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![When I met my colleague Elsa, she drove a white Plymouth Acclaim. She was a woman of intelligence, education, and sophistication. So the first time we went to lunch together […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tttth.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1992 Plymouth Acclaim — The Car For Someone Who Doesn’t Care About Cars")
![When you chart the changes of the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera across its 14-year run, it’s easy to break it down into the six-window era and the four-window era. Less obviously, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/88_olds_cutlass_ciera.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera — Roach Of The Road In Transition")
![(first posted 12/3/2015) I love to follow the old roads. In Indiana, they don’t get much older than the National Road, which Thomas Jefferson authorized in 1806 and was built […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bbbvj.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1967 Pontiac Bonneville – A Long, Flowing Old Car On A Long, Flowing Old Road")
![1914 Leeper Bridge, South Bend, Indiana (first posted 10/7/2015) This is the final part of this two-part series about bridges in the United States. See Part 1 here. As the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/brid.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Automobile and the American Road Bridge – Part 2")
![1828 stone-arch “S bridge” and 1932 concrete-arch bridge, Blaine, Ohio (first posted 10/6/2015) Rivers, streams, lakes, and valleys have always hindered our ability to get from here to there. That’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/bridge.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Automobile and the American Road Bridge – Part 1")
![From September 1 through 4 this year, I rode my bicycle across Indiana from east to west on US 40. It was a longtime dream realized — I’d wanted to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/schwinn_abandoned_bridge.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Cars of US 40 on a Bicycle Ride Across Indiana")
![(first posted 6/8/2013) I was picking my way through a giant architectural salvage store in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood when I came upon this unusual little ute. It’s hardly parked by […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/siam-de-tella.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1963-66 Siam Di Tella Argenta – Hecho En Argentina")
![(first posted 8/4/2015) After the fuel crisis, it took the major US auto manufacturers the rest of the 1970s to fully respond with roomy, fuel-efficient family cars. They all […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Chrysler-1983-E-class.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1983 Chrysler E-Class – Not Passing for Luxury")
![Meijer is a chain of big-box stores in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It’s like Walmart, only slightly nicer in every regard. Also like Walmart, pretty much everyone […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/91_Volvo_240_Wagon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CCs Getting Groceries: A Collection Of Old Cars At The Big Box Store")
![In the never-ending hunt to find and photograph curbside classics, you never know when you’ll come upon something that is a real head-scratcher. To wit: this Morris Minor 1000, which […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/MorrisMinor01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: Morris Minor 1000 – Let’s All Play “What The Hell Is This Car Doing Here?”")
![(first posted 6/23/2015) Every year, I go to the Mecum Spring Classic car auction in Indianapolis to photograph the cars. I always take my digital camera and a pocketful of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BW.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Classic Cars on Black-and-White Film")
![(first posted 6/10/2015) How can we have Convertible Week without a four-door convertible Continental? Long, low, and lithe. Rival Cadillac may have been at the top of its styling game […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lincoln-1965-conv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule (and Bonus QOTD): 1936 Cadillac Series 75 and 1965 Lincoln Continental: What Four-Door Convertibles Do You Know Of?")
![I’m writing this on the morning my family will celebrate my youngest son’s graduation from college. He enters the real world with a degree in computer science, and is eager […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_1719.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1980 Pontiac Firebird — Someone Decided This One Would Make It")
![(first posted 6/4/2015) A couple years ago I shared some photos I’d taken of the typography on classic cars. It seems like such a minor detail, but obvious design work […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1971-Plymouth-GTX.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auto Typography 2")
![(first posted 5/13/2014) I remember clearly the first time I saw the new-for-1986 Ford Taurus. It was around the time I turned 18, late in the summer before the Taurus […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Taurus-1990-wagon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1990 Ford Taurus Wagon – Redefining the Station Wagon")
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