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![posted by Nathan Williams How many times have I posted pictures of less-than stock cars in the US that elicited the question: are there no mandatory inspections in the US? […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/51639192886_01f47ff05c_o.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: An (Unruly) Foreigner in London – Are There No Inspections?")
![(first posted 11/6/2015) By 1977, America’s long-running love affair with strippers was starting to peter out. The economy was strong during the last years of that decade, and the eighties […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CC-267-007-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Oldsmobile Omega F-85 – The Fully Clothed Stripper")
![There’s nothing new about flashy big rims with custom paint; Disteel (Detroit Pressed Steel Company) was offering them starting in 1917, as a stronger and visually more alluring alternative to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7028867517_d19d4c0246_o.jpg "Vintage Ads: Disteel Wheels – Flashy Rims With Customized Paint Were Already A Big Thing In 1920")
![3,000 lbs/hp As befits the subject matter, my journey to identify to most under-powered American car has been a long, slow and torturous one. There have been several false endings, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/horse-drawn-car-circa-wwii11.jpg "The Top Ten Most Under-Powered American Cars Of The Malaise Era – Who’s The Feeblest Of Them All?")
![Here’s another new one for me: the 1973 Sportswagon. It’s a bit hard to put this in proper context, but it’s something of a cross between a regular full-size American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7054961787_afcfd9d89f_o.jpg "Vintage Ad 1973 Sportswagon – Ur-#VanLife")
![When I first saw these shots posted by xiao car at the Cohort, I assumed it was a Polski Fiat 126p, as that’s where the majority of 126s were built […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/51643115815_6851296876_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Fiat 126 – The Italian People’s Car Becomes The Polish People’s Car")
![The Mustang Mach E is inevitably a polarizing subject,as the idea of a Mustang being anything other than a two door coupe/convertible is apparently heresy in the minds of many. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mustang-four-door.jpg "QOTD: 1965 Mustang Four Door Sedan Concept – How Would History Have Been Changed If It Had Been Built?")
![(first posted in 2009) What are the odds of still being married to your first sweetheart from high school? And of still owning your other first sweetheart, the car you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/pjj.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1950 Hot Rod Ford – A True Love Story")
![(first posted 11/3/2015) What’s the most significant car of 1959? The giant finned Cadillac? It’s pure excess embodied in steel,glass and chrome, the apogee (or nadir) of a trend that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hg.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1959 Studebaker Lark VIII Regal Hardtop Coupe – Studebaker’s Last Hurrah")
![I couldn’t resist this big Town Coupe posted by nifticus. It might be a ’76; I can’t tell the difference. But I can tell it’s not quite as unblemished as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/51591937896_dd818ecb6b_o.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1975 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe – Caramel Eye-Candy, Slightly Blemished")
![We’ve had a few Vintage Trucks posts shot by Joe Wanchura, a truck driver whose passion was photographing trucks. He started in the early 1940s, and his photos are a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/4392734307_2a667fa9b4_h.jpg "Vintage Trucks of the Day: Mack LTs – Shot Out West By Joe Wanchura")
![shot by Nathan Williams Oh my; this is dreadful. And here I thought bad stretch jobs were a thing of the past. This is a perfect argument for using vans […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/51633021843_3e2c9cb8c0_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Jaaaaaguar XJ Stretch Limo – And Here I Thought Badly Done Stretches Were A Thing Of The Past")
![(first posted 10/31/2015) It’s become a Halloween tradition to have a hearse for your ghoulish CC viewing pleasure, and I killed myself trying to find an appropriate one. Will […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/CC-244-998-1200-1.jpg "Halloween Outtake: Lincoln Hearse – Pay Up Or Else!")
![(first posted 6/7/2012) We tend to think of the legendary Chevy small-block engine as near-immortal, having been built for forty-eight years, from 1955 through 2003 (The LS is a clean-sheet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/chevy-348-cid-v-8-engine.jpg "The Chevrolet “W” 348 (and 409) Engine – First Of A Long Line Of Big-Block Chevy V8s")
![(first posted 10/30/2015) Getting old is a bitch; the forces of entropy gradually and inevitably get the upper hand. Non vital parts are sloughed off, the skin gets mottled, joints […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/jfddn.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1973 Buick LeSabre Custom Coupe – Trying To Age Gracefully")
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