![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")
![Curbside fans, I’m back with more vehicular mayhem, and the good news is that I’ve teleported directly into 1974 with the purchase of this amazingly beautiful 1974 Firebird. Although its […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/025.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1974 Pontiac Firebird Esprit: One Whip Antenna from Paradise")
![The Woodward Dream Cruise is a big deal in Michigan, but I avoid it on the official day because I hate crowds. I do, however, take the four hour round […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/0481.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1965 Skylark Sport Coupe and 1967 GS400: Woodward Dreaming, Flint Style")
![Mercury’s everlasting identity crisis has been discussed on these hallowed pages ad nauseum. In what were perhaps the halcyon years of the American auto industry, namely the immediate postwar era […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/030a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD and Car Show Classics: 1962 and 1970 Mercury Convertibles–If the Owner Traded up Every Eight Years, What’s Next?")
![Early Tempests were flawed compacts from a period when General Motors seemed willing to try anything, but I still love them. I think they’re the best looking of the Special/F-85/Tempest […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/0261.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Outtake: 1961 Pontiac Tempest–The Rare Wood-Powered Prototype")
![My kind father has recently made it an annual tradition to visit driving schools and experiences around our lovely home state. This year, we drove three hours to GingerMan Raceway […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/026.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Cinema Track Test: Ferrari 458 Italia–In Case You Were Wondering, It Handles Better Than a Dart Wagon")
![Right now, I feel like a somewhat less manic Neal Cassady, because I’ve driven perhaps 2000 miles in less than a week and I can’t sleep. Coming to a dead […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Race Track and Museum Classics: Lotus Europa–Visiting America I see Europa")
![My raison d’être, I believe, is to amass as many old, largely unwanted cars as I can, and make them operational; however, being the primary caretaker of five old cars leaves […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1977-Dodge-Ramcharger-01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Dealer Film: 1977 Dodge Ramcharger–Not My Usual Object of Desire")
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