![If you read Curbside Classic, it’s likely that you have subscribed to at least one or two of the big automotive periodicals, and it’s just as likely that you know that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/685123-115x115.avif "1975 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Convertible With A Pontiac 400 V8: Is This GM’s Most Forgotten Hybrid?")
![It may not come as a surprise that owning 11 cars and having worked on cars for others has given me a broad education in the world of automotive engineering. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20240701_150044068-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1963 Ford Thunderbird: Calling On The Experts—Removing An FE Intake Manifold And Living To Tell About It")
![Being reasonably well off and shopping for a new car in 1965 would have been a nightmare for the indecisive, as there was a virtual bounty of riches in American […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54785270951_814f4eff39_k-e1757852917464.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1965 Dodge Coronet 500 Hardtop – WOW! It Stands Out On The Used Car Lot Today, But How Did It Compare When New?")
![I have a good friend at work who is about fifteen years younger than I am, and he regularly asks me and another work friend outlandish “would you rather?” questions. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-13-073510.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Finds: Would You Rather Have A Restored Or An Untouched 1928 Pontiac 6-28 Sport Landau Sedan?")
![The second-generation Camaro and the Fox-body Mustang have one fundamental similarity–their unlikely longevity. Both cars trembled under the long ax of their respective corporations at some point during their tenures, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/030.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1978 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 and 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra–Two Right Answers to the Same Question")
![Humans can certainly be cruel – how else could you explain the enjoyment so many of us derive from junkyard pictures? As sad as the subject matter always is, there’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54765715888_260b48e5c3_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Ralf K Junkyard Photos: To All The Cars I’ve Loved Before")
![I get it. Marketing is sometimes hard. The buying public represents a moving target that is buffeted by economic fortune, fashion trends, and today, social media. Every once in a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20240914_164003748-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1970 Ford Econoline SuperVan – Better Than The Name Implies")
![Last month, I shared my newest lifetime regret, the purchase of a mediocre 1967 Volvo 1800S, and as is always the case, it was not ready to act as a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20250829_200553646-scaled-e1756561094914.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1967 Volvo 1800S Maintenance Log: No Sleep ‘Til Göteborg")
![I have long felt that the only car that should wear a Continental kit is a first-generation Lincoln Continental, but that’s an exaggeration – I’ll give a pass to any […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54754990754_4754d33187_k-e1756642412511.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1957 Rambler Rebel – They Didn’t All Have Continental Kits")
![(first posted 12/6/2016) Humankind is unique among animals for its need to stamp out a legacy for itself; after all, few willingly meet death’s long embrace without raging […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/034a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1911 Hupmobile Model 20 – Around The World For Posterity")
![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?")
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