![Strother MacMinn, an ex-GM designer and long-time teacher at the Art Center College of Design, had this to say about Harley Earl: “[He] designed so you could walk around a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/52-Olds-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1952 Oldsmobile Super 88 – A Classic That Entertains From Any Angle")
![Although a 1969 GTO convertible ignited my love for General Motors products at the tender age of 20 or 21, GTOs mostly escape my notice anymore. In my sleepy little […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/009a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1967 Pontiac Tempest — In A Sea Of GTOs, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On")
![The small town of Auburn, Indiana, was the ancestral home of some of the most titanic machines of the Classic era, and is now home to one of the world’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20241026_160603147.MP_.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1950 Mercury Coupe – The Designer’s Surprise Favorite Over The 1940 Continental")
![Tempus fugit. The classic Pontiac arrowhead hasn’t graced a motor vehicle for several 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 "1959 Pontiac Catalina: No Frills, Jet-Age Wide-Track Survivor – Options? I Hate Options")
![By 1960, the freshness of Chrysler Corporation’s “Forward Look” was starting to wilt, and Virgil Exner’s tenure as styling chief would culminate in cars like the ’61 Plymouth and the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54727535341_b80bb7aab9_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1960 Dodge Dart Seneca – Is This The Best Of The Forward Look?")
![When did our conceptions of the future become terrifying? Dystopian fiction had been warning us about the dangers of technology for decades by the time General Motors introduced the fantastic […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20240622_172938718.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1956 Buick Centurion – Motorama’s Vision Of A Future Without Rearview Mirrors")
![Carl Jung, the famous psychologist, conceived the idea of the collective unconscious, and in doing so, he explained that there were archetypes and images that humans innately understood from birth. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tempest-and-LeMans.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Finds: 1968 Pontiac Tempest & 1969 Pontiac LeMans – Muscle Car Flair For The Masses")
![One of the clues in today’s New York Times “The Mini” is, “There are roughly ten million billion (10^16) of these in a grain of salt.” (Of course, the answer is “atoms.”) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20240714_150133860.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1960 Jensen 541R: They Weren’t All Interceptors, You Know – Little Known, Fantastic British Coupe")
![There are too many things in life that are frustrating because of a lack of context. You can fill in your own blanks, but I’m reminded of a Peanuts cartoon strip […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54697491597_6c3e12f275_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1959 Ford F-250: Accessory Overload – “I’ll Never Know What That Was About!”")
![In music, the concept of a summer fling was perhaps best captured in Chad and Jeremy’s “A Summer Song,” which reached Number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20250731_170243854.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1964 Pontiac Tempest Custom Convertible – A Very Tempting Summer Fling")
![I am on the whole an indecisive man, but put me in front of an internet auction with a car I’ve never seen, and I will never waver. That’s how […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20250730_180942559.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My Newly Acquired 1967 Volvo 1800S – “Is That One Of Those James Bond Cars?”")
![One of the great joys of hoarding collecting a wide variety of old cars is that you invariably learn their quirks, whether you want to or not. Early on, I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PXL_20250708_232844857.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Shouldn’t A Buick Be Quiet? Silencing The Wind Noise By Replacing The Vent Windows In A 1963 Riviera")
![Being too philosophical is rarely a recipe for happiness, but as a guy who finds comfort in Platonic dialogues and was recently told on an automotive forum that I “may […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/54677423006_738b17971c_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1977 Pontiac Ventura – Dumb Luck")
![Mechanical objects don’t have feelings, or at least that’s what I always try to tell myself when I’m berating them for being obstinate in my garage, but in case I’m […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PXL_20250628_151232278a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1965 Oldsmobile Starfire Convertible – New Engine, New Body, Old Idea")
![Through natural predilection or mere opportunity (those movie marathons on TBS, perhaps?), I’ve been a fan of the James Bond series of movies (and books) my whole life. The reality, however, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PXL_20250615_144047207a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1971 Ford Thunderbird Landau – Diamonds Are Forever")
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