![(first posted 4/4/2016) After nearly 60 years with no definitive aesthetic consensus on GM’s ’59 models, it might be time to accept them at face value. They were wild but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSCF4055.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: A Celebration of GM’s ’59 Models–Bats and Deltas, but No 88s")
![When I was growing up, my best friend just happened to be the kid who lived kiddie corner from my house, or as the Instagram quips might say, “What luck […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Rules-of-the-Road.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "CC Literature: Michigan’s “What Every Driver Must Know,” 1974 Edition – An Illustrated Amalgamation Of The Detroit Four")
![As surely as September nights turn chilly in Michigan, I’ll start combing the classifieds for Model A’s when the “gathering swallows twitter in the skies.” The urge lasts for about […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/111_1668.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: 1928-31 Ford Model A Sport Coupes – See You In September")
![(first posted 3/14/2016) Have you ever considered how odd it is that Ford, that manufacturer of solid, reliable, conservative transportation, produced a true competitor to Cadillac and Lincoln? The T-Bird, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/tbgb.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1965 Ford Thunderbird–Unique in All the World")
![Although I’ve written extensively about my burgeoning collection of antique cars, comparatively little has been said about my daily drivers. Honestly, there’s not much to say: I spend most of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Image-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1993 Ford Escort LX Wagon – Being Ironic")
![A few weeks ago, I pictorially recounted a trip to an old Mid-Michigan junkyard that had been purchased by another yard and was forever closing its doors. The cost of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/020-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Salvage Yard Photographs, Part II: September 2015 – This Could Be The Last Time")
![(first posted 2/15/2016) In psychology class, I learned that the sense of smell is closely linked to memory, and anyone who has been around a greasy old car since the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/mgaaab.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Trackside Classic: 1960 MGA 1600 Coupe–The Allegory of Hope")
![It may seem unAmerican, but I’ve never truly wanted to own a Corvette. I’ve respected them, cheered for their LeMans-winning race teams, helped my neighbor work on his ’65 roadster, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/111_1628.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1963 Corvette Sting Ray – A Sting Ray With A Saginaw?")
![To paraphrase William Carlos Williams, so much depends upon the price of scrap metal. Back in 2014, word on the internet grapevine was that a well-known old-school junkyard in Michigan […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/034.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Salvage Yard Photographs: September 2014 – A Bittersweet Walk Through A Closing Junkyard")
![In his heavily anthologized short story titled “The Swimmer,” John Cheever wrote that his drunken protagonist Neddy Merrill’s “life was not confining.” Fortunately for me, that’s all I have in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/xkkl.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1969 Ford LTD – How My Dad (Temporarily) Turned My Grandpa Into A Ford Man")
![The history of the fastback roofline is one of crests and troughs; wildly popular in the 1940s, it was almost instantly deemed unfashionable and unceremoniously dumped in the early 1950s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/020a-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1949 Buick Super Sedanet – Superannuated Super, Some Said")
![When I was a teenager, an uncle had a ’68 Firebird that sat near his garage for several years, and it may have subconsciously (along with my watching too many […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/111_1771.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Is Your Favorite Side Marker/Reflector?")
![I recently finished reading Walter P. Chrysler’s slim biography (originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post) titled The Life of an American Workman. Already knowing much of Mr. Chrysler’s basic story, his […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1948-Chrysler-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Facebook Finds: 1948 Chryslers – The Life Of An American Workman")
![The efforts of Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory notwithstanding, our system of keeping track of our place in history is utilitarian but still somewhat arbitrary. Regardless, 2021 was a rough […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20211229_152901a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1953 Buick Special – Snitches Get Stitches, A Whimsical Tale Of Drilling And Tapping")
![Back in June, I decoded a GM Protect-O-Plate I found at a local antique store, and found that the original owner had bought a conservative but highly optioned Buick Electra […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211124_125340.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Antique Store Classic: 1962 Ford Owner’s Manual, Decoding Some Fella’s New Car – Part II")
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