Game: Guess That Car

[GMCSonoma]

Originally Posted by darndot

Number 2 is a International Travelall. early 70's.

A friend of mine and former GMI poster had one of those....rare to see and his was in mint condition!


There is a dealer in Fort Madison, IA that sells & refurbishes old IH's like the Scout, Travelall and Terra's...

[mikmak]

Originally Posted by helen m

i hope no-one minds me resurrecting what appears to be an old thread, but i can't help making the observation that #3 looks like a datsun 1200.

+1 or Dato 1600 depending on your wallet

[MonaroSS]

Originally Posted by member12

Sigma has number 1 correct.

Artrix has number 4 correct.

And no, number 2 is not a Jeep (good try, though), and number 3 isn't a Falcon.

I hate to be pedantic. No that's not true, I love being pedantic, especially about old cars....

However Artix was not correct in claiming that number 4 was a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado. Yes that rear end in the pic would have belonged to either a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville (the flash version of the Coupe de Ville) or a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz (convertible), and either of those would have been a correct answer.

But you may say, well if either Eldorado coupe or convertible model would have had that rear end then the generic Eldorado name IS correct. And yes that would be true if not for the fact that in 1959 Cadillac also sold another Eldorado model that did not have that rear end. It was called the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham and it had a unique hand-made Italian Pininfarina built body.

So, because of the existence of the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, which does not have that rear end in the pic, you need to specify either the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville or Biarritz sub models to accurately guess the picture.

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville or Biarritz


1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham

[osiris]

[MonaroSS]

Originally Posted by osiris

Nice Lancia Montecarlo (1975-82).

I think it may have been called the Lancia Scorpion in the US.

[MonaroSS]

What car is this?

[Hudson]

1960 Desoto Adventurer

[t-rex]

Originally Posted by mikmak

+1 or Dato 1600 depending on your wallet

Puh-leez, mikmak, give us something harder!

That's an HQ Monaro.


See if you guys can ID any of these GMSA vehicles...

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

[helen m]

"G" is an HQ Holden Statesman

[Hudson]

A is a Chevette

[GMCSonoma]

C looks like an Acadian Beaumont...

D looks like a Ranger...IMO, those were sold in the Benelux and South Africa...

[t-rex]

Originally Posted by helen m

"G" is an HQ Holden Statesman

The body panels were supplied by Holden, but it's not a Holden! Note the Chevy bowtie on the grille!

Originally Posted by Hudson

A is a Chevette

Nope. The name's close though! This car is bigger than the Chevette, derived from the Opel Ascona.

Hint: "B" isn't a Chevette either!

Originally Posted by GMCSonoma

C looks like an Acadian Beaumont...

D looks like a Ranger...IMO, those were sold in the Benelux and South Africa...

Correct! C a '68 model. It came in six versions: four sedans, 230/250 manual and 230/250 automatic, and two hardtops, 230/auto, 250/auto. At the time GMSA had two dealer networks, Chevy-Opel, and Holden-Vauxhall-Pontiac, and this model gave the latter dealers a parallel model to the Chevelle.

"South Africa's Own Car", the Ranger, came out in mid-68, and used the Opel Rekord body but with Vauxhallesque grille. It also used Vauxhall front suspension and steering (as did the SA-built Opel Rekord), and was offered to the Vauxhall-Pontiac dealerships to give them an equivalent model to the best-selling Opel Rekord. GMSA consolidated in 1971, the former Vauxhall-Pontiac dealers were closed, and Opels and Rangers were then sold through Chevrolet dealers.

The four cylinder engines were the 153-cube derived from 60s Nova, and there was a smaller 130-cube version for the base models.

[ChevySScoupes]

Is it a ford pinto.

[helen m]

Originally Posted by t-rex

The body panels were supplied by Holden, but it's not a Holden! Note the Chevy bowtie on the grille!

Just found a reference on the 'net to a "top-end Holden Statesman with a Chevrolet V8 engine called the Chevrolet 350" from South Africa. Is that it?

[nota]

^^ the abracadabra word is Constantia