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![Curbside Find: VW Passat B3 And Mustang II — Two Disparate Cars (first posted 12/18/2017) I couldn’t pass up this colorful pairing, especially since they’re so…different. They espouse two schools of thought that are about as far apart philosophically as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CC-344-056.jpg)
![Curbside Classic Is Getting An Engine Swap – Tripling Its Power And Speed But Hopefully There’s No Backfires The Curbside Classic ethos is all about honoring old cars as they are, with all their attendant shortcomings. We love them for that; and that includes wimpy six cylinder engines, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/engine-swap-2.jpg)

![Curbside Find: Willys Jeep Pickup – When Jeep Pickups Were Work Trucks, Not Lifestyle Vehicles shot near Mt. Hood by Teddy (first posted in 2017) As you most likely know, it’s official now: Jeep will build a pickup version of their next gen Wrangler, to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/36009798293_16ccbfa26e_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1972 Buick Riviera Boattail – Swan Song Or Big Ugly Duck? The boattail Riviera represents the difficult ending of an era, and a passing of the baton. What started as a revolutionary concept with the 1958 Thunderbird, the four-passenger luxury coupe […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CC-52-046-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1978 Honda Civic Wagon – Five Doors and Two Speed Hondamatic (first posted 3/3/2015) Honda’s early years are almost beyond belief. Soichiro Honda’s manic drive and willingness to take endless risks propelled the company’s growth at breakneck speed. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CC-240-073-1200.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1950 Nash Ambassador – Long Nosed Bathtub auguswiss1 posted this fine shot of a 1950 Nash Ambassador Custom, which was the top trim of the top model line of Nash at the time. I was really taken […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Nash-1950-amby.jpg)
![1970 Chevrolet Impala – The Best Big Car Of Its Time We’ve spent a massive amount of time on these pages praising the 1977-up B-Body Impala and Caprice. But today, let’s turn the time machine back to 1970. That was the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CC-71-117-801.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: VW Type 181 “Thing” – It Can Be Anything Does this Thing ever speak to me. In German, undoubtedly; which may well have something to do with the affinity I feel with it. I’m going to try not to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CC-33-064-1200.jpg)
![Dodge L700 Tilt Cab – The Big-Boy A100 Triborough has found a truck I’ve been keeping an eye out for way too long: A Dodge L700 tilt cab medium duty with the cab borrowed from the A100 van/pickup. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dodge-L600-7000-f.png)
![Curbside Finds: 1982 Corona and 1986 Cressida Wagons – A Toyota RWD Wagon Lover Lives Here (first posted 9/25/2017) I’d seen this very clean Corona wagon before in town, on the go. But I finally stumbled into where it lives, and it appears that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CC-337-023.jpg)
![Rare Classic: 1983 Hurst/Olds 15th Anniversary Edition CC Cohort William Rubano found and posted a car that is not exactly a common sights on the streets. This 1983 version of the Hurst/Olds was the 15th Anniversary of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Olds-1983-Cutlass-Hurst-fq-e1755392777241.png)
![Curbside Find: 1986 Thunderbird – Nearly Extinct Aerobird These aerobirds, especially the plain-vanilla versions like this one, are at risk of extinction. They appeared out of nowhere in 1983, and multiplied exceedingly quickly. Even in California, which was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CC-331-006.jpg)
![1969 Toyota Corolla Wagon by The Coast – Home Away From… No Home I was perusing my files for Toyotas I’ve shot but not posted when I stumbled into this gem of a find from some years ago, shot on a cliff overlooking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CC-226-137-1200.jpg)
![1957 Cadillac With 15 MPH Bumper And Continental Kit – A Rolling Statement You think the early 5 mile bumpers were excessively long? CC Cohort William Rubano caught this ’57 Cadillac with a continental spare kit that makes a Pinto’s shelf bumper-butt look […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/32276472425_2042ec25c7_k.jpg)


