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Originally Posted by Kariba
And for a bonus point, Caveman, please ID the car in the driveway behind Donna's truck. I think it's a Mopar from 66 or thereabouts.
I don't like to post without putting up a pic, so here are three to start a conversation.
The first one is obviously a Buick, but I'm guessing it's a 56 Buick Special. But more importantly, the lady decorating the grill is an absolute honey. Buick fans please tell me when Buick changed the motor from a straight 8 to a Vee 8. And did they use the Chevy V8?
The first time I ever travelled at 100 mph in a car, I was in a 57 Buick special, 4 door, pillarless, with column shift and a manual gearbox. I was a very young kid at the time, but it made a lasting impression on me. The Buick had a speed warning buzzer that could be set to go off at any speed. After a lot of whining and pleading from us boys, my friend's dad set the buzzer for 100 mph and gassed it. When that speedo needle passed 100 and the buzzer went off, I swear I got my very first boner.
I'm guessing the beetle is 62 and the clue to age is the american style horn ring. Maybe the beetle is later than 62. Help, someone. I had a 62 Beetle. It used to fill up with water in heavy rainstorms and I never found the cause. And I never found any naked women in my beetle, so the car in the photo is special.
I'm struggling to ID the third car. Mustang maybe (Or is it a Mitsubishi?) I only post the pic to display that beautiful blond lady. The car is from the era when enviro-mentalists had cut the balls off American muscle cars and they were trying to grow them back, one hormone at a time. I believe that Ford even sold four cylinder mustangs for a while. That's probably what killed Steve McQueen. Cancer was just the cover story.
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Aging Buick mechanic from the 1970s here, Buick went V8 in late 53 with 54 models all being V8. I'm going to put that Buick to a 1957 model, one of the higher priced model(Special or a Roadmaster). As for the VW, unless I see the taillights or rear window, I can't tell pre-64 models. 3rd car is what I know to be called the Fox bodied Mustangs from about 10-12 yrs ago. As for the Mopar, could be 68-71 Dodge. As for women pictured, I have fond memories of a number of farmers daughters in various stages of undress parked out in midwestern cornfields
