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![Take one full-size American near-luxury car, lop a foot off its overall length, subtract over 100 cubic inches of engine displacement, and raise the price by hundreds of dollars. It […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1977-Buick-Electra-Park-Avenue-4SD-Black-Bring-a-Trailer-2-side-right-115x115.webp "1977 Buick Electra Park Avenue: Buick’s Big Downsizing Gamble Pays Off Handsomely (But Oh, That Interior!)")
![1977 looked like Mercury’s year at last: While its GM rivals downsized, Lincoln-Mercury proclaimed, “We still build them like we used to,” and even invited buyers to compare the full-size […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1977-Mercury-Grand-Marquis-2HT-Light-Jade-Glow-Dark-Jade-Bring-a-Trailer-4-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "1977 Mercury Grand Marquis: Cadillac-Baiting Luxury In A Two-Tone Mercury Hardtop")
![With its flared fenders and sculpted hood, the flamboyant 1973–1977 Pontiac Grand Prix remains a love-it-or-hate-it design. It sold more than 856,000 cars in five years, but some Pontiac fans […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1973-Pontiac-Grand-Prix-Regatta-Blue-Bring-a-Trailer-7-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1973 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 455: The Most Desirable Colonnade Grand Prix, In A Soulful Shade of Blue")
![This compact tank, officially known in U.S service as the Light Tank M5A1, is a World War 2 veteran. It’s also a Cadillac: If you remove its rear engine covers, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1943-M5A1-light-tank-Bring-a-Trailer-4410170-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "This WW2 Tank Is Powered By Twin Cadillac Engines And Hydra-Matic Transmissions, And It Was Parked Down The Street")
![Since the mid-1990s, all gasoline sold in the U.S. has been required to contain detergent additives to control deposits on the intake valves and fuel injectors. Here’s how detergent gasoline […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Lubrizol-Ford-taxicab-test-showing-valves-with-and-without-detergent-660543-Fig-8-115x115.webp "Why Gasoline Has Detergent Additives, And Why More Detergent ISN’T Necessarily Better")
![Remember automatic seatbelts, those weird door-mounted or motorized belts some automakers adopted in the early 1990s to meet federal passive requirements more cheaply than airbags? The first manufacturer to offer […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Volkswagen-VWRA-illustration-115x115.webp "Volkswagen Automatic Seatbelt System: VW First Offered These Door-Mounted Passive Restraints Back In 1975")
![In its August 1967 test of a 4-speed 1967 Pontiac Firebird 400, Car Life magazine remarked that the Firebird didn’t really need the 4-speed transmission, and suggested that the standard […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1967-Pontiac-Firebird-CVT-Cameo-Ivory-Mecum-Auctions-T250-front-3q-left-shift-ball-inset-115x115.webp "Did The First-Gen Pontiac Firebird Really Need A 4-Speed Manual Transmission For Performance?")
![In 1978, Volkswagen of America opened a new factory in Pennsylvania to build the VW Rabbit (the North American version of the original Golf), and kicked off a questionable and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1979-Volkswagen-Rabbit-C-5HB-Whisper-Blue-Cascade-Motors-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1979 Volkswagen Rabbit: VW Jumps The Shark With A Baby Blue Rabbit Made In the USA")
![If the 1950s were the age of chrome, the 1970s were the age of overpowering color coordination. Color-keyed interior and exterior trim wasn’t new for American cars, but ’70s Detroit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1979-Ford-Thunderbird-Heritage-Edition-Light-Medium-Blue-and-Maroon-Orlando-Classic-Cars-stacked-115x115.webp "1979 Ford Thunderbird Heritage Edition: These Popular Special Edition T-Birds Took Color Coordination To Extremes")
![The Pontiac Firebird was a late introduction for 1967, but it attracted a lot of interest from the enthusiast press, especially the big-engine Firebird 400 and the Firebird Sprint, which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1967-Pontiac-Firebird-Sprint-HT-Cameo-Ivory-Bring-a-Trailer-36-front-3q-left-with-banner-115x115.webp "1967 Pontiac Firebird Sprint OHC Versus Firebird 400 (Vintage Car Life Comparison): Overhead Cam Versus Cubic Inches")
![Cars have been the stars of many movies and TV shows over the years, but most of the ones we remember are from the action-adventure end of the spectrum, like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Save-the-Tiger-18-38-standing-in-parking-lot-115x115.webp "Why The 1972 Lincoln Continental Was The Perfect Movie Costar In This Jack Lemmon Drama")
![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")
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