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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Longroof is a Stag shooting brake, apparent USDM car.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    Mid 70s Jensen Healey shooting brake. I like it!

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    I learn new things so often on this site. I wasn't too familiar with the Bob Newhart show - I only know of him from a few monologues he did like the Driving Instructor which were often played on the radio - but your comments about the last ever show of Newhart got me intrigued so I looked him up on Wiki and recognised him from various parts he has played in other shows we have seen.

    It also explains various oblique references he has made when on other shows presumably going back to that last show - I have now read the plot synopsis of that too.

    I just played The Driving Instructor on youtube - his deadpan delivery is great...

    We get reruns of Big Bang Theory sometimes - he has a part in that which is the most recent that I can recall..
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Aww you're right, can't believe I botched that one - Stag has a grille.

    Speaking of driving instructors, James Avery as the driving instructor in 'License to Drive' is a classic, for people of my age anyway.
    stickguy said:

    Mid 70s Jensen Healey shooting brake. I like it!

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    A mix at Grossglockner High Road:

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited March 2021
    Yes - your latest from Blighty is one that deserved better luck in my opinion - just unlucky timing when it was launched.

    Although the car was known as the Jensen Healey GT for some reason it was marketed here as the Jensen GT - although the roadster was known as the Jensen Healey.

    Maybe they didn't keep the rights to the Healey name (much like Austin Healey in 1970 where the last Sprite was sold here as the Austin Sprite for a period because they didn't want to pay royalties to Donald Healey)
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    Up in the Alps

    Two VW 3's both being Variants
    beyond the light green one is a white Peugeot 404 Brake / estate - they also sold a base version called the Commerciale and a plusher one called the Familie / Family I think.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    fintail said:

    A mix at Grossglockner High Road:

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    White V-Dub is a late 50s early 60s unit, it has the larger back glass but lacks the top of fender tuen signals, they came in ca.63 or '64.

    Black

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited March 2021
    Re: Grossglockner:

    White VW is '58-'62, it has larger rear glass but no turn signal on fender top. Black one has smaller oval glass so pre 1958. I think chromed louvers on back lid aftermarket.

    I don't think the yellow-green color on the third one was ever sold in USDM. You can see the red roof of a fourth Beetle next to Saab on lower right.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    fintail said:

    Aww you're right, can't believe I botched that one - Stag has a grille.

    Speaking of driving instructors, James Avery as the driving instructor in 'License to Drive' is a classic, for people of my age anyway.

    stickguy said:

    Mid 70s Jensen Healey shooting brake. I like it!

    Well, this is a novelty!

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,677
    Lostwrench3 said:

    Parked at the corner, a 1964 Oldsmobile.
    As to the Newhart television show, was not the last minute of the last episode tremendous?
    I hope the writer(s) of that ending received a bonus.


    The Newhart ending was one of the best ever. Bob was interviewed about that episode and said it was his wife's idea to do the dream ending with Suzanne P.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    edited March 2021
    Contains the requisites. Somewhat German related and the opposite of Bob Newhart village.


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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    edited March 2021
    Unusual to see 3 cars that appear to be painted yellow in such close proximity - a '67 Chevy, a Barracuda of similar vintage, and my favorite, a '66 or '67 Fairlane GT. I wonder how the Rambler wagon made out making that turn.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    edited March 2021
    Interesting catch: the car going away from camera past the "School" sign is also yellow.

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,793
    fintail said:


    Speaking of driving instructors, James Avery as the driving instructor in 'License to Drive' is a classic, for people of my age anyway.

    "You burn me, you fail. You don't? You pass." :D

    I loved that movie at the time.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Same here. I still remember seeing it at a late matinee when it was a new release. Saw it maybe a few times more, then maybe didn't see it for 25 years. Watched it again a few years back, and I'll admit I still thought it was pretty funny.
    xwesx said:



    "You burn me, you fail. You don't? You pass." :D

    I loved that movie at the time.

  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    Washington St., Salem, MA, 1968. Blows up very well, shouldn't need a whole lot of witchcraft..

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    Early corvair 4 door on far curb.

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,677
    Love the old Coppertone ad. classic

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,289
    sda said:

    Love the old Coppertone ad. classic

    There was a similar billboard on I-5 in Orange County that was motorized

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Parked 60 Ford must have been babied to still be around looking pretty intact in that climate - those cars seemed to age off fast, given they are virtually absent by 1970 or so. I guess that one is a basic Fairlane. I think I see a 67 Ford 2nd to the last car in the same row.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    Aside from the very handsome '68 Cutlass parked just ahead of that '67 Ford, look across the street from them. Could that be another '60 Ford lurking just behind a '61 Chevy? What would be the odds?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    I think I see it, could be a 60, I get a feeling it's a Falcon.
    ab348 said:

    Aside from the very handsome '68 Cutlass parked just ahead of that '67 Ford, look across the street from them. Could that be another '60 Ford lurking just behind a '61 Chevy? What would be the odds?

  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,728
    1960 Ford is a color I've rarely seen in real life.

    I am not sure where the Cutlass is, but I think I see the white Falcon behind the 61 Chev that's RED
    parked at curb left.

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,677
    Are there (2 )63 Olds in front of the 65 Chevy which is in front of the handsome 68 Olds Cutlass?

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,250
    fintail said:

    Aww you're right, can't believe I botched that one - Stag has a grille.

    Speaking of driving instructors, James Avery as the driving instructor in 'License to Drive' is a classic, for people of my age anyway.

    stickguy said:

    Mid 70s Jensen Healey shooting brake. I like it!

    I was just talking about that movie the other day. Great period movie.

    The scenes in the Caddy were great.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    A 1966 shot of traffic in one of the many Springfields in the USA, not sure of which state. Blows up OK.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    That a dauphine making the left, in front of a white 67 fast back charger?

    And nice C2 Vette in the center front. And behind that, 1 lane over, a mid 60s square body Falcon.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,161
    I'm surprised how few C2 Vettes we see in these pics.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    '66(?) Mustang on right, '62 Cadillac next to 'Vette, 1966 Pontiac on left (I had to look it up).

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    Still amazed at how few imports then, compared to today. And personal use trucks.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    1965 LTD 4 door HT beside the Vette.

    I think in modern times, personal use trucks are the equivalent of large BOF cars, and for some, there's probably also a psychological component.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    A 1963 Chevy (Biscayne) can be seen past the Mustang, heading away from camera.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    edited March 2021
    I stumbled upon this local picture taken around 1973 or thereabouts. The Chickenburger is a local institution here, having been in existence in the same location since 1940. It is a summertime hangout for those in the old-car scene, not surprisingly, as its history has always linked it closely to the automobile.



    Here's a later pic of the vintage rooftop sign. I love the old terminology "hamburgs".



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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,292
    Old Buick in foreground... newer Buick to the right.

    Is that an early '70s Audi, in front of the old Buick?

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    Looks like a rambler.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited March 2021
    The old Buick is a 1958MY, most chrome ever! No portholes that year.
    Could that be a '60 Ford in front of the Rambler?

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    andys120 said:


    Could that be a '60 Ford in front of the Rambler?

    Roofline would proclaim a '65 or '66 Chrysler.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Can you spot the 1960 Ford?



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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414
    Absolutely. Yellow behind the Checker.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,481
    Behind the Checker.

    Can you spot the Lark?

    Also, can anyone tell me what the funnel-shaped fixture on a post might be?

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414
    This is a wag, but I’d say it could be for cigarette butts since it’s next to the trash can.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,237
    edited March 2021
    You have the Winnebago - we had the Minibago....

    The firm that made this called it the Wild Goose





    The was obviously based on a Mini van, in this case an Austin, but it was fitted with a lifting section in the roof and converted as you see, so it ws then possible to stand up - theoretically.
    The bed was apparently 6ft 2in which given a whole Mini car was just over 10 feet seems incredible although the Mini van was a foot and a half longer I think.

    Same firm also did Hot Dog and Ice Cream vans fitted to Minis as well although those were not convertible.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    man, that thing must have been slow, even by 1960s European standards.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,654
    Seattle 1954, should zoom well:

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,833
    Studebaker 2 back from the milk truck. And is that huge grill coming toward the camera a Mr. C. vintage Desoto?

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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,617
    stickguy said:

    Studebaker 2 back from the milk truck. And is that huge grill coming toward the camera a Mr. C. vintage Desoto?

    Studebaker 4 back from the milk truck too.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,414
    Parked at right, 50/51 Ford, 52/54 Ford wagon, 49/51 Ford.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    On the left, a '53 Dodge Meadowbrook.
    Closest car, a '46, '47, or '48 Chrysler.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited March 2021
    Big 'vert coming towards camera is a 46-'48 Chrysler, probably a NYer or a T&C

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