![Although it was introduced over 62 years ago, Ford’s 289-cubic-inch small-block still has a warm place in our hearts today, probably because of its indissoluble ties to Mustangs, Cobras, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/289-Ford-Heritage-Vault-115x115.jpg "Ford’s Famous 289 V-8: Four Production Changes That Could Ruin Your Day")
![Five years after the last of the two-seat “Baby Birds” rolled off the line for the last time, Lee Iacocca’s team at Ford Motor Company was busily brainstorming ideas for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-081534-115x115.jpg "1957 Ford Thunderbird and 1962 Budd XT-Bird Concept: One Classic T-Bird And One That Never Was")
![It goes without saying that 1965 was a good year for Chrysler, because it was a good year for almost everybody; however, Chrysler’s volume exceeded 200,000 for the first time, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/65-Chrysler-1-115x115.jpg "Classic Dealer Filmstrip: Selling The 1965 Chrysler — All The Facts, Just A Little Mansplaining")
![It is a golden age for those of us weirdos completely normal people who enjoy “ephemeral films,” those education flicks that were shown on crackling 16mm projectors in schools from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-4-115x115.png "Old Bikes, Old Cars: Cars from A Bicycle Safety Film – Bicycle Rules Of The Road")
![After a decade of putting up with wheezing small blocks and pretending we were OK with it, the performance renaissance of the middle 1980s was an exciting time. We had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/PXL_20250325_155908217.MP_-115x115.jpg "Forgotten Concept: 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass FE3-X “Darth Vader” – A Would-Be Grand National From Lansing")
![If you were a Ford kid as I was in 1993, the new Camaro (shown above as a 1994 model) gave you fits. It was sleek and it was fast, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/94-Camaro-1-115x115.webp "1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28: How To Convert A 17-Year-Old Mustang Kid")
![As the oldest of two in my family, I never got to experience being the middle child. Perhaps the most famous middle child in pop culture, Jan from The Brady […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20220826_114935-115x115.jpg "1963 Pontiac Star Chief Vista Four-Door Hardtop: The Forgotten Middle Child")
![Regardless of their reputation, the “big” 1971 Mustang just wasn’t that big. At 189.5″ inches long, it was only 7.9″ longer than the original ’65 Mustang and a mere 1.5″ […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/71-Mach-1-115x115.jpg "1971 Ford Mustangs: Every Color From Raven Black To Light Gold")
![While historical accolades for being the first all-steel station wagon come down to semantics (covered by Paul N. here) and nationality (covered by Tatra 87 here), the Henry Ford Museum […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/54884093693_2979143f81_k-115x115.jpg "1950 Plymouth Suburban Station Wagon: No Wood, All Rust")
![Anna Thompson Dodge was the widow of Horace, the younger of the famously roisterous (and rich) Dodge Brothers. When Horace passed away in 1920, less than a year after his […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20251025_165217446-115x115.jpg "1938 Packard Twelve Town Car By Rollston: A Packard Fit For The Dodge Family")
![As fun as Halloween can be, thanks to pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating, it’s most appropriately been a time of ghost stories and general spookiness. What better way to escape those […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20250913_194734991-115x115.jpg "1971 Dodge Challenger R/T: A Halloween Escape Machine")
![I’m so happy right now I could hug a tree, because for the first time in almost twelve years of ownership, I can close the driver’s door of my 1965 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20251016_215054484-115x115.jpg "My 1965 Dodge Dart 170 Wagon—Fixing The Driver’s Door With A Maple Tree")
![I spend too much time reading, writing, and hanging out in the garage to consider myself a devout student of classic cinema, but on cold winter days I sometimes make […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20250927_144156463-115x115.jpg "1974 Maserati Merak: Waiter, There’s A Truffaut In My Fellini – Where Citroën Meets Maserati")
![I have a very warm memory of my youth that still strikes me as an odd thing to be sentimental about. It was Christmas night, probably 1992 or 1993, which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/54829693227_7ba9b90405_k-115x115.jpg "1965 Ford Galaxie 500 LTD: In Honor Of The VHS Car Commercial Compilation")
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/016.jpg "1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 442 – Subtle Muscle In The Cutlass-Peak Era")
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