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![(first posted 4/14/2019. Update 6/20/25: I see this truck regularly in my part of town; it’s a daily driver. The red paint is a bit duller now.) The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/a-ft.jpg "Curbside Find: 1994 Toyota HiAce Fire Truck With 4900 Miles – Welcome to Eugene!")
![Childhood imaginations run rampant, especially when it comes to what’s under the hood of a car. I used to convince myself that our ’65 Coronet 440 really did pack a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CC-124-267-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1953 Ford – You’ll Never Guess What’s Under Its Hood")
![(jmg3rd posted these shots at the Cohort) 1955 marked the first year of Hudsons wearing Nash bodies after their merger, referred to as “Hashes”. It was a relatively much more […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "Curbside Find: 1955 Hudson Wasp – Hash, Anyone?")
![For what was once the best selling car in the land, the first generation Taurus has become mighty scarce. Apparently, these are not turning out to be long-lived even here […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CC-332-037.jpg "Curbside Find: Ford Taurus (gen1) – The Best Seller Has Become Scarce")
![This is why I live in Eugene: So that I can run into an ancient VW Transporter with a heavy load of wood at the lumberyard, just a half-dozen parking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CC-199-249-900.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1961 VW Transporter – A Rolling, Hard-Working, Living-History Mobile")
![Although CC is doing as well as it ever has, setting a new record last year with over 12 million pageviews, our current success does feel somewhat fragile. I’m not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/a-tork-american.jpg "The Two Big Threats To CC (And Other Legit Websites): Garbage Sites And Google AI Mode")
![(first posted 4/21/2013) Zing! That word encapsulates the RX-7. The only vocabulary the little coffee-can rotary had was zing! (snick) zing! (snick) and zing again! Sooner rather than later, it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CC-35-008-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1983 Mazda RX-7 – Zinger")
![Why did folks buy black cars in the pre-air conditioning era? Surely they must have understood the basic physics involved as to how much hotter a black car gets than […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-200-016-900.jpg "Curbside Find: 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente – Hot, But Not Exactly In The Best Way")
![(first posted 6/5/2013) Superlatives make great headlines; backing them up is another story. But is it even necessary, in the case of the W124? What other car designed thirty thirty-five […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CC-190-039-950.jpg "Curbside Classic: Mercedes W124 (1985-1996 E-Class) The Best Car Of The Past Thirty Five Years")
![We were in Port Orford last week and on Thursday morning I dropped Stephanie off at a yoga class and drove the Tracker to the car wash for its first […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_3362-crop-tile.jpg "A 45 Minute Driving Tour Of Port Orford, Oregon: Views Of Old Cars, Boats, Old (and Burned) Houses And Of Course The Ocean")
![It’s a bit hard to imagine a time when the Ford Econoline (or the F-Series pickups) actually didn’t dominate their categories. Of course I speak of the Econoline’s long run […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/a-CC-387-014.webp "Curbside Classic: 1977 Dodge Sportsman Royal Van – When Dodge Was The Van Master")
![(first posted 5/13/2013) What is the source of American men’s latent and easily provoked disdain for the French (and their cars)? Umm, it doesn’t exactly take a study to prove […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hoffman-02.jpg "Curbside Classic: Citroen 2CV Hoffman Cabriolet – The Ultimate Chick Magnet?")
![It’s a good thing I came across this car. There’s a point in life where one starts to prune away the excess, getting rid of the stuff in the closets […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CC-58-033-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1976 Dodge Royal Monaco – Gone, And Forgotten")
![(first posted 6/12/2011) In a parallel universe, this would be a 1978 Chevy III, Ford Dearborn, Plymouth Cranbrook or Studebaker Larkette. It’s more “American” than the American cars of its […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CC-34-060-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1978 Toyota Corona – Baseball, Apple Pie And A Corona")
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