Help me with name och year (of the car) Please..

Discussion in 'General Station Wagon Discussions' started by Nilsson65a, Sep 16, 2018.

  1. Nilsson65a

    Nilsson65a New Member

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2018
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    2
  2. rrbnut

    rrbnut 1991 Mercury Grand marquis Colony Park LS Wagon

    Joined:
    Jun 15, 2013
    Messages:
    1,216
    Likes Received:
    253
    Trophy Points:
    202
    Wagon Garage:
    3
    Location:
    San Diego
    by the license plate, I'd say it is a European car, probably in Austria or Germany; best guess is late 40's, early 50's
     
  3. Grizz

    Grizz Are we there yet???

    Joined:
    Mar 4, 2016
    Messages:
    2,501
    Likes Received:
    1,033
    Trophy Points:
    523
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Nashville, TN
    More information on the picture if ya got it
     
  4. Poison_Ivy

    Poison_Ivy Dogzilla Fan

    Joined:
    May 20, 2017
    Messages:
    11,094
    Likes Received:
    3,485
    Trophy Points:
    706
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Feeding effigy ice cream to Dogzilla
    Enlarging the image, no wrong hand side steering wheel is to be detected. So, Brit and Ireland can get ruled out. The guy's wearing his trousers up to his manboobs. So, I'd say northern European.
    The best clues are the plates which could get compared with other European vehicles and the vehicle itself which has its exhaust manifold on the left side.
    Here's an older Austrian plate. Like the one on that unidentified panel truck or sedan delivery, it also has a letter beginning 5 digits of which the following four are numbers:

    [​IMG]
     
    Last edited: Sep 17, 2018
  5. Grizz

    Grizz Are we there yet???

    Joined:
    Mar 4, 2016
    Messages:
    2,501
    Likes Received:
    1,033
    Trophy Points:
    523
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Nashville, TN
    No tail lights?!
     
  6. HotRodRacer

    HotRodRacer Moderator Staff Member Moderator

    Joined:
    Oct 24, 2017
    Messages:
    1,254
    Likes Received:
    562
    Trophy Points:
    278
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Northeast Tennessee
    I think it's 30's-very early 40 too. I think the "tail light" is in combo with the tag light above the license plate. No directional signals though.

    My Dad's 35 Ford had one tail light as well.
     
  7. Poison_Ivy

    Poison_Ivy Dogzilla Fan

    Joined:
    May 20, 2017
    Messages:
    11,094
    Likes Received:
    3,485
    Trophy Points:
    706
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Feeding effigy ice cream to Dogzilla
    It could be that the illuminated license plate might be the tail lighting :nailbiting:
     
  8. 101Volts

    101Volts Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 11, 2013
    Messages:
    3,029
    Likes Received:
    295
    Trophy Points:
    198
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    Now that you mention it there might be a light just above the license plate. I thought the 73-77 Malibu Wagon had some of the worst placed tail lights ever (in the bumper? sheesh) but this looks worse.
     
    Last edited: Sep 18, 2018
  9. OldFox

    OldFox Curmudgeon

    Joined:
    Feb 20, 2013
    Messages:
    1,369
    Likes Received:
    370
    Trophy Points:
    195
    Location:
    West Tn
    In the US at that time, a red running light with a clear lens to illuminate the license plate was required on the left side of the vehicle. Hand signals were required for turns and stopping. We still had to learn them in 1962 when I took driver's ed in high school. I suppose they are still legal to use today, but few would know what they meant. They'd be too busy watching their cell phones.
     
  10. HotRodRacer

    HotRodRacer Moderator Staff Member Moderator

    Joined:
    Oct 24, 2017
    Messages:
    1,254
    Likes Received:
    562
    Trophy Points:
    278
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Northeast Tennessee
    We had to learn them in 1982 as well. I'm with you - today if you hand signaled a left turn, people would think you were pointing at something; if you signaled a right turn, they'd think you were waving at someone; and if you signaled stop, just that you had your arm hanging out the window.
     
  11. Silvertwinkiehobo

    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

    Joined:
    Apr 21, 2014
    Messages:
    14,984
    Likes Received:
    2,993
    Trophy Points:
    720
    Location:
    New Braunfels, TX
    I still at least use the left-turn hand signal when merging to a highway or freeway, as I have long arms and only an idiot would mistake that for 'pointing something out.'

    Of course, if some dolt went to use hand signals while on a cell phone, they'd drop it....:slap::biglaugh:
     
  12. 101Volts

    101Volts Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 11, 2013
    Messages:
    3,029
    Likes Received:
    295
    Trophy Points:
    198
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Pennsylvania
    I was born in 1991 and I got my license in 2012. Hand signals were still in the Pennsylvania DMV manual then.
     
  13. Nilsson65a

    Nilsson65a New Member

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2018
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    2
    Hi!
    Thanks!
    It is/was a car from Sweden.
    And just got the registration card.
    Ford E 493 C 1952
    34 hp 4cyl
     
    101Volts likes this.
  14. rrbnut

    rrbnut 1991 Mercury Grand marquis Colony Park LS Wagon

    Joined:
    Jun 15, 2013
    Messages:
    1,216
    Likes Received:
    253
    Trophy Points:
    202
    Wagon Garage:
    3
    Location:
    San Diego
    wow,that is great that you not only found out what and where it is from, but the actual registration card? How did that work? Would be interested in the process.
    Cheers
     
    101Volts likes this.
  15. Poison_Ivy

    Poison_Ivy Dogzilla Fan

    Joined:
    May 20, 2017
    Messages:
    11,094
    Likes Received:
    3,485
    Trophy Points:
    706
    Wagon Garage:
    1
    Location:
    Feeding effigy ice cream to Dogzilla
    Swedes didn't start driving on the right side of the road, until 1967. When I lived there, yhearing news of persons driving on the wrong side of the road wasn't seldom. My joke for them was always to comment on them playing Swedish Roulette

    http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-in-history-swedish-traffic-switches-sides-september-3-1967/

    [​IMG]
     

Share This Page