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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    Hmmmm. But the license plate is too high.
    I'll go with that Dodge's being a 1958.
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,625
    For those strong of stomach, there is a 61 Plymouth between the 62 Chevy and the 60 Poncho.

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 267,348
    The moderator of my hometown "memories" FB page just uploaded a large number of automotive related pictures. I'll find some that are relevant to this group and post one every day or so.

    First up...


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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    Background left I see a Beetle perpendicular to a shoebox Ford Tudor, and a 59 Ford 2 door post to the left of it. Newest car I spot might be a 60 Dodge just below that 59 Ford. Also a 50 Ford 6th car from left in front row.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419
    edited July 2023
    55/56 Ford in the background, 57 and 58 Ford.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Next to the red Impala 'vert, a WILLYS JEEP All-Steel wagon.

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  • Lostwrench3Lostwrench3 Member Posts: 836
    1949 Chrysler.
    1951 Dodge.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 267,348
    BMW 507 - the OG BMW roadster, isn't it?

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,346
    Now we get this disaster….


  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    Inspired by a beloved mascot:

  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,625
    Front and center in Michaell's picture (OK, front and left) is a 59 Rambler.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Michaell said:

    BMW 507 - the OG BMW roadster, isn't it?

    Yup, it's a 1958 BMW 507 roadster, perhaps the most beautiful Bimmer ever made. The concept came from importer Max Hoffman who told BMW that a sports car built around their small V8 could compete
    with the 300SL. Styling was by Albrecht Goertz who figured out how to modernize the classic BMW
    split grille by making it horizontal.

    507s were owned by some well-known personalities including actor Alain Delon, racer Hans Stuck sr.,
    Ursula Andress and George Barris and The King,himself, Elvis Presley.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    tjc78 said:

    Now we get this disaster….


    I've just bought my 5th BMW and didn't even consider the current 4 series with the ugly vertical snouts.Instead I got a 2016 640i with the horizontal split grille pioneered by the 507.




    (mine is Silver)

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 267,348
    andys120 said:

    tjc78 said:

    Now we get this disaster….


    I've just bought my 5th BMW and didn't even consider the current 4 series with the ugly vertical snouts.Instead I got a 2016 640i with the horizontal split grille pioneered by the 507.




    (mine is Silver)
    Time to update your signature line!

    I do like that 6-series. If circumstances were different, I'd be looking at a 6-series GT.

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  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 17,346

    @andys120 said:
    I've just bought my 5th BMW and didn't even consider the current 4 series with the ugly vertical snouts.Instead I got a 2016 640i with the horizontal split grille pioneered by the 507.

    (mine is Silver)

    That’s a beautiful car!

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    Wide whites on that 507 seem off, not as funny as on an E-Type, but I am sure they were a USDM thing. The early teens BMWs like that 6er (congrats andy) are the epitome of taste and subtlety compared to BMW's apparent hiring of a Lexus design leader.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    fintail said:

    Wide whites on that 507 seem off, not as funny as on an E-Type, but I am sure they were a USDM thing. The early teens BMWs like that 6er (congrats andy) are the epitome of taste and subtlety compared to BMW's apparent hiring of a Lexus design leader.

    Whites appeared on all sorts of cars including sportsters back then. They were perhaps less common in Europe but I doubt were unheard of overseas.

    US spec ',65 XKE>



    My '66 TR4A came w similar wide whites.


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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,915
    edited July 2023
    andys120 said:



    I've just bought my 5th BMW and didn't even consider the current 4 series with the ugly vertical snouts.Instead I got a 2016 640i with the horizontal split grille pioneered by the 507.




    (mine is Silver)

    And you didn't even add it to your signature! :(

    Edit: Whoops! I should have kept reading....
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  • laurasdadalaurasdada Member Posts: 5,279
    Welcome to the topless BMW class of '23, Andy!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    sports car show>


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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 270,657
    andys120 said:

    sports car show>


    Austin Healy and MGA

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,177
    A row of classic British sports cars, and what's everyone looking at? A Land Cruiser...
  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,915
    Talk about classic!
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    And the MB W123 beside it.

    ADO16 5th from right, probably a MG 1100.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046

    Bumper basher spitfire middle of the row. And far end looks like rally’s style ford. I think that would be an escort not a cortina.

    And might be an Elan but nose of a red car that really looks like an NA Miata!

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    Just for the record, the ivory car is a 1964-67 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III/BJ8. It's fully-optioned with fog lights and wire wheels and probabably has the electric overdrive.
    I almost bought a '64 but decided the lowhanging exhaust wouldn't be good on the battered busted streets of NYC.

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,915
    andys120 said:

    Just for the record, the ivory car is a 1964-67 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III/BJ8. It's fully-optioned with fog lights and wire wheels and probabably has the electric overdrive.
    I almost bought a '64 but decided the lowhanging exhaust wouldn't be good on the battered busted streets of NYC.

    Fine, fine. But, what are the specs on that Land Rover?!
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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 21,025
    edited July 2023
    Obviously, there's a scantily clad young lady inside. :)
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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682


    I'll call the tan '52 Mercury with the one year only clothes iron tailight covers.

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,747
    The Mercury is a 1953 I believe, based on the side trim in front of the rear wheels not being a solid piece but instead being horizontal pieces and the trunk ornament has a horizontal bar extending out from it. The 52 has just a round trunk ornament.



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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,747
    The Buick is a 55.
    It's a Super, I believe, because it has a logo on the side in front of rear wheel. The Roadmaster has no logo.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    imidazol97 said:

    The Mercury is a 1953 I believe, based on the side trim in front of the rear wheels not being a solid piece but instead being horizontal pieces and the trunk ornament has a horizontal bar extending out from it. The 52 has just a round trunk ornament.



    My bad!
    I always get the '52/53 Mercs mixed up. Never mind the side trim or trunk emblems those steam iron tailights distinguish the '53 from other MYs if I remember correctly.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    I'll take the shoebox Ford Squire beside the Mercury, had a thing for those when I was a kid.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    fintail said:

    I'll take the shoebox Ford Squire beside the Mercury, had a thing for those when I was a kid.

    So did every surfer in mid'60s California.

    Next to the Woody wagon is a ca. '47'48 Chevy Stylemaster.
    Other side of the '55 Buick is a '53/4 Mopar of some sort.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    andys120 said:

    fintail said:

    I'll take the shoebox Ford Squire beside the Mercury, had a thing for those when I was a kid.

    So did every surfer in mid'60s California.

    Next to the Woody wagon is a ca. '47'48 Chevy Stylemaster.
    Other side of the '55 Buick is a '53/4 Mopar of some sort.
    53 Dodge, I think. Reminiscent of a car in a Hill Valley 1955 scene in BTTF.


    When I was a kid in the 80s in eastern WA, which was a klondike for old cars, there was a 49-51 Mercury woody sitting behind a house down the street from where I lived. Even then I knew that was a rare car, and as I had a thing for the 80s surfer style, I wanted it. I remember an aggressive dog lived at the house, so it wasn't easy to get a close look. Long gone, of course.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 54,046
    Studebaker pickup.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419

    Studebaker Champ. 60-64.

  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,747
    andys120 said:


    My bad!
    I always get the '52/53 Mercs mixed up. Never mind the side trim or trunk emblems those steam iron tailights distinguish the '53 from other MYs if I remember correctly.

    Both the 52 and 53 had those steam iron taillights.
    52

    53


    And the 54 taillights were different and I thought those were the greatest of all times
    when I saw them as a young kid.

    54




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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    The 1954 Merc shown has the glass roof section making it a Skyliner. Ford and Meteor had equivalent models.

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  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419

    Actually I think it was called the Monterey Sun Valley.

  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588
    imidazol97 said:



    Both the 52 and 53 had those steam iron taillights.

    I always thought those '52/'53 Mercury taillights were a very ham-handed design, ugly and unattractive. They finally fixed them for '54. That era was not a good one for Ford design overall.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    My grandparents had a 54 Mercury kind of like that back in the day:


  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    tmart said:

    Actually I think it was called the Monterey Sun Valley.

    You're right Tmart, my bad.

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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,706
    fintail said:

    My grandparents had a 54 Mercury kind of like that back in the day:


    4 kiddos? Great pic.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,756
    edited July 2023
    sda said:

    fintail said:

    My grandparents had a 54 Mercury kind of like that back in the day:


    4 kiddos? Great pic.
    Those are actually grandkids (some age gaps between kids in my family). The grandparents were in their late 40s when the pic was taken.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,419

    Still thinking of the Skyliner and Sun Valley, the front of the top was Plexiglass and not real glass.

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,682
    edited July 2023


    I think the first car on left is a 1960 Plymouth Valiant. one of number of "compact cars" introed by the big 3 in that MY.

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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,588
    edited July 2023
    As the sign says, I see a ‘62 Chrysler (a Newport I think), a couple of ‘62 Plymouths, and a Valiant, along with a pair of Fords, the required 1960 model along with what looks like a ‘55.

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