![Over the years, I’ve shared my victories and losses in maintaining a fleet of old cars as a (mostly) one-man garage on a middle-class salary. The last 1800S update culminated […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/PXL_20260320_232245742-115x115.jpg "My 1967 Volvo 1800S: The One Where It IS Running At The End")
![(Updated 4/18/2026) There was a time when stepping into a car felt a little like stepping into your living room—only even better dressed. This Buick LeSabre […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/74-LeSabre2.jpg "1974 Buick LeSabre Hardtop With Rich Brocade Interior – “What Is Summer In A Fine Brocaded Gown!”")
![American automakers were surprisingly slow to give up vivid lime greens in the mid-1970s. General Motors offered two shades as late as 1976, while Ford marketed three lime greens across […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1974-Bronco-1-115x115.jpg "1974 Ford Bronco in Pastel Lime: The Ultimate 1970s Beach Cruiser?")
![(Updated 4/15/2026) There are plenty of beautiful cars from the muscle car era of 1964-74, but is the 1968 Dodge Charger the most beautiful of them all? I think it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Charger-2.jpg "1968 Dodge Charger R/T: The Most Beautiful Car Of The Muscle Car Era?")
![I hope I never reach a day in my life where I no longer “geek out” when I see that certain old car that hits me the right way, just […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1960-Olds-1-115x115.jpg "1960 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday SportSedan: A Walkaround Of A Spectacular Styling Treat")
![It’s little wonder that Mercury was never quite able to catch a break—just when they had a good thing going, the mother brand at the Blue Oval swooped in and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Cougar-vs.-Elite-115x115.jpg "Ford’s Gran Torino Elite and Mercury’s Cougar XR-7: Ford Undercuts Mercury Again For 1974")
![The two-seat “Baby Bird” set a styling tone that was difficult for subsequent Ford Thunderbirds to equal, but is it possible that this specific 1962 Rangoon Red Sports Roadster, which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/62-T-Bird-1-115x115.webp "1962 Ford Thunderbird Sports Roadster: Is This Rare Roadster The Best-Looking T-Bird…Ever?")
![If one car represented the counterculture in 1960s America, it was not the 1966 Imperial; however, Chrysler Corporation hopped on the psychedelic train to sell a few, as the Imperial’s sales catalog […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1966-Imperial-Crown-Convertible-BaT-1-115x115.webp "1966 Imperial Sales Brochure: Chrysler Goes Psychedelic To Sell Its Conservative Luxury Car")
![In writing about the “Loadomatic” distributor Ford used in its six-cylinder models for decades, I found this 1965 Galaxie 500 Convertible that is powered by the new-for-1965 “Big Six.” Although […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1965-ford-galaxie-500-convertible-1-115x115.webp "1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible With 240 Six – “You’ll Swear It’s A V-8”")
![Aside from the Lincoln Versailles of two decades later, few Lincolns are as polarizing as the big unibodies of 1958-60. Nevertheless, if Lincoln would have styled them like this rare […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1959-Continental-1-Mecum-115x115.jpg "1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Limousine: This Rare Lincoln Fixes the Era’s Most Controversial Design")
![It’s a fair argument that the golden age of automotive advertising spanned the decade from 1955 to 1965, but although some of the flash and color was lost in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/77-Nat-Geo-1-2-115x115.jpg "Fifty Shades Of Brown: Reliving 1977’s Forgotten Ads From National Geographic")
![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, yet this car […]](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")
![It doesn’t come up quite as often today as Lee Iacocca’s “white knight” tales of business heroics at Chrysler, but Ford was up to their necks in the soup in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fords-115x115.jpg "Ford’s Darkest Days? Three Survivors From The Era Before “Quality Was Job 1”")
![In the late 1940s, Ford Motor Company began using a distributor that had no mechanical advance mechanism at all, relying solely on engine vacuum to provide advance based on both […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Galaxie-1-115x115.jpg "The Brain Is In The Carburetor? Understanding Ford’s Forgotten Loadomatic Distributor")
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