By Robert Emslie
April famously arrives like a lion, and bows out as would a lamb. Of course, if this year’s edition is anything to go on, you’d need to plug a polar bear in there someplace, as this year April has been snowy and cold in a lot of places. In an attempt to warm the cockles of your heart, or at least take your mind off the lost toes, we’ve got the weekly Mystery Car.
This week we’re going to the junk yard. Our contender sits in one of Southern California’s many U-Pull-Em yards, and as a hint I will tell you that it is in a row with a ’69 Mustang, a ’50-something Studebaker Commander, ’52 Chevy Sedan, ’68 Cougar, and a ’60 Metropolitan. It’s an eclectic mix of iron to be sure.
As you might recall, the rules are simple – make, model, year-range and likely engine (this one I will tell you is missing its engine) to win. Okay, it’s now time to get on it, before the trail grows cold.
Kamil Kaluski
looks to be a derivitive of sorts of an Austin Cambridge…
Austin A 90 Westminster; 1955/6?
I think the two-tone paint means it's an A105.
I think you might be right!
I believe so. Combined with that side trim, specifically a '56. I wonder what the wrecking yard is calling it….
2.6 L straight six
Look what I found at a u-pull-em.
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nice fiero
Bettle, methinks.
Malibu
I need to find a Cavalier-NSX with lambo doors.
I don't give a damn what kind of car it is, I just want your kind of junkyard where I live. All the places I know of have almost nothing older than 1995.
The Ecology Auto Wrecking yard closest to me has a section just for "classic" cars. I grabbed a set of door handles from a Renault Dauphine from there to use on my LeMons car.
That's one junkyard I wouldn't mind dropping a couple bucks just to walk in the door. Even if they had nothing I needed, it would be a cool place to just walk around and fiddle with stuff.
I wanted to say Wartburg 311, but he grille lines are a bit off
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