![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")
![Only a handful of antique automobiles are celebrated in their ubiquity to the extent of the first generation Camaro. Their popularity has bred popularity like some perpetual motion machine that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/0771.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtake: 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS350 Convertible–The Camaro for People Who Are Sick of Camaros")
![It is a tacit fact that anyone who is averse to mindless cliches and tired idioms must grin and bear them (ha ha) when studying online classifieds like Craigslist. It […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Torino-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Craigslist Classic–1973 Ford Gran Torino–Can We Just Stop the Barn Find Bit Already?")
![It didn’t take long for the Dirty Dart to weasel its way into my heart; after all, who can resist a beat-up underdog of a car that probably gets more […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: Dirty Dart Update Volume Four–Spoiler Alert: Beaters are Better")
![I have a bit of a morbid streak. At art museums, I will often stare into the eyes of the subjects of portraiture, and bother myself with their “quintessence of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/6-18-11-010.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Dad’s COAL: 1999 Ford Mustang GT–A Question of Existence")
![Survivor vehicles are always fun in their honesty, and this Champ is no exception. Part Lark, part Dodge truck (the bed in this case), the Champ never truly had a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/010.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Studebaker Champ–The Plucky Journeyman Fights to the Last Round")
![Last September, this Monterey caught my shutter in the salvage yard because it’s almost certainly the first one I’d seen in the flesh. This is unsurprising, since I was born […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/046.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Outtake: 1972 Mercury Monterey Custom–No Perks for Being a Wallflower")
![Car number nine on my “Great 28” list was built by a company without any salient historic aim or goals; however, it was a “renaissance car” on its own terms. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/comet_champ.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Great 28 Car Number 9 and CC Cinema–1964/65 Mercury Comet, the 100,000 Mile Durability Champion!")
![Michigan’s Historical Museum, although it hasn’t been updated in about 25 years, has a cool “1957 Detroit Auto Show” section, where this ’57 Fury is perched high overhead at a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/053.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Outtake: 1957 Plymouth Fury–The Forward Look, Once Again on a Pedestal")
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