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- Simply put, cars are my greatest passion.
Curbside Classic Archives
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American Brands: GM 
American Brands: Ford 
American Brands: Chrysler 
American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others 
Automotive Histories and Misc. 
Asian Brands 
UK Brands 
Australian Brands 
European Brands 
Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
Buses 
Trucks, Pickups and Vans 
Design 
Trains, Planes & Ships 
Motorcycles, Trikes, Bicycles 
Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
RVs, Motorhomes, Trailers, Campers Privacy

![Mother’s Day Feature: The Cars Of My Mother (My mom with her “retirement present” 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK 350) Mother’s Day is a day of honoring our mothers and motherly figures in our lives, and recognizing all they do or have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_8584.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Junkyard Classic: 1997 Mercury Tracer LS – Vanishing Trace Poor Mercury. While the brand may not have been treated to the same levels of uniqueness from Ford and Lincoln that other “near-luxury” brands such as Buick, Chrysler, and Oldsmobile were […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_4994.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![eBay Find (With CC Minature): 1995 BMW 840Ci – Best Of All, It’s Green I browse through car listings on eBay regularly, and although I see many cars I’d like to own, after a moment of daydreaming, I’m able to move on. Every once in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1995-840i.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Outtake: 1997 Ford Crown Victoria Wagon – Bringing New Meaning To The Ford “Country Sedan” (Photos: Hemmings Daily) After 41 storied years as America’s quintessential “woody” station wagon, the Country Squire nameplate was laid to rest in 1991, when a fresh crop of Aero Panthers […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1997CrownVicwagon_01_700.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Vintage: Cars On My Childhood Street, Hawthorn Road, In 1998 Going though some old photos, I found this picture a then 5-year old me took of the cars on my childhood street, in the summer of 1998. In order, the cars pictured […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Hawthorn-Rd-Milton-MA-1998.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Capsule: 2002 Infiniti I35 (Future Classic) – The Maximum Maxima (Needless to say, we received quite a bit of snow in Southeastern Massachusetts this winter) Between 1986 and 1989, three new luxury marques were introduced by Japan’s three largest automakers. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_7590.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Cohort Capsule: Plymouth Trail Duster – Refusing To Hit The ‘Ol Dusty Trail Today, Plymouth is remembered for a number of notable cars: the Barracuda pony/muscle car, the Voyager minivan, the Reliant K car, and the high finned Fury, to name a few. But among […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/trailduster-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![What If: 1992 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Regency Coupe A couple of weeks back, I ran a post on a 1990 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight coupe that I found on eBay. Although the large coupe market was virtually dead by that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OldsEighty-EightCoupe.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![COAL: 2010 Acura TSX V6 – I Picked A Winner I’ve loved cars my whole life, and my dream is to one day have owned a diverse selection like many of our other authors. However, as someone just shy of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/IMG_2561.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Cohort Capsule: Oldsmobile Firenza – Should They Have Called It A Cutlass? Although a great decline was looming on the horizon, Oldsmobile was on a remarkable high in the mid-1980s. From 1984-1986, the Olds division posted consecutive output of over 1 million cars each […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Firenza1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Vintage Ads: The Lost Art Of Painted Automobile Ads (1948 Kaiser-Frazer) The automobile industry has historically been among the most prestigious and powerful industries for advertising firms to serve. To this day, “landing a car company” is a pretty big deal for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cadillac-ad2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What Kind Of Car Did Your Grandmother Drive? (My grandmother, circa 1949) Most of you know how I like to bring up my grandfather and his Oldsmobiles, but you may notice how I rarely mention my grandmother when […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Nana-c.1940s.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![eBay Classic: 1990 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Royale Coupe – Once In A Blue Moon The 1986-1991 H-bodies tend to get a lot of hate (although not quite as much as their 1985-1990 C-body cousins). Even as someone with a soft spot for these cars, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/31.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Future Classics: The 2015 New England International Auto Show – The Curbside Classics For Future Generations Given my tremendous enthusiasm for just about anything automotive related, it’s needless to say that attending the New England International Auto Show is an annual tradition I thoroughly enjoy. I’ve gone […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_7436.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


