![Right around the peak of Cutlass-mania in the 1970s, this is what an Oldsmobile 442 looked like. Based on the Cutlass S, it was only a shadow of its former […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 442 – Subtle Muscle In The Cutlass-Peak Era")
![Edsel Ford was truly a remarkable man. With a personality completely unlike his tempestuous father’s, he was able to assert himself in Ford Motor Company despite his father’s conscious or […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20230812_151534202.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1947 Lincoln Sedan: “Nothing Could Be Finer,” Except Maybe A Cadillac")
![A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles extolling the virtues of the “twenty-footer,” a car that’s presentable but worn-in; in other words, an old car that is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/54799921042_8bc75bab71_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1962 Mercury Monterey Custom: When A Twenty-Footer Becomes a Thirty-Footer")
![The Monkees’ famous single “Pleasant Valley Sunday” made it all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 on the strengths of its up-tempo beat and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20250628_150424493-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1967 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon: Another Pleasant Valley Sunday")
![My dad has been a passenger on many of my automotive journeys, but there’s one that certainly made him ill-at-ease, and that’s when I bought my first General Motors product. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20230825_153832488-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1972 & 1973 Ford Gran Torino Sports: Throwing A Girder Into The Works")
![If you read Curbside Classic, it’s likely that you have subscribed to at least one or two of the big automotive periodicals, and it’s just as likely that you know that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/685123-115x115.avif "1975 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Convertible With A Pontiac 400 V8: Is This GM’s Most Forgotten Hybrid?")
![It may not come as a surprise that owning 11 cars and having worked on cars for others has given me a broad education in the world of automotive engineering. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20240701_150044068-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1963 Ford Thunderbird: Calling On The Experts—Removing An FE Intake Manifold And Living To Tell About It")
![Being reasonably well off and shopping for a new car in 1965 would have been a nightmare for the indecisive, as there was a virtual bounty of riches in American […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54785270951_814f4eff39_k-e1757852917464.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1965 Dodge Coronet 500 Hardtop – WOW! It Stands Out On The Used Car Lot Today, But How Did It Compare When New?")
![I have a good friend at work who is about fifteen years younger than I am, and he regularly asks me and another work friend outlandish “would you rather?” questions. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-13-073510.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Finds: Would You Rather Have A Restored Or An Untouched 1928 Pontiac 6-28 Sport Landau Sedan?")
![The second-generation Camaro and the Fox-body Mustang have one fundamental similarity–their unlikely longevity. Both cars trembled under the long ax of their respective corporations at some point during their tenures, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/030.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1978 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 and 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra–Two Right Answers to the Same Question")
![Humans can certainly be cruel – how else could you explain the enjoyment so many of us derive from junkyard pictures? As sad as the subject matter always is, there’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54765715888_260b48e5c3_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Ralf K Junkyard Photos: To All The Cars I’ve Loved Before")
![I get it. Marketing is sometimes hard. The buying public represents a moving target that is buffeted by economic fortune, fashion trends, and today, social media. Every once in a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20240914_164003748-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1970 Ford Econoline SuperVan – Better Than The Name Implies")
![Last month, I shared my newest lifetime regret, the purchase of a mediocre 1967 Volvo 1800S, and as is always the case, it was not ready to act as a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20250829_200553646-scaled-e1756561094914.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1967 Volvo 1800S Maintenance Log: No Sleep ‘Til Göteborg")
![I have long felt that the only car that should wear a Continental kit is a first-generation Lincoln Continental, but that’s an exaggeration – I’ll give a pass to any […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54754990754_4754d33187_k-e1756642412511.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1957 Rambler Rebel – They Didn’t All Have Continental Kits")
![(first posted 12/6/2016) Humankind is unique among animals for its need to stamp out a legacy for itself; after all, few willingly meet death’s long embrace without raging […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/034a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1911 Hupmobile Model 20 – Around The World For Posterity")
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