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- Senior Editor and also the owner of Ate Up With Motor.
![I recently came across a now-concluded auction listing for this red 1990 Buick Estate Wagon, clad in so much DI-NOC woodgrain trim that you can barely tell what color it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1990-Buick-Estate-Wagon-Red-Metallic-Bring-a-Trailer-2-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "1990 Buick Estate Wagon: Luxurious Family Hauler The Old-Fashioned Way")
![A year after their disappointing initial test of the new turbocharged Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder, Motor Trend tried a convertible version and came away impressed. Not only was it significantly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1963-Chevrolet-Corvair-Monza-Spyder-convert-Ember-Red-Mecum-Auctions-W93-front-3q-right-MT-vignette-115x115.webp "Vintage M/T Road Test: 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder Convertible – “A Real Enthusiast’s Machine”")
![Until the 1970s, GM automotive divisions made most of their own engines, leading to a confusing array of completely different engines of similar displacements. For example, Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1955-GM-V-8-engines-115x115.webp "Why Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, And Cadillac (Mostly) Had Their Own Engines")
![Anyone familiar with older GM cars has probably encountered the Delco signal-seeking radios that GM cars began offering in the early ’50s. I recently came upon a very strange 1956 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LIFE-1956-04-23-crop-115x115.webp "1956 Delco Station-Seeking Radio Ads: “Touch The Wonder Bar, Dilworth”")
![Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a small British sports car with a lusty American V-8 engine crammed under the hood. When MG installed the ex-Buick Rover V-8 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1974-MGB-GT-V8-Damask-Red-Car-and-Classic-front-with-banner-115x115.webp "Vintage Wheels Review: 1974 MGB GT V8 – An MGB And A Buick Engine Walk Into A Bar …")
![Charting the history of Cadillac is often as much a matter of charting its decline as noting its successes. The 1990 Sedan de Ville was a little of both: It […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1990-Cadillac-Sedan-de-Ville-Slate-Gray-West-Coast-Classics-side-right-115x115.webp "1990 Cadillac Sedan De Ville And Fleetwood: Cadillac At The Crossroads")
![By the early 1970s, more than 20 years after Crosley introduced its groundbreaking but short-lived Hydradisc brakes, automakers were finally, grudgingly adopting standard disc brakes, at least for the front […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1974-Ford-Maverick-2D-Polar-White-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-left-vignette-115x115.webp "What Were The Last U.S.-Market Cars With Four-Wheel Drum Brakes?")
![In October 1965, MG unveiled a handsome fixed-head coupe version of the popular MGB sports car. Car and Driver sampled the new MGB GT in May 1966 and thought the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1966-MGB-GT-Old-English-White-Bring-a-Trailer-10-front-3q-left-CD-vignette-115x115.webp "Vintage C/D Review: 1966 MGB GT – Sometimes, Refinement Isn’t Everything")
![After encountering a 1963 Cadillac Series 62 convertible with a beautiful special order turquoise-and-white leather interior, I was curious to learn more about Cadillac interior and color special orders in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-Cadillac-Eldorado-Firemist-Aquamarine-Classic-Cars-of-Sarasota-front-seats-door-open-115x115.webp "1960s Cadillac Special Orders: Non-Standard Color And Trim Options By “Special Request”")
![In mid-1949, Crosley cars and trucks like this diminutive Crosley Hotshot roadster became the first American production models equipped with disc brakes, months ahead of Chrysler (and years before Studebaker, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1949-Crosley-Hot-Shot-Ocean-Foam-Green-Mecum-Auctions-S9-front-3q-left-Hydradisc-115x115.webp "1949–1950 Crosley Hydradisc Brakes: The First Disc Brakes On An American Car")
![When the Fox-body Ford Mustang debuted for 1979, American critics lauded its sleek styling and supposed European flair. However, when the British car magazine Motor tried a Mustang Ghia coupe […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1979-Ford-Mustang-Turbo-coupe-Black-Bring-a-Trailer-9-front-3q-left-high-vignette-115x115.webp "Vintage Motor UK Review: 1979 Ford Mustang Ghia Turbo — “Is This Really The Americans’ Idea of ‘A European Flavour’?”")
![If you think the first muscular Buicks were the GS400 and GS455 of the late ’60s and early ’70s, think again — more than 25 years earlier, the Buick Century […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1941-Buick-Century-2SD-blue-Theodore-W.-Pieper-RM-Auctions-front-3q-with-CC-vignette-115x115.webp "1941 Buick Century Sedanet With Compound Carburetion – Buick’s First Muscle Car")
![Hyperpack at the CC Cohort recently shot this well-preserved late example of the Chrysler LeBaron convertible, that budget-priced ragtop so beloved of rental car agencies. These run-out LeBarons were dated […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1995-Chrysler-LeBaron-GTC-Bright-White-Hyperpack-CC-front-3q-left-115x115.webp "1994–1995 Chrysler LeBaron GTC Convertible – A Rental Car Favorite Nears Its Final Curtain")
![If you read car magazines of the late ’60s and early ’70s, you can’t help but notice the tunnel vision: It’s all about straight-line acceleration over distances up to a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1967-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Supreme-convert-Bimini-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-F172-front-115x115.webp "1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Convertible With L66 Turnpike Cruising Option: The Ultimate Road Trip Olds")
![Based on the compact Opel Kadett, but looking like a miniature C3 Corvette, the Opel GT offered decent performance and exotic looks for under $3,500, with the promise of easy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1969-Opel-GT-Cardinal-Red-Davidsclassiccars-front-3q-left-headlights-Car-Life-115x115.webp "Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Opel GT – “The Mini-Brute’s Mini-Vette”")
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