- Description
- I write about anything I find interesting. Hopefully that aligns with what at least some readers also find interesting. I adopted my avatar after writing an article about the 1953 movie Crime Wave (see Curbside Cinema: A Crime Wave Of Lincolns) because I liked the movie and the character. I later found out that the actor Sterling Hayden was quite a character, not a typical actor at all. Look him up, it's worth the time!
![Here is the final installment of our hubcap quiz to test your curbside identification skills. As I introduced in Pt. 1, my uncle has a hubcap collection which he […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/hubcaps1-2.jpg "Curbside Quiz: Castoffs From The Peak Hubcap Era, Pt. 3 – Can You ID Them And The Missing Brand?")
![(first posted 8/23/2018) I’ve always liked Ford’s original two seat Thunderbird. It was a cool car to see at car shows and imagine tooling around in with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20151208_092726.jpg "Garageside Classics: 1955, 1956, 1957 Ford Thunderbird – Maintaining and Driving Harold’s T-Birds")
![(first posted 6/20/24) When was the last time you saw a daily driver Jaguar E-Type? The answer’s never for me. Heck, I rarely see a Jaguar over twenty years old […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20230122_161547.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1964 Jaguar E-Type Series 1 – After 58 Years And 200,000 Miles Its Owner Is Still Driving It To The Store")
![If one thing was certain in 1989, besides the rock-firm stability of the U.S.S.R. or the everlasting popularity of Milli Vanilli, it was the clamor of car buyers for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240331_175043-e1714526051859.jpg "Curbside Classic:1990 Chrysler’s TC (By Maserati!) – La Vita è Bella")
![A milquetoast and still common sedan, it’s easy to ignore the Cruze. That might be a mistake for historically-minded car enthusiasts. The Cruze has struck me for a while now […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMAG1396.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco – Beware Of Angry Birds")
![(first posted 1/30/24) A common fantasy is to be able to live in the world forever, not as an old man but as a young man in the prime of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240109_121418-1.jpg "CC Outtake: 1964 Buick Wildcat – The Car Of Dorian Gray")
![, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” This may or may not have been originally said by Mark Twain, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20181122_103903.jpg "1996 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 – One Officer’s Passion")
![It’s really important to hit the right notes. Just ask a singer, since most listeners can perceive a wrong note even if they aren’t musically inclined. Some singers seem […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/20231106_082339.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1963 Buick Riviera – Hitting All The Right Notes")
![The love of all things vehicular is the heart of Curbside Classic. While that is primarily a love of old cars out on the streets, trains and model cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot_20231024_095530_Video-Editor.jpg "Trackside Miniature: Model Train Fun At The Fair")
![If you like kittycats, don’t be embarrassed. I have a treat for you here with a close look at one of the coolest ‘Cats ever. Dog lovers should like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/20230126_131824-1.jpg "Auction Classic: 1964 Buick Wildcat – A Dual-Quad 425 “Nailhead” V8 and Four-Speed Stick Make This Cat A Sleeper")
![I would have preferred to wrap up this series of articles on the January Arizona auctions by March or April but for my regrettable lack of writing time forcing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/262784_Misc_d7e096a9-0f1d-4e21-936d-2292ada5609d_Web-1.jpg "Auction Classic: Arizona 2023 – Best Of The Rest, part 2 of 2")
![I am finally at the end of the list of cars I wanted to share with the CC readership from my journey through Arizona’s January classic car auctions. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/807ba0b0b3fa86327dd8fb9b92d49ad8a95a5680.jpg "Auction Classic: Arizona 2023 – Best Of The Rest, part 1 of 2")
![Rounding out the GM cars I liked best at the January Arizona auctions is a handful of muscle cars and couple of very non-muscular convertibles. As I stated in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-22-at-18-13-43-452-1967-Chevrolet-Impala-SS-427-1.jpg "Auction Classic: Arizona 2023 – Best Of The Rest: GM (Part 2 of 2)")
