Interesting cars from the past.

[roadhogg]

humber super snipe

 

[hollydolly]

View attachment 446101 humber super snipe

My brother one of these ^^^ his was in a slate grey that's all I can remember...

 

[hollydolly]

this is a Stanley Steam car from 1916 at one of the vintage car shows I go to....

 

[hollydolly]

The vast majority of cars at the Vintage car shows here are American.. so I'm not familiar with their names

Dodge...

the back of my husband on the left with something in his back pocket

 

[hollydolly]

Ford ...something, is that Edsel ?..we didn't have that Ford model here... I love it

 

[Tom52]

World's longest stretched limo.

 

[Tom52]

Saw this wooden body car in a museum in Denmark. I don't remember if this was a one-off custom or something else.

 

[Tom52]

A whole bunch of those European type mini cars owned by one guy. He has so many he has to stack them up on storage racks.

 

[Tom52]

Does anyone remember this car?

 

[squatting dog]

@hollydolly The red ford truck looks to be a 1954 F-100 1/2 ton
The Red Dodge is either a 1963 Dodge Polara or possibly a Coronet 330 or 440 model. Hard to tell without a rear view.

 

[Magna-Carta]

1977 Panther 6. "6" for obvious ressons. Produced in Weybridge, England, with its twin turbo 8.2 L (500 cu in) engine. Claimed top speed of over 200 mph.

List price of $96,000 (£40,000) in 1977. Equivalent to around $530,000 in 2025

 

[horseless carriage]

The last photo was like my first car. Same model same colour. You could stretch out full length with the rear seat lowered. Perfect for a teenage boy with something other than sleep on his mind.

 

[hearlady]

My Dad always had a Corvair like this but blue.

 

[Magna-Carta]

Auburn 851 Speedster (Supercharged)

If I were from the 1930s, this is the type of car that would appeal to me.

 

[roadhogg]

opel manta mk1

 

[C50]

Getting one of these old Briggs & Stratton motor wheel buckboards would be like finding the Holy Grail for me.

 

[Magna-Carta]

As a young child, I would watch a Lotus Europa glide past my house every late afternoon. Its low, wedge-shaped profile and mid-engine made it look like something from another world at the time.

It was the first car I ever truly wanted. After endless pestering, my mother finally bought me one. A toy version -- it was the closest I was ever going to get to owing one at the time.

 

[Magna-Carta]

My Dad always had a Corvair like this but blue. View attachment 446177

Nice choice, i would buy one. And not as unsafe as the world was led to belive.

 

[hearlady]

Nice choice, i would buy one. And not as unsafe as the world was led to belive.

I always called it The Poor Mans Corvette.

 

[JBR]

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That looks like one pf Richard Buckminster Fuller's experimental cars. Am I correct?

All of his were three-wheelers. Given their length, they had a remarkably small turning radius. They were streamlined and were sort of a minibus that could seat quite a few people. None of the prototypes led to a production model.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I always liked the elegant look of a 1956 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan. I found that it cost over $6000 when new, while a 1956 Cadillac Series 75 Fleetwood limousine cost between $9,746 to $9,960.

 

[ChiroDoc]

I remember the Tucker car. It was quite advanced for its time. The story of what happened to quash its further development is rather sad and cruel.

I hope this is not too risque, but there was a joke going around in the late 1940s about the advertisement for the Kaiser and Frazer automobiles: "Surprise her with a Kaiser, or amaze her with a Fazer." A common gag was, "I think I'll wait until the new Tucker comes out." ...

 

[Bretrick]

I came across this 1956 Buick Classic in Mandurah, Western Australia

 

[hollydolly]

Saw this wooden body car in a museum in Denmark. I don't remember if this was a one-off custom or something else.

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there was a similar Wooden beauty at one of the shows....

 

[hollydolly]

A tiny 3 wheel bubble car