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- Senior Editor and also the owner of Ate Up With Motor.
![In the 1970s, the Cadillac De Ville was not merely Cadillac’s cash cow, but a veritable thundering herd of cash buffalo, sold in enormous numbers at high prices. The ’70s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1970-Cadillac-Coupe-de-Ville-Adriatic-Turquoise-Bring-a-Trailer-16-side.webp "Decade De Ville: Cadillac’s Bestselling ’70s De Villes")
![If you’re not very familiar with these oddball 1950s cars or haven’t seen an old Nash in a minute, I thought it would be fun to take a closer […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1956-Nash-Ambassador-Custom-4SD-tri-tone-Mecum-Auctions-S220-frotn-3q-left.webp "1956 Nash Ambassador Custom Eight – Moribund But Memorable")
![There are lots of things to dislike about the American luxury cars of the ’70s, but you could never call them colorless: They offered a very wide range of interior […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Interior-color-montage-1979-De-Ville-1975-Mark-V-1978-Mark-V-Givenchy-1978-Eldorado-115x115.webp "Cadillac, Lincoln, And Imperial Interiors Of The 1970s: Almost Every Color Of The Rainbow")
![Well-engineered and surprisingly good to drive, Chrysler’s compact 1960 Valiant — which was a brand of its own and didn’t become a Plymouth in the U.S. until 1961 — […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1960-Valiant-V200-4SD-Valiant-White-ClassicCars.com-front-3q-right.webp "Vintage R&T Review: 1960 Valiant — A Technical Analysis Of Chrysler’s New Compact")
![In the mid-’60s, Ford Motor Company studied the Jeep CJ-5 and International Scout and declared, “We can do that!” The result: the 1966 Ford Bronco, a boxy little SUV […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1966-Ford-Bronco-wagon-light-blue-Bring-a-Trailer-191-front-3q-left.webp "Vintage Car Life Review: 1966 Ford Bronco – Ford Joins The Compact 4X4 Market With A “West Of The Pecos Rodeo Aura”")
![In June 1960, CARS magazine presented their picks for the best cars available in the U.S. in each price segment, from compacts to luxury cars. They also presented their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1960-Studebaker-Lark-8-convert-yellow-Mecum-Auctions-F197-side-left.webp "Vintage Review: CARS Magazine Asks “What Car Should You Buy?” For 1960")
![The full-size Oldsmobile line was all-new for 1965, with crisp new styling, a new engine, a new transmission, and a new mid-level trim series called Delta 88. Car Life […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1965-Oldsmobile-Dynamic-88-Delta-2HT-Lucerne-Mist-RD-Classics-CCA-front-3q-right.webp "Vintage Car Life Review: 1965 Oldsmobile Delta 88 — “The View Through GM-Colored Glasses”")
![I found an auction listing for this 1929 Cadillac Imperial limousine while looking for pictures for a different article, and while I only ended up using one photo of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1929-Cadillac-341B-7p-Imperial-Calumet-Blue-Teddy-Pieper-RM-Auctions-front-3q-right.webp "1929 Cadillac 341B 7-Passenger Imperial Sedan – On The Brink Of Modernity, But It Still Took Nine Steps To Start The Engine")
![For 1980, Ford shifted its popular Lincoln Continental Mark personal luxury car to the smaller, more fuel-efficient Panther platform, only to watch in horror as sales of the new […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1980-Lincoln-Mark-VI-Maroon-Orlando-Classic-Cars-side-left.webp "1980–1983 Lincoln Continental Mark VI – Lincoln Looks Backwards And Trips Over Its Own Feet")
![Before about 1930, most cars used unsynchronized sliding-gear manual transmissions, which were aptly nicknamed “crash boxes” because shifting without clashing gears took real skill. In 1929, however, Cadillac and LaSalle […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1929-Cadillac-341B-convertible-coupe-tan-Mecum-Auctions-front-3q-left.webp "1929 Synchro-Mesh Transmission: How An Engineer From Oregon Took The Clash Out of Shifting Gears")
![In January 1982, Chrysler introduced one of its most important cars of the ’80s: the Chrysler LeBaron convertible, the first factory-authorized U.S. ragtop since the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado. The drop-top […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1982-Chrysler-LeBaron-Mark-Cross-convert-white-Mecum-Auctions-S77-front-3q-right-top-down.webp "1982 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible – How The Convertible Came Back (And Why It Never Really Went Away)")
![In the mid-1960s, Pontiac was riding high on its sporty image. The full-size Pontiac Catalina was a big hit, and the muscular midsize Pontiac GTO was a great success, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1965-Pontiac-Catalina-2plus2-Fontaine-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-S87.1-front-3q-right.webp "Vintage Car Life Review: 1965 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 421 HO – 2 Plus 2 Does Not Equal GTO")
![Years ago, I called the 1969–1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III vulgar, which continues to get me periodic hate mail. While I still don’t much like the Mark III, I’ve come […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1969-Lincoln-Continental-Mark-III-Medium-Blue-Bring-a-Trailer-24-side-right-crop.webp "1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III, Inside And Out – Unsubtle But Effective")
![Have you ever wondered why modern automatic transmissions all have shift patterns beginning “PRND”? It wasn’t always so — if you’ve driven older cars, you may have noticed that they […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2013-Toyota-Corolla-LE-automatic-shifter.webp "From NDLR To PRNDL – How One Inventor’s Grudge Against GM Helped To Standardize Transmission Shift Patterns")
![How did the Ford Thunderbird stack up against its personal luxury competition in 1968? Ford Division tackled that question in this intriguing 1968 booklet for Ford salespeople, which highlighted the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1968-Thunderbird-vs-Major-Competition-0.webp "1968 Ford Thunderbird Versus Rivals – How Ford Ranked The T-Bird’s Competition")
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