![There’s no point in belaboring the fact that it’s been an odd year for just about everybody. Just recently, I mentioned how a dearth of car events this summer has […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/111_0585a.jpg "Rolling COAL: A Firebird, A T-Bird, And A Corvair Go On A Drive – Day Trips And A Short Discussion Of Ownership Philosophy")
![Last week while I was out for a ride in my ’74 Firebird, I noticed a clunk beneath my feet in the driver’s floorboard. My first thought was that the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/111_0400a.jpg "QOTD: What Was Your Easiest Or Strangest Repair Job?")
![I thought of my paternal grandpa as an old guy from the moment I met him until he passed away at the age of 92 in 2003. It sounds cruel […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/001.jpg "Best of 2020 – Random Stuff Classics: Grandpa Nick’s Basement Stash – Grandpa Was A Tinkerer, Too.")
![While flipping through a very musty Motor magazine from June 1965, I had to flip back to this advertisement for “Ford Authorized Reconditioned” engines. Ford is well-known for its somewhat scattershot approach […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/109_0076.jpg "Curbside Trivia/QOTD: June 1965 Magazine Ad – Can You Identify The Engine Family? Do You Have Any Experience With Said Engine Family?")
![A picture of an obscure wrench on my old garage floor is unglamorous, I know. But this tool saved me hours of aggravation and heartbreak, and it’s the “right tool […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/109_0037.jpg "Toolbox Classic: Snap-On “S-Wrench” – Adjusting A GM A-Body’s Doors The Right Way")
![(first posted 5/20/2014) Hopefully, my love of automobiles is evident in my writing. As Bill Mitchell might have said, I was born with gasoline in my veins, and there’s no […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Spitfire-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: Triumph Spitfire Mk1 – One Of The Cars I’ll Probably Never Own")
![People have labeled me eccentric for as long as I can remember. It’s not usually derogatory (I don’t think), but I sometimes do things that seem perfectly rational to me, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/008.jpg "Shop Manual Classics: The MOTOR Manual – The Next Best Thing To A Factory Shop Manual Since Forever")
![(first posted 6/23/2014) “Big Blue” is my vehicular soulmate. She’s my 4000 pound friend: beautiful, unhurried, unique, glorious, etc. I ogled this car from afar for about two years before […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/7-11-11-033.jpg "COAL: 1953 Buick Special Riviera – My Vehicular Soulmate")
![On Tuesday of last week, this 1965 Buick Skylark was driven through the semi-rural areas surrounding an average mid-sized, midwestern city. The owner enjoyed himself, wife by his side, the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/001.jpg "Curbside Case Study: 1965 Buick Skylark – Attempted Murder Of A Lead Acid Battery, Auto Part Arrested")
![In the midst of perhaps the strangest spring in our collective generations, I have been struggling to overpower my natural cynicism by focusing on things I love: spending more time […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/006.jpg "Advertising Classics: April 1963 Car Ads – “April Come She Will”")
![When I was 20 or so years old, my best friend’s dad was playing Robert Johnson on the CD player at his house, and I immediately bought myself a copy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/9-22-13-010a.jpg "Online Car Show: The 2013 Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show – “Terraplane Blues” And Hits From Studebaker, Nash, AMC, and Chrysler Corporation")
![In a tale that is becoming more commonplace by the day, I was recently told I would be working from home for at least three weeks. As a man who […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSCF6410.jpg "Museum Capsule: 1942 Studebaker Champion Series 90 “Blackout” Edition – Last Chance For The Duration")
![(first posted 3/24/2014) Here’s a car that does not exist, according to the 1971 Chevrolet brochure. My Standard Catalog of Chevrolet 1912-1998 does not mention a Bel Air Sport Coupe either, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Bel-Air-1.jpg "1971 Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe – The Car That Doesn’t Exist, In The US Anyway")
![(first posted 2/24/2014) A few weeks ago, I discussed my love affair with a full-size Pontiac that eluded me years ago, and how it haunts my consciousness. On a related […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-Yorker-2.jpg "Car Show Classics: 1965 Chrysler New Yorker")
![For a guy who is perfectly at home taking a nap under a ’74 Firebird, I am a snob. I mostly read classic books, I visit art museums whenever I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/014.jpg "Trackside Classics: Volvos and a Saab at Waterford Hills – Persona Grata")
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