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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    Never seen one with skirts before.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,993
    Picture details have the 'Burb as a 55.
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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,923
    interesting spats that don't seem to fit well at all. That was a styling trend I never really understood.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678
    edited April 2023

    I don't know when they started making Suburbans but that one is 1957 MY. It has the boxy shape that characterizes all 'Burbans with 1950s styling elements including fender skirts, chrome trim, whitewalls and wraparound glass. Too bad they couldn't put tail fins on it. B)


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  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,619
    That thing is a kind of a Frankenstein. I'd swear that those hubcaps (spinners, yet) have Cadillac centers and the emblem on the fender skirt looks like it is off about a 56 Ford.

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  • blackbmwblackbmw Member Posts: 1
    bhill2 said:

    That thing is a kind of a Frankenstein. I'd swear that those hubcaps (spinners, yet) have Cadillac centers and the emblem on the fender skirt looks like it is off about https://epicvin.com/vin-decoder/ford a 56 Ford.

    Never seen one with the fender skirt
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    La Brea Ave at Sunset, L.A., 1977, should expand some. A nice assortment here, courtesy of Alison at Vintage Los Angeles.


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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,923
    White Volvo 140. 2 ahead of the Volvo looks like a Rambler American.

    Next to the Volvo is a 2 tone seville (the Noville model)

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,704
    ab348 said:

    La Brea Ave at Sunset, L.A., 1977, should expand some. A nice assortment here, courtesy of Alison at Vintage Los Angeles.


    I saw that photo in my FB feed today ...

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    Michaell said:

    ab348 said:

    La Brea Ave at Sunset, L.A., 1977, should expand some. A nice assortment here, courtesy of Alison at Vintage Los Angeles.


    I saw that photo in my FB feed today ...
    If you follow her too, that would explain it!

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,704
    ab348 said:

    Michaell said:

    ab348 said:

    La Brea Ave at Sunset, L.A., 1977, should expand some. A nice assortment here, courtesy of Alison at Vintage Los Angeles.


    I saw that photo in my FB feed today ...
    If you follow her too, that would explain it!
    I do, and it does!

    Lots of memories, since I came of age during that time, in that area...

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    Alison does a great job with that account. I just don't know where she gets the energy.

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,993
    Why does the suit pattern look familiar?


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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,704
    ab348 said:

    Alison does a great job with that account. I just don't know where she gets the energy.

    I think because her dad was in the "industry" when she was a kid and was taken to all the haunts the stars frequented at the time. I gotta believe she draws some income from the work.

    She was a guest on "Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles" this past season, as one of the realtors was listing a home owned by a band leader from the 50's and 60's, and Alison knew about this history of the house.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    The Hollywood celebrity community tended to be pretty closely-knit back 30-60 years ago. A very interesting book I read not long ago was called "Sunday Nights at Seven" which was a mix of an unpublished biography of Jack Benny that he had commissioned not long before he died along with some chapters written by his daughter Joan Benny about growing up during his heyday. The stories about the people who visited them regularly or vice-versa, those who attended the parties at their house, their interactions with the equally famous neighbors, the things they did as a family, etc, were really interesting.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    In LA, behind the Seville a 67-70 Riviera. Nearest the camera driving away is a late model Ford LTD, at left facing the camera a 75+ Eldo.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    Seattle 1976, zooms well:




    I am hearing one of three songs from that year on the radio: A Fifth of Beethoven, Moonlight Feels Right, or Welcome Back.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,923
    on the left, a 2 door Audi (100?) behind a jacked up 69 Firebird and a Datsun B210 hatch.

    up the road a gen 1 Capri with a vinyl top. and I think coming toward it is the nose of a 140 Volvo.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,169
    With those tail lights I think that's a '69 Camaro. A 65/66 Mustang further forward, in front of the Pinto wagon and the Nova. Is that a '72 Gran Torino front left?
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,923
    oops. you are right, it is a Camaro. top of that row, an IH travelall.

    behind the Audi, is that a 65ish Malibu 2 door?

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    Audi was the Fox in USDM, otherwise Audi 80.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    '68 Cutlass parked at the curb on the right.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,801
    @fintail

    "Welcome Back"

    I saw John Sebastian open for Steve Martin, in 1979. :D

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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,993
    Torino has railroad tie bumpers and the taillights say 1974 to me.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    Carkeek Park, Seattle, date claims to be 1954 but I think one of the cars is a 55? (zooms well):



    Music for this one is Perry Como.
  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 835
    1955 Studebaker.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,415
    54 Ford
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678




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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    The car that is trotting over Rotterdam appears be a Kaiser - maybe a Manhattan I think.

    They did have a long afterlife in Brazil later with IKA as well
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,678
    edited April 2023
    magnette said:

    The car that is trotting over Rotterdam appears be a Kaiser - maybe a Manhattan I think.

    They did have a long afterlife in Brazil later with IKA as well

    Yup,
    Kaisers were built in Rotterdam and that subsidiary of KaiseR, NEKAF (Nederlanse Kaiser-Frazer) also built Jeeps.


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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,993
    edited April 2023
    Saw this a few houses up the street.
    That's not a smudge in the lower left, it a white fuzzy dog.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,415

    BMW I8?

  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 269,801
    tmart said:

    BMW I8?

    Yup

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    andys120 said:



    magnette said:

    The car that is trotting over Rotterdam appears be a Kaiser - maybe a Manhattan I think.

    They did have a long afterlife in Brazil later with IKA as well

    Yup,
    Kaisers were built in Rotterdam and that subsidiary of KaiseR, NEKAF (Nederlanse Kaiser-Frazer) also built Jeeps.
    Chrysler bought the Rotterdam plant in the late 1950s and used it to build some of their European cars and then in the ’60s transitioned to building variations of their US vehicles there.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    I wonder if the surprising amount of Valiants/Darts seen in old Swedish street scene photos were actually made in the Rotterdam plant.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    fintail said:

    I wonder if the surprising amount of Valiants/Darts seen in old Swedish street scene photos were actually made in the Rotterdam plant.

    No doubt. A good article on that here:

    https://www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler-kaiser-frazer-rotterdam-assembly-plant-nekaf-1958-1970.229411/

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,700
    ab348 said:

    fintail said:

    I wonder if the surprising amount of Valiants/Darts seen in old Swedish street scene photos were actually made in the Rotterdam plant.

    No doubt. A good article on that here:

    https://www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler-kaiser-frazer-rotterdam-assembly-plant-nekaf-1958-1970.229411/
    Oh yeah, look at this:

    https://www.allpar.com/threads/chrysler-in-sweden.229676/#post-1085223774

    I learned something. Apparently the cars had a pretty solid following, more than I imagined.

    Every now and then in a random photo in France or something, a Dart/Valiant will be spotted - all of that explains it.
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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,415

    59 Ford

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    edited April 2023


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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,700
    68 Olds Delmont 88. Even though it was the cheapest full size Olds it looks nice. It isn’t totally devoid of trim.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited April 2023
    In Istanbul, Turkey there was a Chrysler plant with the local name of ASKAM that used to market trucks under both the Fargo and De Soto brands until about 1978

    They also assembled some Dodge cars as well as European Chrysler products - the latter were from the Spanish Simca plant I think

    This is a Fargo but there was a DeSoto badged model too


  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited April 2023
    And this is a fifties advert for IKA Argentina showing their assembled range of that time...



  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    The car on the top right is a bit obscure but appears to be one of these-


  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,526
    magnette said:

    In Istanbul, Turkey there was a Chrysler plant with the local name of ASKAM that used to market trucks under both the Fargo and De Soto brands until about 1978

    Oddly enough (or perhaps not so much when you think about it) those Fargo and DeSoto trucks built in Turkey bear no resemblance to anything Chrysler built in North America. The ones they built here before leaving the business entirely looked like this:


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  • laurasdadalaurasdada Member Posts: 5,263
    explorerx4 said:

    Saw this a few houses up the street.
    That's not a smudge in the lower left, it a white fuzzy dog.

    Convertible...er, "Roadster."

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 266,704
    andys120 said:







    It's the Lancia version of the Chrysler 300 ...

    Speaking of which, my wife and I found a show on Netflix that captured our attention ... it's called Pine Gap, and it's set at the intelligence gathering site in the Australian outback. One of the characters drives a RHD 300, which is odd to see.

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    edited April 2023
    We watched Pine Gap here and enjoyed it

    The Chrysler 300 was sold here in RHD another are still a few about though I haven't noticed one for a while now.
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,239
    The Argentinian green over cream IKA car which I posted was a described on the site that posted it as a 1960 IKA Bergantin.

    The origin of the body bore no relation anything from theKaiser or even Jeep range although that poster showing their range in the 50's includes a Renault Dauphine

    Renault - outside Europe in most cases - also distributed Alfa Romeo in some areas and the car which I posted has the body shell of an Alfa Romeo 1900 of early fifties vintage.
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