![I spend a lot of my spare time working on cars for my own enjoyment, and also because I could never own a large fleet of cars if I didn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PXL_20230803_125650404a.jpg "COAL Capsule/QOTD: Is There An Engineering Decision You Don’t Understand? (1974 Firebird Content)")
![There’s a letter on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn that allegedly originated from the pen of popular gangster Clyde Barrow. This letter compliments Mr. Ford on the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PXL_20230812_142333602a.jpg "Museum Classic: 1932 Ford Model 18 Convertible Sedan – To Live Outside The Law, You Must Be Honest")
![To me, this is a new car. My parents have owned it since 1990, and they even permitted me to drive it to school once a week when I turned […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PXL_20230814_182220683a.jpg "CC Tech: 1988 Ford Mustang GT – Plastic, A Better Idea In Quarter Windows")
![I’ve almost completely forgotten about the Oldsmobile Aurora, but they’re still out there, even in salty Michigan. I’ll make any excuse to take a picture of my Riviera, but the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PXL_20230804_223614987a.jpg "CC Outtake/QOTD: 1963 Buick Riviera and Oldsmobile Aurora – Holding Up?")
![I heard about this car before I saw it. If there’s an old car for sale, my neighbors will tell me, my parents will tell me, my wife will tell […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PXL_20230626_231954671a.jpg "CC For Sale: 1968 Chrysler New Yorker – “So If A Man’s Wit Be Wandering, Let Him Study The Mathematics”")
![To paraphrase a common saying: I am envious of those who see a Cord L-29 for the first time. One of the grand names of the Classic Age, E.L. Cord […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PXL_20230628_151834004.MPa_.jpg "CC Car Show: Leaks and L-29s, A Car Show Where I Didn’t Know There Would Be A Car Show (COAL Thunderbird Content Included)")
![Everyone is to some degree a hypocrite, although some forms of hypocrisy are admittedly harmless. Take mine, for example. Much of my automotive picture catalog consists of wallflowers, oddballs, four-door […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PXL_20230624_143030893a.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1963 Buick Special Sedan – What I Say, What I Do")
![They say it’s never healthy to love something that can’t love you back, but that’s never stopped me from fostering sentimental attachments to machinery. A few weeks ago, I realized […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Skylark-2003-1a.jpg "QOTD: Do You Celebrate Car Anniversaries? (COAL 1965 Skylark Content)")
![What if all of existence is nothing but a twisted joke? After all, what other rational explanation could there be for my inability to remember someone’s name for more than […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PXL_20230617_180834215a.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1952 and 1953 Ford Sunliners – R.M. Clarke and the <em>The White Album</em>")
![In 1965, Ford Motor Company ran a lovely advertising campaign that was frankly a little derivative. While Ford was perhaps better at finding market niches in the 1960s than their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PXL_20230615_203326956a.jpg "CC Advertising: 1965 Ford Models – Ford Motor Company Is…A Little Boxier This Year")
![We’ve all been there. The dusty paths, the “Radio Flyer” aired up for a weekend of walking, the families with no spatial awareness, the golf carts, the DJ who thinks […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20230603_113311a.jpg "CC Swap Meet: Monacos, Meteors, Baby Flatheads, and Autolites – Monday Swap Meet Miscellanea")
![Ever since I found my late grandpa’s collection of Fleischmann’s Bicentennial bourbon decanters stashed in my parents’ basement when I was 20 or so, I’ve been a bourbon sipper. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20220618_124032a.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1960 Mercury Commuter – There’s Nothing Wrong With A Cold Blatz")
![Lady Liberty (by way of Emma Lazarus) said it best: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” There’s no other explanation for the irrational affinity I feel for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230429_174436a.jpg "CC For Sale: Ford, GMC, and Chevy Mediums – “Low Mileage”")
![Filed in the drawer of “doing something right while doing something wrong” is being able to line up your 1963-model personal luxury cars for a quick picture. That it has […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230518_185145a.jpg "COAL Capsule: 1963 Thunderbird vs. 1963 Riviera – Side Eye")
![In my never ending quest to own every antique car ever built, I have only ever put cash in my pocket to seriously look at one or two Falcons, including […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1962-Falcon-1.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Favorite Early Falcon Face?")
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