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Post by Red Lion on Aug 3, 2006 22:52:37 GMT -5
Anyone know what model year this car might be?  |
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Post by JoJo on Aug 3, 2006 23:12:55 GMT -5
That's gonna be a tough one, 'cause while it very likely pre-dates the 70's (no head rest) getting a precise read would be real difficult without seeing the exterior. Looks like an American make, the speedometer looks like many I saw growing up. Yeah a big, roomy, but generic US make from the 60's.
Pretty likely he's in the US or Canada with the steering wheel on the left like that.
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Post by Red Lion on Aug 3, 2006 23:52:18 GMT -5
My thoughts as well, but steering wheels and dashboards can be a tell. Possibly someone hard core into sixties cars would know what exactly it is.
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Post by Doc on Aug 4, 2006 3:56:26 GMT -5
Anyone know what model year this car might be? I vote for an American made, General Motors product between 1963-1966. I am thinkin' Cadillac. No headrests, it's pre 1968. The speedometer display is common to Caddies, maybe Buicks, maybe we have an Olds here.......bench seats, wide sun visors, but a non-wrap around dash. home.usadatanet.net/~lmmax97/64photos.htmlor Pontiac.. www.1963pontiac.com/gallery_33.htmI am sure that there is not an OUNCE of kinship to a Ford Motor Company product here. Considering all the trash they made in the 60's (the Mustang and their truck lines being the exceptions), though I admit I was always fascinated with Ford's products and followed every new model release with great anticipation (hoping against hope that it would get better, as my dad was a Ford man to the last, and he put some permanent curiosities in my head), but really, when a car company gives us the Mercury Meteor, the Ford Maverick, the Fiesta, the Mercury Topaz (a money pit if ever there was one in an economy model) and the eccentric and constant redesigning of the LTD/Galaxy/Crown Vic line......oh, god it makes my head spin.........and horror of all horrors, THE PINTO!!!!!! But we are dealing with a classy, well made GM car here. I digress. But about Paul's car then. It is right here actually, isn't it?: www.freemanfive.com/Inside.htmlthis is the steering wheel of a 1963 Cadillac, and it is beautiful in it's simplicity and cleanness of design. Love the red logo disc....Now, our pic of Paul's car interior is in black and white, and, yes, intense red tends to read as dark, almost black that way.  So, Paul's car is a Caddie of this relative vintage, the dashboard details tally pretty well but not perfectly, there is less filligree in the dash details, so his is......maybe a '62? Or, perhaps one is a (Sedan) Deville and one is a Fleetwood..... I love the 60's for the infinite variety expressed in small matters of detail in the execution of just about everything. |
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Post by Valis on Aug 4, 2006 5:25:14 GMT -5
"Brand new Cadillac for you...courtesy of The King"
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Post by lili on Aug 4, 2006 9:52:25 GMT -5
That could very well be. What year did they meet Elvis  |
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Post by Red Lion on Aug 4, 2006 12:08:37 GMT -5
On the money with the Caddy, good work Doc.
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Post by lili on Aug 4, 2006 13:07:47 GMT -5
I agree with RedLion. I was also very mpressed with Doc's ability to sniff out the right car ! ;D
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Aug 4, 2006 17:01:35 GMT -5
Doc knows his vintage cars as well as his vintage wines. I know this because the Weekly World News reported on this a few weeks ago.  But He hit the nail on the head because the pic of the steering wheel looks like the one with Paul. Besides, why would JPM be driving a FORD? Fairlane? That's funny. I wonder what's playing on his car radio? "Drive My Car"?  |
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Post by JoJo on Aug 4, 2006 21:33:15 GMT -5
Good job Doc. Those fins, oh man! I remember my great uncle's caddy, (who was a Doc himself down in Arkansas) and it was just like that, sweet cars in those days. Early 70's, the image of the Caddy well...sorta changed, and so he went with Mercedes from then on. The Ford Pinto, yes well.. I owned one briefly in high school , bought it for $300. (probably paid too much, lol) I say briefly, because one night I drove into a Burger King, didn't see in the dark that it wasn't one big driveway, (had a small curb in the middle) and... smashed the bottom of the car to smithereens. Probably just as well, that was a model year that had the exploding gas tanks.  |
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Post by lili on Aug 5, 2006 12:33:55 GMT -5
Exploding gas tanks ! Geez ! You were lucky that you got out of that one in one piece !!!  |
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Post by fourthousandholes on Aug 5, 2006 15:08:59 GMT -5
Yes, there may have been some reason your life was preserved; a mission of great import, perhaps!  |
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Post by lili on Aug 6, 2006 12:56:43 GMT -5
Yep. That could very well be it. I myself do not believe in coincidences. ;D
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Post by JoJo on Aug 6, 2006 17:55:40 GMT -5
I didn't mean to suggest that I got out of an exploding car, only that it was just as well it got taken "out of service". What happened was when that model year got rear ended, (it did have to get hit pretty hard, but still..) the gas tank when kaboom. Ford had to pay a big settlement to a guy who got burned up pretty badly.
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