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Simca Coupé-de-Ville This is every photo ever taken of a proud owner at a car show. I like the fixie of hipsters looking at the car, obviously thinking “what they hell is this thing”. I like the burly dude the with the white hat. I think he owns the black Austin Healey. I really like the guy with the pipe and tam-o-shanter detailing his Karmann Ghia. But best of all I like the proud owner-and-partner. This photo is from 1956, so these people are probably about as old as my grandparents, and I can really see my grandparents dressing this way, out with their Riley 2.5 or Borgward Isabella. /via VW+VW1500’s blog. Here’s the basic story of the photo: Charles Phoenix, […] sent in these slides of a 1956 car show held by the Four Cylinder Club at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. The Four Cylinder Club was based in Glendale but had chapters all across the U.S. It was a general foreign and sports car club that, despite its name, didn’t limit membership to owners of 4-cylinder cars There’s several more photos at the link, including one of the Karmann Ghia and it’s stylin’ owner. Click for high-res photo

Simca Coupé-de-Ville

This is every photo ever taken of a proud owner at a car show. I like the fixie of hipsters looking at the car, obviously thinking “what they hell is this thing”. I like the burly dude the with the white hat. I think he owns the black Austin Healey. I really like the guy with the pipe and tam-o-shanter detailing his Karmann Ghia. But best of all I like the proud owner-and-partner. This photo is from 1956, so these people are probably about as old as my grandparents, and I can really see my grandparents dressing this way, out with their Riley 2.5 or Borgward Isabella.

/via VW+VW1500’s blog. Here’s the basic story of the photo:

Charles Phoenix, […] sent in these slides of a 1956 car show held by the Four Cylinder Club at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. The Four Cylinder Club was based in Glendale but had chapters all across the U.S. It was a general foreign and sports car club that, despite its name, didn’t limit membership to owners of 4-cylinder cars

There’s several more photos at the link, including one of the Karmann Ghia and it’s stylin’ owner.

Matra Rancho There is almost nothing redeemable about the Matra Rancho. Based on a stretched Simca 1100 platform, clad in plastic with most of the bodywork made from polyester and fibreglass it’s weird looking and slow. Naturally I think it’s awesome. I blame Matchbox. And here’s a bonus bevy of brown Ranchos from the Simca get together in Prague from 2006. (You may notice the preponderance of manufacturers names in the tags on this post. They are all applicable. Yes, really.) (Pic via RANCHO) Click for high-res photo

Matra Rancho

There is almost nothing redeemable about the Matra Rancho. Based on a stretched Simca 1100 platform, clad in plastic with most of the bodywork made from polyester and fibreglass it’s weird looking and slow.

Naturally I think it’s awesome. I blame Matchbox.

And here’s a bonus bevy of brown Ranchos from the Simca get together in Prague from 2006.

(You may notice the preponderance of manufacturers names in the tags on this post. They are all applicable. Yes, really.)

(Pic via RANCHO)