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![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1995 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham – The End Of The Long Road posted at the Cohort by Corey Behrens You’re not likely to be surprised when I tell you that I’ve always found it a bit hard to warm up to these […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/51756410777_471e6cdb2d_k.jpg)
![Vintage Ad: 1966 Ford Police Car – Nice Image Most vintage police car ad images are pretty ho-hum, but this one is good. It’s hunkered down a bit and on the go; it almost has a stock car look. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3937552215_7d201e169b_h.jpg)
![Truck History: Freightliner Power Dolly – A Helper Engine On A Second Semi Trailer When you spend as much time as I have lately at old truck forums, you inevitably run into some new and unusual things, like this Freightliner Power Dolly, created […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Freightliner-dolly-5.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1974 Buick Apollo – Shivering Stripper William Oliver found this rather pristine Buick Apollo sitting at the curb in Ontario. It looks almost new, except for the Chevy hubcaps on the front wheels and none on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/51746433722_eb7b97d0ec_k.jpg)
![Vintage Ads: 1960-1964 Imperial Crown Limousine – “Only 25 People In The World Can Posses This Luxury” I can’t help but wonder if the primary reason Chrysler had 25 of these ultra-expensive limos hand built by Ghia in Italy was so that its top execs had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3951450081_4224cebc37_h.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 IKA Torino TS – The Legendary Rambler European South American Red Torino shot by Perry Curtis in Buenos Aires, Argentina (first posted 1/9/2016) South America, especially Brazil and Argentina, is famous for its many local adaptions and permutations of US […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IKA-1971-Torino-side-CP-1.jpg)
![Vintage Truck: 1950 GMC With Giant 275 HP 6-110 Detroit Diesel – First High Power Diesel Truck, But With A Fatal Flaw There’s a reason this 1950 GMC truck has such a swollen hood: It’s covering up a giant Detroit Diesel 6-110 engine, designed primarily for marine, military, industrial and railroad use. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GMC-1950-110-diesel-protoype-1.jpg)
![Vintage Ads: 1965 and 1966 Corvette – When Copywriters Were Real Writers I thought at first that these Corvette ads were written when David E. Davis was doing them at Campbell-Ewald, but he didn’t arrive there until 1967 when he got fired […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/8878653258_f4a1b6e106_k.jpg)

![US Historic Gas Prices: Gas Actually Wasn’t Cheap In The 1950s and Early 1960s – Did I Buy The Cheapest Gas Ever In 2001? Gas prices are up, obviously, the highest in seven years, in nominal terms (not inflation adjusted). There doesn’t seem to be as much of a public reaction, in part because […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Gas-1963.jpg)
![CC Outtake: 1972 Ford Econoline 200 – Big White Generic Box (first posted 1/7/2016) Now that the Ford Econoline van has finally gone the way of so many other automotive dinosaurs, we might want to give it a bit of rear-mirror […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ggh.jpg)
![Automotive History: The 1959 Mini Did Not Have The First Transverse FWD Engine, And The Autobianchi Primula Did Not Have The First Inline Transverse FWD Transmission The myths that the 1959 Austin Mini had the first transverse FWD engine and that the 1962 Autobianchi Primula had the first transverse FWD power train with its transmission inline […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Austin-1959-mini-2-vert.jpg)
![Vintage R&T Road Test: 1967 Toyota Corona Coupe – “The Ultra-Practical Corona In A Handsome Coupe Form” The Toyota Corona was the breakthrough car for the firm as well as the whole Japanese car industry hoping to capitalize on the huge American market. It offered a combination […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/corona-top.jpeg)
![Curbside Newsstand: Chrysler Will Live And Go All-EV, Starting With This 2025 Airflow There’s been a lot of questions as to whether the Chrysler brand had a future within Stellantis’ large bag of brands. Given the ever-accelerating momentum to EVs, it’s not surprising […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Chrysler-Airflow-1.webp)
![Vintage Ads: 150 American Truck Brands You’ve Never* Heard Of Before (* Probably) There’s only a handful of American truck manufacturers left, but once upon a time, it was very different. I’ve compiled 150 vintage ads and press articles of defunct […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/truck-bethlehem.jpg)


