Subject: Help with a friend's car blog
10/01/2009 @ 02:45:10: Animatronixx: Help with a friend's car blog
You want rare and old cars? You get 'em! Out of the collection "cars I drove" :sol:

1958 Pontiac Chieftain 4-door Sedan 6 Passenger

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/58PC84.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/58PC84rear.jpg

1962 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 (the "fire extinguisher" with horribly ugly boomerang antenna)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/62r60.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-429S.jpg

1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado (looked pretty good, but the car was basically an idiot!)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-439S.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-438S.jpg

1964 Cadillac DeVille Convertible (wrong hubcaps, never got the correct ones, supposedly still looks like this)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-641S.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-643S.jpg

1968 Checker Marathon (with new tires, I just loved that car! We only had it for a few weeks.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-635S.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-634S.jpg

1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible (Incredible condition, had about 7000 original miles! Aftermarket alloy wheels.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-714F.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-710F.jpg

1984 Cadillac Seville (the white one was way better, but I don't have pics of it)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/84Seville.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC-786F.jpg

1966 Cadillac DeVille Convertible

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC02600.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC02615.jpg

1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 (That was a cool car!)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC02620.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC02632.jpg

1969 Cadillac DeVille Convertible (had already forgotten about this one)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC03163.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/MVC03166.jpg

1963 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special (My personal favourite of these ones, I drove it a lot and still miss it sometimes... Also played the role of a Chaika in a movie.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/DSC00942.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/DSC00952.jpg

1993 Cadillac Fleetwood (the whale body, we had several of them, but this was the one I drove most of the time. Carries a custom vinyl roof, but is NOT a Brougham.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/93Fleetwood.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/DSC00158.jpg

1960 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (we had at least 3 of them in persian sand metallic through the years, so the color became somewhat annoying to me :lol: )

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/C60CFront.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/C60CRear.jpg

1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (an old banger, but I liked it and had many rides with it. A "boomerang car" that came back every few years just to be sold again! Everybody has owned it once. :lol: )

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/DSC00926.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f292/charon-1/DSC00931.jpg
10/01/2009 @ 12:37:17: CarChasesFanatic: Help with a friend's car blog
My God... :bave: where did you take the pictures by the way?
10/01/2009 @ 18:26:39: taxiguy: Help with a friend's car blog

2)Ford LTD: Don't worry, I got a rear view of another LTD. http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/1973-ford-ltd-coupe/
By the way, the one you posted, since it has vinyl roof, would that make it a Brougham or it must have the logo too?


If I remember correctly, that paticular one was simply an "LTD"



9)Chevrolet Caprice: http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/1978-chevrolet-caprice-classic/
Which are the exterior differences with an Impala of the same year?


Yes, the Impalas had a different front end.



10)About the Buick, I couldn't find a rear view of the car, but your pic is great and the car isn't common as well. By the way, weren't "Estate Wagons" renamed to "Electra Estate Wagon" in 1980?


The higher-end ones were, but the cheaper ones were called "Lesabre Estate". I think it'd be a safe bet to call this one an "Electra Estate"



11)Buick LeSabre Coupé: http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/1986-buick-lesabre-coupe/
Congratulations, you found a really good example of that rare car. Which trim level is yours? Custom? Hadn't Limited other hubcaps?


No idea to tell the truth. :tongue: I don't follow Buicks quite that closely.


Also I checked out your blog and I saw that you are severly lacking of American cars, so I'm going to go out and take some pictures for you so your blog can be more complete.
10/01/2009 @ 21:02:42: taxiguy: Help with a friend's car blog
I went out today but unfortuneately it's very bad weather, so I was only able to get one car for you. But it's a good one! Sorry for the snowiness but the picture is still worth it since it is a very rare car!

1980 Chevrolet Malibu 4-door sedan

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=egsfhd&s=5

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=23qtc2&s=5
10/01/2009 @ 21:11:26: CarChasesFanatic: Help with a friend's car blog
Nice pictures :tongue:
11/01/2009 @ 06:03:08: marioman3138: Help with a friend's car blog
Here are some I took while on holiday in Cairns:
Holden Commodore [VE] Highway Patrol
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2571/s6301016vu8.th.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6166/s6301017cv0.th.jpg
Ford Falcon [BA] Police
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3711/s6301029ec6.th.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9665/s6301030lx4.th.jpg
Toyota Hilux Police "Div Van"
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7462/s6301031vq7.th.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2824/s6301032dp0.th.jpg
2008 Toyota Camry (our Hire car)
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/645/s6301403xb2.th.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8872/s6301405ns0.th.jpg
Ex Army Land Rover
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8821/s6301026mf7.th.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8742/s6301027vn5.th.jpg
1942 Ford Jeep "Duck"
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3374/s6300048mg7.th.jpg
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6128/s6300051pp2.th.jpg
11/01/2009 @ 10:08:56: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
Hmm, it seems, that I was able to upload pics. Sorry, that I only post the links, but I still don't know the trick with the thumbnails.

Here my quarter-million-all-day-Bundeswehr-Opel Omega:

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.013OKSYx1Axz06U0K.jpg

still with the flag-holder:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.0196QbG20OyxbNH0s.jpg
11/01/2009 @ 10:19:25: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
O.k., the most of my car-pics are still paper-photos, but a few I can offer.

Here pics of my eBay-file. I used them, when I've sold my dad's 1990 VW Passat Variant GT at eBay in spring 2007. For 400 Euro it went to Russia.

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.0188iN077TIUhL3At.jpg

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01G1cKqb29OEbZBbk.jpg

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01Fuzc7MRBWm050jj.jpg

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01LM4L3YngDj7AGOf.jpg

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01UUHRkapkrP8Dozo.jpg
11/01/2009 @ 10:19:45: CarChasesFanatic: Help with a friend's car blog
Oh great military color on that Omega Ingo! and nice car of course :grin: what's that 38 number and the "sticker" on the boot?
11/01/2009 @ 10:31:32: IRT_BMT_IND: Help with a friend's car blog
You can use any of my car pictures in http://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~smichail/photos/ if you wish.
11/01/2009 @ 10:36:15: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
My Dad's new car, a 2003 Mercedes A 210 in front of a Scottish abbey, together with my Omega:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01lEk9eFnEiMW6shw.JPG

Its front (in the stomach of the ferry):
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.016cWENQhhLozQDAL.JPG

Both cars in the ferry:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01GUPH6i0DjYg7ZvG.JPG
11/01/2009 @ 11:12:42: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
@coopey: here also the back of my K 70:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.018ISIXoO6o15XHLq.JPG
11/01/2009 @ 11:19:27: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
@CCF: it's the regiment's sticker. The car was from the "38. Führungsunterstützungsregiment" in Berlin-Tegel. I let it on the car, because it's more stylish and people, who are knowing the meaning of these signs, will see, that my car is "from the top", because this regiment belongs to the Bundeswehr headquarter in Berlin.

The colour is quite rare, because it's glossy. This was only possible for some general's cars, all other were matt olive.
"Were", because in the last years the Bundeswehr gave up its own passenger-car- and light-truck-fleet. Nowadays they ar using leasing-cars. These leasing-cars are silvermetallic or white with stickers "BW Fuhrpark" on the side. Most of them, i'd seen, were Skoda Octavia, Mercedes Sprinter and for the higher officers Mercedes E-Klasse.
11/01/2009 @ 12:08:19: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
Our rental car for the US-East-Coast-trip last February, a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01bMi6nqc2YMYBVtD.JPG

A bus for IRT_BMT_IND (airport shuttle Newark):
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01ZSzNOKe1WMZzeFb.JPG


Several US-police-cars. When we are on vacations, we are taking photos of them for my wife's brother, who is a cop.

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01dtRqZ95TaPzyXIG.JPG

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01BwaH0SUT62IVG1d.JPG

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01BRz3NuzaoChXYFv.JPG

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01BB18TlfTIceIG0V.JPG
11/01/2009 @ 12:32:35: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
Impressions for our Chile-trip in November 2006:

Decoration at a loney restaurant in the Atacama-desert:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01wbF3XHAJLRO5vrd.JPG

Supersized truck in the coppermine of Chuquicamata:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.015yzf7oRmOqgPSNa.JPG

Police-vehicles in Valparaiso:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01Qo0YQnL20FpCQSU.JPG

http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.016qdEmQ7yxnhxCSo.JPG


Police-vehicles on Rapa Nui/Easter Island:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01swiQ2PbWc0fsLSV.JPG
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01yyuaH38xbEVrsCB.JPG

@TRT: annother bus for you (overnight travel with sleeping-chairs from Santiago to Pucon:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01yw0jirlGKgfH6Yx.JPG


One of the plenty (6 or 7?) bursted tires in Patagonia:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.011ePhD5FyU8fn59C.JPG
Meanwhile we drank Pisco, the local brandy.


At least something special. We went o a penguin-colony nearby Punta Arenas. While the journey we passed a private car-museum. I was total surprised, when I saw its eye-catcher:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.01HOxWnH3UdHpZSMD.JPG
Quite surely the most Southern NSU Prinz 4 in the world. Not the most Southern NSU at all - the guy also had a Pinz III in his collection, which I could see in hte local TV. Unfortunately there was no time left to visit the museum.
11/01/2009 @ 12:43:16: coopey: Help with a friend's car blog
Thanks for all those pictures!
Specially to animatronixx for that great bunch of American models, to taxiguy for the Malibu and Ingo for that fabulous A210.
I liked your Omega too, but I need a 3/4 front picture as well.
About IRT_BMT_IND: which car is that one that appears in 2 pictures called "paykan"? It looks interesting.
And to marioman3138: I'd like to put your rental Camry Altise, but I've seen in your profile that you know or you've had a long list of models. Have you got pics of them?
And it would be nice if you upload the cars you see in the streets where you live.

Thanks to all. I'll post your pics later because now I'm a bit busy :tongue: I'll put the links here.
11/01/2009 @ 12:51:45: ingo: Help with a friend's car blog
@coopey: the "Paykan" is the Iranian license-production of the British Hillman Hunter/Humber Sceptre (the world's car with the most different names).
11/01/2009 @ 19:39:41: coopey: Help with a friend's car blog
Ok, I've added the Paykan. Have I named it correctly?
http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1967-iran-khodro-paykan-deluxe-1600/
11/01/2009 @ 20:25:11: coopey: Help with a friend's car blog
Here are the links of the car I've added:

VW City Golf (I've read there's also a City Jetta. Has anyone seen it?) http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/2008-volkswagen-city-golf-5d-typ-1j/

1980 Malibu http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1980-chevrolet-malibu/

Camry Altise http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/2007-toyota-camry-altise-xv40/

Pontiac Chieftain
http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1958-pontiac-chieftain-4d-sedan-6-passenger/

1962 Fleetwood Series 75 http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1962-cadillac-fleetwood-series-75/

1974 Fleetwood Eldorado http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1974-cadillac-fleetwood-eldorado-convertible/

1964 DeVille http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1964-cadillac-coupe-deville-convertible/

Checker Marathon (thanks a lot for this one!) http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1968-checker-marathon/

1976 Eldorado http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1976-cadillac-eldorado-convertible/

1984 Seville: Thanks but I already had another in the other blog.

1966 DeVille http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1966-cadillac-coupe-deville-convertible/

1968 Fleetwood Series 75: The car looks really good, but front and rear aren't enough seen.

1969 DeVille: I already had one in the other blog.

1963 Fleetwood Sixty Special http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1963-cadillac-fleetwood-sixty-special/

1993 Fleetwood http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1993-cadillac-fleetwood/

1960 Coupé de Ville http://carphotoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/1960-cadillac-coupe-de-ville/
When did Cadillac change "de Ville" name to "DeVille"?

1978 Fleetwood Brougham: Front isn't enough seen.

@Animatronixx: I see you've had very affective relationships with those cars :tongue:

Thanks to all. Keep sending pics! :wink:
11/01/2009 @ 21:31:09: IRT_BMT_IND: Help with a friend's car blog
The City Jetta looks like this
http://www.vw.ca/vwcms/master_public/virtualmaster/en_ca_on/models/city/city_jet- ta/gallery0.html
They are fairly common in Canada, and I will take a photo if I see one.
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