Three cheers for tiredoldmechanic for correctly identifying Saturday’s 1953 Ford. Despite some good guesses, nobody quite nabbed the Jaguar from Monday.
Here is the inside scoop for tomorrow. Surprisingly, this is a car I cannot find mentioned anywhere in the rapidly expanding CC archives; undoubtedly somebody will get a handle on it.
I see T-Tops and a Broughamish interior so I’m guessing a GM G-body from the 80s since it is too formal looking for a Camaro.
Late 70s to mid 80s Monte Carlo or Grand Prix? Could you get a T top on the Regal or Cutlass?
1984 Grand Prix Brougham w/T-Tops and casket handle door pulls.
+1 It looks like the steering wheel is the 4 spoke of the mid-80’s GP as opposed to the 3 spoke from the earlier models. I believe only the GP Brougham and the Regal had the coffin handle pulls.
Dodge Mirada?
81 Pontiac Grand Prix. I am guessing the Brougham if there was one.
I’m going to agree on GP. It’s almost definitely a G-body and it’s not a Monte Carlo. I’ve never seen a Cutlass with T-tops and I don’t recall seeing them on Regals either.
T-tops were available on all A-body specialty(Monte Carlo/Grand Prix/Cutlass Supreme/Regal) coupes from 1978 up.
That is a Buick Regal Limited door panel if there ever was one. Trust me.
+1 – probably a mid 80s (1986?) Regal, I would say Grand National, but it does not come with those door pulls, so Regal limited.
I trust Carmine.
It’s a Regal Limited, 1982 or newer. A friend of mine had a 1981 Regal Limited and it had different door pulls but they changed to this style in 1982.
And T tops were available on the Century and Regal from 1975 to 1987.
Yes on the Regal and Century Colonnade through 1977, but after that, Regal only, the T-tops weren’t available on the 1978-1980 Aeroback 2 door cars and there were no more Century coupes after 1980, until the FWD Century came out in 1982.
It’s tough to peg the year, the door panels didn’t change much, earlier 1978-1981 Limited doors had a cloth insert where the wood is, but I am going to agree with Phil’s 1982, maybe 1983.
The later Limited door panels changed from the florid cursive Limited script to a more 80’s curvy-block lettered Limited around 1984. This one looks like it has the cursive script.
The 1987 Regals replaced the wood insert with a silver panel for some reason, a few other 87’s Buicks dropped the fake wood for 1987 too, only to bring it back in 1988.
I wanted to say it was an early ’70s Lincoln with the fixed moonroof.
But those didn’t have a divider in the center.
And the door pull was a belt style, not a chrome handle.
(And I’m pretty sure it’s not a t-top – that joint isn’t wide enough to handle a removable piece like a t-top.)
The t-top panels on those cars came together over the center bar, not on either side of it, with that rubber strip attached to one panel and protecting the center seam.
My guess is a T-top Regal from 1986