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![For 1975, Buick added a new model to its popular midsize Century/Regal line: the Century Special, advertised as a “new lightweight, gas-saving edition of the Century Hardtop Coupe” that was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1975-Buick-Century-Special-Arctic-White-Midwest-Car-Exchange-side-right-115x115.webp "1975 Buick Century Special V-6: The Colonnade “Economy” Model That Wasn’t")
![Between 1982 and 1985, more than 80,000 people bought a third-gen Pontiac Firebird or Chevrolet Camaro with the much-maligned 2.5-liter LQ9 “Iron Duke” four — a gruff and underpowered engine […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1982-Pontiac-Firebird-4-Bright-Red-FB-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1982 Pontiac Firebird With The 2.5L Iron Duke Four: There’s No Fire In This ‘Bird")
![For years, GM’s mid-priced Oldsmobile brand did a brisk business making middle-class cars for middle-class buyers: unflashy full-size models aimed at people who wanted to demonstrate their affluence in respectable, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1946-Custom-8-Cruiser-98-Pacific-Nightshade-Blue-1968-Oldsmobile-98-Luxury-Sedan-Willow-Gold-115x115.webp "1946 and 1968 Oldsmobile 98 Sedans: Cadillac Luxury From GM’s Mid-Priced Brand")
![Designed by Raymond Loewy Associates, the 1953 Studebaker coupe (renamed Hawk in 1956) was a classic design that Studebaker wasted little time in spoiling with an array of aesthetically dubious […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Four-Hawks-1953-1958-1957-1962-composite-115x115.webp "Studebaker Hawk: How Studebaker Made A Mess Of This Raymond Loewy Classic, And How Brooks Stevens Brought It Back")
![Back in 1995, the movie Get Shorty turned product placement into a running gag by proclaiming the Oldsmobile Silhouette “the Cadillac of minivans.” Six years earlier, Chrysler tried to create […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1990-Plymouth-Voyager-LX-and-Dodge-Caravan-Bring-a-Trailer-front-3q-high-banner-115x115.webp "1989 Dodge Caravan Turbo and 1990 Plymouth Voyager Turbo: Rare Turbocharged Four-Cylinder Chrysler Minivans")
![In 1965, the luxurious LTD took the full-size Ford into the mid-price realm, which was theoretically supposed to be the domain of the middle-class Mercury brand. Ford had tried to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1966-Mercury-Park-Lane-and-Ford-LTD-montage-115x115.webp "1966 Mercury Park Lane Vs. Ford LTD: Did The LTD Make Ford’s Mid-Priced Mercury Obsolete?")
![If you’d asked me in 1989 to predict what the automobiles of the 2020s would be like, I would have presumed that they’d look a lot like this car: the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1989-Merkur-Scorpio-5HT-Tuscany-Gold-Cars-and-Bids-side-right-1-115x115.webp "1989 Merkur Scorpio: This Rare Luxury Hatchback Seemed Like A Preview Of An Automotive Future That Never Arrived")
![By 1968, the rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair was on borrowed time, and it had dropped off the radar for most of the car magazines. Car Life became one of the last […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1968-Chevrolet-Corvair-Monza-CP-Seafrost-Green-Bring-a-Trailer-3-front-3q-left-banner-115x115.webp "Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1968 Chevrolet Corvair Monza – “This Really Enjoyable Automobile Deserves A Much Better Fate”")
![Although he’s never had a proper name, the Esso (or Exxon) Tiger remains one of the world’s most recognizable advertising mascots, featured in a memorable series of 1960s ads that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Esso-Tiger-logo-115x115.webp "Put A Tiger In Your Tank With These Famous Esso Tiger Ads Of The 1960s"){kind=logo}
![When Volkswagen developed the original VW Golf/Rabbit, they turned to Italdesign, the design firm of Giorgetto Giugiaro. Although Giugiaro’s role in the design of the Golf is of course well […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1971-Italdesign-Golf-prototype-color-rear-3q-right-115x115.webp "Giugiaro And The Golf: Rare Pictures Of The Original Italdesign VW Golf/Rabbit Prototype")
![Would you believe, in 1968, a turbocharged six-cylinder Corvair capable of low-13-second quarter-mile times, a record-setting top speed of more than 156 mph, and “fantastic cornering power”? Tom Keosababian built […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1965-Chevrolet-Corvair-Tom-Keosasabian-Speedweek-1967-115x115.webp "Vintage Car Life Review: “The World’s Fastest Corvair” – This 156 MPH Modified 1965 Corvair Corsa Turbo Could Run With A 427 Corvette")
![Designed by Ford, the M151 1/4-ton 4×4 vehicle — originally called the Military Utility Tactical Truck (MUTT) — replaced the venerable Korean War-era M38 Jeep in the 1960s. However, the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1966-Ford-M151A1-Bring-a-Trailer-3-front-raised-115x115.webp "Ford M151 1/4-Ton Utility Truck: Why The Suspension Of The Military’s Jeep Successor Made It Too Dangerous For Civilians")
![We have an extensive selection today of vintage service station photos, from the 1930s through the 1960s, with an interesting assortment of old cars. (Thanks to Patrick Bell for help […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Gas-stations-Standard-1960s-color-115x115.webp "Vintage Photos Of Gas Stations From The 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, And 1960s")
![The day of the full-size sporty car was winding down by 1966, but Lincoln-Mercury thought there might still be a little more life in this segment and revived its sporty […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1966-Mercury-S-55-convert-Yellow-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "1966 Mercury S-55 Convertible: One of Only 669 S-55 Ragtops With The Super Marauder 428, So Why Did It Keep Failing To Sell?")
![In early 1961, Mercedes-Benz rolled out a luxury coupe version of its W111 “Heckflosse” platform: the first of the modern S-Class coupes, with no tail fins, but a sleek pillarless […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1962-Mercedes-220SE-coupe-white-Bring-a-Trailer-7-front-3q-right-high-115x115.webp "Vintage M/T Review: 1962 Mercedes-Benz 220SEb Coupe – This Handsome Hardtop Seemed To Confuse The Heckflosse Out Of Motor Trend")
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