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![You probably wouldn’t want to try this with a 1950 Nash Rambler either if you could avoid it, but roof strength like this was why Nash proclaimed its new Rambler […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "“Don’t Try This With A Conventional Convertible”")
![Truth in advertising has always been a rare commodity, but this 1962 ad for the very first Willys Jeep Wagoneer was positively prophetic. As the first really civilized sport utility […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1962-Jeep-Wagoneer-ad-snippet-115x115.webp "Vintage Ad: 1963 Jeep Wagoneer – Prophet Of The Modern Automotive Scene")
![Back in the days when milk and bread came directly to you rather than to your local supermarket, William and Frank Fageol of the Twin Coach Corporation designed this cute […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1936-Twin-Coach-Helms-Coach-Robin-Adams-RM-Sothebys-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "Helms Bakeries & The Twin Coach Delivery Unit: These Clever Compact Vans Used To Be “Daily At Your Door”")
![The conventional wisdom about the 1971–1977 Chevrolet Vega is that it was a good-looking, good-handling subcompact undermined by terrible execution; its corrosion and reliability problems have become legendary. However, in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1977-Chevrolet-Vega-GT-Silver-Met-SMclassiccars-side-left-115x115.webp "Why The Chevrolet Vega’s Handsome Styling Was Almost As Much Of A Handicap As Its Awful Engine")
![For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the winter solstice, which means the start of winter and the shortest day of the year. As the days have […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1971-Lincoln-Continental-Mark-III-Ivy-Moondust-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-left-with-trim-tag-115x115.webp "Can This Ivy Green “Moondust” 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III Chase Those Winter Blues Away?")
![With its standard 105-horsepower 231-cid V-6 engine, the 2-ton 1976 Buick LeSabre had a truly grim power-to-weight ratio, one of the worst in the entire U.S. industry. Almost no other […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1976-Buick-LeSabre-V6-2CP-Continental-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-T227-front-3q-left-slant-inset-115x115.webp "1976 Buick LeSabre V-6: Why Did Buick Build This Rare, Slow, Massively Underpowered Big Car?")
![By the late ’70s, Car and Driver was probably the best of the U.S. car magazines: more acerbic and opinionated than Road & Track, more technically sophisticated than Road Test, and not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Automotive-News-1977-04-27_-Vol-52-Iss-4648-65-crop-115x115.webp "Vintage 1977 Ad: Car And Driver Publisher David E. Davis Jr. Tries To Explain Himself")
![The Oldsmobile Cutlass was the bestselling new car model in America in 1977, and the two-door Cutlass Supreme Coupe was the most popular version, so how rare could one possibly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1977-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Supreme-Black-Mecum-Auctions-S37-front-3q-left-inset-115x115.webp "1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 5-Speed: Rare Stick-Shift Colonnade Coupe")
![In mid-1987, Honda rolled out its third-generation Prelude coupe with a high-tech new option: a complex four-wheel steering system that was supposed to improve handling and maneuverability. Honda 4WS was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1991-Honda-Prelude-Si-4WS-Phoenix-Red-Bring-a-Trailer-31-front-3q-left-inset-green-115x115.webp "The 1988–1991 Honda Prelude Si Offered Four-Wheel Steering – Was It A Gimmick?")
![The Cadillac Cimarron is one of those cars people love to hate: an unconvincingly dolled-up version of a low-buck compact sedan, which debuted with an underpowered four-cylinder engine and a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1988-Cadillac-Cimarron-Autumn-Red-West-Coast-Classics-front-3q-left-crop-115x115.webp "1988 Cadillac Cimarron: The Nicest Surviving Example Of Cadillac’s Most Embarrassing Car")
![Whenever I think of the Chevrolet Chevette (and I usually try not to), I tell myself that most of them surely went to the boneyard long ago. So, you can […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1987-Chevrolet-Chevette-3HB-Silver-Mecum-Auctions-W158-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1987 Chevrolet Chevette CS: Practically Pristine Penalty Box With Only 47 (Yes, 47) Miles")
![If you were a Chevrolet enthusiast in the late ’70s, daydreaming about what options you’d select to “build” the perfect big Chevy, the result would probably have been a lot […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1977-Chevrolet-Caprice-Classic-2CP-LtBlue-DkBlue-ClassicCars.com-front-3q-right-115x115.webp "1977 Chevrolet Caprice Classic: Low-Mileage, Two-Door, Two-Tone, 350 F41 Positraction Dreamboat")
![Buick built 34,080 Rivieras for 1973, the last year of the flamboyant and controversial “Boattail” design. Only 1,234 of those had the high-output Stage 1 engine, and only a few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1973-Buick-Riviera-GS-Stage-1-Midnight-Gray-Mecum-Auctions-S86-rear-3q-left-115x115.webp "1973 Buick Riviera GS Stage 1 With Rare MaxTrac Traction Control: No Fishtailing In Your Boattail")
![There’s an old running joke that the online auto enthusiast’s ideal car is a brown stick-shift turbodiesel station wagon. This Desert Fawn 1961 Buick Special six-passenger wagon burns gasoline, not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1961-Buick-Special-4SW-Desert-Fawn-Bring-a-Trailer-front-3q-with-3-pedal-inset-115x115.webp "1961 Buick Special Wagon: Rare Three-Pedal Station Wagon With Aluminum V-8 And 3-Speed Stick")
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