Name that car! (1 Viewer)

[pltrgyst]

Running at the Palm Beach International Raceway autocross night! Help!

 

[Perthmike]

Mazda MX5

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Car-e McCarface

 

[Beakertwang]

It's Doc Hudson!

 

[pltrgyst]

Mazda MX5

There's one in every crowd...

 

[gpc]

Oldsmobile 88?

 

[Perthmike]

There's one in every crowd...

Well it's possible you were asking about the Mazda and I'm afraid my knowledge of old American muscle is sorely lacking

 

[pltrgyst]

Well it's possible you were asking about the Mazda and I'm afraid my knowledge of old American muscle is sorely lacking

Not likely, though -- I drove and raced a prepared 1995 Type R Miata/MX-5 for 15 years.

 

[Perthmike]

Not likely, though -- I drove and raced a prepared 1995 Type R Miata/MX-5 for 15 years.

I bet that was fun to drive

 

[RowdyRawhide]

Oldsmobile 88?

49??

 

[Changster]

Cars... another endless money pit...

 

[pltrgyst]

I bet that was fun to drive

It was -- cheap and bulletproof. Only 1500 made, over three years. Wish I still had it.

Only problem was that I'm 6'3"+, and my helmet stuck up over the roll cage, so I had to slouch to pass tech inspection.

Still don't know what this oldie is though. Almost looks like an old Chrysler emblem on the front, but can't find a reference.

 

[k9dr]

Possibly a Plymouth ?

 

[Mongoose]

Chevy Bel Air???

 

[Ben8257]

I said the same thing Larry, looks like an old Chrysler emblem but really know Idea???

 

[Mongoose]

I said the same thing Larry, looks like an old Chrysler emblem but really know Idea???

Upon further review, could call in the Chrysler logo on the front of the car

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Oldsmobile 88?

moneys on the rocket

 

[Kensco]

If not the Mazda, then you must mean the 1950 Chevrolet Styleline Coupe

 

[Hornet]

There has to be some car expert on this forum that can nail this!

 

[inca911]

1950 Chevrolet fleetline de luxe?

 

[Zmasterben]

If not the Mazda, then you must mean the 1950 Chevrolet Styleline Coupe

Winner.

 

[Mattsme]

Love the pic! I grew up on a drag strip.

As others have said, I’d bet your chip collection it’s a 1950 Chevy. I bought two of them at 12 years old for $200. Wish I’d spent that money on good chips.

 

[Kensco]

Yep. Fleetline (fastback), not the Styleline

 

[BGinGA]

Did the Styleline also have a split-window windshield?

 

[Mattsme]

Did the Styleline also have a split-window windshield?

I had a Belair with a split window and a fastback without one. I used to have a book that detailed all the options available but it’s long gone. I want to say the fastback had a split window option, but that was many years and many more whiskeys ago, so I can’t confirm.

 

[fish72s]

Not likely, though -- I drove and raced a prepared 1995 Type R Miata/MX-5 for 15 years.

That's a long time.... I would have thought it would have run out of gas after 4 or 5 hours.
(There's 2 in every crowd

 

[slisk250]

1941 Plymouth...maybe

 

[pltrgyst]

Really odd to me -- my dad was a Chevy guy, but when I was growing up in the 1950s he drove mostly Studebakers, so I don't remember these '50 Chevys at all. And the hood ornament doesn't look even vaguely familiar.

The first guy in my social group to get a license bought a '49 Ford (flathead 8, iirc), which I remember in minute detail. Probably because of billions and billions of hours spent in the back seat riding to and from the Jersey shore.

My first car was a '57 Plymouth Belvedere convertible, which looked to me a hell of a lot more modern than this '50 Chevy, even though it was only seven years later. It must have been the new design generation of cars with fins...

 

[Darson]

Fleetline methinks... it's a bit hard to see the rear but it looks like a fastback, not a notch.

 

[asian bino]

Hemmings Article....one of my college roommates from W. Spfd MA....

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/fleetline-fidelity-1950-chevrolet-fleetline-deluxe/