![Every car person started somewhere. Some are born into the hobby, imbibing the sweet smell of an over-rich mixture on the way home from the hospital. Some are indoctrinated through […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DSCF6442.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Tableside Classics: Catalinas, Mustangs, Caprices, and Barracudas–New Miniatures From The Aaron Collection")
![I’m in the middle of reading Thomas Bonsall’s excellent Cadillac: The American Standard. Published in 1993, it arrived at my local library by interlibrary loan from the Michigan Historical Library […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/001-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1941 Cadillac Series 67–General Motors Asserts Its Dominance in Yet Another Niche")
![One of the drawbacks to fleet old car ownership is space; I only have room at home for four old cars, which means that three are always in storage. Therefore, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1965 Buick Skylark Sport Coupe–Deferred Maintenance")
![Owning seven old cars has painted me as a man with no impulse control, but that’s a little unfair. In truth, most of the cars I have bought had been […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/017.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1963 Ford Thunderbird–A 19-Year-Old Me’s Wish Fulfilled")
![1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible/Money Pit 1998 Ford Escort ZX2 The Dirty Dart, Or How Ebay Makes One Do Stupid Things Sometimes Dirty Dart Update One: Ugh. 1965 Mustang – […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "Aaron65’s Continuing COAL Series")
![The icy hand of winter has granted the Midwest a temporary reprieve this fall, affording fall color drives a stay of execution for a bare couple of weeks, thereby offering another […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/015.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1974 Pontiac Firebird – Fiery Leaves and Firebirds")
![Most machinery buffs from Middle America likely have a soft spot for the products that bear the “IH” logo, the man seated upon a tractor, and I am no exception. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtake: 1973 International Pickup – A Detroit From Chicago?")
![Last weekend, my wife and I parked Big Blue on the car show field of the local antique festival and swap meet, and wandered around looking for things we don’t […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Swap Meet Capsule: Two Carter WCDs – Why Kids Are Exactly The Way They Used To Be")
![As the maintenance and repair schedule of my six-car antique fleet approaches the rigors and requirements of a full-time job, I somehow find it therapeutic to imagine myself trading in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/002.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: A Cornucopia From The Local Cruise – Window Shopping For Greener Grass")
![Yesterday, I shared the 1965 automotive ads from my latest purchase of 1960s Look magazines, since 1965 is one of my favorite model years and I own four ’65 model cars. Today, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/003-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Advertising Classics: August 12th Magazine Haul — Part Two, 1964 and 1967")
![For the last few years, it’s been a pleasure and a privilege to bore you share my automotive lifestyle with a like-minded readership; after all, my love of the four-wheeled conveyance […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/027.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Advertising Classics: August 12th Magazine Haul — Part One, 1965")
![As Geoffrey Chaucer’s fictional pilgrims commenced their literary rendezvous at the Tabard Inn, “the yonge sonne hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,” denoting springtime and the sign of the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/023a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtakes: 1947 and 1950 Dodges — I Can’t Dodge the Evidence; My World Is Coming Up Dodge")
![Although a 1969 GTO convertible ignited my love for General Motors products at the tender age of 20 or 21, GTOs mostly escape my notice anymore. In my sleepy little […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/010-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtake: 1967 Pontiac Tempest — In A Sea Of GTOs, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On")
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