![Cars, like songs, are bound to be plagiarized—sometimes accidentally, sometimes not so accidentally. Everybody copied the Italian coachbuilders in the 1950s and 1960s, but here are four examples in American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Buick-and-Mercury-115x115.jpg "Grand Theft Auto: Four Examples Of American Design Forgery From The Big Three And Beyond")
![A few weeks ago, I discussed my love affair with a full-size Pontiac that eluded me years ago, and like so many lost loves, I’ve never quite gotten over it. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-Yorker-2.jpg "Car Show Classics: 1965 Chrysler New Yorker 2-door Hardtop")
![The 1963 Chrysler 300 “Sport Series” pictured above may not look like a rally car, but in 1963, the folks at Chrysler decided to give North American rallying a try […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1963-Chrysler-300-Sport-2-115x115.jpg "1963 Chrysler 300: North America’s Most Unlikely Rally Car?")
![Since we recently took a look at what Pininfarina was up to in the early 1960s, it’s now time to give Bertone its due. Like its Turin-based competitor, Bertone’s corporate […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Bertone-1960s-115x115.jpg "Beautiful Bertone Coupes Of The Early 1960s: Low Tails And High Bumpers")
![If 1970 was the peak of the original muscle car era, these four offerings from General Motors must be considered some of the best muscle cars ever. All of them […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1970-GM-Intermediate-Muscle-Cars-115x115.jpg "1970 GM Muscle Cars: Which One Looked The Best?")
![(Updated 2/22/2026) In terms of well-known concept cars from the Big Three, the 1967 Ford Allegro II doesn’t loom that large; however, it might have been more influential than it’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Allegro-II-3-e1577748626672.jpg "Forgotten Concepts: The 1967 Ford Allegro II and Henry B. Lent – Things Remembered, Things Forgotten")
![If you’ve worked on cars over the course of the last 75 years, you’ve probably heard of Motor manuals, Chilton manuals, and Haynes manuals. Maybe you had an old Glenn’s auto repair […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Toboldt-Books-1-115x115.jpg "Goodheart-Willcox Repair Manuals: 100 Years Of How-To")
![It’s a dream of many a Corvair owner to find the long-lost last 1969 Corvair, #6000, as it’s called in the community. Since that car hasn’t been seen by the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BaT-31-Mile-2-115x115.webp "Ultra-Low-Mileage 1969 Chevrolet Corvairs: More Common Than You’d Expect")
![Back in the 1960s, car manufacturers were more tractable about bending the rules to make a sale; therefore, the words “always” or “never” should never (oops) enter our vocabulary when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/013-115x115.jpg "1965 Studebaker Daytona: Is It Painted Special Order “Flamingo” Pink? Probably Not")
![The Thunderbird lost its original sporting pretense in steps, the final one (for decades) being in 1960. That was the last time a customer could walk through the doors of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/60-Thunderbird-2a-115x115.jpg "1960 Ford Thunderbird: The Last T-Bird Until 1983 With A Stick-Shift")
![Ford’s marketing strategy for their 1959 models centered on an award that they [said they] won at the 1958 Brussels World Fair: the Comité Français de l’Elégance, given to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/55057494748_fc655f2ac5_k-115x115.jpg "1959 Ford Galaxie Skyliner—The World’s Most Beautifully Proportioned Car? Maybe Not This Model")
![The Chevrolet Nova’s economy car image should have made it the ultimate “sleeper,” a car that catches unsuspecting street racers by surprise by being faster than it looks. By the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/028-115x115.jpg "Vintage Hot Rod Magazine Test: 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS 396 – Not A Sleeper, But A “13-Second Grocery Getter”")
![Right off the bat, I don’t mind admitting that I have a borderline unhealthy attachment to Mayfair Maize 1965 Catalinas. After all, a Ventura that looked very similar to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pontiac-1.jpg "1965 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 – “Stop Telling Me I’m Beautiful, Love Me For What’s Inside”")
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