![Much to the chagrin of my lovely bride, I am a bit addicted to vintage automotive cinema; therefore, we spend our evenings watching fewer sitcoms and reality shows than cheesy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "Curbside Cinema: NFSA Defensive Driving – Learn How To Pass A Car!")
![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")
![The downside to my six-car collection is that sometimes the cars can sit around for long periods of time while I tinker with the others, and the Dirty Dart is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/018.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1965 Dodge Dart 170 Wagon — I’ve Got The Key To The Highway")
![I could easily have titled this piece “In Praise of Folly,” after the titular character in Erasmus’ classic manifesto, “for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decried, even by […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 1974 Pontiac Firebird Esprit — In Praise Of Fun")
![Before drunken revelers rang in the calendar year 1960 with tenuous optimism, Edsel was already a dead player. A few unceremonious months out of the 1960 model year’s starting […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/068.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classic: 1960 Edsel Villager — This Orphan Would Take a Village to Raise")
![I must ask your forgiveness for my lack of creativity. This is a question that has been asked too much, and there is no right answer. It is a blatant […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/039.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: Muscle Motors! What Was the Best All Around Engine of the Muscle Car Era?")
![Like so many who never outgrow their fascination with cars, I owned too many toy cars long before I owned too many real cars. Seldom were the trips to the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/007-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Childhood Classics: Corgi Jeep FC-150 and Lotus-Climax–“Safety Third!”")
![The junkyard is a bittersweet place for car lovers. On one hand, it’s an almost never ending photo opportunity, and it’s like playing the license plate game on vacation: who […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/093.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Classics: Segregating the Outcasts – Hudsons and Packards Get to Know Simcas and Anglias")
![My recent article on the 1965 Thunderbird drew some comments, both praising and damning, about the 1967 Thunderbird, which has proved to be a polarizing iteration of the original personal […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/67-T-Bird-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Craigslist Classics: Personal Luxury Cars, Ten Years After–1967 Ford Thunderbird and 1977 Chrysler Cordoba")
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