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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    Toronado above the dent in the Falcon
    Beyond the Benz is that white wagon with side trim behind the lamp standard an AMC / Rambler Ambassador?
  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    edited January 2021
    On the right, 3 people walking toward a '68 Torino GT.
    A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    MB is a 300SL roadster. It can be a 7 figure exotic now, but then was a $5K high maintenance used car.

    The wagon is an AMC of some kind. Beside it looks like a "buttress" style 69 Galaxie 2 door HT like I posted a couple weeks ago.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678
    Wow Kay Ballard and Pat Buttram, they weren't even B-list celebs, more like C-list.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    andys120 said:

    Wow Kay Ballard and Pat Buttram, they weren't even B-list celebs, more like C-list.

    Yeah, that's why I described it as not exactly the glamorous part of town.

    I remember watching game shows on TV in the '70s and occasionally a prize would be a trip to Vegas with accommodations at the Fremont. That must have been disappointing.

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    edited January 2021
    I can't make this anything but a Mustang fastback, probably a '66, with a gt350-type window behind the door. It has no other gt350 aspects (side stripe, trunk badge, etc.)

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,928
    those sewer pipes coming out the side, were not stock.

    I can imagine that thing is deadly to drive on that snow.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,735
    The rear wheels are larger in diameter and width than the fronts. That was
    commonly done to handle the torque in the day.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,808
    Nice Impala in front of it.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678
    Hard to tell whether the Mustang is a '65 or '66. i think there's way to tell from the gas cap.

    Aside from the side glass the biggest GT-350 clue is that big side pipe, an option on the Shelbys. That said I doubt it's a GT-350, those didn't all have the big fore and aft stripes but they all had the rocker striped w the "GT-350"

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    NYC, 1976. Expands to a large size:


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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    ab348 said:

    NYC, 1976. Expands to a large size:


    I'm not sure I see a single cab in that picture. Pretty amazing for NYC.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,928
    first gen Civic CVCC. Looks like a minnow swimming among the whales. Followed by a 2 door Torino.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    Beside the Civic, maybe a 76 LeSabre.
  • lemko1968lemko1968 Member Posts: 111

  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    lemko1968 said:


    Mitsubishi Colt?

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  • lemko1968lemko1968 Member Posts: 111
    Yes.JDM 1977 Mitsubishi Lancer Colt.
  • lemko1968lemko1968 Member Posts: 111

  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    lemko1968 said:


    No idea of the make or model, but I'm pretty certain the engine is in the trunk.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,928
    some sort of Renault?

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  • lemko1968lemko1968 Member Posts: 111
    1965 Renault R8
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    This looks like a warmed-up version. Is it by any chance something like a Gordini?

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    Lemko is back under an assumed name! Welcome!!

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    In the NYC pic I posted, I put it up because I was intrigued by the beak-nosed '71 Montego, a car that wasn't particularly common even back then and which is almost unseen these days. I must have gotten used to that front-end treatment as I like it now whereas I did not at the time.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited January 2021
    That Mitsubishi Colt was actually sold here when new - not just a grey import - but it was marketed as a Colt Lancer with no mention of Mitsubishi from 1973 to 79 - this one is 1977 but Colt Lancers were sold as such until about 1981/2 and similarly we had the Colt Galant, Sigma, Sapporo and Mirage.

    This 1977 car has a different grille from the first ones we had and they had frequent facelifts.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited January 2021
    We also got this version of the Mitsubishi Sigma under the name Lonsdale in 1983/4 - it was the earlier Sigma but assembled in Australia and sold to UK to bypass quotas - ironically the Sigma had already been updated by this time and we got the old Oz one and the by then Mitsubishi badged Sigma using the new Japanese built model from 1984



    Lonsdale was a separate make here and not sold through Colt / Mitsubishi dealers
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    @ab348

    I wondered what that car was - didn't recognise the Mercury Montego
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    I get a strong "Back to the Future" vibe:

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    We never got that here, but we did get the wagon for a few years, incredibly rare now:

    image

    We then got the Galant for MY 1985, but they sold in small volumes for some time.
    magnette said:

    We also got this version of the Mitsubishi Sigma under the name Lonsdale in 1983/4 - it was the earlier Sigma but assembled in Australia and sold to UK to bypass quotas - ironically the Sigma had already been updated by this time and we got the old Oz one and the by then Mitsubishi badged Sigma using the new Japanese built model from 1984

    Lonsdale was a separate make here and not sold through Colt / Mitsubishi dealers

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678
    The newest car readily visible is the yellow/black Mercury ca. 1955MY . The far side of it are a couple of cars w mid-50s wraparound windshields, everything else seems to be early 50s/late 40s.

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  • lemko1968lemko1968 Member Posts: 111
    I see a 1948 Chevrolet, a 1950 Cadillac, and a 1953 Oldsmobile next to each other and a 1953 Chevrolet in the front row near the lower right hand corner of the picture.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,735
    That Mercury is a Montclair, 1956. The 56 had a continual side trim with the zag in it and Montclairs
    had the shadow color trim sections below the side windows. I loved those cars when I was 12.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    Our Lonsdale was also offered as an Estate - I think I saw one once but they must have been rare.
    Lonsdale was the name of the suburb of Adelaide I think, where they assembled the cars


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    The wagon central to that snowy scene is a 52 (?) Chevrolet perhaps a Fleetline or Styleline
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    magnette said:

    Our Lonsdale was also offered as an Estate - I think I saw one once but they must have been rare.
    Lonsdale was the name of the suburb of Adelaide I think, where they assembled the cars


    Lonsdale, S Australia

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,735
    edited January 2021
    The Allegheny Market House, Pittsburgh, PA
    Newest? Oldest? Pic enlarges very well.



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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    edited January 2021
    Nice pic, rainbow of cars. I see a couple 57 models. Old car might be in the left row, to the right of a Chrysler or DeSoto with its trunk open - could be a 41 Chevy coupe.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,735
    Photo was colorized. Imbued with Hues from FB

    There's a blue car next to the cargo van? ID on it and the van?

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    The white over red car parked on the left nearest the corner represents one of my eccentricities. It is a '57 Chevy Bel-Air 4-door hardtop (sport sedan). I always thought it was far better looking than the much more popular sport coupe. Simply better proportioned.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.


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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    ab348 said:

    Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.


    Didn't I just read something that the restaurant just closed, permanently, due to COVID-19 restrictions?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,169
    Closed Dec. 31, here's their side of the story:
    https://cliffhouse.com/
  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,717
    texases said:

    Closed Dec. 31, here's their side of the story:
    https://cliffhouse.com/

    That's right - not Covid, but the National Park Service pulling the rug out from under them.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    Rump of the blue car makes me think ~49 Plymouth.
    imidazol97 said:

    Photo was colorized. Imbued with Hues from FB

    There's a blue car next to the cargo van? ID on it and the van?

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,702
    60 Ford in multi-toned livery at right, maybe a taxi. Near the entrance, to to the right of a red pickup, looks like a "cigar" Thunderbird.
    ab348 said:

    Nice period early 1960s pic of the Cliff House in San Francisco. Expands some.

  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,701
    What a nightmare story and predicament that led to the closing of the Cliff House. How sad.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    sda said:

    What a nightmare story and predicament that led to the closing of the Cliff House. How sad.

    Indeed. If their story is accurate (I have no reason to doubt it), that seems inexcusable on the part of the NPS after 47 years of operation by the present management.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,701
    Simca 1300/1500?

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