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![CC Capsule: 1952-53 GMC Pickup – New Design, Not Advance Design (first posting 9/20/2018) Go looking online for information about the GMC version of the Advance Design trucks and you’ll come up with very little. For the Chevy you’ll […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/68000016-proc.jpg)
![Auction Classic: 1967 Pontiac Grand Prix – Wide Tracking It Down Under (first posted 9/5/2018) Here at CC we’ve seen lots of American cars, especially muscular ones from the 60s and 70s, now prowling about Europe. But here’s one that made […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/67GP1.jpg)
![Curbside Find: Austin Mini – Still Rolling in Berlin It’s always good to come upon an old Mini still doing its thing. They’re vanishingly rare in the Midwestern United States, where we live. In this case, we were on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1962-68-Austin-Mini-b.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1977 Chevrolet Corvette – You Must Have At Least This Much Chest Hair To Ride This Ride (first posted 7/26/2018) This will always be exactly what I think of when I think of the Chevrolet Corvette: the 1970s-style boulevard cruiser, T tops removed, in some […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_1596.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1960 Studebaker Lark – South Bend’s Beater King (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/60StudebakerLark1jg.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale – A Real G-Ride (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/71OldsDelta88Royale1jg.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1961 Ford Falcon – Oh, to Live in a Neighborhood Where I Can Encounter Curbside Classics on a Stroll (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_1126.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1986 Ford Escort Pony – The Ultimate Car for the Man Who Hates to Spend Money (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_2165.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1973 Chrysler Newport Custom – A Real Car for a Real Man (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1858.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1961 Mercury Monterey Convertible – You Never Know When Someone You Already Know Is Secretly Another Old-Car Fan 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1961-Mercury-Monterey-a.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1960 Facel Vega HK 500 – On Adult Relationships with Siblings 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1960_Facel_Vega_1.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1986 Plymouth Caravelle SE–This Ship Still Sails (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/87Caravelle2jg.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1978 Ford Fairmont – The Ur-Fox (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/79FordFairmont1jg.jpg)
![Curbside Classics: Two BMW 2002s – God Bless the Weirwolf 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BMW-2002-1-4.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1962 Ford F-800 Fire Truck – The Prodigal Pumper Returns 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1962-Ford-F-800-fire-truck-a.jpg)


