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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.
![Only three weeks ago, I was back in my hometown of Flint, Michigan for the annual Back To The Bricks car festival, which is now in its fifteenth year. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/087-1953-Chevrolet-Corvette-253-CC.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1953 Chevrolet Corvette – An Argument For Originality")
![I had decided to take a temporary break from college in my early 20s (in the mid-1990s), and ended up moving back in with my parents for a year. What […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/001-crop-1992-Cadillac-Eldorado-convertible-CC-FINAL.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1995 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible – Monsieur Chauffeur")
![I’m learning to be more thankful when friends and acquaintances ask me to participate in fun activities that would fall outside my normal routine, at times when I usually wouldn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/013-1969-Pontiac-Catalina-convertible-crop-FINAL-CC.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1969 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible – Time Flies, Especially During Summer")
![A few weeks ago, my mom came to visit me here in Chicago. It was a wonderful time, filled with just enough culture, tourism, neighborhoody things, candid conversation, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1993-06-With-My-Mustang-at-the-Glo-Bell-Motel-CC.jpg "Curbside Classics: Growing Up Alongside The Fox-Body Mustang")
![There’s always a point at which you see your first unglamorous example of a newer generation of vehicle that you had seen up to that time in only good-to-great condition. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/006-2010-15-Chevrolet-Camaro-crop-CC.jpg "CC Capsule: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro – Live Fast, Die Young")
![It has been said of me that my Canon camera and I are inseparable. I am very protective of it, and treat it with the utmost care. It is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2011-09-11-Saturday-Cadillac-Coupe-DeVille-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic Capsule: The In-Motion Classics Of North Sheridan Road")
![I was eight years old in the mid-1980s when my mom, dad, two brothers and I traveled to western Europe on a brief tour, including a stop in London. Paris […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/034-Triumph-Spitfire-1500-CC.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1974 – ’78 Triumph Spitfire 1500 – English Chocolate")
![Today’s forecast high in Chicago is a whopping 95° F (35° C), just as I have a very special guest arriving – my mother. Thank goodness my new air conditioner […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Karmann-Ghia-2-CC.jpg "In-Motion Outtakes: 1970 – ’71 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia – Grape Creamsicle")
![Some things instantly remind me of summer. In the dead of winter here in Chicago, if I hear even a sound effect on television that sounds like a lawn sprinkler […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1971-Chevrolet-Chevelle-Edgewater-1-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic Capsule: 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle – Going Home")
![It had occurred to me last week, while writing my recent essay on the very last Pontiac Firebird, that this model seemed to be one of last, few cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2011-11-05-Saturday-Buick-Reatta-Edgewater-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic Capsule: Private Eyes – An Ode To Pop-Up Headlights")
![I have always held the Pontiac Firebird in high esteem. Many of us in our forties were born into an automotive landscape that had always included a Firebird in various […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/032-1998-Pontiac-Firebird-CC.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1998 Pontiac Firebird – The Final Flight")
![This past week found me back in the beautiful, American Midwestern city of Omaha, Nebraska for business travel. Twenty-Nineteen marks my ninth, consecutive year of spending time in that city, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/105-1968-Chevrolet-El-Camino-SS396-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1968 Chevrolet El Camino SS 396 – Business Up Front…")
![There’s a section of Wabash Avenue in downtown Chicago’s “Loop” District that’s referred to as “Jewelers Row”. Over the stretch of two city blocks that run north and south between […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1988-Cadillac-Eldorado-Biarritz-2-CC.jpg "Curbside Classic Capsule: 1988 Cadillac Eldorado – Pure Ritz!")
![I had learned one particular habit as a young kid growing up between my two brothers in the early 1980s that I still find hard to control, even almost forty […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2012-02-19-1982-Buick-Regal-Limited-CC.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1982 Buick Regal Limited Sedan – Seniority")
