Is that a Suburban?

    I think the Valiant may actually be a wagon model, and the one heading away from the camera may be a Plymouth Suburban wagon.

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 16,938
    Philly still has trains like that. Here is a shot right near the Zoo



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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    I assume that’s trolley tracks, not real trains?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    I think upon introduction, Falcon was so hyped that it maybe warranted its own sign.

    I see a ~50 Pontiac parked at far right, and of course the rear section of a 58 Cadillac at left.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    That TR-3 sure looks spiffy with it's wires, whitewalls and dark green paint. Brit cars always seem to look best in BRG.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,671
    edited October 2019
    And laGrange KY

    https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4073588,-85.3796974,3a,75y,40.16h,88.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjvYd7-hdorDGB3r0ee5a-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    fintail said:

    I think upon introduction, Falcon was so hyped that it maybe warranted its own sign.

    I'm old enough to remember when that 1st generation of Big 3 "compact cars" in 1960 was a really BIG DEAL. They were going to beat back the challenge of those upstart Euros and they pretty much did but they became bigger and bigger and got swamped by the wave of Japanese iron that was actually compact.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,427
    imidazol97 said:

    And laGrange KY

    https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4073588,-85.3796974,3a,75y,40.16h,88.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjvYd7-hdorDGB3r0ee5a-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

    I remember when there was a Stuckey’s at the exit off I-71 for LaGrange. :D

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,427
    andys120 said:


    E28. I can't tell the year or model designation from that shot, but '77-'88 was the time frame.

    Of course, that model was the basis for the famous '88 M5.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    I love that car. There is one I think of that vintage lives in my neighborhood.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    That E28 is no older than 1982 model year.
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 262,067
    I dated a girl in HS whose dad drove one of these - with a stick shift. He used it to tow his three quarter midget sprint car to race tracks in LA. I loved riding in that car - the engine was so powerful and smooth.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    kyfdx said:

    andys120 said:


    E28. I can't tell the year or model designation from that shot, but '77-'88 was the time frame.

    Of course, that model was the basis for the famous '88 M5.
    Yup, that is a 1984 BMW 533i BMW Model# E28, the second gen of the original five series cars and the basis for the awesome first M5 (which used the same DOHC six as the M1).

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    People driving aimlessly in circles in 1960s Europe, probably France. I see a Fiat 500, a Mini, a couple of Beetles, a Citroen 2CV, DS Safari wagon and DS sedan.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    ab348 said:

    People driving aimlessly in circles in 1960s Europe, probably France. I see a Fiat 500, a Mini, a couple of Beetles, a Citroen 2CV, DS Safari wagon and DS sedan.

    Yup, Paris I'd say early in the 60s. There's a white TR-4 with the hardtop to the left of the bus. Most of France's greatest Auto Hits of the era are there including the Simca Aronde (two-tone blue ahead of TR-4).The white car behind the VeeDub in the inner circle could be a Simca 1000. A couple of cars ahead of the VW is what could be a red Dauphine but it looks too small. I had to look hard for the 2CV (parked on left).


    Non-French units besides Beetles and the TR include a DKW 90 ahead of the bus. i think the bus is a Mercedes but I forget what it was called. I think the topless white convertible is a Lancia (Fulvia?) Is that a pickup carrying the ladder on the right?

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    The picture made a question pop into my head that I hadn't really thought of before.

    Here in North America and especially in the USA there was some resistance in the '50s and '60s to German and Japanese cars. Understandable since WWII and Pearl Harbor was still fresh in people's minds. But at least the fighting didn't take place on our soil here in North America.

    But in France, it was different. Germans occupied France and were a pretty brutal regime. Same in other European countries. And of course they blitzed England. How much resistance to German cars would there have been in those places back in the late 50s/early '60s, I wonder? I don't remember ever reading anything on that subject.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,408
    In my anecdotal observations, European nations with auto industries tend to be quite nationalistic in their purchases, especially in times before Asian competition. Those without auto industries seem to be indifferent.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    edited October 2019

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    definitely a Shelby GT350. I am guessing '68?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    stickguy said:

    definitely a Shelby GT350. I am guessing '68?

    Yup.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,595
    (Chrysler) Imperial; early '80s(?)

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    was this the pinnacle of the K car lineage, or was it the TC maser?

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,570
    It was based off the Volare/LeBaron/Córdoba platform. If I remember it came with the 318 with fuel injection which was problematic and was frequently replaced with a carb conversion by Chrysler. I liked the crisp clean styling of the front end, less so the chunky rear.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    there was a later one though on the FWD platform, right?

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,265
    The Imperial was based on Chrysler’s j platform which was only otherwise used for the Córdoba and Miranda and only lived for 3 years. No relationship with the K-car.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,330
    Until later!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,669
    bhill2 said:

    (Chrysler) Imperial; early '80s(?)

    It's a 1984 Imperial /Frank Sinatra Edition!

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