Storing a classic car under an evergreen tree is never a good idea. Especially when said tree sheds needles and pitch all year round. I shot this troubling scene in an upscale neighborhood of Everett, Washington, where car tarps are no match for the wet climate. A general sense of decorum (and mold allergies) prevented me from sneaking a peek, so I have no idea what’s under all that mangy debris.
Possibly a ’70s Corvette, but maybe a more exotic GT. What do you think?
’70’s Camaro
I see long hood-short deck. Hmm.
some kind of mossda?
Ax, you win the internet for your excellent punnage. Always appreciated in Dead Swede Land.
Jensen 541S is what first popped into mind, but the roofline and hood scoop placement don’t match.
Part of me would love for you to be right, but I would hate to see a beautiful Jensen treated so badly.
But the later canted headlight model might, my first thought also, other thought Ferrari big coupe 330-365 GT
Mid-late 70’s Camaro. Sloping grill is giveaway. Big bumper. 74 – 76?
I vote for a Camaro also, but a later plastic bumpered one , like a ’81.
My guess is a Jaguar E-Type (XK-E) mainly due to that long hood, but the shape looks less E-Type in the rear.
I was leaning E-Type too, but didn’t want to muddy the waters. This car is near my son’s place in Everett, so next time we visit I’ll have my wife pull back the car cover. She would have NO problem doing that.
60’s Jaguar sedan?
I’ll bet that under the cover it looks even worse. 70’s Camaro was my first thought. The garage behind it is probably full of useless crap while a car that was once worth something rots in poor storage.
Jag XK-150
That does look very likely.
Not sure about the car, but the tree looks like it’s probably a Giant Sequoia. The clue is the “snaky” looking twigs in the foreground of the second picture.
Good call, Matt. I agree that it probably is in fact a Giant Sequoia. They grow in the Puget Sound region if they’re close enough to the salt water. I was so blinded by the grody car cover, I didn’t pay that much attention to the tree!
We have a lot of Giant Sequoias planted down here in the Portland-Vancouver area, too. I can see why you were distracted by that cover. In this wet climate, I see plenty of algae-covered tarps, but that one is the worst I’ve ever seen.
“an upscale neighborhood of Everett, Washington” Hmmmm, with a long dead car, and driveway covered in tree debris, and a plastic trash can lid, viewable from the street? I wonder what a downscale neighborhood looks like! 🙂
Funny thing is, the downscale neighborhoods are only 1 or 2 blocks east. Every house with a view of the salt water is “special.” Great architecture in that area though. A lot of 1900-era homes built by the original Timber Barons.
A downscale neighborhood in Everett features several abandoned houses and roads that should have been repaved 10 years ago. Like Dead Swede mentioned, you can be in a beautiful neighborhood with multi-million dollar houses and then two blocks over is an area you don’t feel safe in at night.
““an upscale neighborhood of Everett, Washington”
I lived in Everett for eight years. There actually are some beautiful neighborhoods, but most of the city is downscale. I would lean toward the second generation Firebird/Camaro. The vast majority of Everett is not a hotbed for vintage Jags.
I would have to agree with your Firebird / Camaro guess. I could picture that sort of car “Cruising Colby,” but not necessarily an E-Type Jag (which I still hope that it is…).
I want to agree with others that it’s a second gen Camaro, but that hood looks way too long for the body proportions and the roofline isn’t quite either. Could be camera angle or distortion(the second picture is what is especially throwing me off), but it just seems too narrow and too long in the nose for my pretty strong F body senses.
Total left field and probably incorrect guess, Bristol 408/9/10
Studebaker Golden Hawk would be my guess
A Hawk was my first thought too, but a Hawk’s hood peak is as high as (and forward of) the headlights, not the case here. It also looks like there is a forward-thrusting hood ornament.
My stolen car…..just kidding😚😚😚😚
Looking at how close the car is to the tree, I’m contemplating it’s RHD. Looks like a rear-view mirror on the door on that side, too. What’s visible of the rear wheel looks like it’s not wire wheel, though. My mind can’t unsee a hood scoop with the inlet slightly ahead of the headlight buckets (which appear to be rounded at the top), but I can’t find anything with a scoop that far forward in my searching. Also agree that this has an extremely long hood.
This is like a vehicular Rorschach test!
+1 to all, and as to the last, see below.
The shape looks 60s Jaguar to me, but I don’t know the model.
(My first thought was 70s Camaro, but the wheelbase looks off)
Really not a lot to go by on this one!
Seems to be a hood ornament under that cover, which argues against a Camaro, if I remember correctly. I’ll cast another vote for a Jaguar XK.
My first thought was Jaguar E-Type as well, except I would hope anyone who owned an E-Type would take better care of it than that.
Then I though maybe something like an MGB GT, except after looking at some photos the proportions aren’t quite right, so it’s probably now one of those.
I know! It’s this Excalibur/Towncar mashup abomination!
Aston Martin DB4?
XJS
I’m thinking Jaguar XJ-S too.
+2 Proportions match, most lumps and protrusions seem to line up, its common as dirt, exotic enough to cover, and in true V12 Jag spirit hasn’t run in a long time
Zimmer Quicksilver
I think it’s a second gen Camaro.
What if it’s John Weitz’ custom build off of a Z-28?
Rorschach test indeed it is.
One minute an old Jag, the next a Camaro, the next one of the smaller Bavarian Alps, the next two people having sex. (Well, you’re the one showing the dirty picture).
Essentially, then, what Everett is you cedar is what Everett is you cedar.
Personally, I think it’s a conspiracy, hiding in plain sight.
An early MGA …
Studie. Somewhere between a Hawk and an Avanti…
Sad that we’ll never know.
Did we ever get an answer to this mystery?
Probably should not guess twice, but seeing it appears there’s no solution forthcoming, I’ll say late 70’s Clenet roadster. The mass is just narrow for it length, with too long of a front ahead of the windscreen for stock pony car, and the wheelbase is quite expansive as well.
My first reaction was Jaguar, but the front ( as others have said) looks Camaro. I think what looks like a curved, Jag like roof moulding is a seam in that very crusty tarp. I think that tarp would stand up without the car’s support
You hit the nail on the head, Chris! That tarp probably could stand up without the car’s support. In fact, I think the car may have totally dissolved away to nothing but a rear wheel. Like an Alka-Seltzer tablet.
In my neighborhood, the local government would have issued a violation to the homeowner about the stranded car and accumulated needles and pitch.
My neighbor had a Honda Accord with a nasty bash to the right front corner making the vehicle inoperable. It sat in the driveway for 3 to 4 months before the local government issued a notice about the Accord. With in a few days, it was gone.
I’d say that it is absolutely in no way shape or form a 70’s Camaro or Corvette, because if you look closer, there’s two prominent round headlights atop the front area, and also, as some have mentioned, there’s a big hood ornament by the looks of it. Guesses of a Jag or even the Excalibur/ Towncar mashup are the closest, but I’m still not seeing an exact match based on the protrusions and silhouette at the front of the car.
Also, the hood–unless it’s the camera–is RIDICULOUSLY long. I’d lean towards 80’s excess (Quicksilver, etc), but the back roofline has a gentle slope to it that seems to indicate a genuine classic and likely foreign. My guess is that it’s something that was super expensive and pretty rare, even by super expensive and pretty rare standards.
I’ve narrowed it down to the following:
*Ford Pine-to
*Sunbeam All-pine
*Some sort of Pine-ti-ac
*’34 wagon and I call it a Woody.
OK I’m sorry for the puns, don’t needle me for being sappy. That’s just my sense of humor, I guess I should branch out.
Love the punnage, RJR. Now I have to wash out my brain with some Pine-Sol.