Maybe anyone with the handle is larsupreme should be disqualified from any further CCCCC related Clues. Sure enough, he snatched it away before anyone else even had a chance. Well, let’s try an interior shoot; google won’t be so helpful here, although I doubt larsupreme needed that today. A forensic plasticologist will have an unfair advantage here.
Looks like a Chevrolet Vega to me.
1963-ish Ford Econline van maybe
What is that stalk made out of? Metal?
1977 Olds Starfire (In honor of CCCCC).
Really any 75-80 H body cars.
Did Olds make a Starfire Supreme? A mini-brougham perhaps……….
Seriously………….if it were an H-body, I’d guess a Monza based on the steering wheel ( I think they used the same one as the Camaro ).
It does look like a smaller early 70’s domestic, with a probable floor shifter.
I was originally going to say Monza just because they were more common. I just figured I’d carry the Olds theme over.
The generic Chevy 2 spoke wheel is what that one looks like. Most Camaros had the “sport” 4 spoke one. Though from that angle it could be the Camaro 4 spoke.
Olds did make an Omega Brougham from 1976 to 1979, both coupe and sedan.
Hmm, I’d say 1971-72 Vista Cruiser. The short glovebox door seems more 68-72 A body to me, and it keeps with the variant of the CCCCC theme.
I think I do have a *small* advantage with Oldsmobile clues. I’m only 29, but my Uncle was a Parts Department Manager at two different Oldsmobile Dealerships in the Bay Area from about 1963 til he retired in 1997. He took the job after he was rejected from being a Highway Patrol officer (rumored to be because he was “passing” the color line… discussion on race relations during the 60s for another time).
Apparently knowing the performance parts available for full size Oldses, he ordered up a rather hot 1964 Super 88 that put the Impalas and Galaxies that were the family regulars to shame, even my Grandfather gave up on Fords and Bought Olds 98 Sedans til the end of his life.
By 1970 all of my dads brothers were Oldsmobile Converts. They stuck with Cutlasses primarily (1975 being the epic year where they all had different ones, A Supreme, “regular” Cutlass S and my Dads Salon), But My Uncle Al, being a grandiose person, bought 98s like his dad. He still has his 1984 Triple different shade of Purple 98 with barely 100K on it as his “Sunday” car. And my dad is weighing whether his 1995 88 Royale should be his last car, or should he get (the only logical replacement) a lightly used Lucerne.
Ok… Maybe I do have an advantage with the Olds clues…
The 71-72 Cutlass had the Cigarette lighter in a closed compartment with the ash tray above the radio. Chevelles/Montes had the Cig lighter to the right of the radio knobs and I believe the LeMans/GP had them in a pod below the dash and I believe the Buicks were similar.
(Sorry, I wasn’t being snippy, I was being distracted while typing..)
I’m a few years older than you, and for me the Olds love affair began when my dad bought a 1986 Cutlass Supreme Brougham. My obsession continued on through my time with my 1987 Cutlass, and from there through my time working for a small Olds dealership in northern Michigan, and being there when GM announced that Olds was dead, to my owning one more Olds, an ’04 Alero made a month before the last one was made. During all these years I collected as much Olds stuff as I could get my hands on, I still have all of it too! So, I’m saying all that to say this…you, Dan and I could make quite the formidable Olds team here at CC, as well as at TTAC!
More on my love of All Things Olds as this series progresses…
Oh, and it does look like a 70’s GM H-body.
Man whatever it is it looks like there was a small electrical fire.
Is it a Chevette, Paul?
70’s Camero or at least GM product, I remember those rubber lighter and radio knobs in a cousin’s Camero . That’s what I’d guess.
how about a ’71 Vega ?
Chevy Vega or Monza. I owned both.
A CC on the Vega has already been done, so I’ll say Pontiac Astre.
The matching knobs on the cigarette lighter and the radio scream early 70’s. The shape of them says FoMoCo to me. Steering column and turn signal lever definitely don’t look like the GM parts bin. Since Paul is obsessed with LTDs, I’ll say a pre-downsized (pre-79) LTD.