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![Curbside Classic: 1964 Ford F-100 – Setting the Pace for 30 Years When you come across an obviously well-loved 1964 Ford truck, it’s natural to feel a little wistful for a time when trucks were simple and honest. However, retrospection often obscures […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1964-Ford-F100-d.jpg)
![The 2014 CC Auburn Meetup: Bespoke in Black and White I love both old cars and old cameras, and when I’m among the former, I usually bring one of the latter loaded with film. I made no exception on our […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Auburn_12.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1988 Lincoln Mark VII LSC – A 5.0 Mustang for Well-Heeled Grownups Ford tried to position its Lincoln Mark VII LSC to compete against the hottest German coupes, BMW’s 6-series and M-B’s 500-series. It had to be a clever ruse, as the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1988-Lincoln-Mark-VII-LSC-a.jpg)
![CC Gallery: Up Close And Personal With The Cars From The 2014 CC Meetup If you attended the CC Meetup in Auburn, Indiana early this month, you may have seen me squatting, sitting on the ground, or down on one knee, bringing my camera […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/23-Duesy.jpg)
![After the CC Metup: A Random Car Show My girlfriend and I had the day to ourselves after the Curbside Classic meetup in Auburn, Indiana, earlier this month, and we decided to take the scenic route home. I’d […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LH.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1940 Buick Special – An Early B Body, With Thanks to Harlow Curtice There was a time when I didn’t care much about prewar cars. That time was most of my life. I’m not sure why the past few years have brought an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1941-Buick-Super-b.jpg)
![Modern Cars, In Living Color Recently a young woman who works for me bought her first brand new car, this Honda Civic in this wonderful electric blue, which Honda calls Dyno Blue Pearl. I was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_3216.jpg)
![CC Outtake: 1996 Ford Aspire – OMG, I Actually Found One I believe this is the first Aspire featured at CC. Not that I think I deserve a medal for it – this is a car we’ve ragged on many, many times […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1996-Ford-Aspire.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1977 Chevrolet C10 – Roll On, Old Blue, Roll On I was in Roann, pop. 479, in northern Indiana to visit the town’s covered bridge and operating grist mill. I didn’t know until I arrived that it was the weekend […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1977-Chevrolet-C10-a.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Castilian Estate – Custom Wagons Ho! As long as there have been Cadillacs, there have been custom and coach-built bodies for them. We are most familiar with hearses and other funeral cars today, but all manner […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/55-cadillac_Custom_Viewmstr-DV-07-CC_01-conceptcarz-dot-com.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1996 Jeep Cherokee – Never a Family Hauler I stopped to photograph this Jeep Cherokee because the two-doors are far less plentiful than the four-doors, which themselves are starting to thin out here in Rustopia. I guess most […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1995-Jeep-Cherokee-d.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1963 Ford Galaxie – A Little Rural North Carolina in Central Indiana One legacy of The Andy Griffith Show has got to be all of the early-60s Ford sedans that have survived as replicas of the police cars Andy and Barney drove. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1963-tags-imcdb.jpg)
![Auction Capsule: 1957 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Convertible – For 57 Years, A Fair-Weather Ride I surely enjoy finding unrestored originals at the Mecum auction. It seems like more of them appear there every year, reflecting a growing sentiment that “it’s only original once.” This […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1957-Oldsmobile-Ninety-Eight-a.jpg)
![CC Outtake: 1991 Buick Regal Classic Edition by BG – Why It’s Good That Buicks Are Just Rebaged Opels Now Was there ever a sadder Buick than the one that rode on the flaccid GM10 platform? Everything GM offered on that platform oozed low expectations. The problem wasn’t that GM downsized and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1991-Buick-Regal-Custom-Edition-a.jpg)
![COAL Capsule: 1991 Toyota Corolla – My Stepson’s First-Car Folly 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1991-Toyota-Corolla-a.jpg)


