![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")
![This is perhaps subconsciously the second Robert Frost-referencing title I’ve used this year, but it’s appropriate when considering Studebaker’s declining years. Frost and Studebaker’s lives fundamentally overlapped, with Frost being […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ihgfd.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: 1963 Studebaker Avanti and 1964 Studebaker Daytona Wagonaire – “Nothing Gold Can Stay”")
![I once had a dream that I was sitting in heaven’s waiting room. It was a dingy old doctor’s office with sunlight cascading through some windows that hadn’t been washed […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/111_1945a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1962 Cadillac Convertible – Living In A World Made Of Papier Mache")
![A few weeks ago, I shared some images from a recent October road trip in another Ford product, my ’65 Mustang. September and October are the best months for such […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/111_1924a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Road Trip: 1963 Ford Thunderbird – Honoring FoMoCo And Buying Trouble In Return")
![Unless gray sunless skies and the great Polaris/Ski Doo debate elevate your pulse, October is the last Michigan month until May to offer any real hope of a good time […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/111_1876a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classics: Javelins, Hornets, and Imperials – Car Spotting On A Familiar Fall Color Drive In My First Car")
![A few weeks ago, my wife and I diverged from our normal car show routine and attended the rescheduled “Eyes on Design” car show at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/111_1732.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: 1956 Plymouth Belvedere Convertible and 1966 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S – How Have You Changed In Ten Years?")
![It’s been awhile since I’ve read Smokey Yunick’s entertaining, colorful, and seemingly endless autobiography, but I recall his depreciating those who relied on what he called “cut and try” methods […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/111_1637.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1963 Ford Thunderbird – The Cut And Try Method")
![(first posted 8/31/2015) There’s really not much to say about this scene other than to ask you to picture the happiest, geekiest 38-year-old man in the world hooking his Dirty […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Sun-analyzer.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Garage Classic: Sun Performance Analyzer 1115–The Most Fun under the Sun")
![There is nothing even remotely romantic about a lawnmower. Memories of first dates, first burnouts, and first breakdowns are topics of exaggerated automobile-based bench racing in any garage in Christendom […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/111_1330.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Mower Of A Lifetime: 1993 AYP No-Name “Meijer” Mower – My Second Most Long-Lasting Mechanical Relationship")
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