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Long time regular TTAC reader/contributor Chuck Goolsbee wins his second VW CC Clue. He nabbed the ’75 Rabbit, and now the Bus/Kombi. I guess it takes a lifelong VW driver to know one when he sees one. Congratulations. I don’t think I’ll be giving away too much to say that if Chuck is the VW master guesser, he may come up short with this one. Lots of luck!
[Update: it’s a hard one, so I’ll throw you a bone to at least keep focused: it was built in Michigan]
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1960-66 Chevrolet Suburban?
Reminds me of an early 60’s Vette, but that’s probably off.
60 Thunderbird?
Early 60’s Chevy van.
I thought it was a ’61 or ’62 Corvair Lakewood wagon, but it doesn’t match. It could be a Corvair Greenbrier or Rampside.
1961 Oldsmobile Cutlass wagon.
My first thought was… 1966 Chevy Suburban. I have no idea where that came from.
I think it’s some sort of truck or van, and not a car. There’s too much vertical plane for almost all cars, and it just doesn’t look like the only car contender I can think of, one of the box volvos. The Greenbrier seemed like a good guess to me, yet not quite right. The maddening thing is that it looks quite familiar, and yet I can’t conjure up anything beyond what’s in the picture, although I have a vague, gut-level sense that this might be some sort of Mazda, ’80s or later.
Or maybe, just maybe, an old Citroen van.
Corvair van. I remember cutting doughnuts in a poor farmer’s fields one day in my misspent youth. Amazingly, we didn’t roll over…
62 Mercury Meteor?
I’m too busy basking in glory to even put my brain on.
Thanks Paul.
When Paul first posted this, I thought 1961 Chev Panel van… mainly because of the color. But I don’t think the details match. Then, I thought Corvair van, but again I can’t match the details. I see several others have had the same thoughts. Definitely, the color is keeping me thinking early 60’s GM van… but I can’t put my finger on it. Something with a rear liftgate rather than swing open rear doors? Or was there even such a thing? Perhaps I’d better start thinking European? I keep coming back to this for another look… Thanks Paul for hours of entertainment!
Hard to pin down. I’m thinking 1970-2010 GM Perception Gap.
+1 Funny.
It’s not a panel gap, it’s a handy slot for sliding your owner’s manual back into the car without bothering with the door.
Made in Michigan? That narrows it down to about 180 possibilities, spread out over a hundred years.
58 thunderbird
Just the phrase “1970-2010 GM Perception Gap” is hilarious.
I think the Perception Gap needs to be open-ended, 1970-?
That’s an odd one. The picture looks like it is the rear end of a 1950s or early-1960s vehicle, most likely a wagon because of the upright quality of the lines. Am inclined toward a 1950s vehicle because that’s when more wagons didn’t have a tailgate flush with the bumper. I assume that the chrome at the bottom of the picture is a bumper; if that’s not the case then I’m not grasping what part of the vehicle this is.
If these above assumptions are correct, I’m not remembering a wagon with such a pronounced horizontal character line right above the bottom of the tailgate. For example, I don’t think it is a Checker wagon.
Is this a vehicle from a low-volume producer? (Re: not from the then-Big Five.)
Hehe.
” For example, I don’t think it is a Checker wagon.”
So does this count as a win or not?
He was right in thinking 50’s – 60’s wagon and Checker wagon came to his mind and was only excluded because he recalled it having less flair. He could have just as easily guessed Checker anyway.
I’d say give him the glory – I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Checker wagon.