![Before the obvious question comes up, I’ll attempt to answer it. Why run a beater car? There could many valid reasons such as financial necessity, garaging the nice car during […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6555519345_2bcd927f92_z.jpg "My Curbside Classic: 1989 Nissan Micra – Good Autoshite")
![How about some really rare turkey? The exact details of how the Kia Besta van came to Canada might just be lost to us. I do have some theories but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Kia-Besta.jpg "Turkey Day Classic: Kia (not the) Besta – Like Your Turkey Extra Rare?")
![As we have seen in Paul’s Chevette article, the little Chevrolet was a version of the global T-car. I won’t repeat the details of that here but Canada, always the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Acadian-badge.jpg "CC Capsule: The Cold Canadian Chevette – Pontiac Acadian"){kind=icon}
![On a recent visit to Calgary I came across this rather interesting customized Colt. Not sure if it was a Dodge, Plymouth or perhaps even an Eagle Vista (Canada only) […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Colt-truck.jpg "CC Outtake: Custom Colt – Colpage, Champage, Or?")
![The General Lee has to one of the most replicated TV show cars around. I have to admit that I’ve never seen more than a handful of minutes of The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dodge-truck-7.jpg "CC Outtake: General Lee goes truckin’")
![GM has made many a baffling brand choices and is the General of badge-engineering, but I believe in Canada they have made some of the most baffling of all. Near […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/front.jpg "Passport to Badge Engineering Hell: GM Messes With Our Heads")
![More often than not when you find one rough Corvair there are often several others nearby. It’s as if they’re huddled together like penguins against the cold, harsh world. This […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1964-Chevrolet-Corvair-110-Coupe-3.jpg "On The Flocking Instinct Of Corvairs")
![We seem to have a few minivans around here lately, so I may as well jump right on the bandwagon. My wife actually spotted this around town before I did. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/La-Grand-Petite-front.jpg "CC Outtake: Putting The Mini Back In Minivan")
![Most people in the US would tell you the Excel was the first Hyundai model. They’d be wrong. Most people in Canada would say that it is in fact the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hyundai-cortina.jpg "The Hyundai Origin Myth Revealed: There’s A Ford In Your Pony")
![This 1979 gen2 510 reflects the general decline of Datsun at the end of the Seventies. Datsun had once been king of the Japanese import hill at the end of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1979_Datsun_510_hatchback_31.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1979 Datsun 510 – Revived In Name If Not In Spirit")
![[Welcome to our first reader submission, and a new series titled “My Curbside Classic”. This one is by Dave Saunders, known hereabouts as Dave7. This is not his first CC […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mazda-808-6.jpg "My Curbside Classic: 1973 Mazda 808 (aka: 818/Grand Familia/Mizer)")
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