Mystery car pix

Michaell · April 6

Fort Collins, CO in the 1960s

ab348 · April 6

Curious Falcon Ranchero. Looks like it might be a mobile billboard.

stickguy · April 6

I thought it was a tow truck and that seemed really weird.

Red 1967 Camaro.

fintail · April 6

10 year old 50s cars looked like things from a different world then.

I see a big white 64 Galaxie parked at left, alongside a black 59 Chevy wagon.

texases · April 6

@ab348 said:
Curious Falcon Ranchero. Looks like it might be a mobile billboard.

I’m thinking it’s from a glass repair shop.

explorerx4 · April 7

I thought it was a mobile drilling rig.
Two 67 Chevy's, 2nd cars in on left and right. Impala on the left and a Caprice on the right.
60 Ford just past the white 64 Ford on left?

andys120 · April 8

Gen2 VW MicroBus (white over blue) parked on right past two wite pickups.

texases · April 8

I'm thinking this is another of those photos that has been 'juiced up', several bright yellow vehicles of the same shade, but the distant cars are all in pretty much black and white...hmmmm.

texases · April 8

Here's what a modern-day glass repair rack looks like:

I be surprised if the rack in the Ranchero pic was actually painted yellow, they were usually just wood, maybe varnished.

xwesx · April 8

Maybe. Yellow vehicles weren't uncommon in those days.

fintail · April 8

Vancouver, 1984 maybe, zooms fine:

stickguy · April 8

later run Volvo 145 with the extension bumpers in the center. Nose of a gen 2 Prelude at the far right.

xwesx · April 8

I saw a Volvo that looked very similar to that today. No hood.

bhill2 · April 9

The car in front of the Volvo is a 70s Mercedes, likely a 450SEL. It has the same wheels as my 85 380SE

fintail · April 9

I was trying to discern if that W116 is a LWB or SWB. I agree it appears to be a longer car, likely a 450SEL. Bundts were offered on W126 through the 1985 model year (along with many other models, wheels replaced by flat face "gullideckel" wheels for MY 1986 but appeared on the W201/190 series cars from launch in MY 1984).

texases · April 10

In front of the MB a '77-ish Cutlass?

fintail · April 10

I think the Cutlass might be an 81+ style.

texases · April 10

Yep, '81+

fintail · April 10

Olympia WA, 1970, zooms fine:

tmart · April 10

61&64 Fords?

Lostwrench3 · April 10

1962 Pontiac.
1963 Pontiac.

kyfdx · April 11

texases said:

Yep, '81+

I remember similar wheels on my sister's '73 Cutlass that she got at college graduation.

ab348 · April 11

That basic style of wheel was called SSII (if finished in metallic gray) or SSIII (if finished to match the body color). Olds used them from 1968 onward in a number of different variations.

kyfdx · April 11

Yeah, her car was pale yellow, with matching colored wheels

Michaell · April 11

I always like those wheels on the Cutlass. My cousin had one of that era ('78?), but it had wheel covers instead of these special wheels.

fintail · April 11

In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

explorerx4 · April 11

67/68 Mustang fastback behind the stacked headlight Pontiac Lemans/GTO.
Look at the shadow.

tmart · April 11

@fintail said:
In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

Based on the chrome stuff on the rear fender, I think it’s a 60 Thunderbird not a Bullet Bird.

fintail · April 11

tmart said:

@fintail said:

In Olympia, bullet Bird parked at far L.

Based on the chrome stuff on the rear fender, I think it’s a 60 Thunderbird not a Bullet Bird.

Maybe a 62? Not a squarebird with that rear quarter window (required zooming):

tmart · April 11

Your zoom much better than mine! I agree a 62.

andys120 · April 12

Havana, Cuba/2025>

tmart · April 12

Colorful. 55,57 and 58 Chevys.

explorerx4 · April 12

57 Buick. Funny, just about all those cars have the same windshield.

fintail · April 12

I suspect at least one of those is a cut down non-convertible. Apparently those are in demand as tourist taxis.

fintail · April 12

Vancouver again around 1970, same general location as a prior pic, zooms fine:

tmart · April 12

White Falcon wagon

explorerx4 · April 12

Wow! a 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Cale Yarborough Edition.

stickguy · April 12

White 4 door nova.

The interesting piece is the AMC. Looks like a Rebel machine from the paint scheme.

explorerx4 · April 12

@stickuy,
That's a Mercury.

stickguy · April 12

Might be distorted on my phone. I thought after I posted it that it could be a mercury (cyclone?). Back window looked off

ab348 · April 12

stickguy said:
Might be distorted on my phone. I thought after I posted it that it could be a mercury (cyclone?). Back window looked off

Yeah, suuuuure.

explorerx4 · April 12

Damn autocorrect.

roadburner · April 12

explorerx4 said:
Wow! a 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Cale Yarborough Edition.

The Ford equivalent was the Torino Talladega.

fintail · April 13

I was thinking that Cyclone was an AMC too, color combo relating to a special edition was not in my mind.

texases · April 13

fintail said:
I was thinking that Cyclone was an AMC too, color combo relating to a special edition was not in my mind.

Like the '70 'Rebel Machine':

Michaell · April 14

San Fernando Valley, undated photo:

Lostwrench3 · April 14

I thought Mystery Car Pix was rated G.

tmart · April 14

1st gen Cougar.

tmart · April 14

@Lostwrench3 said:
I thought Mystery Car Pix was rated G.

Confused. No more topless cars? Convertibles have to have their tops up?

texases · April 14

Here it (Sunset Strip) is today, calmed down quite a bit:

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