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![(Updated 10/29/2025) Was it rust or ricers that brought so many 1980s Corollas to their unfortunate demise here in Indiana? These cars were certainly hardy enough to endure, yet they […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/88ToyotaCorollaFX1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1988 Toyota Corolla FX: Not Even Broken In Yet")
![(Updated 10/27/2025) Here it is, the car to which most of my male peers aspired during my 1980s teenagerhood: the second-generation Camaro. The Colonnade Cutlass Supreme may have been the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/80ChevyCamaro1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1980 Chevrolet Camaro and Camaro RS: The Object Of High-School Dreams")
![Okay, you might have known that the 1960 Edsel two-door hardtop shared the 1960 Ford Starliner two-door hardtop roof. But I sure didn’t. Ford only manufactured 1960 Edsels for 66 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1960Edsel1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rare 1960 Edsel Ranger Hardtop: Who Knew Edsel Had A Starliner?")
![VW Things aren’t common in the first place, given that only about 29,000 of them were sold in the US and it’s estimated that only 35 to 50 percent of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/type-182-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rare Find: Volkswagen Type 182 With RHD Spotted In Indiana")
![(first posted 5/18/2013) My phone vibrated. It was a text from my brother, with this photo attached. “I’m in Columbus, Ohio, and look what I found!” “What is it?” I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/66Renault-Caravelle1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1966 Renault Caravelle – Drama, Intrigue, A Man Named Exner and Disappointing Sales")
![The role of the traditional large, rear-wheel-drive American car had changed by the mid-1980s. We’d been through the gas crisis, which led to the Japanese successfully wooing us with fuel-sipping, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/85ChevyImpala1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1985 Chevrolet Impala – Going Out in Style")
![(first posted 9/14/2013) Few Americans alive today remember a time before the extensive highway system we enjoy. We just get into our cars, and off we go. But just […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Roads1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Automobile and the American Highway")
![(first posted 3/8/2014) It was with the second generation that Honda’s Accord began to take a toehold in the Midwest. At the time, there was a lot more “Buy ‘Murican” […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CC-63-037-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1984 Honda Accord – The Canary in the Coal Mine for the Traditional American Sedan")
![My August birthday always happens during the Indiana State Fair, and what I often want for my birthday is a trip to the fair with as many of our (all […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1967-Rambler-American-Rogue-d.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "A 1967 Rambler American Goes Rogue At The Indiana State Fair")
![Renting a car is like playing the slots — you never know when you’ll hit. I thought I hit big when renting a “Jetta or similar” netted me this BMW […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/BMW_228i_01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rental Car Review: 2024 BMW 228i — Actually a Sideways Review of the 2024 VW Jetta GLI")
![(first posted 3/23/2013) Ford may have been first to the intermediate dance (among the Big Three, anyway), but GM came fashionably late and better dressed. Styling, they say, sells cars, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/6668FairlaneWagons1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1968 Ford Fairlane GT – The Unexpected Wallflower")
![(first posted 10/25/2018) Since I’ve been writing for Curbside Classic I can count on one hand the number of Chevy Citations I’ve seen. This is the first one […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/80Citation1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1980 Chevrolet Citation – It’s the First Chevy of the 80s")
![(first posting 9/20/2018) Go looking online for information about the GMC version of the Advance Design trucks and you’ll come up with very little. For the Chevy you’ll […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/68000016-proc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1952-53 GMC Pickup – New Design, Not Advance Design")
![(first posted 9/5/2018) Here at CC we’ve seen lots of American cars, especially muscular ones from the 60s and 70s, now prowling about Europe. But here’s one that made […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/67GP1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classic: 1967 Pontiac Grand Prix – Wide Tracking It Down Under")
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