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![QOTD – What Car Best Represents 2020 And Your (Realistic) Hopes For 2021? We have aired out many disagreements here at the Curbside, but I think there is one thing on which we can all agree: 2020 sucked. Because all of us here […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1993 Chevrolet Astro – How Hard Can It Be To Make A Minivan? (Part 1) (first posted 8/10/2011) “Memo to Chevrolet Product Planning from GM Central Committee, January 1984: Gentlemen, it appears that Chrysler has stumbled upon something with its Hail Mary minivan. Poor, desperate, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1985ChevroletAstro02-crop.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Pontiac T-37 – We Build Confusion (first posted 12/24/2014) For fifteen glorious years, Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors led a charmed existence. Under General Managers Semon (Bunkie) Knudsen, Elliot (Pete) Estes and John Z. DeLorean, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1971PontiacT3706.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1994-96 Chevrolet Beretta Z26 – Cool, But Not Cool Enough The 1987 Chevrolet Beretta was a big deal. It marked a return to a 2-door compact Chevrolet that was something more than just a sedan afterthought. It also saw Chevrolet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Beretta-Z26-07.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1965 Chevrolet Corvair 500 – Double or Nothing! (first posted 11/26/2014) The original generation of the Chevy Corvair certainly never lit the sales charts on fire, at least not by Chevrolet standards. Neither did the Y body compacts […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1965ChevyCorvair50004.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1964 Ford Country Sedan – Just As Good Without the Wood (first posted 11/14/2014) Some cars invite controversy the moment you mention them. Vega anyone? Others seem to almost blend into history. You know it’s there, but there isn’t really much […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1964FordCountrySedan12.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1981 Imperial by Chrysler – It’s Time For You. Or Not. (first posted 2/17/12) What do you get when you cross the marketing savvy of Lee Iacocca, the star power of Frank Sinatra, and an attractive personal luxury coupe with tried […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1981Imperial01.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1991 Chrysler New Yorker – Paging Bill Blass (first posted 10/14/2011) There was a sad and dark time in the 1980s when the world was shrinking, and the big American sedan was forced to shrink with it. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/1991ChryslerNewYorker02-crop1.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1960 Ford Thunderbird – Fancy Meeting You Here (first posted 10/21/2014) Yawn. Another restored squarebird convertible in resale red. Aren’t there a couple of these at every car show? But I didn’t find this one at a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1960FordThunderbird08.jpg)
![Automotive History: The Cars of Frank Sinatra (first posted 2/17/2012) Aside from my well-known love of old cars, I am also a huge fan of Frank Sinatra. From his early days as The Voice to his twilight […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1955-TBird1.jpg)
![CC Comparisons: Color Buddies – Old And New Jim Klein brought us a review on a new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. It was an interesting read because I know someone who owns one. But as I read the review, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/01-1961-Studebaker-Autumn-Haze.jpg)
![Cohort Pick Of The Day: 1963 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special – A Lump Of COAL Dean Edwards has been serving up a Cadillac feast on the pages of the CC Cohort. I took a peek and was stopped in my tracks with these pictures of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/49831636182_1a466efa7b_k-Reduced.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1980 Chrysler LeBaron – A Car (and a Company) In Transition (first posted 2/25/2014) Let’s just get this out front. I love these cars. I have always loved these cars. But I have never been quite sure of the source of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1980ChryLeBaron06-crop.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Chrysler Newport Royal – Chrysler’s Deadly Sin #6, The Fuselage Years When I started at CC I would not have argued that this car was a Chrysler Deadly Sin. But I have gotten to the place where I believe (much as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1971-Chrysler-Newport-Royal-07-Small.jpg)


