![In our JDM Honda Odyssey Van post last week, we discussed how the third and fourth generation models were much more station wagon-like than other competitors’ designs. Then with the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/d763aa9ef6c5e8016ebd68ec32367b47-e1582806680778.jpg "QOTD: Honda Odyssey; Which Exterior Styling Do You Prefer – JDM or North American?")
![This is a 3rd Generation Honda Odyssey (RB1/RB2) – sold in the home market and other countries in Asia and the Middle East. It differed significantly from the North American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Honda_Odyssey_third_generation_front_Serdang-e1582203639209.jpg "QOTD: 2003 – 2008 Honda JDM Odyssey – Is This a Van or a Station Wagon?")
![Every once in awhile, your passions in life overlap – in my case, two of those passions are mass transit and film noir. I recently found a superb website called […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bingham-Loop-Oct-1965-1-e1580091267163.jpg "CC Vintage Snapshots and Photography: The Hauntingly Beautiful Nighttime Trolleys of Toronto")
![I came across the below interesting, short twenty-two minute industrial video on Youtube the other night – it’s a recruitment film made in 1947 by the Los Angeles Transit Lines […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Los-Angeles-Historic-Streetcar-11-1-e1579581819641.jpg "CC Cinema: We’re Looking for Trolley Operators – Circa 1947")
![Age…they say it brings wisdom. In my case, it’s brought a fading memory, expanded girth, and an inverse ratio of head hair to ear hair. But it has done one […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2449015-bigthumbnail-1-e1579423407502.jpg "QOTD: What Car Did You Hate When You Were Younger But Grew to Love Later?")
![In the recent COAL article on my time with Japanese Royalty, I mentioned that I had purchased a 1978 Toyota Crown while in Japan and in 1985 shipped it to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/pony-e1576473008935.jpg "CC History: Driving in South Korea in the Mid-1980’s – A Much Different World Than Today")
![We’ve had some superb recent posts on the Toyota Crown, which hit me as strangely coincidental as I sit and watch the current Netflix series “The Crown.” CC effect I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/60-3-e1576310873513.jpg "COAL: Three Generations of Toyota’s Crown – My Life Inside Japanese Royalty")
![It’s been a couple years since we last perused the “Lemon Lot” here at the US military installation on the outskirts of Tokyo where I used to work. For new […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/untitled-229-of-251-e1572487426263.jpg "Car Lot Classics: What’s On The Lemon Lot – October 2019 Edition")
![I recently came across this trio at a house near ours in suburban Tokyo. It’s certainly an eclectic bunch – two luxury models from two continents and a minicar that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_20190812_182224-1-e1566645402204.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1997-99 Cadillac Deville, 2001-10 Nissan President, and 2001-10 Daihatsu Copen – The Three (White) Musketeers")
![Along the route of our Sunday weekly walk here in Tokyo is a small transport company – they have several 29 pax Toyota Coaster mini-buses, a couple of Estima vans, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_20190721_152723-1-e1564402583555.jpg "CC Outtake: Nissan Fuga Hearse – A Curve Meets a Square")
![From the post-war period, up until the later 1950’s, coach builders and manufacturers in the UK were enthused with curves – bus design incorporated semi-elliptical and elliptical shapes along the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/9d7d9e9756ff9cb3ac8947e04ce69632-1-e1563362558219.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1949 – 60 AEC Regal IV Coach with Seagull Body by Burlingham – “Curvy”")
![CC readers may remember this tidy mid-60’s Mazda Porter minicar we reviewed some three years ago. I strolled by the same lot here in Tokyo this past weekend just to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_20190714_165717-1-e1564256829997.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1980’s Rolls Royce Silver Spur Mark I – She’s Seen Better Days")
![We’ve reviewed electric-powered buses several times over the past couple of years; in Apr 17 we looked at the Proterra electric coach, and in Oct 16 when we reviewed possible […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=800,height=500,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Aptis-innovationlabel-e1561812262412.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: Alstom Aptis – The Electric Bus Comes to Paris")
![Isn’t it interesting that as we get older, our perspective evolves regarding what makes a car “great.” I can remember as a teenager and into my twenties (late 1960’s to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2018_volvo_v60_frontseat-1-e1560599947338.jpg "Curbside Outtake: Volvo Seats – Give Your Backside a Well Deserved Treat")
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