Recent Curbside Classics
- Curbside Classic: 1997 Plymouth Voyager Rallye - Split Personality Disorder 19 Comments
- Lawnside Classics: Burt's - Riding Mower And Garden Tractor Heaven, Including One Of The Oldest Riding Mowers Ever 75 Comments
Curbside Classic: 1973 Saab 95 Wagon - Now That's A Real Saab! 29 Comments- Curbside Classic Gold: 1970 Dodge Challenger: The Life Of The Party 54 Comments
- Curbside Classic: 1981 Dodge Challenger - That Thing Does Got A Hemi 28 Comments
- Curbside Classic Silver: Citroen 2CV Hoffman Cabriolet - The Ultimate Chick Magnet? 50 Comments
Imported CCs: Ich Mag Deutsche Bordsteinkante Klassiker - Wirklich! 28 Comments
Random Curbside Classics
- Curbside Classic/Autobiography: 1972 Toyota Corona Coupe - Fortieth High School Reunion 38 Comments
- Curbside Classic: 1977 Pontiac Grand LeMans - Retrograde Colonnade 139 Comments
- Curbside Classic: 1963 Plymouth Valiant - When The Curious Looking Get Self Conscious, Conform. 48 Comments
Curbside Classic: 1963 Studebaker Lark Wagonaire - A Real Vista For The Cruiser 47 Comments- Curbside Classic: 1956 Studebaker President – Sadly Squared Up 38 Comments
- Curbside Classic: 1973 Jaguar XJ 12 - Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun... 24 Comments
- Curbside Classico do Brasil: Ford Maverick GT 49 Comments
Random Automotive Histories
- Automotive History: Michelin's TRX Tire--Reinventing The Radial Tire Didn't Work Quite As Well As Inventing It 26 Comments
Chrysler's Bi-Polar History: Crashes 1 - 5 21 Comments- Why The 1959 Studebaker Lark Front End Looked So Much Like The 1960 Valiant Front End 21 Comments
- The Recurring Dream: A Survey Of A Century Of "People's Cars" 73 Comments
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 5 1965-1969) 26 Comments
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 4 1960-1964) 19 Comments- Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 7, 1975-79) 29 Comments
Auto-Biography Archive
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1957 Buick Roadmaster Riviera: Master Of The Road, And Of My Memories
Posted on November 20, 2012 | 24 CommentsThe place is Chihuahua, Mexico. The year is 1967, and there are only a few thousand cars on the local roads. It’s no wonder this one in particular left an... -
Curbside Classic/Auto-Biography/True Confession: 1980 Buick Skylark – I Gave Up A Peugeot 404 For One Of GM’s Deadliest Sins And It Wasn’t All That Bad
Posted on October 26, 2012 | 67 Comments(for you Cluers: car pictured is a 1981; the story is about a 1980) My GM’s Deadly Sins Series has generated more than a bit of controversy. My last post... -
Auto-Biography: How A Little Fender Bender Earned Us A Trip To Europe
Posted on October 15, 2012 | 8 CommentsTony LaHood’s painful story of getting only a $2,700 offer for his beautiful but damaged Mercedes reminded me of a somewhat similar but yet quite different tale from the Niedermeyer... -
CC Feature: My Checkered Career With Checker Cabs
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 38 Comments(all photos by the author) My first real job was in the summer of 1964 when I worked for a taxi company in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I was paid... -
How I Eluded A 440-Powered Dodge CHP In My Peugeot 404 – Got Any Good Ticket-Evasion Stories?
Posted on August 18, 2012 | 47 CommentsThe perpetual cat and mouse game. Usually the cat wins; but not always. But managing to get away from the cat after he’s pulled up behind you with his lights... -
Curbside Classic: 1982 Volvo 244DL – Best Value Box
Posted on August 16, 2012 | 35 CommentsPop quiz: What is the most boring 2012 model car in existence? The Camry, you say? Well done. Now, what was the most boring, competent and efficient car of the... -
Confessions of a J. C. Whitney Abuser – The iPhone of its Time, or How to MM in Five Easy Steps
Posted on August 14, 2012 | 46 CommentsKids: Want to know how we (once) pre-teens and teens spent the way-too-much free time we had back in the electronic dark ages of a half-century or so ago? We... -
Bikes Of A Lifetime, Vol 1: Chained Up And Shafted
Posted on July 28, 2012 | 9 CommentsMotorcycles were my real passion in my younger days. From the age of seventeen to the time I went abroad at the age of thirty or so, I continually had... -
COAL: 2006 Pontiac Wave (Chevy Aveo/Daewoo Kalos) – The Worst New Car Of A Lifetime
Posted on July 15, 2012 | 73 CommentsGM Canada has a long tradition of Canada-only cars, and one of them was the Pontiac Wave, a badge-engineered Chevrolet Aveo, which in turn was a very thinly disguised Daewoo... -
COAL: Summer Edition – Beaters I Have Known But Not Exactly Loved
Posted on July 8, 2012 | 25 CommentsAs summer has finally descended upon the Wet Coast of the Great White North, and having dug myself out of five meters of late spring snow, here is a...
