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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414
    Based on the grill, the Shoebox Ford can’t be a 51. It’s a 49 or 50. Need to see the door handles to determine which year.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    To replace my Faux Pas

    This is around Peachtree in Atlanta - February 1966

    Should expand a bit


  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,212
    magnette said:

    To replace my Faux Pas

    This is around Peachtree in Atlanta - February 1966

    Should expand a bit


    There are like 30 different streets in and around Atlanta named Peachtree...

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,814
    mid 60s Falcon under the loans sign.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Looks like a 67 Ford sedan, probably a Custom 500 by its lack of chrome, in front of the little supermarket daring to sell Pepsi in Atlanta.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 834
    1961 Oldsmobile 98.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Is that a Valiant wagon beyond the white pick-up?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    @Michaell

    Is Peachtree a district of Atlanta then? I know Georgia has a Peach on the Licence Plates
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,814
    magnette said:

    @Michaell

    Is Peachtree a district of Atlanta then? I know Georgia has a Peach on the Licence Plates

    pretty much. It is the Peachtree state. And Atlanta seems to have peachtree in half their road names.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,212
    stickguy said:

    magnette said:

    @Michaell

    Is Peachtree a district of Atlanta then? I know Georgia has a Peach on the Licence Plates

    pretty much. It is the Peachtree state. And Atlanta seems to have peachtree in half their road names.
    Useless trivia about this topic

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    edited January 2021
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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,212
    Looks like a Bentley of some sort - S3?

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    No, not a Bentley. Right country of origin though.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,159
    Zoomed in, the radiator emblem says Alvis. Pretty rare!
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    TD21 . I think this is the best version of the Alvis - they looked clumsier when they got vertical double headlights.

    Still a surprising number of these about although virtually all of them stayed in Britain
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    Buffalo NY - somewhat rarer and one that we didn't get in the UK


  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,239
    Tucker 48

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Yes - this is apparently one of the four cars that were scrapped - out of about 45 or 50 I think
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    On a similar theme we didn't get this one here either, it wasn't a production car and is far too early for this site - but it just looks like Flash Gordon came to Earth


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    However - and again much too early for this site - we did get this one and twelve were made here in about 1929-31



  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    Sorry - I'll come back to the post war period now...

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I think that's Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion.

    On that note, I've discovered there's a geodesic dome house a few blocks from me - obscure too, a fad in the 70s.
    magnette said:

    On a similar theme we didn't get this one here either, it wasn't a production car and is far too early for this site - but it just looks like Flash Gordon came to Earth

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Car at left appear to be an Austin 7 - a few more than 12 of those were made!
    magnette said:

    However - and again much too early for this site - we did get this one and twelve were made here in about 1929-31

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    Ford Cortina parked facing the building, away from the camera, at left. Resembles a period Matchbox car.
    magnette said:

    Sorry - I'll come back to the post war period now...

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,186
    fintail said:

    Ford Cortina parked facing the building, away from the camera, at left. Resembles a period Matchbox car.

    magnette said:

    Sorry - I'll come back to the post war period now...

    West 8th Street Erie PA - and it should expand

    Barracuda and a Fiat 124 convertible

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,239
    edited January 2021
    magnette said:

    Yes - this is apparently one of the four cars that were scrapped - out of about 45 or 50 I think

    There were 51 factory built (50+1 prototype). A few other others were created from leftovers.

    This car very well could be this one.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    fintail said:

    Ford Cortina parked facing the building, away from the camera, at left. Resembles a period Matchbox car.

    Which should end the debate over whether Ford sold that Cortina in the US.

    Reminds me that for the longest time, one of the Ford dealers here had a shrunken version of the corporate Ford pylon sign - maybe only 6'-8' tall - with the blue Ford logo on the left and then the word "CORTINA" on the right. I think they finally took it down only sometime in the last 10 years or so.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    edited January 2021
    The 1961 Olds caught my eye. I thought those were the ugliest rear end and taillight setup I'd ever seen in my few short years when I saw the tarp taken off one on night of the unmasking of the new models (remember when cars were covered before the introduction date?)

    The rear doesn't look long enough for a 98 model, but the markings look right. No wheel covers?

    American Motors Rambler wagon in front of the pickup truck.

    Are there any foreign cars in that picture?


    Historic restaurant in that picture.
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,814
    red Crapbox Falcon, front and center. and hiding behind the Cortina, a white Pancho convertible. maybe a '63?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I've seen a few in the PNW, but I suspect they were very much a coastal thing in the US, if not a west coast thing. Maybe sold a few more in Canada due to the British connection. That sign would be collectible to someone, no doubt.

    The period Matchbox car is even a similar color:

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    ab348 said:


    Which should end the debate over whether Ford sold that Cortina in the US.

    Reminds me that for the longest time, one of the Ford dealers here had a shrunken version of the corporate Ford pylon sign - maybe only 6'-8' tall - with the blue Ford logo on the left and then the word "CORTINA" on the right. I think they finally took it down only sometime in the last 10 years or so.

  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    Yes, that was Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion which was built in the thirties and appeared at a Worlds Fair - I gather one of the two cars built was involved in an accident but there is film showing it turning on its axis - it had a single rear wheel.

    My reason for putting those three oddities together was that in separate ways they approached a common design

    The Tucker was rear engined and I think at least some were fitted with a horizontal six engine

    The Dymaxion had a rear engine too

    The third car, in Britain was the Burney Streamline - they only built twelve and none survive although a related model was built by Crossley (a British make not the US microcar) and on or two of those are around.

    Anyway it was designed by an engineer called Burney who built airships, it had a rear engine and there is also a link to Alvis in the previous question as in the late twenties Alvis were the first British firm to build front wheel drive cars and Burney used their engine and transmission but rear mounted to make his rear engined car.

    All a bit like the mid thirties Tatra too...

    And yes, Austin did certainly build a lot more Sevens than any of the above...


    About ten years ago there was an exhibition in London about Fuller and his geodesic domes - familiar to many for Radar domes among other stuff. They did show a picture and a model of the Dymaxion and I think someone is actually building a replica for some collector although I don't know how long that would take..
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Back in Erie the blue and white car is I think about a 61 Dodge and the cream and black one is a later Dodge too

    The Mk 2 Cortina sold in shedloads here although basic ones are now rare - its more likely to see a Lotus Cortina than a 1300
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    @Michaell

    Funny how we had a mention of Peahtree in Atlanta - we were just watching news just now and they mentioned how much of Atlanta is Peachtree this or that - this was on CNN of course in relation to that election run-off.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    I vaguely remember reading a fairly in-depth article in one of the car magazines late ‘60s/early ‘70s about the Dymaxion and Fuller. I wish I could remember where it ran.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,212
    magnette said:

    @Michaell

    Funny how we had a mention of Peahtree in Atlanta - we were just watching news just now and they mentioned how much of Atlanta is Peachtree this or that - this was on CNN of course in relation to that election run-off.

    I used to travel to Atlanta in the days before GPS; you needed precise directions to get anywhere else it was too easy to get lost.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    Seattle, early 1960s, expands to a huge size. Interesting mix of imports here:


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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Two rare ones! A Hillman Minx convertible and a '58(?) Edsel Villager wagon. i think I see a Mini behind the coke sign (rare in the US0

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    Where is the 58 Edsel "Villager"?

    I see a 57 Mercury sedan or hardtop against the CocaCola sign posts and
    a 58 Ford wagon on the left front.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 834
    And, speaking of wagons, a 1958 Plymouth.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    The 58 Ford wagon confuses me. I assumed a Country Squire but the shape of the trim on the open door would instead indicate a two-tone Country Sedan - however there was also a Del Rio Ranch Wagon in 58 - so which is it?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited January 2021
    Also I see a 58 Plymouth Suburban and a passing 56 Chevrolet 4-door wagon. Is that a 210 Handyman or something else?

    to the left of this car lot is a 55 Dodge sedan - is that a Plaza?

    The Mini in the far distance looks like it has British plates but at magnification it has a US sized plate in a black space the size of one of ours...

    The real rarity is that Minx convertible - It appears to be a Mk IIIA - which would be about 1961-63

    I see a Studebaker Lark parked over the road in that entrance by the parking sign- the Mini is about to go past it

    Finally next to the VW is a Rambler hiding a Dauphine
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    Just beyond the Mini at the left end of the line of cars parked off the street, is that a Studebaker Lark?

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    What is the white wagon parked on the road behind the Plymouth wagon's luggage rack?
    Is that your Edsel, Andy?
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    I'd wager the 58 Ford Wagon is a Country Sedan - I don't see the (faux) wood side trim, and two tone paint wasn't as common on a lower line Ranch Wagon.

    I also see the Lark beyond the Mini, in the line of parked cars. Further back, under a "Park" sign, I even get just a hint of a light colored 60 Ford wagon in the mix, at right.

    I've seen this pic before, it is likely from 1962, with all of the World's Fair hoopla. The location is 700-900 or so Aurora Avenue, looking completely different now, filled in with mid-rise apartment buildings.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    magnette said:

    What is the white wagon parked on the road behind the Plymouth wagon's luggage rack?
    Is that your Edsel, Andy?

    My bad, I miscalled that '58 Ford wagon. Under the Coca-Cola sign is a Renault Dauphine,
    popular around the same time as the Minx

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    edited January 2021
    fintail said:


    I also see the Lark beyond the Mini, in the line of parked cars. Further back, under a "Park" sign, I even get just a hint of a light colored 60 Ford wagon in the mix, at right.

    LOL. I finally found it. What a good eye! It's above the VW beetle in the near lot and a man walking on the sidewalk has his head at the lower bodyside of the Ford wagon.

    There are several "Park" signs that I had to go through to get to the right one.


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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,615
    magnette said:

    Also I see a 58 Plymouth Suburban and a passing 56 Chevrolet 4-door wagon. Is that a 210 Handyman or something else?

    to the left of this car lot is a 55 Dodge sedan - is that a Plaza?

    The Mini in the far distance looks like it has British plates but at magnification it has a US sized plate in a black space the size of one of ours...

    The real rarity is that Minx convertible - It appears to be a Mk IIIA - which would be about 1961-63

    I see a Studebaker Lark parked over the road in that entrance by the parking sign- the Mini is about to go past it

    Finally next to the VW is a Rambler hiding a Dauphine

    FWIW the car hiding the Dauphine is a Mercury Meteor (I think a '63). This was an intermediate size car (basically a re-trimmed Ford Fairlane) sold under the Mercury name. It didn't sell well. I always thought that giving the these cars the names they did, which were repurposed from specific trim levels of their full-size line, was a mistake.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,647
    You got it, the guy's head is touching the car, so to speak. 60 Ford has a pretty unmistakable beltline design, once you see it.
    imidazol97 said:

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    LOL. I finally found it. What a good eye! It's above the VW beetle in the near lot and a man walking on the sidewalk has his head at the lower bodyside of the Ford wagon.

    There are several "Park" signs that I had to go through to get to the right one.


  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,470
    Las Vegas, early ‘70s, not exactly the glamorous part of town. Should expand.


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