Mystery car pix

Michaell · November 24

stickguy said:
Red Torino wagon.

Silver foreign job is stumping me.

BNW coupe of some sort, to my eyes.

Lostwrench3 · November 24

BOAC ! 1940-1974.

Oops. This isn't mystery airline pix.

bhill2 · November 24

I'll be the one to shoot fish in a barrel. Front and (kind of center) a 65 Chevy Impala 4-door hardtop.

Michaell · November 24

Lostwrench3 said:
BOAC ! 1940-1974.

Oops. This isn't mystery airline pix.

"Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC...."

kyfdx · November 25

Michaell said:

stickguy said:
Red Torino wagon.

Silver foreign job is stumping me.
BNW coupe of some sort, to my eyes.

I don't think it's the BMW 2000 CS. The taillights aren't quite right. But, it's a similar look.

andys120 · November 25

stickguy said:
Red Torino wagon.

Silver foreign job is stumping me.

Silver car is likely a BMW 2000CS or 2800CS.

ab348 · November 25

The Ford wagon looks huge until you realize there is an even bigger Chrysler fuselage wagon ahead of it.

I am also stumped by the silver car - I thought at first it was a BNW but now don't think so. It appears to have a pair of body pillars bisecting either end of the rear window. Stumped.

This appears to be the intersection of Veteran Ave and Santa Monica Blvd, now very different. Today there is a Porsche dealership at that corner, and the rail lines are gone.

texases · November 25

kyfdx said:

Michaell said:

stickguy said:
Red Torino wagon.

Silver foreign job is stumping me.
BNW coupe of some sort, to my eyes.
I don't think it's the BMW 2000 CS. The taillights aren't quite right. But, it's a similar look.

I agree, the taillights are different, along with the two bars in the rear window:

explorerx4 · November 25

Saw a couple of not often seen trucks around the corner the other day.

stickguy · November 25

That is 2 ends of the spectrum.

fintail · November 25

I think the foreign car in California is a Fiat 2300 coupe, sold in very small numbers in the US but I think a handful made it over. I had a toy car of one when I was a kid, it was an old toy even then.

texases · 2:48AM

@fintail said:
I think the foreign car in California is a Fiat 2300 coupe, sold in very small numbers in the US but I think a handful made it over. I had a toy car of one when I was a kid, it was an old toy even then.

Looks like you got it:

andys120 · 3:34AM

Yup, I failed to notice the bars in the rear window of the silver coupe. Those were a defining characteristic of the Fiat 2300 Coupe . The 2300 Coupe was the top of the line for regular production Fiats. There were wagon, sedan variants and special-bodied versions br Allemano, Abarth, Ghia and others.

I'm pretty sure I have seen a few way back in the 60s or early 70s.

ab348 · 3:40AM

Ah, that is it.

In looking it up, it was based on an unfortunately-styled 6-cylinder boxy sedan that reminded me of an Austin Cambridge with a less attractive-looking front end. The coupe had a different design up front that looked better, and seemed irresistible to Italian coachbuilders, who produced a few of their own variations of it, all of which looked better than the Fiat versions.

kyfdx · 5:18AM

I cheated.. as I owned a '67 2000 CS for 5 years in the '80s.

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