- 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.
![There’s something about the Woodlands, TX, where I currently live, that makes it a bit of a mecca for obscure old vehicles. They seem to be mostly hidden away in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1969-VW-T2-pickup-Woodlands-TX-20130824.jpg "CC Outtake: VW Type 2 and Rabbit Pickups — Zwei Kleine Lastkraftwagen")
![The above shot of twin Renault Twingos goes some way toward explaining why one doesn’t see too many older cars in Grey Paree. Although I somehow managed to end up resident there from 1990 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1983-98-Peugeot-205-Bir-Hakeim-20131116.jpg "CC Road Trip: Reliving the ’90s on a Paris Weekend, Part 1")
![By pure coincidence, and following hard on the heels of Paul Niedermeyer’s speculations on a hot-rodded ’59 Studebaker Lark, here’s an actual one, photographed by a good friend in a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hot-Rod-1959-Lark-Rt-side.jpg "CC Outtake: Hot Rod Lark")
![‘Tagging’, that controversial combination of vandalism and urban self-expression, made its way from the US to Europe in the late 1970s and has taken deep root there ever since. In […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_7942.jpg "CC Streetscape: This Ain’t American Graffiti")
![It’s a bit special when one can find three running representatives of long-dead makes in the same place; all the more so if they are contemporaries of each other. It […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Nashes-cover.jpg "Houston Hipster Trio: Metropolitan, Ambassador, Hawk")
![I don’t know about you, but I’ve been enjoying Mopar week, not least Virgil Exner’s wilder excursions into stylistic la-la land. But there was another era, devoid of Exner’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1979-Dodge-Omni-edit.jpg "CC Road Trip: In Search of the Humblest Mopars")
![This showed up last Sunday a few miles from my home – a car that I seriously lusted after, during my pre-teen years in a family that never could have afforded […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1964-Cadillac-front.jpg "CC For Sale: 1964 Cadillac Sixty-two Series –A Little Too Much Rouge on the Old Girl")
![Having done an all-Ford road trip post just a few weeks back, it seems only fair to show some Chevy love as well. As with the Ford piece, the photos […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1941-Chevrolet-pickup-Cuero-TX-120224_1000.jpg "CC Road Trip: Gonna Buy You a Chevrolet")
![Here are a few happy snappies of some (relative) exotica spotted during a Sunday drive that passed through little Conroe, in East Texas, in 2003. The brain-fryingly colorful sight of this VW […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Import-Auto-Parts-sign.jpg "Curbside Derelicts: Conroe, TX 2003")
![Given the relatively rust-free climate in southeast Texas, one sees fewer old cars out and about than one might think. I put it down to the hot, humid summers; no matter […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1981-Mercury-Cougar_1998-2000-Ford-Contour-Cleveland-TX.jpg "CC Road Trip: That’s the Way the Fords Are in Texas")
![Well, maybe these folks do, come to that. This precarious-looking rig was spotted on I-45 in the Greenspoint area of Houston, on a sunny Saturday morning in 2003. Hope they made it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Datsun-pickup-overloaded-01.jpg "CC Capsule: 1984 Nissan 720 – Who Needs a Big Truck?")
![OK, not the first Baja Bug to grace these pages, but certainly (IMHO) a pretty one. This example, which looks to have been constructed from a late-’60s Beetle, was spotted […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Baja-Bug-01.jpg "CC Outtake: Baja Bug on a Concrete Beach")
