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![Road and Track preference for sports cars, import sedans and domestic compacts was all-too obvious, as its founder and publisher John Bond clearly had no truck with large domestic cars. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Chevelle-1a.jpeg "Vintage R&T Road Test: 1968 Chevelle Malibu 327 – “…An Unusually Satisfactory Car”")
![(first posted 7/30/2012) Virgil Exner came very close to getting his 1960 XNR roadster into production, although probably in a slightly toned down form from the pretty wild prototype. Based […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/plymouth_XNR-1960-.jpg "Automotive History Capsule: Virgil Exner’s 1960 XNR – Plymouth’s Corvette Fighter Almost Made It Into Production")
![(first posted 4/28/2016) In 1971 and again in 1972, Dodge pioneered two very significant developments in light trucks. The 1971 Maxiwagon/Maxivan (foreground) was the first extended-body large van, which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CC-288-049-1200.jpg "Curbside Classics: 1971 Dodge Maxiwagon and 1979 Dodge Maxivan – Dodge Pioneers The Really Big Van")
![My main memory of reading about the new TR-250 was: we got cheated! While the rest of the world got the TR-5, with its new 2.5 L inline six sporting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/TR-250-1-top.jpeg "Vintage R&T Road Test: 1967 Triumph TR-250 – Where’s Our TR-5?")
![Here’s another flathead powerd truck hauling flatheads; in this case Ford V8s. Given the name on the door, most likely they’re headed for Mercurys, but they all came form […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/51992250378_8c6c059a9a_o.jpg "Vintage Photos: Flathead Powered Flatbed Hauling Flatheads, Take 2")
![Whoever special-ordered this Impala Sport Coupe placed a lot more importance on outward appearances than inner qualities. They not only picked a top-tier model, but also splurged on the full […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Chevrolet-1964-imp-coupe-fq.webp "Curbside Classic: 1964 Impala Sport Coupe – Six Cylinder Three-On-The-Tree Oxymoron")
![I’ll never forget my first shag carpet experience: it was 1968, and I as I did every morning then, I walked over to my friend Mike Fitzsimmons house before walking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/4097672752_0d6e67c0e8_o-1.jpg "Vintage Brochure Shots: 1971 Continental Mark III Drowning In Shag Carpeting")
![(first posted 4/25/2016) If we chose to drive across the country nowadays instead of flying, it’s in serene air-conditioned comfort, with the kids engrossed in their video games. It […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/xxxcv.jpg "Vintage Photos: Life On The Road – On US Hwy 30 In 1948")
![A flathead six powered Dodge truck hauling Dodge flathead sixes, locally in Detroit. Well, actually they could be Plymouth or Chrysler flathead sixes, but then there’s not a whole lot […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27263683073_6118fb693d_o-1.jpg "Vintage Truck: Flathead Powered Flatbed Full Of Flatheads")
![1956 marked the end of a long tradition of Chrysler building long-wheelbase sedans and limousines. Starting in 1957, the job was farmed out to Ghia in Italy, as the volume […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/4071488074_fe8fe374cf_o.jpg "Vintage Ad: 1956 Imperial Crown Limousine – The Last Of Its Kind")
![(Update: I goofed; the SS package was still available in ’75 & ’76) Roshake77 found this ’74 Nova Supersportivo in Italy; and you wonder were they’ve all gone to. Well, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/52017183587_01f62fbf83_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1974 Chevrolet Nova SS – Arrivederci Supersportivo")
![(first posted 9/27/2013. this chapter 2 of the CC Beetle Chronicles picks up from the 1946 CC) Invasive species can impart devastating effects when the indigenous species haven’t evolved the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CC-16-018-925.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1957 VW 1200 – The Beetle Takes America By Sturm")
![These two imports, one from Great Britain and one form Germany, represented the beginning of a new breed of European low-cost cars, having applied the same formula as American muscle […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Kadett-Cortina-1-top.jpeg "Vintage R&T Comparison: 1967 Opel Kadett Rallye & Ford Cortina GT – Mini Muscle Cars")
![(first posted 4/13/2013) Oh, she may be weary Old Chevys they do get weary Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah yeah But when she gets weary Try a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/33325.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1964 Chevrolet Bel Air Six – Try A Little Tenderness")
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