![In The Aims of Education, Harvard professor Alfred North Whitehead said that “a merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth.” Less cynically, though perhaps no less accurately, he […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/111_0889-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Literature: Ford Educational Foldouts, Circa 1959 – The Aims Of Education")
![General Motors products from the early 1950s are not known for their precise panel gaps and hood fitment, and in the Buick world in particular, the 1953 model is particularly […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/111_0705a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside PSA, Starring My 1953 Buick Special – Have You Checked Your Hood Hinges Lately?")
![The 1967 Mercury Cougar is a car that I often inexplicably forget that I’m in love with. I intermittently find myself reexamining its clean, vaguely European, almost un-Ford-like lines, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/109_0369.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show and Craigslist Classic Outtakes: 1967 Mercury Cougar and 1960 Lancia Flaminia – Have I Seen You Somewhere Before?")
![If daydreaming were currency, I’d be rich. In my vernacular, it’s “spacing out,” and my lovely bride is forced almost daily to reel me in with a quick utterance: “Snap […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/111_0830a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic(s) – 1966 International Travelall: Someday, My Dear, We Camp Without A Tent!")
![(first posted 1/20/2015, updated with more pictures) Most of the time, I love the fact that I’m a car guy in Michigan. Sure, our roads are terrible and our […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-v5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Weird Engines: Oldsmobile V5 Diesel – Grasping at Straws")
![In yesterday’s post about my ’63 Thunderbird, commenter MarkKyle64 brought up an interesting QOTD – what is the easiest old car to work on? I think I can give my […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/006a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Old Car (Before 1980) Is Easiest To Work On?")
![It’s been over two years since I bought my 1963 Thunderbird, and although an old car owner’s work is never done, I’ve finally reached the point in my ownership tenure […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/111_0511.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1963 Ford Thunderbird – The Two-Year Rule")
![If someone with no prior knowledge of General Motors were dropped into their Warren Tech Center somewhere between 1960 and 1964, in the manner of Hertz dropping a guy into […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-v6.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Advertising Classics: The GMC 60 Degree V6 – An Almost Forgotten Entry From GM’s Most Creative Period")
![(first posted 1/5/2015) This ongoing series (should I decide to continue it) will focus on my “Great 28,” a list of my favorite cars. To be on the list, I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-linc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Great 28, Car #1: 1940/41 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet – The Most Beautiful Car in the World")
![If you’ve ever driven a carbureted car from the 1950s through the 1970s, chances are pretty good that it had a Carter AFB under the hood. Introduced in 1957 and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/049.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Carburetor Classic: The Carter AFB – A Closer Look Into A 64-Year Veteran")
![This handsome rig resides at the R.E. Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, which is a wonderful small museum to visit if you’re interested in Oldsmobile or REO history. In 1967, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/109_0289.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Outtake: 1974 Diamond REO Raider – Diamonds Aren’t Forever")
![As a reader or listener, when I see that an author or musician labels a work “Part 1,” I expect a Part 2. James Brown was famous, among other things, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Drag Strip Classics: Dog Dish Afternoon, Part II – A Smattering Of Fair Fare For The Frugal")
![(first posted 12/8/2014) For years, the simple dog dish hubcap signified the domain of the cheapskate, the hack, the socially awkward, and the old maid. It was a placeholder for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a-dog.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Drag Strip Classics: Dog Dish Afternoon, Part I–1969 Chevy Nova 396 and 1969 Plymouth GTX")
![A hangover from the Saturnalian revelry of the 1959 models, the facelifted 1960 full-size General Motors line seems to inhabit a peculiar place. More subdued than their immediate counterparts, but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/111_0542.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista Hardtop – A Few Extra Inches Of Prestige")
![One of my favorite colors is lime green. My parents allowed me to choose the paint color in my bedroom when I was four – I chose lime green. Lime […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-Mustang-Capture-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Multiple Curbside Classics: 2020 Ford Mustang Ecoboost and Dad’s 1971 Mach 1 – Family Traditions And Being At Odds With My Riviera Money")
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