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![The 1958 Buick Limited was one of the biggest, gaudiest, grandest cars of a notoriously grand and gaudy era for Detroit. It was an expensive flop that lasted only a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1958-Buick-Limited-4HT-Blue-Mist-Bring-a-Trailer-side-right-Flight-Pitch-banner-115x115.webp "1958 Buick Limited: One-Year-Only Chrome Behemoth’s Flight Pitch Dynaflow Was An Early CVT – Its Air Suspension Was Just A Nightmare")
![While it wasn’t as fanciful as the show cars of the 1950s, Ford’s 1968 Techna concept car was an elaborate, earnest attempt to envision the automobile of the ’80s, 1960s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1968-Ford-Techna-Ford-Motor-Company-CN5625-002-color-test-track-115x115.webp "1968 Ford Techna Concept Car: Retro-Future Anachronism With A Weird Offset Driveshaft And Power Doors")
![One of the most enthusiast-beloved Mustangs was the Fox-body LX 5.0L of the late ’80s and early ’90s, which offered all the performance of the Mustang GT with fewer frills […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1995-Ford-Mustang-GTS-and-1990-Ford-Mustang-LX-5.0L-2SD-Mecum-and-Bring-a-Trailer-side-composite-115x115.webp "Rare 1995 Ford Mustang GTS Was A Short-Lived Reinvention Of The Old LX 5.0L")
![I ran across the listing for this black 1953 Chrysler Custom Imperial sedan due to an embarrassing error by the noted British auction house Bonhams, whose catalog had incorrectly listed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1953-Chrysler-Custom-Imperial-black-Bonhams-front-3q-lights-115x115.webp "Sober Black 1953 Chrysler Custom Imperial Has a Cheerful Mint-Green Interior")
![Slipping U.S. Jeep sales have been in the news a lot in recent years, leading pundits to ponder if the Jeep brand is on its way out. However, even a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1956-Willys-Jeep-Utility-Wagon-silver-Mecum-Auctions-L16-front-3q-left-banners-115x115.webp "Vintage Ads: How Willys Jeep Tried To Lure Jeep Dealers In The 1950s And Early 1960s")
![Continental kits — spare tires carried on the back of a car as a decorative element — are one of the most persistent of all automotive accessories. Some people abhor […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1940-Lincoln-Continental-Cabriolet-Zephyr-Blue-Bring-a-Trailer-6-rear-3q-left-circled-115x115.webp "No, The Lincoln Continental Did Not Invent The Continental Kit: Griff Borgeson Makes The Case")
![It’s easy to characterize a six cylinder Camaro as a slug and a painful reminder that not all classic Camaros came with hot V8s. But it misses a couple of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1967-Chevrolet-Camaro-RS-Ermine-White-Bring-a-Trailer-369-front-115x115.webp "1967 Camaro Rally Sport With 250 Six And 3-Speed Manual: It Was Quicker Than A Lot Of V8s And Handled Better Too")
![You could say a lot about the 1959 Pontiac, especially the top-of-the-line Bonneville, but its most lasting legacy was introducing the trademark Pontiac split grille. Although Pontiac nearly abandoned the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1959-and-1960-Pontiac-Bonneville-2HTs-Sienna-Coral-and-Shelltone-Ivory-Mecum-S8-and-S154-composite-115x115.webp "How The 1959 Pontiac’s Split Grille Defined The Brand For The Next 50 Years")
![In fall 1961, only two years after the introduction of the radical air-cooled, rear-engine Corvair, Chevrolet rolled out a second compact model, the conventionally engineered water-cooled, front-engine Chevy II. How […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1962-Chevrolet-Chevy-II-100-and-Corvair-Monza-Spyder-convertible-115x115.webp "1962 Chevy II vs. Corvair: Why Chevrolet Thought These Similarly Priced Compacts Could Coexist")
![If you ask the seasoned Mopar fan when Chrysler first offered disc brakes, there’s a good chance they’ll tell you 1966, which was when caliper discs became optional for many […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1954-Chrysler-Crown-Imperial-8-passenger-sedan-Everglades-Green-bnicetwo-via-Hemmings-front-3q-right-brake-overlays-1-115x115.webp "Chrysler’s Unusual 1949–1955 Four-Wheel Disc Brakes: A Very Different Kind of Disc")
![Over the years, the downsized 1978–1980 Pontiac Grand Prix has taken a lot of heat here at CC, even attaining Deadly Sin status. Was it really so bad? Let’s take […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1979-Pontiac-Grand-Prix-SJ-Platinum-Dark-Charcoal-Mecum-Auctions-T303-front-MT-vignette-115x115.webp "Vintage M/T Road Test: 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ – Rare 4-Speed Manual In A Pontiac PLC Placeholder")
![Most Cadillac fans are aware that for about six and a half years, many Cadillac models were available with the unfortunate Oldsmobile 5.7-liter diesel V-8. Towards the end of that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1985-Cadillac-Sedan-de-Ville-diesel-Grayfern-ClassicCars.com-side-left-badge-inset-115x115.webp "1985 Cadillac De Ville 4.3 V-6 Diesel: The Most Underpowered Cadillac Since Before WW2"){kind=icon}
![Pontiac had been a pioneer in the muscle car field in the early ’60s, with its highly competitive big-displacement H.O. and SD V-8 engines. By the latter 1970s, that whole […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1979-Pontiac-Firebird-Formula-Starlight-Black-Bring-a-Trailer-15-front-3q-left-vignette-115x115.webp "Vintage M/T Road Test: 1979 Pontiac Firebird Formula – Last Call For The Hot L78/W72 Pontiac 400 V8")
![It’s now been over two decades since Chrysler pulled the plug on Plymouth. After a very promising start, Plymouth had become Chrysler’s volume brand, but it never reached the heights […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1928-Plymouth-Model-Q-and-2001-Plymouth-Neon-LX-4SDs-115x115.webp "First And Last Plymouths: 1928 Plymouth Model Q and 2001 Plymouth Neon LX")
![In 1981, Cadillac rolled out a new version of its 368-cid V-8 engine with a “modulated displacement” (cylinder deactivation) system that let it run on eight, six, or four cylinders […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1981-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Brougham-dElegance-Bordeaux-Red-Mecum-Auctions-W125-front-3q-high-inset-115x115.webp "1981 Cadillac V8-6-4: The Real Reason Cadillac Dropped Its “Modulated Displacement” Engine After Only A Year")
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