![(first posted 7/15/2015) This website is partially to blame for my recent 1970s fixation; therefore, I’ve become no stranger to attending a local cruise and photographing some cars that others […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Plymouth-1971-RR.jpg "Car Show Classics: Fun at the Local Cruise–Two ’70s Muscle Cars and an Awkward Interloper")
![I love an old Mercury. I’ve never owned one, but that’s just a matter of coincidence at this point in my life, and it’s only a matter of time considering […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/111_1030.jpg "Curbside Classic – 1962 Mercury Monterey Custom Sedan: The 20-Footer Club, Part II")
![(first posted 6/29/2015) Leave it to me. At a car show surrounded by seductive chariots spanning from 1933 to 1977, I manage to fall in love with an AMC Hornet. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AMC-Hornet.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1974 AMC Hornet Sportabout – A Dorky Cupid Moment")
![“Patina” and “provenance” have been flogged so mercilessly by cable TV auction announcers that they might as well be food words, words that leave me feeling a vague dread as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/111_1158a.jpg "Parking Lot Classic: 1964 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass Holiday – The 20-Footer Club, Part One")
![The idea that many of the things I enjoy may disappear within my lifetime makes my head hurt. When I was a kid, I would lie awake in the dark […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/111_1048.jpg "Antique Store Classic: 1965 Buick Protect-O-Plate – Decoding Some Fella’s New Car")
![(first posted 6/9/2015) I recently read Patrick Foster’s American Motors Corporation: The Rise and Fall of America’s Last Independent Automaker, and Mr. Foster, in so many words, felt that AMC may […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Rambler-1967-rogue-conv.jpg "CC Capsule: 1967 Rambler Rogue Convertible–A Rascally Scoundrel?")
![“On this earth there are, in truth, so many new experiences that I desire but rarely to live over any part of my past life, not even the happiest moments […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AGuyinVancouver1.jpg "Cohort Classic: 1960 Lincoln – Here Comes The Sun King")
![The area of Michigan that I call home is flatter than week-old Faygo. While fertile sugar beet fields are perhaps poor substitutes for what others might consider to be breathtaking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/111_0997a.jpg "Dealer Classics: 1961 Dodge and 1968 Chevy Mediums – Visualizing The Ideal Commute")
![(first posted 4/6/2015) Most Corvair owners tend to own multiple Corvairs; in fact, as often as not, said owners are “Corvair exclusive,” meaning that they collect as many different variants […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Corvair-Rampside-camper.jpg "Car Show Capsule: 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside Camper – A Box Atop a Boxer")
![As a superfan of American auto advertising, and as a companion piece to yesterday’s article about 1960 Buicks, I’d like to today explore some of the 1960 BOP advertisements from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/111_0967.jpg "Advertising Classics: 1960 Buick-Olds-Pontiac Advertisements – Being Our Best Selves")
![Oh, how fickle are the fortunes of man. In 1956, Buick’s model year production of 572,024 cars was good enough for third place in the industry; however, the 1957 and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/037a.jpg "Car Show Classics: 1960 Buicks – If This Is A Slump, What Is A Streak?")
![(first posted 3/23/2015) In contrast to Gerardo’s entry last week on the Cimarron, which was perhaps the nadir of the Cadillac brand, I’d like to present an example of “Peak […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/a-cad.jpg "Museum Classic: 1965 Cadillac Sedan DeVille – Nothing Missing but the Garage Space")
![396. Say it aloud. It’s an easy number to like, an easy number to sell; its intonation suggests malignity. John Milton eulogized William Shakespeare in 1630 by lauding the way […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/111_0486.jpg "Racetrack Capsule: 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport – Jukebox Hero?")
![In The Aims of Education, Harvard professor Alfred North Whitehead said that “a merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth.” Less cynically, though perhaps no less accurately, he […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/111_0889-1.jpg "CC Literature: Ford Educational Foldouts, Circa 1959 – The Aims Of Education")
![General Motors products from the early 1950s are not known for their precise panel gaps and hood fitment, and in the Buick world in particular, the 1953 model is particularly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/111_0705a.jpg "Curbside PSA, Starring My 1953 Buick Special – Have You Checked Your Hood Hinges Lately?")
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