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![(first posted 4/23/2013) In the 1970s, when I was a lad, the Studebaker Lark was my hometown’s favorite beater. If some other car was your town’s cheap-transportation choice in those […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/60StudebakerLark1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1960 Studebaker Lark – South Bend’s Beater King")
![(first posted 7/27/2013) Tom Klockau’s post about a ’74 Delta 88 Royale convertible last weekend reminded me of my own photos of a ’71 Delta 88 Royale taken a couple […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/71OldsDelta88Royale1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale – A Real G-Ride")
![(first posted 5/16/2018) My wife and I currently live in the most expensive suburb of Indianapolis. Lest you think our ship has come in, understand that this suburb […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_1126.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1961 Ford Falcon – Oh, to Live in a Neighborhood Where I Can Encounter Curbside Classics on a Stroll")
![(first posted 5/9/2024) My dad pinched his pennies so hard he had Lincoln thumbs. It had galled him deeply to borrow money to buy his 1983 Renault Alliance […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_2165.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1986 Ford Escort Pony – The Ultimate Car for the Man Who Hates to Spend Money")
![(first posted 2/16/2018) My great uncle William was short, stout, and bald, and always chomped a cigar. He wore slacks and a dress shirt and suspenders and, when he […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1858.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom – A Real Car for a Real Man")
![Every now and then I take my team at work out for lunch, as on this late-spring day. Brandon, one of the software engineers on my team, and I had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1961-Mercury-Monterey-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1961 Mercury Monterey Convertible – You Never Know When Someone You Already Know Is Secretly Another Old-Car Fan")
![My brother was out and about on the Old Northside of Indianapolis one chilly day a couple years ago when he came upon this 1960 Facel Vega HK 500. He […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1960_Facel_Vega_1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1960 Facel Vega HK 500 – On Adult Relationships with Siblings")
![(first posted 1/20/2013) Somebody needs to draw the K-car family tree (Update: it’s right here). It sure can be confusing trying to figure out all the cars begat by the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/87Caravelle2jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1986 Plymouth Caravelle SE–This Ship Still Sails")
![(first posted 8/31/2013) This was a radical car for Ford. If you didn’t live through the ‘70s and remember well all the bloatmobiles that Ford (and, to be fair, GM […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/79FordFairmont1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1978 Ford Fairmont – The Ur-Fox")
![I had never come upon a single parked BMW 2002 in my life, and then I found two in two days. My wife and I were on a weekend getaway […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BMW-2002-1-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classics: Two BMW 2002s – God Bless the Weirwolf")
![This past Election Day as I exited my polling place, there sat this vintage fire truck. Naturally I photographed it. As it wore the livery of the local FD, I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1962-Ford-F-800-fire-truck-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1962 Ford F-800 Fire Truck – The Prodigal Pumper Returns")
![(first posted 4/10/2017) I want a fun little car just to drive to work. Especially now: I just started a new job, as Director of Engineering for a software startup, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_9571.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1990 Honda Civic CRX Si – A Little Zip On The Commute")
![(first posted 1/6/2013) If you were born after a certain time, you think of the Ranger only as Ford’s (lost, lamented) compact truck. But from 1965 through 1970, Ford crowned […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/69F100Ranger4jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1969 Ford F-100 Ranger–Faded but Still Glorious")
![It was after midnight, and I had the shuttle bus driver drop me off where I thought my car was in the airport parking lot, but I was wrong. So […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1999-2000-Ford-Escort-ZX2-SR-a_Radiant.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1999-2000 Ford Escort ZX2 S/R — A Rare Hot Coupe")
![The 1967-68 Chevrolet Impala hardtop coupe is easily my favorite automotive body design of all time. I love the semi-fastback roof line, and the saucy kick-up at the bottom of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1967-Chevrolet-Impala-red-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classics: 1967 Chevrolet Impalas – A Study In Off-Color Contrast")
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