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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis week, boys and girls, we have a substitute teacher for friday challenge.
Year, make and model please!
And no cheating! (although in fairness, I've made cheating super easy by not obfuscating the url)
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Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)1960ish Chevrolet Corvette, late 1960s Triumph GT6 MK1, 1965ish Volvo 122.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The #1 Studebaker is a 1960 Lark. The Volvo 122 is a 1966.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)I'm saying 1935, because of the straight front bumper.
Model J?
Duesenberg Town Car
Ken Purdy wrote in the 1950s that the Model J Duesenberg was "the finest motorcar yet built in the United States." Few have tried to contradict him. Pow-ered by a four-foot long, eight-cylinder engine, with four valves per cylinder and dual overhead camshafts, it was a superior automobile. Between 470 and 480 J Models were built. They were owned by diplomats, debutantes, movie stars, robber barons, gangsters and religious leaders.
Specifications: Model J; engine eight-cylinder in-line, water-cooled; bore 3-3/4 in., stroke 4-3/4 in., displacement 420 cu. in., 265 hp. Price new: $8,500. for chassis only.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)1962-80 Triumph Spitfire
The small, saucy British Triumph Spitfire sports car was cheap, fun and had a body from Italian master stylist Giovanni Michelotti. It met demand for smaller, lower-cost sports cars from those who couldnt afford larger, costlier ones, such as the Austin-Healey or even the Triumph TR4.
The long-lived Spitfire was sold as a convertible that arrived for 1962 and as a hatchback coupe, which came for 1967. The coupe was dropped after 1973, but the convertible version lasted with updates through 1980.
The Spitfire got its name from a famous World War II British fighter plane. It initially cost under $2,200, mainly because it was derived from the small Triumph Herald family car. The Spitfire was developed shortly before Englands financially troubled Standard-Triumph was bought by Englands Leyland Motors, which took control in early 1961.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)I'd have taken an Opel GT.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)playing and all guesses. lol.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)betcha. number 5. pretty unique in body
JVS
(61,935 posts)1. Studebaker. Circa 1960. Maybe a Lark or Hawk or some kind of bird.
2. Packard. Around 1935.
3. 2nd generation Corvette, 1958 or so.
4. Triumph. Looks like some kind of GT version of a TR-6. Ca. 1969
5. Volvo, too old to be a 240. Maybe a 140, unless they had a different numbering system back then. From 1972 or so. Wheels look non-stock.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)#1 is a 1960 Studebaker Lark. This particular one was featured in Car Craft in 2009. It is powered by a 95 Corvette LT1.
#2 is a 1932 Packard DeLuxe Limousine. Surprisingly, apparently the Packard brand is owned by an Arizona corporation which has actually built a prototype of a model they want to produce.
#3 is a 1962 Corvette. You can tell because the cove is the same color as the rest of the car. Last of the straight-axle corvettes. Definitely on my bucket list and has been for 32 years, ever since I saw "Heavy Metal"
#4 Is a 1970 Triumph GT6. The hardtop model of the Spitfire had the same light weight, but a 6 cylinder motor and a more rigid chassis. I restored one of these in 1990 ("If you have a can of paint on the shelf called "red", I want that" and it was a rocket. Impractical, but a rocket attached to a skateboard.
#5 is a 1966 Volvo 122. I think they are cool as heck. I was strongly considering converting one of these to electric power, but after test driving one, I realize that the end product wouldn't be as nice as it is right now. I couldn't have taken a saw to it.