Mystery Car – The Golden Years
They sometimes call music from the past golden oldies, and today’s Mystery Car is both gold, and, as evidenced by its dogleg windshield, is an oldie. The question is, how old – and is that windshield a red herring trying to mask its true age and identity? Who knows? What I do know is that, even though this car is older than you by far (or is it?), you’ll probably still get it right away.
You know the drill – make, model, engine. Okay, go for the gold!
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Oldsmobile F-88?
I think you're correct, and here is the proof…
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qT3UDL8ZyQ4/Tar25uKQ2AI/AAAAAAAAGGc/EoLQwKzXDI0/s640/f887.jpg" alt="">
Image from serr8d's cutting edge blog
I thought "That looks like the Oldsmobile Corvette show car". That windshield is pretty distinctive.
Tin Eye would agree.
http://www.tineye.com/search/19d6301735690265ced3…
That's what I was thinking of – isn't it also called the Golden Rocket?
Well, I know what it is, but I cheated so I'll go sit in the corner.
reminds me a lot of a skoda felicia – more research to follow
so I was super wrong, but it still reminds me of a skoda felicia
<img src="http://autofrei.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/img_3977.jpg" width="500">
From now on when someone sneezes I'm going to say "Skoda Felicia." It just sounds so pleasant.
lol. and, yet elegant.
<img src="http://www.gothamgarage.net/images/GoldBatmobile1f.jpg", width=400>
batman!
I think you mean…Bat GOOOOOOOLD!!!
Yes, this is the infamous Bat & Gold Batmobile.
Hurst Edition
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ke6H5NtKJ6M/TlNw5ADg7HI/AAAAAAAAKcI/sj2Bx3mqyfo/s400/294424_164659390279067_112295155515491_325776_3555240_n.jpg">
So that is what Sam Sparro was singing about. [youtube eHuebHTD-lY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY youtube]
For some reason, the Mystery Car post didn't load in my reader, so, sorry, but I am a day late and an NSX short.
Oh wait…
<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/CDXNSX/NSX/gre-1.jpg" width=500>
I feel something is missing here…
<img src="http://www.inotocar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Latest-info-Honda-NSX-production.jpg">
I think we need to make the much-mentioned switch to photos that do not appear elsewhere on the internet, and maybe to make that happen switch to unusual details of slightly more common cars spotted on the street or at shows. Close details could make the most obvious cars interesting again, like figuring out that old Chevy frame.
http://www.vft.org/Museums/Gateway/F88-Olds_0226….
The F88 Olds resides at the Gateway Museum in Gateway Colorado. http://www.vft.org/Museums/Gateway/Gateway.html
If I wasn't "working" so damn hard…
I knew this one! But only because I was just at the museum in Gateway. Mom and I took a trip down there when I was at home in Grand Junction a few months ago. Nice museum, although the displays and stories of the cars are horribly placed (each in a position where you cannot even see the car it references while you read the history.)
This is an extremely pretty car, sitting on a turnstile spinning for all eternity. I do wish they had put it a bit lower. I am 6'3" and was having problems getting a good view of the interior.