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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Exner's hallucinogen period.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,625
    Of course, parked next to a '61 Plymouth it's a work of art.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    Could it possibly be a Studebaker?

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    stickguy said:

    Could it possibly be a Studebaker?

    Not only could it be, it's a 1950 Studebaker 1/2 Ton.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588
    One of my favorite dealerships, Felix Chevrolet in Los Angeles, circa 1976:


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    Easy to guess years for this one!

    Is that side view of a brown wagon a Mazda?

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    '69 Dart out front, '74 bronze Datsun 710 on the lot?
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 270,657
    '75 Monte Carlo

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 270,657
    I took my driver's license test in a '74 Caddy, like that bronze one, only ours was a sedan. The farthest I'd ever driven that car before the test, was the four miles to the test site. :D

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    I believe so, can't tell if RX3 or RX4, now probably the rarest thing on that lot.
    stickguy said:

    Easy to guess years for this one!

    Is that side view of a brown wagon a Mazda?

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    edited January 2022
    Lots of '60s iron in this one (enlargeable.) I'll call out the red TR4/4A under lamp to the left ( I had one)>


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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,706
    Gas shortage lines 1973?

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    Red triumph looked like a tr6 to me.

    I think blue mustang is a 67 GT. White early BMW 2002 or 1600 next row.

    Far pumps, nose if I think a very early white land cruiser.

    Also a Falcon Rancero.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    Interesting - I only see one Japanese car, and it wasn't really common - a FJ55 Land Cruiser, 1972 or so.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    edited January 2022
    Based on the circa 1973 timeframe, that is about to change quickly.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    sda said:

    Gas shortage lines 1973?

    Those were the days.
    06:00 - Get into the gas line.
    07:00 - Receive the fuel.
    08:00 - Be at work.
    Gasoline stations around here closed at noon.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Looks like VW still owned the import market. Guess I will pick off the Pinto behind then then-new squarebody pickup with canopy in the background area.
    andys120 said:

    Lots of '60s iron in this one (enlargeable.) I'll call out the red TR4/4A under lamp to the left ( I had one)>

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    For some reason this Studebaker dealer has lots of used sports and imports (enlargeable)


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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,625
    andys120 said:

    Lots of '60s iron in this one (enlargeable.) I'll call out the red TR4/4A under lamp to the left ( I had one)>


    I'll call out the tan/gold '60 or '61 Falcon in the second row from the left (I had one).

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    C1 Vette in the back. Black convertible. would be pricey today. And a red Healey in the front.

    far right, part of a Renault Dauphine?

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 21,025
    Red Porsche Speedster, 2nd car from the left.
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    edited January 2022
    stickguy said:

    C1 Vette in the back. Black convertible. would be pricey today. And a red Healey in the front.

    far right, part of a Renault Dauphine?

    explorerx4 said:

    Red Porsche Speedster, 2nd car from the left.

    Yup, the black/silver C1 is a late 50s car. There's a red Healey 3000 (Mk.II?) up front) next to a black example.

    Car on the right can't be a Dauphine cuz it appears to have front grillework. Hillman Minx perhaps (very popular back then).

    Good eye on that Porsche Speedster, I thought it was a 356A cab but you can make out what appears to be a Speedster windsheld frame. A couple of Lark wagons up front, I think the pickup in back is a Chevy /GMC 3100-.

    I lived a couple of towns east of North Country motors at that time. IIRC it was on NY25A/Northern Blvd. the main drage of LI's North Shore.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    edited January 2022
    As to the photo of January 13, I'm having trouble with this car.
    The front end shouts 1973 Pontiac but the tail lights don't.


  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,706
    Lostwrench3 said:

    As to the photo of January 13, I'm having trouble with this car.
    The front end shouts 1973 Pontiac but the tail lights don't.


    It is a 69 Pontiac Catalina

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    Looks like a '69 Pontiac.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    Bingo!
    Thanks all.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    The Studebaker dealer imports include the two cars bracketing the shot - red/white beyond the Porsche and grey to the extreme right.
    They are what we knew as Standard Tens but I think they were sold there as Triumph TR10s or some such.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    edited January 2022
    Yep, TR10 (also called simply "sedan" and "estate wagon":

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Over at theoldmotor.com they think the open sports car next to the Porsche is a Singer Sports, a prewar design that was produced in the UK from 1939-55. Very few were sent to the US so I suspect it is more likely an MG-TD

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    42nd Street!


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    snazzy Edsel.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Edsel looks like a wagon.

    I agree on the black sports car, MG-TD.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Lots of '57 Chevys! White/tan BelAir 4 door in the foreground. Between the Edsel and the two-tone Olds you can make out the hood of another that is either light blue or white and way back you can see a white/yellow one on the right. You'd never know Ford outsold Chevy that year (don't ask me why).

    I used to work nearby but not until the 60s/70s.

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 21,025
    There is another 57 Chevy taxi, which can be seen through the car in the foreground.
    Also, 2 57 Plymouths, metalic blue and a yellow taxi behind the right rear of that car and a 57 Ford to the left rear of it.
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,747
    What is the car between the Edsel and the Oldsmobile in t he picture?
    It looks like a Pontiac with the two bands of chrome on the hood.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    I had an uncle who had a Standard Ten - he had it from new in about 1956 and it was still running until about 1975. He never had any trouble with it other than usual servicing. Never took it very far - possibly never left Wales in it although I'm not sure about that. He reckoned he had driven enough in the war (he was driving an army truck right across North Africa and subsequently also across France right into Germany).

    Don't know what happened to that little Standard as he died after I left Wales so sort of lost touch with that branch of family.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    Duffy Square!
    Francis Duffy, chaplain of the Fighting 69th statue.
    7th Avenue, NYC.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Stadium Day?


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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 21,025
    I think the station is at North 1st and East St.
    Studebaker being filled up next to the building?
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    look at all those attendants! don't get that today.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588
    stickguy said:

    look at all those attendants! don't get that today.

    Looks like a NASCAR pit stop.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,755
    Kind of looks like old WA state license plates.

    Car pulling in at far left, barely visible, makes me think of a ~50 Chrysler, something Mopar and larger anyway.
    andys120 said:

    Stadium Day?

  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,915
    stickguy said:

    snazzy Edsel.

    What gave it away? :D
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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,706
    Attendants looking dapper in white pants! Without working on cars I can’t keep white pants looking nice.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    College students trying to win some type of prize for selling 3000 gallons?
    Gasoline station owner makes out too.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419
    edited January 2022
    andys120 said:

    Stadium Day?


    49/50 Ford convertible. Need to see the door handles.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    Those parking lights indicate 1950.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
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    fintail said:

    Kind of looks like old WA state license plates.

    TACOMA WASHINGTON, 1950

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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