![(first posted 9/10/2017) Kadett, Ascona, Rekord, Commodore, Admiral, Diplomat. That was Opel’s sedan-ladder in the seventies, a variety unmatched by any other automaker on the European market. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_4673.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: 1973 Opel Kadett B And 1970 Opel Rekord C – Two Beige Two-Door Sedans")
![After last week’s classics, the focus is now on the present times in agriculture. Which means, among many other things, that each and every land vehicle has a safe and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_4316.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2024 And 2025 Harvest Days – Agro-Modernities And Their Supporters")
![(first posted 8/14/2019) Body-on-frame, live axles with leaf springs, a manual transmission, and -above all- a big lump of a naturally aspirated diesel engine with a mechanical injection […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_8296.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1999 Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ75 Pickup – The World’s Finest Prepper Truck")
![No towering on-highway rollers today, but a collection of classic farm tractors from Austria, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. The old fieldworkers are presented in chronological order, we’re starting […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_2952.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Fieldside Classics: Not Built For Comfort, Nor For Speed")
![Multiple straight trucks and semis were on display at the yearly held show in the southeast of the Netherlands, organized by a local truck drivers club. Walking along a grand […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_3990.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2025 Truck Show Milheeze – Regional Truckage Assortment")
![From the late eighties to the mid-nineties, the Scania 3-series with a 14.2 liter V8 was the most longed-for new heavy truck in Europe. Three decades later, it has reached […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_4022.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Truck Show Outtake: 1995 Scania R143H-420 V8 Streamline 6×2 – What Truckers Wanted")
![Sitting in the same Opel room of the Visscher Classique car museum in the Netherlands, the Opel Rekord and Opel Commodore GS/E couldn’t be further apart. In their day, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_2575.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: Opel Rekord A Coupé And Opel Commodore B GS/E – (Not) Your Grandpa’s Opel!")
![Three brand spanking new, ‘stand alone’ end dump semi-trailers, close together in the same lot. Not the agricultural type of trailer, but the ones that are mainly used by earthmoving […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_4223.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Carnehl And Bulthuis Semi-Trailers – Dumpy")
![The other day, a group of truckers from the Dutch river delta held their annual party and camping weekend in a local industrial area. ‘Enjoying nature’ was rather low on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_4238.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2025 Truck Show Dodewaard – The Drivers Are Taking a Load Off")
![(first posted 6/15/2019) Quite the contrast with the DAF commercial vehicles I usually post, this little DAF 33 van with an air-cooled 746 cc flat-twin engine. In 1967, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_7910.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtake: 1973 DAF 33 Variomatic Van – Basic Trucking")
![John Deere 4WD farm tractors are a common sight in the Netherlands, both on- and off-road. Outside the city areas, you simply can’t miss them. That is, if you […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_2663.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: John Deere Tractors – Different Fields, Same Big Green Machines")
![(first posted 4/28/2018) The other day I caught this Volkswagen T3 double cab pickup truck in a temporary parking lot. It represents the last rear engined, rear wheel […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_6267.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1990 Volkswagen T3 1.7 D, Typ(e) 247 – Doppelkabine Pritschenwagen")
![Since May 2024, F-Trucks Nederland BV is the official Dutch importer and distributor of the heavy-duty Ford trucks and tractors developed and built by Ford Otosan from Turkey. Their very-well-organized […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_4215.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Open House At F-Trucks Nederland – A Full-Size Ford Fiesta On The Longest Day")
![It’s not that easy to take a clear side view picture of an entire ‘ecocombi’, a combination vehicle with a maximum overall length of 25.25 m (82’10”). Someone or something […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_4038.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Van den Broek’s B-Double – B2B Logistics")
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