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![Auto-Biography: High Speed Assimilation (2007, updated 2026) My first glimpse of America: looking down on a freeway at night, with glow-worm toy cars. It was just like the picture of GM’s World of Tomorrow […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Corvette-1957-white-small.jpg)
![Curtis Perry Find: Plymouth Duster (Color-Keyed) – Where Have All The Dusters Gone? When I first started shooting CCs ten years ago, there were still so many Dusters around. I never wrote them all up, although two of them did make it into […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/48219641497_4a93fd7c9b_k.jpg)
![Is It AI? No, It’s MV-1 – It Could Have Been The New Checker Cab Whenever I see one an MV-1 what instantly comes to mind is: AI. These cars just look like something an AI image generator would come up with if prompted to…design […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_0656-115x115.jpeg)
![CC Colt Chronicles Part 2: 1974-1977 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi Galant) – The Colt Gets Americanized (Updated 2/26/2026) For 1974, the Dodge Colt got a bit of an American-style make-over. Whereas its gen1 predecessor was very clean, reflecting the Italian influence that had been so prominent […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CC-190-104-950-crop.jpg)
![Curbside Find: 1950 Plodge Wagon – Found in Mexico City (Updated 2/26/2026) CC Cohort robadr has found a wonderful living fossil in Mexico City; now this is how I like my CC’s. And there’s a bit of mystery […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/49581627983_6b0e445ca6_b.jpg)
![Was The 1953-1954 Corvette Really A Sports Car? Road & Track And I Try To Answer That Squishy Question One of the most enduring debates in Corvette history is whether the original 1953-1954 version was really a sports car. It’s actually an easy question to answer except for the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cover-crop-middle-vert-new-title-115x115.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1982 VW Scirocco Mk II – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Italian Designers (Updated 2/25/2026) Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall. (Pride before the fall). The gen1 Scirocco (CC here) is a gem, one of those rare cars that has always looked good since […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CC-72-130-800.jpg)
![Curbside Crash: My Neighbor’s Car Gets Totaled At The Curb – My xB Barely Escaped The Carnage I was awoken yesterday morning at 6:41 by a loud sound that I thought—in my grogginess—might be someone dragging a garbage can without wheels to the street, the sound of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/a-crash-4-1-115x115.jpg)
![The CC Dodge Colt Chronicles, Part 1: 1971-1973 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi Galant) – Chrysler Goes Shopping In Japan (Updated 2/24/2026) Over the course of this week or so, we’re going to chronicle the rather complex story of the Dodge Colt. The name “Colt” is much more than just […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/50425462097_0d89558545_h.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1968 Dodge W200 Power Wagon Pickup – Powerful Good Pea Soup Behold the mighty Power Wagon! Nothing can stop it, although it did stop here on this corner a few blocks from my house recently. Perhaps only CC can stop it? […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CC-410-027.jpg)
![Curbside Finds: A Chevy SS Lover Lives Here (Updated 2/23/2026) I’ve shown you lots of driveways down near my neighborhood, but this one is up in the hills, where we often walk. And it’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CC-394-094.jpg)
![Auto-Biography: Douglas DC-8 – The Trip of a Lifetime (2014, updated 2026) I awoke before dawn on August 27, 1960, bursting with nervous anticipation. This was to be the most exciting and longest day of my childhood, if not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DC-8-swiss-air-in-air-1.jpg)
![A Gallery Of Curbside Finds From Around The World By The CC Cohort In addition to our many contributors, I also need to acknowledge our appreciation for all of the CC Cohort posters that have been consistently posting their finds at our Cohort […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/55067550623_81ae5f8e4e_k-tile-115x115.jpg)
![1959 Oldsmobile Super 88 – Its Redeeming Features Are Under The Skin GM’s 1959 cars are an endless source of, ah, visual amusement (I’m trying to be generous). It’s best not to take them too seriously, as presumably the design studio water […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CC-P80-027.jpg)
![My First Curbside Finds (2008-2009) – In The Beginning… CC’s 15th birthday has me wallowing in a bit of nostalgia. I looked through the files of my early years of curbside finds and realized that quite a few never […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/a-trans-tile-115x115.jpg)


