stuny Posted July 29 Share #23681 Posted July 29 Advertisement (gone after registration) Ivan - That is a most remarkable solve based on so little information in my crop and is almost spot-on. This one is a '53. Your turn. The production assistant who stopped me from stepping into the shoot remarked on my old film Leica - he had not seen a D2 before. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5840471'>More sharing options...
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Ivan Goriup Posted July 29 Share #23682 Posted July 29 Thank you, Stuart. One of the reasons I could immediately recognize this car is because one of my first purchases when I arrived in the US was to get a car I could afford, and a similar Buick like the one posted but in white with a turquoise top had to do. Lived with it until my college roommate / fraternity brother got drafted and was forced to offload his Oldsmobile Super 88 two-door hardtop with the much more powerful 'Rocket' V8 motor coupled to a Hydramatic transmission instead of the genuinely awful Buick 'Dynaflow' automatic.....ahh, memories from long ago & far away. . Let's try this one as the next specimen - shouldn't be too difficult. The usual info, maker, year of manufacture & model please. JZG Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5840576'>More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted July 30 Share #23683 Posted July 30 Hello John, Could this be a car from the USofA from the 1940's? Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 30 Share #23684 Posted July 30 1938 (ish) Chrysler Royal Convertible? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 30 Share #23685 Posted July 30 On second thoughts maybe a Cadillac Series 62 convertible from around 1939/40? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Goriup Posted July 30 Share #23686 Posted July 30 7 hours ago, Michael Geschlecht said: Hello John, Could this be a car from the USofA from the 1940's? Best Regards, Michael Yes, Michael, that is precisely what it is. Wilson, this is from a time when the US market was dominated by the 'Big Three', two of which are named, but it is the two who did not produce the maroon specimen. JZG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 30 Share #23687 Posted July 30 Advertisement (gone after registration) 1947 Lincoln Continental Convertible? Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Goriup Posted July 31 Share #23688 Posted July 31 A 1947 Lincoln Continental it is indeed. It's been almost 8 years now since we left benighted old California, consequently my flow of new images has been drastically reduced to a few snaps taken here and there at the very small number of worthwhile local car shows, where mostly older, retired MAGA types display their invariably American iron, which they either owned or fervently aspired to in their youth, or inherited from their 'daddies', in short, a far cry from the incredibly varied abundance of world-class collectibles and car culture of California, what with all the Concours', Monterey car week, Meccas like Canepa's shop and multiple & simultaneous Cars & Coffee meetings on weekend days going on in several cities and suburbs year 'round, tracks and motorsports events and the obsession with vintage cars. Earlier this year, I remember really snapping to attention when I ran across this very nicely and respectfully restored example of one of America's finest post-war automobiles at the local 'Eagle Car Show', and the fact that it was restored quite faithfully and neither hot-rodded or 'resto-moded' in any way really enhanced the encounter. As a life-long observer of the international 'automotive scene' and as a mechanical engineer and old-school lover & follower of the best and latest European automotive endeavors, I will never, ever fully comprehend the attractiveness nor the appeal of designing, building & installing a V12 flathead, or 'L-head' as the Brits call it, in an overweight, oversized and grossly under-engineered 'luxury' automobile, but I suppose we must remember these were heady postwar days with huge pent-up demand for anything new, brashly American and not rationed. Over to you, Wilson,...... but I suspect you will throw it open to anyone with something worthwhile to post. Thanks for participating. _____________________ PS: Stuart, please forgive me, don't mean to be pedantic about this, and it's nowhere near important enough to make an issue of it, but the car you posted above is most definitely not a 1953 Buick...of any model. '53 Buicks were an older, larger, heavier & more antiquated design with 'normal' windshields and different but readily identifiable chrome ornamentation, whereas the '54 (and later) series cars were a fairly complete redesign with somewhat for-the-time Italianate lines and a lighter, airier look but also, and most importantly, with the unmistakable, 'revolutionary' new identifier of the mid-fifties GM 'Futurama' school of design, namely the curved, wrap-around 'Panoramic' windshield. Harley Earl would never forgive us. Please feel free to verify this via Google, Wikipedia or any othdder somewhat trustworthy source, but if it was the same bloke who blocked you from proceeding in 'his 'production site', he must have been given incorrect information or misinterpreted what he heard,........in any event, trust me, that's not a '53. JZG Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5841062'>More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted July 31 Share #23689 Posted July 31 (edited) Despite the lacklustre engineering, those early Lincolns always had a fantastic presence. I particularly liked the 1961 Lincoln Continental that JFK was shot in (though obviously not for that reason). Edited July 31 by IkarusJohn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted July 31 Share #23690 Posted July 31 (edited) 7 hours ago, Ivan Goriup said: Quote A 1947 Lincoln Continental it is indeed. ... PS: Stuart, please forgive me, don't mean to be pedantic about this, and it's nowhere near important enough to make an issue of it, but the car you posted above is most definitely not a 1953 Buick...of any model. '53 Buicks were an older, larger, heavier & more antiquated design with 'normal' windshields and different but readily identifiable chrome ornamentation, whereas the '54 (and later) series cars were a fairly complete redesign with somewhat for-the-time Italianate lines and a lighter, airier look but also, and most importantly, with the unmistakable, 'revolutionary' new identifier of the mid-fifties GM 'Futurama' school of design, namely the curved, wrap-around 'Panoramic' windshield. Harley Earl would never forgive us. Please feel free to verify this via Google, Wikipedia or any othdder somewhat trustworthy source, but if it was the same bloke who blocked you from proceeding in 'his 'production site', he must have been given incorrect information or misinterpreted what he heard,........in any event, trust me, that's not a '53. JZG I was never a watcher of American cars, but the Lincoln seems a lovely old beast. - Regards the Buick, I quite agree. Definitely 1954 Buick Special :: https://images.app.goo.gl/nHrmd63j9REcbVQ1A I should have recognized that car was a Buick right off the bat. My grandfather was a big Buick fancier and owned a succession of them from before I was born until he passed away in 1970. A 1954 vintage itself would be a little early for me to actually have seen and recognize (I was born in 1954) but the stylistic signature was clearly '50s Buick. G Edited July 31 by ramarren Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted July 31 Share #23691 Posted July 31 My father used to describe the post-war series of the larger US cars as: "A pregnant whale playing a chrome plated mouth organ." Occasionally I used to drive a friend's 1954 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, when I was at college in Switzerland. He phoned our apartment one day to say it would not start and could I come up to Caux to have a look at it. I took the funicular railway from Territet to Caux, had a quick look at the Cadillac and instantly diagnosed an empty fuel tank. I said I would freewheel it down to Montreux, if he and his apartment colleagues gave me a push to get it rolling. I would then fill it up there at the petrol station right where the Caux road joined the main lakeside road and it was all quite steeply downhill from Caux. My friend gave me a handful of Swiss Francs to pay for the fuel. A big mistake. Without the engine running, there was no power steering and no servo brakes. The road from Caux to Montreux at that time in 1964 was very narrow and had multiple hairpin bends, often bordered with stone walls. Luckily the road also had very little traffic, otherwise I am sure I would have had more than one accident. As it was, I had both feet on the brake pedal and was pulling up on the steering wheel to try and apply enough pressure to slow the 2 ton + beast down for the hairpin bends and give me time to wind on the five half turns of steering needed to get round the bends. As usual for me, open to all. Wilson 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 31 Share #23692 Posted July 31 11 hours ago, Ivan Goriup said: A 1947 Lincoln Continental it is indeed. It's been almost 8 years now since we left benighted old California, consequently my flow of new images has been drastically reduced to a few snaps taken here and there at the very small number of worthwhile local car shows, where mostly older, retired MAGA types display their invariably American iron, which they either owned or fervently aspired to in their youth, or inherited from their 'daddies', in short, a far cry from the incredibly varied abundance of world-class collectibles and car culture of California, what with all the Concours', Monterey car week, Meccas like Canepa's shop and multiple & simultaneous Cars & Coffee meetings on weekend days going on in several cities and suburbs year 'round, tracks and motorsports events and the obsession with vintage cars. Earlier this year, I remember really snapping to attention when I ran across this very nicely and respectfully restored example of one of America's finest post-war automobiles at the local 'Eagle Car Show', and the fact that it was restored quite faithfully and neither hot-rodded or 'resto-moded' in any way really enhanced the encounter. As a life-long observer of the international 'automotive scene' and as a mechanical engineer and old-school lover & follower of the best and latest European automotive endeavors, I will never, ever fully comprehend the attractiveness nor the appeal of designing, building & installing a V12 flathead, or 'L-head' as the Brits call it, in an overweight, oversized and grossly under-engineered 'luxury' automobile, but I suppose we must remember these were heady postwar days with huge pent-up demand for anything new, brashly American and not rationed. Over to you, Wilson,...... but I suspect you will throw it open to anyone with something worthwhile to post. Thanks for participating. _____________________ PS: Stuart, please forgive me, don't mean to be pedantic about this, and it's nowhere near important enough to make an issue of it, but the car you posted above is most definitely not a 1953 Buick...of any model. '53 Buicks were an older, larger, heavier & more antiquated design with 'normal' windshields and different but readily identifiable chrome ornamentation, whereas the '54 (and later) series cars were a fairly complete redesign with somewhat for-the-time Italianate lines and a lighter, airier look but also, and most importantly, with the unmistakable, 'revolutionary' new identifier of the mid-fifties GM 'Futurama' school of design, namely the curved, wrap-around 'Panoramic' windshield. Harley Earl would never forgive us. Please feel free to verify this via Google, Wikipedia or any othdder somewhat trustworthy source, but if it was the same bloke who blocked you from proceeding in 'his 'production site', he must have been given incorrect information or misinterpreted what he heard,........in any event, trust me, that's not a '53. JZG Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Ivan - You are of course correct. Throughout the GM lineup, '54 was the breakthrough from rounded bodies with visually separated fenders (wings) to the nearly slab-sided, bodies with integrated fenders. Either that year of the next was my first visit to a GM Motorama. BTW: Google Rebecca Rusch for a decidedly non-MAGA Idaho resident, in a similarly minded community not far from you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 2 Share #23693 Posted August 2 Who would like to step in for Wilson & post the next mystery car? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted August 3 Share #23694 Posted August 3 On 7/31/2025 at 1:23 AM, Ivan Goriup said: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Just as a bit of trivia; the hard-top version of this car features on the cover of Little Feat's "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" album being driven by George Washington and with Marylin Monroe beside him... Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 4 Share #23695 Posted August 4 Well, how about trying something blue? All the usuals, please. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=5843401'>More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted August 5 Share #23696 Posted August 5 Hello Stuart, Could this be a car made in Italy from the 1980's? Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted August 5 Share #23697 Posted August 5 Pontiac Trans Am or Firebird from the '80s? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 5 Share #23698 Posted August 5 Michael - Not '80s, and not Italian. Graham - Not '80s and not Pontiac. It was made by General Motors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted August 5 Share #23699 Posted August 5 I'm sure I have seen those bonnet scoops on a car on one of my various visits to the USA. GM - Oldsmobile? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 5 Share #23700 Posted August 5 A lot closer - It is an Oldsmobile. Keep going. BTW: the Pontiac firebird shares much of its body, chassis and running gear with the Chevrolet Camaro. This Oldsmobile shares a lot with a different Pontiac and Chevy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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