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![I feel like such an Internet curmudgeon. In my day, sonny, we used Netscape 1.0 to surf static HTML Web pages that were coded in Notepad, and we liked it! […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/63ChevyCorvette1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cars on Film on Instagram")
![This is it, the ultimate mid-sized 1986 Oldsmobile. Well, the ultimate FWD mid-sizer, anyway; in ’86 you could still get the old RWD Cutlass Supreme in Brougham trim. But it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/84OldsCutlassCiera1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1986 Cutlass Ciera Brougham Sedan – Dressed In Its Sunday Best")
![I am such a wussbag. I’ve always had irrational lust for the final B-body wagons. I can’t tell whether I like the Chevy Caprices best for their clean lines or […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/92BuickRoadmaster1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1996 Buick Roadmaster Wagon – Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt")
![For all I know, the Fox-based Continental was a joy to drive. Tom Klockau certainly has fond memories of the one his grandparents owned, the story of which he told […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/85LincolnContinental1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1985 Lincoln Continental – Mr. Droopy Drawers")
![As I grew up in the Midwest in the 1970s, there was a great common bias here toward American cars. I wrote that deliberately: a bias toward American cars, not […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1965DatsunFairladySP311-1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1965 Datsun Fairlady – A Real Lady Tells No Stories On Herself")
![“It was my grandmother’s,” the fellow said as he unlocked the driver’s-side door. He was polite, but obviously in a hurry. “It was handed down to my mom, and now […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/71MustangGrande4jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1971 Mustang Grande – Grandma Must Have Been a Secretary")
![Golf carts are everywhere at the Mecum Spring Classic, shuttling people all over the sprawling Indiana State Fairgrounds. This one certainly wasn’t souped up by the famous Don Yenko Chevrolet, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YenkoCart1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Yenko/SC Golf Cart")
![Every year in mid-May, the giant Mecum Spring Classic muscle-car auction descends on the Indiana State Fairgrounds here in Indianapolis. It lasts for six days; easily 2,000 cars roll by […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1948Oldsmobile1jg1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classics: Unrestored at the Mecum Spring Classic")
![On this Saab Day I thought I’d share photos of a Saab I recently got to ride in. My friend Amy owns this ’92 900S, and it’s her daily driver. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/92Saab900S1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Saab Day Capsule: 1992 Saab 900S – Among The Last “Real” Saabs")
![When I finished writing my Cars of a Lifetime series early this year, I had just bought a used Ford Focus to become my main car. But I was keeping […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Smackdown1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Smackdown! 2003 Toyota Matrix XRS vs. 2006 Ford Focus ZX5 SES")
![I can just imagine the howls that came from Pontiac dealers when GM announced that after 1981 it would stop making the large B-body Bonneville, and affix the Bonneville nameplate […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/85PontiacParisienne3jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1985 Pontiac Parisienne – A Caprice with Champagne Taste")
![In honor of Patina Week, I thought I’d show more photos of a car I featured in my Cars of Route 66 post a couple of weeks ago: here’s a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/50Chevrolet5jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Patina Week Classic: 1950 Chevrolet Sedan – A Route 66 Icon")
![Every time we write about the Renault Alliance here at Curbside Classic, at least one commenter wonders: “These things all suddenly disappeared from the roads in the early 90s. Where […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MiscAlliances1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Where Renault Alliances Go to Die")
![My sons and I made a trip along old Route 66 over spring break, driving it across Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma. I expected to find plenty of curbside classics along […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/51ChevyTruck1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Roadtrip: The Cars of Route 66 – Tri-Fives, Movie Inspirations, a Converted School Bus, and Everyday Curbside Classics")
![My sons and I are on the road this week, driving as much of Route 66 as we can cram into our Spring Break. I’ve dreamed of making this trip […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/47Ford1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Roadtrip: All Over the Midwest on the Blue Highways – Survivors, Pampered Classics, a Fire Truck and a Burned-Out Plymouth")
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