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![(first posted 12/13/2015) This may look like a Fiat 500, but it’s almost completely different in every respect, except for the basic body panels. At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/sp.jpg "Curbside Classic: Steyr-Puch 500 – A Small But Grand Finale To Austria’s Automobile Industry")
![How is it that we’ve never given the Powell its 15 minutes of CC fame? It was ahead of its time, offering an SUV-like wagon and a pickup, and really […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/5155396596_5b143893f1_o.jpg "Vintage Ad: 1956 Powell Sport Wagon Pickup – A Proto-SUV/Pickup On A Recycled Plymouth Chassis")
![Update: This was previously identified as a Federal truck, but in reality it was a Sterling. And according to one source, the engine was substantially derated, to some 500 hp. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Sterling-allison-1710-V12-1.jpg "Vintage Truck: Home Built 1950 Sterling Truck With 1400 HP Allison V12 – Hot Rod Semi")
![1964 Dodge 880 (bottom) remodeled into 1959 Dodge Custom Royal (top) For me, CC has been a vehicle for self-education, to bust long-held myths that seemed ripe for doing so, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dodge-1959-conv-vert-nice.jpg "Automotive History: The Secrets Of The 1960 Chrysler Unibodies Revealed, Thanks To This “Remodel” Of A 1964 Dodge 880 Into A 1959 Dodge Custom Royal")
![(first posted 12/11/2015) I’m throwing a lot at you today, but CC Commenter SomeOneInTheWildWest posted a link to this M/T review of the new 1965.5 Caprice and its equally-new 396 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/65396.jpg "Vintage Review: 1965 Chevrolet Caprice 396 Tested By Motor Trend – Fast And Soft")
![I almost forgot about this fine old Dodge pickup we found on Skinner Butte at sunset one day this past summer. I have a serious soft spot for these early […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_7166.jpg "Skinner Butte Outtake: 1964 Dodge D100 Sweptside – Caramel And Butterscotch")
![This is one of my better finds in Port Orford: A Toyota Echo (Yaris) apparently converted into a very compact motor home. As it was presently occupied, I unfortunately was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_7176.jpg "Port Orford Outtake: Toyota Echo Motor Home")
![posted at the Cohort by Chris (first posted 12/11/2015) Some days I feel like all I’m doing is stamping out internet bugs; you know the little inane critters that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ghhbv.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1965 Chevrolet Caprice – The LTD Reaction")
![(first posted 3/16/2011). Headline superlatives are a slippery slope, but I’m standing on pretty solid ground here: This is the car that completely changed the marketplace, the car that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ltd.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1965 Ford LTD – It Launched The Great Brougham Epoch")
![Renderings by Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman – click images for full impact (first posted 12/11/2015) Having coined the term The Great Brougham Epoch™, I then gave the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/brrg.jpg "Automotive History/Curbside Classic: 1964 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham – The True Father Of The Great Brougham Epoch?")
![I found the juxtaposition of this retro-design Mark III against the stark and modern house to be a bit curious. Wouldn’t a more traditional house have been a bit more […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/15014736875_efb4de420f_k.jpg "Vintage Ad: 1969 Continental Mark III – Modern House, Retro Mark")
![Hall-Scott’s legendary 1090 cubic inch OHC six cylinder gas engines were the most powerful truck engines in their day, making up to 310 hp on butane (LPG) at a time […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/H-S-Kenworth-V12-close.jpg "Vintage Truck: 1951 Kenworth With 600 HP 2181 Cubic Inch Hall-Scott V12 – The World’s Most Powerful Factory Road Truck Of Its Time")
![(note: this was originally misidentified by the Cohort poster as a Grandé, and I didn’t check that. Apparently it’s just a plain Mustang coupe. I’ve amended the title and text.) […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/51728887086_25bf93742a_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1969 Ford Mustang Coupe – The Mustang Goes Blah")
![So far, EXBRO5 was mostly about driving, scenery, camping and historical/cultural sites. Given our proclivities, finding some old cars well preserved in the dry Nevada air would certainly have been […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20210624_1650341.jpg "Nevada Overland Trip (EXBRO5), Day 5 – Junk Yard Pay Dirt")
![Bruno Ferlito found and posted this Jaguar E-Type at the Cohort, and his only comment was “Sooo beautiful”. True that. I’m not going to add any more words either; we […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/51626469815_225a41e06e_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Series II – “Sooo Beautiful”")
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