![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")
![As I walked the endless aisles of the 2016 Detroit Autorama at the Cobo, I passed two Ford Highboys with no hoods and two different engines. These two engines are […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/033a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: Which American V-8 Looks Best Under the Hood (Or Under No Hood)?")
![Curbside readers, if they’ve read any of my work, know of my absolute, undying affinity for older cars. This doesn’t always add up to a disdain for modern conveyances, but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/004a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Dealer Future Classic: 2016 Cadillac ATS Coupe–Child of Thunderbird or Bavaria?")
![The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI recently raised the hoods for its “Engines Exposed” exhibit, and among its many exhibitions was this unmachined Flathead Ford engine block. The flathead’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/036a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: How Would You Have Designed the Flathead Ford?")
![Regular readers may recall that I recently bought a ’74 Firebird Esprit from that most dangerous of online rabbit holes, eBay. It’s the second car I’ve bought sight unseen, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/010.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Repair: 1974 Pontiac Firebird–Repairing the Classic GM Saggy Headliner")
![My dad and I recently took a Saturday jaunt to the Scarab Club in Detroit to peruse their “American Dreaming: Car Style Detroit” exhibit of original stylists’ drawings from the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/009.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1966 Buick Riviera–One Designer’s Idea of What Could Have Been…and Was")
![Lincoln’s triumphs and woes are well-trodden fare for argument among the vehicular-minded, and that is outside the scope of this writing. For those who haven’t heard, the new Continental is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/013.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Comparison and QOTD: 2017 Lincoln Continental and 2016 Cadillac CT6–Nothing New under the Sun?")
![Time has a way of corrupting legends. Ford Motor Company’s story has always skirted the romantic: Henry Ford, the populist hero turning the tables on any who would stand in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/004.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Factory Classic: Ford’s Piquette Avenue Assembly Plant")
![There’s nothing like that old car smell, at least to someone addicted to dilapidated vintage machinery. One of the formative moments in my bonding with said machinery is “decoding day,” […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/007.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Mystery Monday: Getting to Know Your New Junker – VIN and Fender Tag Decoding")
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