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![I thought it was going to be a lean year for spotting and photographing old cars through the windshield of my car. The town I live in now is known […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_2281.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Spotted While Driving, or It Would Be Creepy If I Followed You Until You Parked, So I Photographed You In Traffic Instead")
![(first posted 7/6/2013) The role of the traditional large, rear-wheel-drive American car had changed by the mid-1980s. We’d been through the gas crisis, which led to the Japanese successfully wooing […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/85ChevyImpala1jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1985 Chevrolet Impala – Last Of The Impalas")
![Two jobs ago I worked for a company owned by a group of partners. Two of the partners used to take all of the IT directors, including me, to lunch […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/97bmwm3-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1997 BMW M3 – The Car I Want For My Midlife Crisis")
![I’m a fan of the first-generation Ford Ranger, especially post-facelift when they got the composite headlamps. This is just a good-looking little truck. And this one is in surprisingly good […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ranger3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1990 Ford Ranger XLT – Direct from Pizza Planet")
![When I wrapped my COAL series in 2013, I had just bought this 2006 Ford Focus as my daily driver and had demoted my 2003 Toyota Matrix (COAL story here) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Focus1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: 2006 Ford Focus ZX5 SES – Passed Down to Three Generations")
![It was a random day in Crown Point, a town of about 27,000 in Indiana’s northwest-most county. We were there visiting one of my wife’s sisters and her husband for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/vwbus3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Road Trip: Classics on the Square in Crown Point")
![We’ve remarked here many times how the FWD A body became a genuine Roach of the Road – but only the Olds and Buick versions, because the Chevy and Pontiac […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1473.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1988 Chevrolet Celebrity – A Rare Sighting")
![(first posted 12/22/2012) In the summer of 1986, I was home after my freshman year at engineering school when my Aunt Betty offered me a job driving for the courier […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Pintomobile5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1975 Ford Pinto–Fecal Brown Freedom")
![After I shared my last post from a local Cars and Coffee gathering, our very own J.P. Cavanaugh pinged me on Facebook and said, “Another one is coming up, do […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ccjpc01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: Building Friendship at a Cars and Coffee, or C&C with JPC")
![It’s shocking how short the second-generation Ford Escort was. I suppose that’s true of many subcompact cars of 20 and more years ago, but cars have gotten a lot taller […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_0208jg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1996 Ford Escort LX Sedan – A Manually Shifted Clown Car")
![I got to drive a first-gen Subaru Legacy a handful of times. A company I worked for owned one, and we were supposed to use it on local Official Business. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_2084.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1993 Subaru Legacy – Where Have I Seen That Kick-Up Before?")
![I try to take in a couple car shows each year. Naturally, I enjoy walking among the cars. I also I love to load film into one of my old […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ae1p.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: Confronting My Biases at Indy Cars and Coffee")
![I like coming upon any Wagoneer in the wild, but the older the better. So I was pretty stoked to find this one which, judging by the grille, was from […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_1532.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1983 Jeep Wagoneer Brougham – The Perfect Vintage Ride for a Rock-Ribbed Republican")
![It’s becoming my annual tradition, this sharing of the old cars I photograph through my windshield while I wait at stoplights. I’ve done it since 2013, except that I skipped […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_2213.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Spotted While Driving, or Curbside Classics Photographed Through a Dirty Windshield")
![Downtown Fishers, Indiana, is under construction. Ten years ago it was a few aging commercial buildings and a bunch of tiny houses. Today, the houses are mostly gone, being replaced […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/17620004-proc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1977 Ford F-150 – Construction Special")
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