![Almost 10 years ago, I began collecting antique bicycles. It made no sense that I rode around on a modern Huffy when most of my cars were built during the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/0012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bicycle Outtake: 1973 Schwinn Speedster–Kool Lemon for the Long of Leg")
![This picture graced my family Christmas Card this year, the fourth in a series of at least five. Next year, the Dirty Dart’s scheduled to be up, but for now, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/010d1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: Happy Holidays!")
![There’s nothing like that old car smell. And while the patina trend has been discussed to death, the hard truth of the matter is that my favorite old car times invariably […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/64-Dodge-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Idle Hands and the Craigslist Classic: 1964 Dodge D300–Daddy Wants a Stake Truck")
![Five years ago, I was lucky enough to attend a lecture given by famous General Motors designer Bill Porter. He highlighted some of his favorite designs and explained why they […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/020a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Is the Most Beautiful Four-Door Sedan/Hardtop in the World?")
![Like moths to a flame, car people are naturally drawn to an elegantly sketched and pressed body line, or the smells and sounds of an internal combustion engine, but it’s the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/074.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Car Had the Most Attractive Dashboard?")
![The “original” Mustang II has led a sad life. My point: I have been a rabid car fan for all of my 37 years on this planet, live in Michigan, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/006.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Roped-Off Classic: 1963 Ford Mustang II Concept–The Hamtramck Falcon?")
![O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing… –Percy Bysshe Shelley “from ‘Ode […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/9-22-13-017.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtakes: Nocturne in Brown and Gold: Falling Rockets (and other Things)")
![Everyone here knows what I’m talking about. We’ve all had an experience with the one you don’t take home to Mom. Oh, maybe she (or he) is a little more experienced […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1975-Pontiac-Full-Line-16-17.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Brochure Classic: The “Why Do I Like This?” File, Part I: 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix")
![Tempus fugit. The classic Pontiac arrowhead hasn’t graced a motor vehicle in roughly five years now. Considering its ignominious end, it may be unbelievable to some that Pontiac was perhaps the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/050.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1959 Pontiac Catalina–Options? I Hate Options.")
![In an earlier post, I hinted at a visit to an ancient salvage yard that was soon to be closing its doors. These two Bullet Birds were sitting side by […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/058.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junkyard Outtake: 1962 and 1963 Thunderbirds – Holding Hands on the Way to the Gallows")
![Before I say another word, I’d like to offer a caveat. In 1971 (and 1972, for that matter), I was a decision yet to be made by my parents; however, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/023.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: Laser-Striped Torinos Diverge–Do You Like the ’71 or ’72 Iteration?")
![Very roughly translated, “mono no aware” is a Japanese term that describes a morose, keen awareness of the transience of things. This feeling drifted acutely over me this week as I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/077.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Junkyard Haul: Mono No Aware")
![After a year as a long-term substitute in a poor rural school district, I was hired as a full-time teacher in June of 2003. The first thing I did was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/0012.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1965 Buick Skylark Sport Coupe–Occasionally, Even I Get One Right")
![The Dirty Dart has done strange things to my brain. Sitting next to this ’65 Valiant is one of my favorite cars, the beautiful and glamorous first-generation Riviera. Yet I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/028.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1965 Plymouth Valiant V-200–When Did I Start Noticing A-Bodies?")
![I am a bit of a Francophile, I must admit. Voltaire’s Candide is my favorite book; I love listening to Francoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, and Yves Montand; I dig Truffaut and Godard; […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/La-Wildcat.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Advertising: 1965 Buick Wildcat — La Wildcat!")
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