Show me a nice old car

CMur12 said:
This is the original Subaru Kei car from the 1960s. I believe it was sold briefly in the US as the Subaru 360 (as in 360 cc engine). It was our first exposure to the brand.

- Murray
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Back around the Spanish-American War Subaru broke into the American market with these cars, around the mid - late 70's. They bragged you could put 30 or 40 soccer balls into the luggage compartment and pitched that. The Subaru dealers, supposedly, had to sell a raft-load of 360's before they could get the four stroke cars. This is way back before Joe Subaru, of course. They were not much of a car, but that YouTube link is to a guy on Portland, OR, who loves them.
 
boojum said:
Back around the Spanish-American War Subaru broke into the American market with these cars, around the mid - late 70's. They bragged you could put 30 or 40 soccer balls into the luggage compartment and pitched that. The Subaru dealers, supposedly, had to sell a raft-load of 360's before they could get the four stroke cars. This is way back before Joe Subaru, of course. They were not much of a car, but that YouTube link is to a guy on Portland, OR, who loves them.
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Boojum, they brought the Subaru 360 to the US in 1968, as I recall. Because the displacement of the engine was under 850cc, they were exempt from the new emissions requirements.

Subaru introduced the 4-cylinder 1100 to the US market in 1971 or 1972.

- Murray
 
My guess:
1966 Lotus Elan Series III Coupé​

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Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujinon XF 50mm f2 lens
Classic Chrome film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - March, 2022
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CMur12 said:
Boojum, they brought the Subaru 360 to the US in 1968, as I recall. Because the displacement of the engine was under 850cc, they were exempt from the new emissions requirements.

Subaru introduced the 4-cylinder 1100 to the US market in 1971 or 1972.

- Murray
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Well, you have me on the dates. But IIRC the dealers squawked about having to unload a bunch of 360's in order to get the four strokes. The 360's did not sell well alongside American Iron.

And, hey, it was Joe Isuzu, not Joe Subaru.
 
boojum said:
Low mileage and does not burn oil.
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I will not have a bad word said about Hudsons. When I bought my Railton, which was a Hudson 8 in an expensive English suit, it had already done a quarter of a million miles on what appeared to be the original engine. For a £100 car in the late '60s it went really very well. Rose tinted glasses have blanked out the rate of consumption of vital fluids but safe to say that as student we had to club together to fill her up.
 
That's a very tidy Fiat 500. I have just spent an hour under its older relative, a 600, wrestling with brake lines that have been together for over 50 years...tempted to give up and go back to film photography!
 
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