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- When Dad brought home his new 1955 Chevy 210 with it's 265 V-8, I was home sick from kindergarten. As the story goes, I insisted on running outside to look at the Chevy's "scream", a descriptive I had generated to describe the Ferrari-inspired grille of the new model, which made me think of a window screen-- proof positive that at age 5, I was already a motor head. As I grew, my paper route partner saved all his income for college, while I spent most of my share on car models; I had 2' square a cardboard box overflowing with leftover parts which occasionally yielded a post-apocalyptic sedan or coupe pasted together from many kits. Ever since I plunked $250 down on my first vehicle a '55 Packard Patrician with full length torsion bars, I have spent way too much of my income on old cars, and continue to read about them voraciously, often falling to sleep with a 50 or 60 year old copy of Road and Track slipping out of my hand.
![(first posted 11/1/2017) One of the more obscure car related products of post WWII years was the “auto shaver”, an electric razor adapted for use in a car. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/maglie-remington-auto-home-shaver.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "A Growing Concern: Selling The “Car Shaver”")
![(first posted 2/22/2017) By 1955, mainstream American auto design was committed to the envelope body. Although vestigial saddle bags remained on some cars, and small dips in the belt line […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1955-Plymouth-belvedere-post.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "What If: The 1955 Belvedere Goes Shopping for a Makeover at the Competition")
![(first posted 2/6/2017) Checking out Paul’s paean to the 1955 Lancia Florida, a design that influenced auto design worldwide for over a decade, I was taking in the sensuous curves […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rear-window-wiper-movie-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Saloon with a View: An Incompleat History of the Rear Window Wiper")
![(first posted 9/18/2016) When we use the phrase, “separated at birth”, we often apply it to similar looking celebrities born to different generations. It also spawned this post, because the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/reliant-and-valiant-revised.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Family Values: May They Be Valiant, May They Be Reliant")
![(first posted 1/26/2016) One day in the late 1980s, I got caught in bumper to bumper traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway, along the Hudson River shore on Manhattan’s West […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Google-maps-detail-stude-building.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "What If: The Wheel That Never Rolled")
![For those of us who call ourselves car people, our personal holy grail of collector cars is not necessarily rare, fast or exotic; there may only be a single qualification that drives […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/63-valiant-closeup.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1963 Valiant • Of White Whales and Green Wagons")
![(first posted 2/2/2015) As a newish member of the CC Forum, I often stumble upon older posts that get my creative juices flowing. J.P. Cavanaugh’s 1955 Plymouth Makeover Contest from […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Capture.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Alter-Reality: 1955 Plymouth Makeovers By Some Of The World’s Greatest Artists")
![(first posted 1/16/2015) Recently, I heard a story on National Public Radio about the symbiotic but ironic roles played by reason and emotion in the process of making choices. A […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a-xray.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive Alter-History: X-Ray Specs – AMC Spins a Tale of the Tape")
![(first posted 11/25/2014) Flight has always been a major fantasy attached to driving. Since the first cars shimmied over dirt roads and cobblestones, motorists have imagined themselves at the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/60-chevy-sweep-spear-8001-e1416798538912.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: Planes, Rockets and Automobiles – Aero Influence in Car Design")
![Conservationists and nature lovers were saddened by the collapse of the Pioneer’s Cabin Tree in Calaveras Big Tree State Park on January 8, 2017. It had been among a dwindling number of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pioneer-cabin-car-cutoutpg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Drive-Through-Tree: A Car Spotter’s Delight")
![Southeastern Washington State has had an unusually severe few weeks as of late with multiple heavy snowstorms. My brother, Terry sent me these three recent photos, taken in the area […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/allstate-rear.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: All State the Obvious: That Snow Henry J")
![I won’t say that the Car Corral at the Hershey AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) Fall Meet in Hershey, PA is better than the Saturday car show. The show attracts […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Chevy-sedan.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Hershey Car Corral, 2016: Head ‘Em Up, Move ‘Em Out")
![Arriving in bright sunshine on the crisp morning of Thursday, October 6 at the world’s largest antique auto flea market, the AACA Fall Meet in Hershey, PA, I got […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cunningham-front-right.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Hershey Flea Market 2016: Big Boys’ Toys, Little Boys’ Toys and One Helluva Big Little Boy’s Toy")
![It’s Sunday, and back at home in NY, it’s raining. Sunday is the traditional Hershey getaway day; I visualize wheeled convoys—wipers swishing and tarps flapping—fanning out from Chocolate Town to bases all over the country […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hershey-dennis-david.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Hershey Flea Market 2016, Part 2: Where Fantasy Meets Realty")
![After a warm spell that bridged the autumnal solstice, the last weekend in September dawned bright and cold in the Hudson Valley. I planned a long-anticipated breakfast run on “the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/pup-in-coupe-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Road Trip: The Fiery Ford and The Flying Fifty-Four")
