This highly diverse assortment of Curbside Classics was spotted and photographed by Whatnext2010. It’s a very interesting comparison of cars from both different decades and different continents. Starting from left to right, we have a circa-2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a late-’90s Volvo S40, a 1970s Toyota Celica, 1980s Cadillac Coupe deVille, an ultra-rare 1959 Edsel, and an early-’60s Pontiac Bonneville Safari wagon. I can’t think of a better way to sum up fifty-five years of the automotive landscape in one photo.
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How eclectic; I’ll take the Celica. Though I can’t see it, there must be a driver’s seat in there someplace……….
There was, and it was in very good shape! The garage seems to cater to owners of older cars. I think the Edsel might belong to one the owners. The wagon is a Bonneville BTW, not native to this part of Canada!
Thank you, I’ve updated it with that info. It was hard to pinpoint it with the Edsel blocking it. 🙂
Yup – it’s a Bonneville 🙂
First thing you should do is lose those cheap and nasty aftermarket wheel covers.
whatnext2010 & I seem to hang out in the same places. Here’s the Celica interior.
Being one of the few Edsel fans here I’d better take it before someone else.
You’re gonna have to fight me for it 😀 !!!
The Edsel looks a whole lot better than many more expensive cars from 59.Not had a fight since school so I could easily make do with the Pontiac wagon!
Here’s the interior of the Edsel. Not quite stock. (Sorry about the huge file sizes Paul – if I can figure out how to do it, I’ll try to reduce in future…)
Steveston, BC always has some interesting cars to peruse. Maybe ‘Cars of Steveston’ is a good subject for a future CC. How about it whatnext2010??
I like the Celica as well. I especially like the old school station design and the diagonal gas pump island. The Caddy isn’t bad, but I’d immediately remove that window tint film.
US Toyotas Celica’s were known as “Sell-ah- kah” and in Canada “Sell-eeek-as” Probably the US pronunciation was correct. Does anyone know?
It’s a name that was made up by Japanese people to sell cars in North America, and may be pronounced as desired.
I always pronounced it sell-ick-ah
I thought it was meant to sound ‘sleek’.
Yeah, in the US its pretty much Sell-ih-kuh. Sounds like you guys follow more to British pronunciation, they say Sell-ee-kuh like you guys.
Do you Canucks also say “Nih-sann” too, not the proper American “Nee-sawn”? 🙂
Here it’s Celli-Car,Australians and Japanese say Niss-an. Don’t ask me how Japanese say Bridgestone…..
In Canada it’s ‘Nee-sahn’, same as the States.
I’ve noticed a difference in pronunciation in US Hyundai commercials though. They seem to be saying ‘Hun-day’ as in Sunday. In Canada it’s ‘Hoon-dai’ (‘oo’ as in ‘wood’ / ‘dai’ rhymes with ‘eye’). Go figure…
You got the Canadian pronunciation of Nissan right on. Going back further, Datsun was preannounced Dot-Sun in the US and Daht- sun in Canada
Toyota’s official explanation is that the name is derived from “celestial” (they claim “celica” is Spanish, which doesn’t seem right; the Spanish word for celestial is, well, celestial, or celeste) and in Japanese Celica is spelled se-ri-ka. Take your pick…
The Celica was extremely cool. Rear view.
The Volvo S40 wasn’t introduced over here until the 2000 model year, that one is a bit later, probably 2002 due to the Volvo badge being in the middle of the trunk but the doorhandles and rub strips still being black. But S/V40’s were available in Europe in the 90’s so the concept is correct 🙂