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![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1985-Cadillac-Sedan-de-Ville-diesel-Grayfern-ClassicCars.com-side-left-badge-inset.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1979-Pontiac-Firebird-Formula-Starlight-Black-Bring-a-Trailer-15-front-3q-left-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1928-Plymouth-Model-Q-and-2001-Plymouth-Neon-LX-4SDs.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1981-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Brougham-dElegance-Bordeaux-Red-Mecum-Auctions-W125-front-3q-high-inset.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1981 Cadillac V8-6-4: The Real Reason Cadillac Dropped Its “Modulated Displacement” Engine After Only A Year")
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1990-Buick-Estate-Wagon-Red-Metallic-Bring-a-Trailer-2-front-3q-left.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1963-Chevrolet-Corvair-Monza-Spyder-convert-Ember-Red-Mecum-Auctions-W93-front-3q-right-MT-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1955-GM-V-8-engines.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LIFE-1956-04-23-crop.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1974-MGB-GT-V8-Damask-Red-Car-and-Classic-front-with-banner.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1990-Cadillac-Sedan-de-Ville-Slate-Gray-West-Coast-Classics-side-right.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1974-Ford-Maverick-2D-Polar-White-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-left-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1966-MGB-GT-Old-English-White-Bring-a-Trailer-10-front-3q-left-CD-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-Cadillac-Eldorado-Firemist-Aquamarine-Classic-Cars-of-Sarasota-front-seats-door-open.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1949-Crosley-Hot-Shot-Ocean-Foam-Green-Mecum-Auctions-S9-front-3q-left-Hydradisc.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1979-Ford-Mustang-Turbo-coupe-Black-Bring-a-Trailer-9-front-3q-left-high-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Vintage Motor UK Review: 1979 Ford Mustang Ghia Turbo — “Is This Really The Americans’ Idea of ‘A European Flavour’?”")
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