- Website
- https://ateupwithmotor.com
- Description
- Senior Editor and also the owner of Ate Up With Motor.
![Since the ’80s, the primer coat of most new cars and trucks has been applied using a process called electrocoating. “E-coating” was first developed by Ford Motor Company in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ford-Escort-Mk1-Halewood-Electropainting-Fig-93-115x115.webp "Electrocoating: How Ford Revolutionized Auto Painting, Why It Took Detroit 20 Years To Get Onboard, And Why It Didn’t Stop ’70s Rust")
![This striking 1956 DeSoto ad certainly catches the eye, but in the atomic age, billowing yellow-orange clouds in the sky had rather ominous implications. Maybe it was foreshadowing: Late ’50s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1956-DeSoto-ad-Drive-a-DeSoto-Before-You-Decide-convertible-115x115.webp "1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible – A Rare And Beautiful Car, But Why Do The Clouds In This Ad Look Like A Nuclear Explosion?")
![Car and Driver ran a lot of stunts in its heyday, but this was one of their most bizarre: In spring 1968, they sent English associate editor Charles Fox on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Car-and-Driver-1968-08-60-61-joined-115x115.webp "Vintage C/D Review: New York To D.C. With No Cash, No Cards, 12 Checks, And A New Lincoln Continental Mark III")
![In its heyday, the small and sporty 1984–1987 Honda CRX was a fairly common sight on this side of the Pacific, but as Honda fans know, the Japanese domestic market […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Honda-Ballade-CR-X-Si-Hyperpack-side-right-115x115.jpg "Car Show Find: 1985 Honda CRX: Faux JDM DOHC Clone With A Skeleton At The Wheel")
![The Chevrolet Laguna Type S-3 was the sportiest midsize Chevy you could buy in 1974, and it was still available with the big-block LS4 Turbo-Jet 454 engine. Car and Driver […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1974-Chevrolet-Laguna-Type-S-3-Antique-White-OnAllCylinders-front-3q-left-banner-115x115.webp "Vintage C/D Review: 1974 Chevrolet Laguna Type S-3 454 – Was This Rare Big-Engine Chevy A Muscle Car Or Just Another Freeway Cruiser?")
![Ford sold almost 224,000 full-size and intermediate station wagons for 1967, but not many buyers ordered the fancier woodgrain-clad Fairlane Squire, and very few of those had the standard 3-speed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1967-Ford-Fairlane-Squire-4SW-Dark-Green-Bring-a-Trailer-front-3q-left-inset-115x115.webp "1967 Ford Fairlane Squire 3-Speed: Rare Midsize Stick-Shift Faux Woodie Wagon, But Why Did It Sell For $20K?")
![As the leading manufacturer of earthmoving, road building, and construction equipment, Caterpillar Tractor Co. had a lot to gain from the ambitious federal-aid highway program that began in 1956, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Saturday-Evening-Post-Jan-25-1958-Caterpillar-highway-ad-115x115.webp "Vintage 1958 Ad: Caterpillar Urges — Build Better Highways To Escape The Bomb")
![The Cadillac Eldorado was one of America’s preeminent automotive status symbols, an expensive and much sought after personal luxury car. Yet, the center spread of this 1970 Car and Driver […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Car-and-Driver-1970-04-34-35-joined-Humphrey-Sutton-3-115x115.webp "Vintage C/D Review: 1970 Cadillac Eldorado Was Powerful, Pricey, and Prestigious – So, Why Did They Photograph It Outside A Check-Cashing Place?")
![In 1975, Lincoln offered the Continental Mark IV in 21 different colors, from Pastel Blue to Moondust Metallic Gold. Yet, almost 28 percent of buyers chose white, often in a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1975-Lincoln-Continental-Mark-IV-white-on-white-ad-Motor-Trend-Jan-1975-1-115x115.webp "1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV: Lincoln Advertised This White-On-White Mark As “America’s Most Colorful Luxury Car”")
![Before World War 2, Ford Motor Company had dominated the station wagon market with its glamorous wood-bodied wagons. Ford held onto its woodies a little too long after the war, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ford-woodie-wagon-montage-1946-1948-M-H-1950-1954-115x115.webp "How Postwar Ford Station Wagons Went From Real Woodies To Woodgrain Country Squires")
![Ford didn’t invent the station wagon, but for decades, they were consistently America’s “wagonmaster.” This gallery of early Ford wood-bodied wagons shows how they evolved from basic working vehicles (which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ford-woodie-wagon-montage-1942-1930-1937-1938-115x115.webp "A Gallery Of Classic Ford Woodie Station Wagons: The Early Years, 1929 To 1942")
![Pontiac only built its 265-cid small V-8 for two model years, 1980 and 1981, and there aren’t many left today. This 1981 Firebird Esprit is a well-preserved survivor with that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1981-Pontiac-Firebird-Esprit-Dk-Maroon-Met-Mecum-Auctions-F265.1-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1981 Pontiac Firebird Esprit With The Rare 4.3L (265 CID) Engine, Last Of The True Pontiac V-8s")
![As the acclaimed AMC series Mad Men dramatically illustrated, the 1960s brought a new tone to American advertising: provocative, sometimes irreverent — and yet still often full of condescending ’50s-style […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1963-Dodge-Pardon-Us-large-section-115x115.webp "Women In 1960s New Car Ads: Sex Appeal And Chauvinism From The “Mad Men” Era")
![This very rare 1960 Chrysler New Yorker convertible is a truly gorgeous car, a beautiful example of one of the most desirable designs of the Virgil Exner era. Someone else […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1960-Chrysler-New-Yorker-convert-Bluegrass-Mecum-Auctions-S43-front-3q-115x115.webp "One-Of-556 1960 Chrysler New Yorker Convertible: Magnificent $125,000 Question Mark")
-
-
-
American Brands: GM 
American Brands: Ford 
American Brands: Chrysler 
American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others 
Automotive Histories and Misc. 
Asian Brands 
UK Brands 
Australian Brands 
European Brands 
Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
Buses 
Trucks, Pickups and Vans 
Design 
Trains, Planes & Ships 
Motorcycles, Trikes, Bicycles 
Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
RVs, Motorhomes, Trailers, Campers
