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![I surely write about a lot of trucks here at Curbside Classic. It’s not that I’m particularly partial to them; actually, I’m much more a car guy. But old trucks […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/81DodgeTruckAd.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1980 Dodge D-series Adventurer – The Essence of a Truck")
![The second-generation Camry is where Toyota got serious about the midsize sedan. The Camry had always been designed with the U.S. market in mind, but the styling of the first-generation […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/89ToyotaCamryAd.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1988 Toyota Camry DX – Somehow, Beige Is Appropriate")
![This Caddy had been sitting on my mechanic’s lot for months. “This fellow drops it off here and asks me to do a mechanical restoration,” my mechanic said, “but the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/69CadillacCoupeDeVille1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1969 Cadillac Coupe DeVille – Snow-Covered Cadillac")
![Aged daily drivers are few and far between here in Indiana. Our winters are hard on cars. So it’s a real event for a carspotter like me to find one […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/67FordF1001jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1967 Ford F-250 – The Only Curbside Classic I’ve Ever Found in My Neighborhood")
![My parents bought their home in 1976, when I was nine. One set of next-door neighbors were salt-of-the-earth types. The mother went to Mass every single morning; they’d give you […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/72PlymouthSatellite1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Question: When Does a Curbside Classic Become Just an Old Junker?")
![Tom Klockau’s CC this morning about the 1967 Plymouth VIP reminded me of my first-ever VIP sighting. I was passing through Peru, Indiana, one Saturday six years ago to find the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/66VIP3jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1966 Plymouth VIP – Playing Hard to Get (The Parts, Anyway)")
![Broad Ripple is one of Indianapolis’s few hip, happening neighborhoods, which makes it a happy old-car hunting ground. I suspect that the street-parked survivors are owned by locals, while the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/62KarmannGhia1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1967 Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia – The Perfect Curbside Classic for the Crunchy Granola Set?")
![GM’s first intermediates –the 1964-67 Chevelle, Tempest/LeMans, F85/Cutlass, and Special/Skylark–were well-proportioned and appealing automobiles. The hardtop coupes shared an elegant roof that pushed the A-body’s appeal right over the top. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/65Skylark1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cohort Sighting: 1965 Buick Skylark–Very Ap-peel-ing")
![I am here to decry the formalization of American automobile styling that began sometime in the 1970s and had pervaded the lines of all US manufacturers by the early 1980s. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/81LeSabre5jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1981 Buick LeSabre Coupe–Overdressed for the Occasion")
![After wrecking my red Toyota Matrix, I needed to buy a car in a hurry. I wanted another wagon to haul the kids and the dog, and the used-car lots […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Focus1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2003 Toyota Matrix XRS–The Blue Pill")
![My wife held out as long as she could, but had finally had her fill of cramming two child seats in the back of her beloved but tiny Corolla coupe. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/BlueMatrix3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2003 Toyota Matrix–The Red Pill")
![So many pristine originals or restored classics were the lust objects of their day–the most expensive, the fastest, or the most wildly styled. Such cars make our collective minds go […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/80Fairmont1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cohort Sighting: 1980 Ford Fairmont–The Finest Fairmont Anywhere")
![Both my wife and I brought sporty little coupes to our marriage, and we enjoyed the young-and-free two-door image almost as much as we enjoyed owning two paid-for cars. So […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sienna3jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1996 Mercury Sable GS Wagon and 1998 Toyota Sienna XLE–Dreaded Family Cars")
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