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![A 1989 Corolla sedan would have normally been a pretty good choice for a first car in 2002, when my stepson bought one. But this one looked like it had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1991-Toyota-Corolla-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Capsule: 1991 Toyota Corolla – My Stepson’s First-Car Folly")
![You didn’t mess with my grandma. She was barely 5 feet tall, but she swore like a sailor and drank like a fish. And she always drove 4-wheel-drive trucks. One […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1972-Chevrolet-Blazer-f.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Capsule: 1972 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer CST – Don’t Mess With Grandma")
![The CCs have been out in force this spring and summer here in Rustopia, but unfortunately I’m not finding very many of them parked. Fortunately, my iPhone is usually tethered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6xFordHeavyDuty.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Spotted While Driving, or I Just Can’t Find Enough CCs Parked So Far This Year")
![Even for a non-car-loving person, a new car can be a point of pride or pleasure. How many of us have photographs of ourselves with our new cars shortly after […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/50Chevrolet.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Imagining the Stories Behind Old Photographs of Cars That Weren’t That Old Yet")
![At first, I thought it was another mid-70s Olds Ninety Eight. I found one of those in this very parking lot a year before (see it here). Because really, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Firemist.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1976 Cadillac Sedan DeVille – A Vision in Amberlite Firemist")
![I love to find unrestored cars at the Mecum auction in Indianapolis every year. Except for one repaint and possibly a couple performance tweaks to the 289 V8, this ’67 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Galaxies.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Capsule: 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 – The Flowingest Full-Sized Ford")
![Most of the cars at any classic-car auction are brought on a trailer. But not this Jeep Wagoneer. Its owner drove it to the auction all the way from St. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1976-Jeep-Wagoneer-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Capsule: 1976 Jeep Wagoneer – Driven to the Auction")
![I had mixed feelings when I came upon this 1975 LeMans at the Mecum Spring Classic. I’m always pleased to find any older car in good original condition there – […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/63LeMans.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classic: 1975 Pontiac LeMans – 40 Years On, A Kinder View")
![Living in the United States gives one a mighty myopic view of cars the world’s automakers produce. Such is the case with Honda’s Accord. Other places in the world got […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/96HondaAccordWagon3jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1996 Honda Accord Wagon – You Might Think It Was the Last of the Breed")
![My favorite thing to do at the Mecum Spring Classic vintage-car auction, which is held for a week each May in Indianapolis, is to move in close to the cars’ […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1957-Oldsmobile-Ninety-Eight-b.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Capsule: Up Close and Personal with Classic Cars")
![$7,750 is all this Allante owner is asking for his Pininfarina-bodied Cadillac. It was a little sad to see that price taped to the window of this car, which stickered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/91CadillacAllante5jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1990 Cadillac Allante – Oh, How the Mighty Have Depreciated")
![I had business in Indianapolis’s South Broad Ripple neighborhood not long ago, and it was one of the first sunny and sort-of warm days of the spring season. I had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DodgeA100.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: A Springtime Stroll (On Film, In Black and White)")
![I’ve had a run of bad luck with my two little cars this year. The Ford Focus has seen my mechanic three times. In February, the power-steering pump failed. In March, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FocusMatrix.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: When Do You Give Up On Your Car?")
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