![(first posted 4/16/2018) Most of the cars featured on Curbside Classic are unlikely survivors – the one-in-a-thousand cars that are still intact long after most contemporaries met their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LF-5.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1966 Plymouth Valiant – Aging In Place")
![When we think of auto safety efforts, it’s usually things like Ralph Nader, Volvo, the 1966 Highway Safety Act, or airbags that come to mind. Ford’s 1956 promotion of safety […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lifeguard-Featured-Image.jpg "Vintage Brochure: 1956 Ford Seat Belts – Selling Safety Ahead Of Its Time")
![(first posted 2/21/2018) If one were to hold a competition for cars that get little respect, Chevette might win the grand prize. It was cheap, no-frills transportation that sold […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/LF-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Chevette – An Econobox For Garden-Variety Americans")
![Tough times make for interesting stories. And Chrysler’s 1974-78 full-size cars knew all about tough times. They were introduced just as the energy crisis made big cars undesirable. Then, when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1978-Chrysler-New-Yorker-F-2.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1978 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham – Ready For The Times To Get Better")
![I brake for all JDM vehicles. More accurately, when I see a Japanese Domestic Market car or truck, I’ll try to slow down and savor the details. When I spotted […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Daihatsu-Atrai-RR1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1995-97 Daihatsu Atrai – A Fleet Manager Had Fun With This One")
![(first posted 12/14/2017) At first glance, this particular car may not seem to be of much interest to folks attracted to unusual cars. After all, it looks like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LF-5.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1972 Pontiac Luxury LeMans – Racing Stripes And A Vinyl Roof")
![At Curbside Classic, we love automotive time capsules, so here’s an interesting one. Not a time capsule from 1963 when this car was new, but rather from about 20 years […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1963-Chevrolet-Bel-Air-LR-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air – A Time Capsule, But Not From The Showroom")
![(first posted 11/13/2017) Used car lots rarely get preserved in photographs. So when I came across these 35-year-old snapshots of a used car dealership in Fairfax, Virginia, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Fairfax-City-Auto-Ltd-1.jpg "Vintage Photos: Let’s Go Used Car Shopping… In 1982")
![For Volume 4 of this series exploring travel-related ads with automotive themes, we’re firmly in the 1960s, and we’ll travel to the US West Coast and South, as well as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Vol-4-featured-1.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 4 – San Diego, Italy, Mississippi & Virginia")
![Interesting things happen when worlds collide. Like when a perpetually struggling automaker enters a hot and competitive market segment… or when a company associated with fuddy-duddy conservatism hires an unconventional […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1970-AMC-Javelin-RF-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 American Motors Javelin SST – Wrangling A Non-Average Pony Car")
![It’s time for Volume 3 of this series exploring travel-related ads that feature automotive themes, as well as some of the backstory for each ad. For today’s installment, we’re journeying […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Vol-3-Featured.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 3 – South Africa, Malta, England & Wales")
![(first posted 9/20/2017) As Chrysler bounced back from the brink of doom in the early 1980s, the company needed to expand its lineup beyond frugal transportation like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/RF-1-e.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1987 Chrysler LeBaron GTS – So Close, And Yet So Far Away")
![For our second installment of vintage auto-related travel ads, we’ll travel back to the 1950s and visit several places throughout North America – two ads from Canada, one from Bermuda, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/v2-featured-image.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 2 – Canada, Bermuda, Las Vegas & Valley Forge")
![Vintage travel advertisements are often delectable to admire. Awash in sentimentality and devoid of any hassles involving travel, they conjure up exactly what they’re supposed to – a longing to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Vol-1-Featured-1.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 1 – New Mexico, Germany & Oregon")
![“We have no intention of copying our competitors, cookie-cutting their cars.” -Gerald C. Meyers, President, American Motors Corporation (first posted 8/21/2017) Jeep’s Scrambler was many things; cookie-cutter was not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LF-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1985 Jeep Scrambler (CJ-8) – A Pickup In Disguise")
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