[PW] Ecuadoran cars

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--
Wonderful!  These photos are perfect, and are just what I needed.

Metta,
Ivan

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:05 PM, T. F. Mills <phasco at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 17 Jun 2008 at 7:07, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>
> > Who can tell me what brands of automobiles would have been found on the
> > streets of Quito in the early-to-mid 60s?  I'd be especially interested
> in
> > low-end vehicles that might have been driven by frugal missionaries. ...
>
> I knew a missionary in Quito in the late sixties.  I can't swear to it, but
> I think he drove a VW
> beetle (probably of early sixties vintage).  I think Renaults and Simcas
> were also present.
> (Chile had factories to assemble these before the 1973 coup, but I don't
> know where Ecuador
> procured its auotmobiles.)
>
> Here is a set of 1965 Quito photos, and cars show clearly in three of the
> photos:
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tungurahua/1432534569/in/set-72157602142554471/
>
> You can barely make out the roof of a VW beetle in one, an early 1960s
> Chevy (I think) near
> the bug, an unmistakable VW bus in another, possibly a Mercedes next to the
> VW bus (not a
> missionary vehicle!).  The "waiting for transport at the edge of town"
> looks like some late
> 1940s American cars in the background.
>
>
> T.F. Mills                            (Colorado, USA)
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