- Description
- Just a guy somewhat into cars, trucks, trains, aircraft, boats, and pretty much anything else that moves under its own power. I'm based in the Houston, TX area and my day job involves work for a small unit of a large oilfield services company. Fun fact: from 1990 to 1997 I didn't even own a car.
![Spotted outside a Conroe, Texas transmission shop, here’s a relic of those days when it seemed as though almost every domestic vehicle line featured one or more muscle-car versions. Not […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/69-Torino-GT-Front-3_4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1969 Ford Torino GT – The Intermediate Sports Intermediate")
![Somehow, gazing on this mid-‘80s Thunderbird I spotted near San Antonio, the first thing that popped into my head was the name famously suggested by poet Marianne Moore when she […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Fox-Bird-front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford Thunderbird — The True Utopian Turtletop?")
![(first posted 7/8/2013) The apparition above was spotted as I headed to the rugby in downtown Houston a couple weeks ago (USA v. Ireland, for the record). Looking a little […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Pinzgauer-01-front-daylight1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1972 Pinzgauer 710M – Urban Assault Vehicle")
![(first posted 4/29/2013) “Car Show”, said the sign pointing into the church parking lot a couple blocks from my cave in the far north suburbs of Houston. “Probably just the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/001-62-DKW-front-3_4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1962 DKW Junior Deluxe – Connoisseurs Drive DKW")
![(first posted 5/31/2013) I come here neither to praise nor to bury the Pontiac Trans Sport. The market did the latter quite some time ago, not only with this model, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1994-Pontiac-Trans-sport-01-Front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1994 Pontiac Trans Sport SE – Can U Get A Witness?")
![(first posted 5/7/2013) On the west side of Houston’s Hobby airport is a small aviation museum converted from the original, 1940-built air terminal. On the third Saturday of each […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pic002-Jaguar-Mark-IX-front-3_4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1959-1961 Jaguar Mark IX – An Englishman Abroad")
![(first posted 6/27/2013) For whatever reason, I’ve seen some vehicles recently that have me contemplating the road not taken (ha ha). Here I shall speak of three icons of the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1974-Ford-Gran-Torino-Elite-Rayford-Rd-Woodlands.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Compare and Contrast: ‘74 Gran Torino Elite vs. ’77 Monte Carlo vs. ’77 Thunderbird")
![(first posted 1/18/2016) Of all the things one might stumble across in the slowly dying steelmaking city of Johnstown, PA (you may remember it as the fictional Charlestown from […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bristol-Lodekka-front-01-Johnstown-PA-20151230.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classic: Bristol Lodekka LD6G — Upstairs, Downstairs")
![(first posted 10/16/2015) Speaking as someone who once traded a ’54 Buick for a ’68 Lincoln, I don’t have that much against big, ostentatious cars, but GM’s ’71-’78 E-bodies (Cadillac […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/hk.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1978 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham – Here Come ol’ Flattop")
![(first posted 7/23/2013) Spotted outside a Conroe, Texas transmission shop, here’s a relic of those days when it seemed as though almost every domestic vehicle line featured one or more […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/69-Torino-GT-Closeup-Front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1969 Ford Torino GT – The Sports Intermediate")
![While not exactly common sights on American streets, classic English taxis do show up on this side of the Atlantic from time to time. So, aside from being in fairly nice condition, this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fx4-electric-front-3_4a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1971 Austin FX4 Electric Conversion — Keep Your Tesla, Guv’nor")
![Well, this machine, spotted last week in the Woodlands, TX, certainly stands out in today’s sea of monochromatic, lozenge-shaped vehicles. I don’t have much to add to Perry Shoar’s fine short […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1986-88-LeBaron-T-and-C-3_4-left-front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1986-88 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country — Curves are for Squares")
![In this second of two trips down memory lane in the Paris area, we’ll look at some (mostly) non-French vehicles that might have been seen on the streets during the 1990-98 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Opel-Vectra_Astra-Parc-des-Expos-20151111.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Road Trip: Reliving the ’90s on a Paris Weekend, Part 2")
