"Tap into your wealth of knowledge and experience" For the Car Buff's...

[Ron in Regina]

Lone Wolf has already impressed me tonight with his arcane knowledge. I took some pic's
in January (OK....hundreds...but) and these are some mystery vehicles that I either don't
know what they are, or only recognize "parts" of these cars but not the rest of the vehicle.
I would like to tap into your wealth of knowledge and experience to see if anyone can
identify some of these cars...or even the parts on some of these cars. Here goes:

1) This is 4/5th scale of what you'd think when looking at it from the front.

 

[Ron in Regina]

2) How about this Heavy Hauler:

 

[Ron in Regina]

3) This is one of the weirder one I saw that still had four wheels. What is it?

 

[Ron in Regina]

4) Here's a bit of a Heinz 57. What on this can you identify?

 

[Ron in Regina]

5) How about this piece of strangeness? Anyone?

 

[Kreskin]

Unique cars. I like the little red one lol.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Unique cars. I like the little red one lol.

Me too! But what is it? I'm the first to admit that I don't know. Some bright Guy (or Gal)
is going to come out of the woodwork with an answer...or a convincing guess or two...

 

[Ron in Regina]

6) Anyone want to try this one? It's a bit more familiar...I think?

 

[Ron in Regina]

7) Or this?

 

[Ron in Regina]

8) This one? This should be an easy one!

 

[Ron in Regina]

9) This one most everyone should recognize in at least the 4 door version...

 

[Ron in Regina]

10) This one is my Favorite. Under the hood is the salvaged engine out of a Russian helicopter.
Wish I would'a got a picture of that. Does anyone recognize this car from their youth???

 

[talloola]

2) How about this Heavy Hauler:

IS THIS A LADA?

 

[talloola]

6) Anyone want to try this one? It's a bit more familiar...I think?

An Austin of some sort, don't know what year.

 

[scratch]

An Austin of some sort, don't know what year.

Could be a Vauxhall, but the grill is mysterious.

And there are no badges and the hood ornament gives nothing away.

....hmmmm

 

[Ron in Regina]

There is no badging on almost everything, and if there is, it's most likely off of another vehicle.
FORD and PIONEER decals are huge status symbols for most people for some reason too.
I'm at a loss identifying many of these things. I knew many of the old American cars from the
40's and early '50's as there are still some of them on the roads in Canada (& many in farmers
fields to crawl all over), but many of these cars are totally new to me.

I recognized some modern Pontiac body parts molded to things I couldn't identify....some with
some Jeep parts, and so on and so forth....

 

[Ron in Regina]

Something like #10 is a '53 Pontiac, and the Corvair's on the road on that island I recognized but
knowing a bit about their history and the timing of the embargo, I've no idea how several Corvair's
from the '60's ended up there...

 

[Ron in Regina]

IS THIS A LADA?

I don't know....I do know that #9 (the six door taxi) is a Lada though.

 

[Ron in Regina]

An Austin of some sort, don't know what year.

"Talloola," I think you might be right in that #6 is an Austin from the early '50's as I've
googled your guess and though I can't find the exact car, I'm finding very similar body
lines.

 

[Ron in Regina]

11) How about this one? Pretty lax window tinting rules except for the front window.