Let's play Name That Car

Post by **matthew1** » 17 Sep 2022, 16:16

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Post by **June** » 17 Sep 2022, 16:56

Looks like a 1979 Mazda and a 1979 Toyota had offspring.

June

Post by **gnalan** » 17 Sep 2022, 17:44

A Mazda RX-5. Nice! If I remember right that's the first car the rotary engine was used in.

Post by **abscate** » 18 Sep 2022, 04:58

gnalan wrote: ↑17 Sep 2022, 17:44 A Mazda RX-5. Nice! If I remember right that's the first car the rotary engine was used in.

My first college girlfriend had one of those, she was very fast.

Post by **abscate** » 18 Sep 2022, 05:07

First if two Long Island entries today…

Post by **abscate** » 18 Sep 2022, 05:07

.. a bit harder….

Post by **June** » 18 Sep 2022, 07:45

Corvair known to be "Unsafe at Any Speed" lol and a 1920s Dodge. June

Post by **BlackBart** » 18 Sep 2022, 09:12

abscate wrote: ↑18 Sep 2022, 05:07 First of two Long Island entries today…

“That’s a funny place to put an engine.”
- Ferdinand Porsche

Post by **BlackBart** » 18 Sep 2022, 09:23

Name these Ukranian cars..........

(not serious, just a sad display of waste)

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Post by **matthew1** » 18 Sep 2022, 09:42

June wrote: ↑17 Sep 2022, 16:56 Looks like a 1979 Mazda and a 1979 Toyota had offspring. June

Great eye, June, I would have said the same thing if had drank enough coffee and stopped for a moment to think about it. I usually do one of those two things regularly. The cup is half full.

gnalan wrote: ↑17 Sep 2022, 17:44 A Mazda RX-5. Nice! If I remember right that's the first car the rotary engine was used in.

Yep aka CD Cosmo, yes on both counts if you include its father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Cosmo in the rotary powerplant arena.

The official name of this sample is 1980 - CD23C Mazda Cosmo Limited.

Off topic: my dad's career was at John Deere, and sometime in the early 1980s Deere had a contract (?) with the Dept. of Defense to develop a rotary for Army vehicles, but it never went anywhere. This is from memory... from 40 years ago, so take with a grain of salt.

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What do you guys see in this car? I see lots of Italian, with a dash of early Thunderbird (roof, B-pillars). I love the over/under tail lamps... which hint at American 50s designs to me but I don't know where that comes from exactly. It just looks like a 50s Jet Age American design item. Love it. And those tall steelies, my goodness. So pretty... and BIG for the size of the car.

1967 Mazda Cosmo L10A (Series I)

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