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![Just thought that I would share with our fellow CC’ers south of the Equator what it looks like north of the Mason Dixon, and why it is that we buy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/01-Backyard.jpg "Why God Created Subarus")
![The Professor and Texn nailed it but Dr Lemming and NZ Skyliner get points for accuracy while under the effect of psychotropic drugs. Monday, December 17 It’s 1:30 am. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Wyoming.jpg "2012 Victory Tour")
![My uncle by marriage, Eldon Leroy “Bud” Lingafelter, owned and operated Lingafelter’s Tire Shop in Aledo, Illinois, a small burg (pop. 3700) in western Illinois, about 15 miles east of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1921-Tire-Shop.jpg "Small Town History, My Uncle’s Tire Shop")
![Ever wonder what Richard Petty’s NASCAR ride would have looked like had he driven for Citroen rather than Plymouth? Didn’t think so. But being an aficionado of things Citroen, especially […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/43-2CV.jpg "Fantasy is Better Than Reality")
![Let’s get one thing clear at the outset: The 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix was a completely conventional large American sedan. It broke no new technical or manufacturing ground. It […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pontiac-2.jpg "CCOTY Nomination: 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix"){kind=small}
![Hard to believe, but with the running of Speed Week next August (2013), it will have been ten years since I shot this wonder at Bonneville. The guy sitting behind […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/01-Mabee-Spl.jpg "Bonneville Classics: 1953 Mabee Special")
![In the early 1950s, my spinster aunt bought some toys to keep me amused during family get-togethers at her home. Among the toys in the toy box were a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hudson-Blue-Sedan-1.jpg "CC Miniatures: When Is A Hudson Not A Hudson?")
![While browsing Netflix for something to watch the other night, I stumbled across The Fast and the Furious, a 1955 picture with John Ireland and Dorothy Malone. But something was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Movie-Poster.jpg "CC Cinema: The Fast and the Furious: A Review, and the Whole Movie, Right Here")
![[We’ll start of with a nomination from one of our Contributing Editors–but don’t let that stop you from nominating your own choices.] On a strictly intellectual basis, I would posit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ds19.jpg "CCOTY 1956: I Nominate The 1956 Ford Sunliner")
![In 1963 my parents and I amicably separated. They went to San Juan, PR, and I went to Subiaco Academy in northwest Arkansas for my sophomore year of high […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1953-Ford.jpg "COAL: The Nickmobiles – Extra-Carricular Activities"){kind=small}
![Our 1956 Olds was a solid and trouble-free car, which explains why my Dad kept it for more than a year. I remember him looking at new ’57 Oldsmobiles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1958-Plymouth-Wagons.jpg "COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part Three: Suddenly It’s The Sixties!"){kind=small}
![It was a rainy, chilly April 1954 day in Lowell, MA. I was in my kindergarten class, doing some mind-numbing exercise, when all of a sudden my dad walked […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1954-Mercury-tailight.jpg "COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part Two: The (Heart)Pace Quickens, Considerably"){kind=small}
![My mother and her older sister would begin high school in 1931. The family farm, in Hamlet, IL, was about 10 miles from the closest high school, in Aledo, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1930-Ford.jpg "COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part 1")
![I really liked my Rabbit and was interested in exploring its higher-performance aspects. (This was well before the arrival of the first American GTI, in 1984.) I was back in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Delaney-1-S1.jpg "COAL: The Brougham Antidote, Part Four – Run, Rabbit, Run")
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