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- I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, the Vehicle City. I grew up in an environment chock-full of working-class joie de vivre. Flint was a magical place to grow up, with its myriad factories, vibrant Cultural Center, and being steeped in car-culture. Growing up in Flint undoubtedly shaped my tendency to gravitate toward urban scenes.
![There was a meme that circulated recently on social media that encouraged the reader and potential participant to leave a one-word comment that started with the same letter of one’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2013-04-13-Saturday-1967-Triumph-TR250-CC.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1967 Triumph TR250 – May Your New Year Be Triumphant")
![I’ve become increasingly convinced over time that class is a state of mind over anything else. Amid the dense, hurried foot and vehicular traffic of holiday shoppers along Chicago’s upper-end […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/004-1940-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Series-75.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1940 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 – Dignity")
![I am that person who will smile at dogs I pass while walking somewhere. Unless they’re barking or foaming at the mouth, dogs inherently look, to me, like they’re smiling, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2013-08-16-1977-Chrysler-Cordoba-Friday-CC.jpg "Car Show Outtakes: 1977 Chrysler Cordoba & 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo – Smile!")
![A realtor friend of mine back in my hometown of Flint, Michigan recently posted a listing there for a most beautiful house in the mid-century modern architectural tradition. This house […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2011-02-20-Sunday-1968-Chevrolet-Corvair-1-CC-BW.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1968 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Coupe – Mid-Century Marvelous")
![Only about a month ago, it was warm enough in Chicago to take a walking tour of historic buildings and neighborhoods sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Center (which featured locales […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/011-1977-Ford-Thunderbird-emblem-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1978 Ford Thunderbird – Got To Be Real")
![A couple of weeks ago, I was seriously contemplating the wisdom of my decision to move back to the Midwest in the mid-Aughts from warm, sunny Florida. As much as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2012-12-25-Tuesday-1964-Chevrolet-Impala-SS-2-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS – Winter Weather")
![I think it’s fair to say that many of us have some aspect of our physical appearance that we wish was different in some way. I’m not even talking about […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2011-04-13-Wednesday-1970-Pontiac-Grand-Prix-SJ-5-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J – Big Nose")
![I’ve had a real itch to travel, lately. Almost exactly two years ago, I was preparing for my first trip to Italy, which was also my first trip to Europe […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1965-Jaguar-E-Type-1-6-20-2010-Sunday-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: c. 1965 Series I Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Roadster – Things Or Travel?")
![Just two weekends ago, I had taken the Amtrak from Chicago to Ann Arbor, Michigan for an overnight stay. My dad had been a professor at U of M, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/056-1977-Buick-LeSabre-Coupe-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Buick LeSabre Coupe – B.M.O.C.")
![I listened to a lot of Depeche Mode as a depressed teenager. There was much in the often-dark lyrics of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore that spoke to me in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2012-12-11-Tuesday-1985-Pontiac-Firebird-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1985 Pontiac Firebird – Fast Fashion")
![This Buick Century wagon could be the automotive embodiment of my late grandfather. Like the FWD A-Body Century that lasted a whopping fifteen model years from between 1982 and ’96, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2012-02-05-1995-Buick-Century-Estate-CC.jpg "CC Outtake: c. 1995 Buick Century Wagon – A Century Ago…")
![On this past Monday, I had taken another evening walk through my neighborhood on the first day of fall of this year. Locusts were chirping loudly, and the air was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/019-1976-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Supreme-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme – An Acrostic Poem")
![Today brings the fall equinox, the first official day of autumn in the northern hemisphere. I’m usually one of the very last hangers-on to summer, long proclaiming after Labor […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2012-07-18-Wednesday-VW-Beetle-Convertible-CC.jpg "CC Outtakes: Locusts & Volkswagen Beetle Convertibles")
![Less than one week ago as of today, I returned from my annual Las Vegas trip with close, long-time friends. I was on my final full day there last Monday […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/247-1978-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Brougham-cropped-CC.jpg "Curbside Coda: 1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham – All That Glitters")
![My friends and I are currently on our annual trip to Las Vegas. Our Chicago-based collective lands somewhere between the Rat Pack and the Brat Pack, being at once old-school […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/192-1954-Chevrolet-210-DeLuxe-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1954 Chevrolet 210 DeLuxe – Purple, The Color Of Royalty")
