Coldplugs - New York International Car Show

1964 was an interesting year for the NY show. The Mustang II presaged the Mustang production car and the Sunbeam Tiger came to the US. Other cars included the Mercedes 600, a limo (!) version of the BMC 1100, the AMC Rambler Tarpon, and the Rover 2000. Price for a ticket: $2.00.


The 1964 Austin Healey certainly was longer, lower, and wider. Note the Checker sign in the upper right - New York City was a big market, of course.	Griffith by, um, Chrysler.

The Mustang II concept car.	Do I really need to identify this? I didn't think so.

This picture could be straight out of the thirties, but it's from '64. (or not - if it's from '65 would someone please let me know?)	Not sure about this. The doors look like they have Mustang taillights on them but I'm pretty sure it was a Chrysler

I know Brooks Stevens had lots of good ideas but I never thought this was one of them. The "Studebaker SS".	Two schools of thought here, both brake dust magnets but both beautiful.

The Triumph Spitfire Mk II and TR-4A IRS were introduced at this show in 1965, an event that escaped me at the time. This was a big year for movie cars.


The Goldfinger Aston Martin. Bullet-proof shield, oil sprayer, ejection seat, and the rest. I've had a few British cars with the oil option but not the other things.	Shark!!! The Mako Shark - A very expensive paint job on this.

ASA. Nice.	Maserati Mistral - Thanks to Matthew W. for the ID

Upper photo: The Ferrari stand. The picture has some problems - the cars were not oil stained. Lower photo: The same 250LM 41 years later. Wow! [Manny, thank you]	Lambo engine. Probably not from one of their tractors.

Corvair Monza GT concept car by GM Styling. Unlike normal Corvairs, it had the engine mounted ahead of the read axle. The entire roof & windshield section tilted up for entry and exit. 92 inch wheelbase, 42 inches high. The car had parallel A-arms at all four wheels & torsion bar suspension. Sigh.......	No one made cutaway engine displays better than Chevrolet. This appears to be a turbocharged Corvair engine. (The impellor blades you see are not the turbo, they're for cooling.)

Gary Breedlove's Spirit of America land speed record car powered by a J-47 jet engine that Gary bought as gov't surplus . I believe this photo was taken after the car had run 407mph in its first LSR attempts. It later hit just over 526mph before heading for a pond and attempting to drown Mr. Breedlove.	A movie car, this one from the Yellow Rolls Royce. One of New York's finest appears ready to write a ticket. It was a fun movie, with George C Scott, Art Carney, Omar Sharif, Ingrid Bergman, and a lady whose name I can't recall.