![Spring has come to Portland, the first really warm, dry weekend we’ve had this year. So along with top-down drivers, cyclists and runners, the gardeners are out in force. Can […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ranchero3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1964 Ford Falcon Ranchero")
![It seems to be Land Rover day today, so here’s one I snapped recently. Michael Freeman shared his life with a very similar rig a few months ago. Unlike his, this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-02-09_15-36-44_450.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: Land Rover Discovery V8i – Silly or Serious?")
![My good friend Paul Wasson recently took delivery on the first Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car in Oregon. Having recently done a CC on my neighbor’s 1917 Detroit Electric, I’m struck […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/MitsuEVmotor.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV / 1917 Detroit Electric – There and Back Again")
![OK, if today is Short Car Day, I had to go out and take pictures of a Smart car, the shortest car you can buy in the US today, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/smart_freeway.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Short Car Day: Smart Fortwo, But Smart For You?")
![Here’s a nice cross-section of fifties city people. Look at each one, from the old guy at one end to the kid at the other. (Click to enlarge.) Besides “WTF”, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ParkingBubbleTop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Caption Update: Bubbles – AMC Astra-Gnome")
![Cruising down the highway, most of an engine’s work is spent pushing air out of the way. Common sense tells us that depends on 1) how much air is in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CdA.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive Aerodynamics: Drag Area – Size Matters")
![Thanks to the Make blog, we learn of the Mirror Finish DeLorean. (DeLorean CC here.) It has been done before, it took forty hours per panel, and up to four hours […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/mirror.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "“Why Yes, You Can Mirror Polish a DeLorean”")
![This could have been the 1960 Edsel if Ford had stuck with it (from the fabulous site of mrjynx). Yesterday we returned to 1957, and experienced the spectacular hype and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1960EdselStyling006-vi.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "What If Ford Had Spent Its Edsel Millions On Something Else?")
![“Hey Fred, did you see that special on Channel 6 last night?” “You mean the Edsel show? Wow, that was the greatest! Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/edsel-show-end-shot_thumb.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Ad Week: E-Day and The Edsel Show")
![(ED: We’re having an old Beetle sub-theme this week, so this is the first of several “Bug Tales” you’ll be seeing) A funny thing happened to me and my ’65 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/VW_1965_ftl.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bug Tales: 1965 VW 1200 – I’ve Got a Bee In My Bonnet!")
![I’m having an nice afternoon walk on a sunny September day, cutting across the Safeway lot among beige Camrys and Suburbans massive enough to warp space, and bang! The cleanest […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/falcon61leftfront.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Custom: 21st Century Falcon")
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