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![Pity the poor Sable. Somehow, it always got the short end of the stick in looks compared to its Ford-badged brother. The first and second generations looked bulbous compared to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1995-Mercury-Sable-a_LUCiD.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1995 Mercury Sable – A Clean, Pristine Grocery Getter")
![I go back to my alma mater for Homecoming every couple-three years. I had a great, life-building experience at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an engineering school on the outskirts of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_1955-rawproc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1970 Ford F-250 – Montana To Indiana Or Bust")
![Back in June I had 21 ash trees removed from my yard. All of them were killed by the emerald ash borer. The tree service gave me hardship pricing, but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1968-75-BMW-2002-b.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: BMW 2002 – Why Would You Use A Vintage BMW For A Home Depot Run?")
![Two years ago now, Paul Niedermeyer launched the Great Vega Hunt, a quest to find a beater Chevy Vega still powered by the 2300 inline four. Examples didn’t exactly flood […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1976-77-Chevrolet-Vega-b.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Great Vega Hunt Limps On: Stock-Looking 1976-77 Vega Hatchback")
![This is it, the very car I dreamed of during my 1990s early adulthood: 1992-98 BMW E36 coupe, and it had to be black. This aging E36 belongs to someone who […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1992-98-BMW-3-series-coupe-c.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: What’s Your Ultimate “Ultimate Driving Machine”?")
![I wanted to write about this car mostly so I could say this: the formal, vertical backlight makes the rear wheels look somehow disconnected from the rest of the car’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1994-Ford-Thunderbird.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1991 Mercury Cougar XR7 – The Archetypal 90s Coupe?")
![I just counted. Of the 149 posts I’ve written for Curbside Classic, a full 15% of them are about trucks, or vehicles based on truck platforms. That’s a huge proportion. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1986-Mitsubishi-Mighty-Max-Sport-e.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1985 Mitsubishi Mighty Max Sport – Unpopular in the Heartland")
![Given that the last Wagoneers exited the Toledo factory 24 years ago now, it’s not surprising that they’re becoming fairly rare, especially here in Rustopia. And so even though we’ve […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1990-Jeep-Grand-Wagoneer-g.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1990 Jeep Grand Wagoneer – Coffee Colored and Out for Coffee")
![It was right after Labor Day in 1985 when I moved into my Freshman dorm at engineering school. And there it was: this beautiful 1963 Thunderbird. I figured it belonged […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1961-Ford-Thunderbird.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Vintage Outtake: 1963 Ford Thunderbird – The Dean’s Car")
![I have a rule of thumb: if I can’t confidently say yes, I say no. It keeps with my conservative personality; it serves me well. But once in a while […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1989-Mercury-Grand-Marquis-a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis – Pangs of Regret")
![Just what year is this truck, anyway? The angular styling gives away that it’s a 4th-gen Toyota Truck from 1984-1988. But Toyota changed these trucks’ styling so little from year […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1986-Toyota-truck-c.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1986 Toyota Truck – A Basic Shaggin’ Wagon from Toyota’s Angular Period")
![I have mixed feelings about this big red Chevy. The ’68 Impala is my favorite car of all time. And top-down driving can be such a pleasure. But so much […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/1968-Chevrolet-Impala-a-rawproc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1968 Chevrolet Impala SS 427 Convertible – Enormous(ly Powerful)")
![Speaking of small convertibles, check out this smallest Nash. It rides on a wheelbase six tenths of an inch longer than the one on the Yugo that William Stopford shared […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/1959-Nash-Metropolitan-b-rawproc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1959 Nash Metropolitan – Tiny, but Larger than the Yugo")
![The 1960s were arguably the high-water mark for Pontiac styling and image, under the leadership of Bunkie Knudsen, Pete Estes, and John DeLorean. It was the beginning of the wide-track […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/1967-Pontiac-Grand-Prix-d-rawproc.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classics: A Bounty of 1960s Pontiacs")
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