![Growing flowers and potted plants is big business in the Netherlands. Consequently, an immense armada of dedicated trucks and combination vehicles to transport the end products is roaming the roads, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0316.jpg "CC Global: 2021 Scania G360 6×2*4 Truck – They Don’t Make Them Like That Any Longer")
![In January 1963, Swedish truck maker Scania-Vabis introduced the LB 76 cabover series of heavy trucks and tractors, mainly to serve the key export markets, where overall length restrictions had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0312.jpg "Truck Stop Classic: 1964 Scania-Vabis LBS 76 Super – Friendly-Faced Toughness")
![(first posted 8/7/2016) Along with all the European trucks that we saw before, there was also a wide variety of classic -and more recent- American trucks at the Truck Show […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_1852.jpg "Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – American Trucks")
![Finally I caught a panel van that provided some insight into the owner’s business. Normally, everything is hidden behind closed cargo- and sliding doors. As demonstrated here, many compact commercial […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0299.jpg "CC Global: The House Painter’s 2013 Peugeot Partner 1.6 HDi – Transparant Workplace")
![(first posted 7/24/2016) Round two of the recently held truck show in Stroe, the Netherlands, starts with a 1958 Ford Thames 500E. Until 1957 this truck model was known as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_1874.jpg "Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – European Trucks, Part 2")
![Snackbar, friture (or frituur), cafetaria, friettent, friet-/patatkraam, frietkot. These nouns are meaning roughly the same, namely a mostly small -or even humble- facility in the Netherlands or Flanders where you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0297.jpg "CC Global: 2003 SsangYong Korando And 2007 Niewiadów Food Trailer – Burning And Heating Oil")
![A huge, almost vertical windshield and a short nose with a slightly sloping hood. Straight lines everywhere. The unmistakable shape of a second gen Mercedes-Benz T2, introduced in 1986. Eliminator […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/709D-1.jpg "Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: Mercedes-Benz 709D Flatbed Trucks – Two-Tee-Twos")
![Two European B-segment (subcompact) hatchbacks, so close and yet so far apart. A German generalist and a direct Mini-competitor from France. Old Age, as in a 20th century design, vs […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0294.jpg "CC Outtakes: 2000 Volkswagen Polo vs 2011 Citroën DS3 Racing – The Not So Fast And The Chic Furious")
![Watch the on-road fieldtests. And the change from driving on the left to the right side. More than 50 years later, the Scandinavians (let’s not forget Volvo and Finnish specialist […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "CC Video: Sweden In The Sixties – Fertile Soil For The Kings Of The Road")
![(first posted 6/30/2016) In 1994 Volkswagen introduced the third generation of the Polo, their B-segment (subcompact) model. Built at the Wolfsburg plant and still very common on the European roads. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/IMG_1773.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1997 Volkswagen Polo 1.6 Automatic – The Golf’s Little Brother")
![Corey Behrens, our man in Noord-Holland, uploaded some brochure-worthy pictures of a 40 years old Renault 4 F6, neatly parallel parked alongside an Amsterdam canal. A fuel-sipping fourgonnette (commercial van) […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/R4-F6-1.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1982 Renault 4 F6 – Allez Le Blue!")
![On Saturday May 21, several local companies kept open house and welcomed anyone who was interested in their business. I decided to skip my 12th lesson Fret Sawing for Advanced […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_0286.jpg "CC Global: Visiting a Fleet Site")
![(first posted 6/10/2016) Fond youth memories from the seventies and early eighties relived when I visited the classic vehicle show and fair in a village nearby. The event takes place […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/IMG_1665.jpg "Truck Show Classics: 2016 Ewijk Festijn – The Kings Of The Road From My Youth")
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