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![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1941-Buick-Century-2SD-blue-Theodore-W.-Pieper-RM-Auctions-front-3q-with-CC-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1995-Chrysler-LeBaron-GTC-Bright-White-Hyperpack-CC-front-3q-left.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1967-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Supreme-convert-Bimini-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-F172-front.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1969-Opel-GT-Cardinal-Red-Davidsclassiccars-front-3q-left-headlights-Car-Life.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Opel GT – “The Mini-Brute’s Mini-Vette”")
![I found the sale listing for this Turino Turquoise 1963 Cadillac Series 62 convertible by accident, the result of a very unhappy battle with unhelpful search engines. However, when I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1963-Cadillac-Series-62-convert-Turino-Turquoise-Orlando-Classic-Cars-side-right-trim-plate-2.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1963 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible – Search Engine Snafu Returns A Magnificent Special Order Treat")
![Once upon a time, one of the distinguishing features of American luxury cars was that not only were they available in a whole rainbow of colors, you could coordinate the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Color-Coordinated-Cadillac-montage-68-Eldo-75-CdV-78-Eldo-63-Eldo.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Color-Coordinated Cadillacs: Colorful Eldorados, De Villes, And Fleetwood Broughams")
![Between 1970 and 1979, almost 38.1 million American cars — over 40 percent of all domestic production — were built with padded vinyl tops. As vinyl roofs became more and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Vinyl-roof-composite-AMX-Mustang-Grande-De-Ville-Thunderbird.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Vinyl Top Styles Of The 1970s: Landau Tops, Canopy Tops, Carriage Roofs, And More")
![Never as popular or familiar as its Pontiac rival, the Oldsmobile 4-4-2 was a highly competent player in the midsize muscle car field, with above-average handling for its class. For […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1966-Oldsmobile-4-4-2-2HT-red-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-right-with-CL-banner.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Vintage Car Life Review: 1966 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 L69 Tri-Carb – “Out-GTOs the Pontiac GTO”")
![Here’s something you don’t see every day, especially on this side of the Atlantic: Eric Clem in the CC Cohort spotted this red BMW 2000 Touring, the rare three-door hatchback […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1972-BMW-2000-Touring-Verona-Red-Eric-Kelm-Cohort-front-3q-right.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1972 BMW 2000 Touring – Rare BMW 2002 Hatchback Version, Never Sold In The U.S.")
![What could be more ’80s than a special edition of one of the era’s most maligned personal luxury cars named after one of its most fascinating and endlessly controversial public […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1982-Imperial-FS-Glacier-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-T68-front-3q-right-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1982 Imperial Frank Sinatra Edition: A Flawed Luxury Car Meets A Flawed But Fascinating Artist")
![Vinyl roof coverings were incredibly popular on American cars of the ’70s, offered in a bewildering variety of styles and a whole range of colors. Here are some of the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1970s-vinyl-roof-composite-1974-Olds-98-Regency-2HT-1972-Ford-Thunderbird-Landau-1974-Mark-V-1978-NewYorker.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Most Colorful Vinyl Roofs Of The 1970s: Dramatic Two-Tone Effects In Contrasting Colors")
![When most people think of GM triple-carburetor engines, they mostly think of the legendary Pontiac Tri-Power setup, but Oldsmobile actually beat Pontiac to the punch with its short-lived J-2 Rocket […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1957-Oldsmobile-Starfire-98-Sapphire-Mist-Victoria-White-RM-Auctions-Darin-Schnabel-left-front-3q-with-brochure-comp.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1957–1958 Oldsmobile J-2 Engine: Similar To Pontiac Tri-Power, It Was Developed First")
![In 1977, Lincoln rolled out the Versailles, a relatively compact luxury sedan that was very plainly a dressed-up version of the workaday Ford Granada/Mercury Monarch; it was dropped after less […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1991-Lexus-ES250-and-1978-Lincoln-Versaille-side-composite.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1990–1991 Lexus ES250: Was This Junior Lexus Toyota’s Answer To The Lincoln Versailles?")
![The 1979 Chevrolet Camaro was an incredibly popular car — model-year production topped 282,000 units, the Camaro’s all-time peak — and it still looks pretty good in its swaggering disco-era […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1979-Chevrolet-Camaro-Med-Beige-Bring-a-Trailer-3-composite.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "1979 Chevrolet Camaro: The Best-Selling Camaro In Its Second-Worst Color")
![As we draw closer to the end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what could be more seasonal than a big red domestic convertible? In August 1967, the editors Car […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1967-Plymouth-Fury-III-convert-Dark-Red-Bring-a-Trailer-side-right-CL-vignette.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "Vintage Car Life Review: 1967 Plymouth Fury III Convertible: “Fun To See And To Be Seen In”")
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