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![Vintage Snapshot: The New ’55 Buicks Are Coming Don’t know the location, and it looks to have been colorized, but it’s a nice shot, especially as there’s what looks like to be a little Fiat Topolino just behind […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20740300971_1c870eee5e_o.jpg)
![Vintage R&T Mini-Review: 1969 Datsun 510 Two-Door – “Fewer Doors, A Smaller Price Tag, And Bigger Performance” When the acclaimed 510 arrived here in 1968, it was only available as a four door. R&T reviewed it, and quite positively at that. But it was priced one notch […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/510-2-door-top.jpeg)
![Vintage PR Photo: 1958 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud – A Six For The Price Of Two V8s Here’s a somewhat unexpected PR shot of an American suburban family about to go off for a ride in their new R-R Silver Cloud. Dad must have been doing what […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/3956676173_45ba202d29_o.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Buick Riviera – Bill Mitchell’s Pointy Dead-End (first posted 10/20/2016) Bill Mitchell, GM’s VP of Design from 1959-1977, had a brilliant career. His 1938 Cadillac 60 Special set a design direction that could be seen for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-304-040-1200.jpg)
![Comment Classic: Restomod Regret – “I Liked It More Original” Every once in a while there will be a pithy comment left at CC that deserves wider appreciation. Here’s on from Patrick, left at my ’55 Chevy CC. I found […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/55-chev.jpg)
![Vintage R&T Road Test: 1969 Mercedes 300SEL 6.3 – “Merely The Greatest Sedan In The World” How is it that merely the greatest car blog in the world has never written up “merely the greatest sedan in the world”? What a glaring omission. I actually shot […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/6.3-1-top.jpeg)
![Curbside Classic: 1973 AMC Matador Sedan – The Stench Of Death (first posted 9/11/2013) By the early seventies, AMC’s Matador and Ambassador were the equivalent of the Studebaker Lark ten years earlier: you just knew they were not long for this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CC-89-094-800.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Chrysler 600 – Get Your 300 While You Still Can posted by canadiancatgreen Coincidence? Or stocking up before production ends? Yes, MY 2023 is the final year for the 300, which has had quite a run. So get yours while […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/52407910885_ee2d328a58_k.jpg)
![Vintage PR Shot: 1955 Rometsch Beeskow – In Front Of…Trader Vic’s? What first caught my eye was the Rometsch Beeskow, a stylish coupe made in small numbers by the coachbuilder Rometsch on a VW chassis. But then quickly my eyes moved […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/51920860298_b81cafb7af_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix – Grand Size, Medium Prize (first posted 7/21/2012) The Grand Prix had two grand moments in its long life. Needless to say, they came more towards the beginning then the end. The Colonnade era, as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CC-172-076-1200.jpg)
![Vintage PR Shot: 1957 Mercury Ambulance: The Only Hardtop Ambulance? If you were unlucky enough to have to ride in a ’57 Mercury ambulance, at least you rode in style, as this one one of the very few wagons that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/51936784111_63bd513faf_o.jpg)

![How Many “Real” Horsepower Did The 1971 426 Hemi Really Make? A Look At The Gross vs. Net HP Games (first posted 10/13/2016) 1971 was something of a watershed year for the great performance/muscle car boom that had been building ever since the “horsepower wars” of the mid fifties. Two […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Plymouth-1971-satellite-engines.jpg)
![Vintage Postcard: 1923(?) Lancia Lambda Limousine Coupe Weyman – Way Ahead Of Its Time With Unibody, IFS, 4-Wheel Brakes And A SOHC V4 It looks like a typical 1920s town car that’s been chopped and channeled; look how low that driver is sitting, like in a sports car. We’ve sung the high praises […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/51940888493_159623147f_k.jpg)


