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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.
![Out for a beer last Friday night on Main St, in Nyack, NY, the honky-tonk of Rockland County. I headed for my car at about 9:15 pm; the temp […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rabbit-diesel.jpeg "CC Outtake: Diesel Rabbit – Hippity-Hop, Clackity-Clack")
![“AMC noted the use of the bustleback to promote a pseudo classic look on certain American luxury marques, and realized that little expense would be incurred in adding an extra […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AMC-Gremlin-barko-2.png "Gremlin What If #2: The Greville")
![If, as I do, you like cars and comedy, Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee series is a viewing must. Jerry arrives at a celebrity’s house in a vehicle that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Jerry-Barry-Coffee.jpeg "QOTD: Comedifans In Cars Getting Coffee: What Would Jerry Pick You Up In?")
![MADE IN JAPAN. It’s hard to believe that these three words were once pronounced with a snicker. They were an indictment of an entire economy, a comic’s punchline. For […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TRADE-MARK-post-1.jpg "What If? Tin Toys for Big Boys")
![Color is all around you at the Antique Automobile Club of America’s fall meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It jumps out of the asphalt in bright patches. You find it on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/55-wagon.jpg "Hershey 2015: Ashes To Nashes, Dust To Rust")
![You don’t have to be an automobilista to have a good time at the AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) Fall Meet Flea Market at Hershey, Pennsylvania. All you need […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_1096.jpg "Hershey 2015: The Kandy-Kolored Emerald-Flake Snowblind Baby…And Other Delights")
![When I discovered last week that the signature club for its marque, The 190 SL Group planned their international meeting just two hours away in Bethlehem, PA at Steelstacks, the amazing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nutt-1958-mercedes-6.13.15-steelstacks.jpg "Car Show Outtakes: German Steel at Old Steel")
![Exiting the local Target store early one morning about a week ago, I was struck by an unusual car/license plate combination. The vehicle was a Chrysler Pacifica, which is becoming a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/pacificrap-license.jpg "CC Outtake: The GR8 Pacifica Mystery")
![One of the cars we had for only a short time as I grew up was one that I remember fondly, not just because it was a car I liked […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/hood-ornament-Christopher-Ziemnowicz.jpg "Cars Of A Lifetime: A Rambler in Relief")
![James age 12 Shafer Middle School Mr. LaHood room 207 When Mr. Niedermeyer found out we were going to Mars, he said we could stay at his condo. Dad was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pudgy-kid-wagon-post-B.jpg "What I Did On My Summer Vacation, by James, age 12")
