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![GM’s Deadly Sin #1: 1986 Buick Riviera – How To Kill An Automotive Legend (an essentially new version of an old post) Take a close look at these two cars—there’s something deadly wrong with one of them. They’re both very similar looking Buick […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CC-17-044-crop-vert.jpg)
![A Gallery Of Majestic Peterbilt COE Trucks – Riding High And Mighty Peterbilt made its name with its long line of “needle nose” conventional West Coast-style trucks, commonly accepted as the most beautiful and iconic of the type. But Peter also bilt […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/a-pete1.jpg)
![Lamborghini Marzal – The Heartthrob Of 1967 In 1967 I was fourteen and perhaps one of the earlier exponents of the eighties’ teenage tradition of having a Lamborghini pinup on my bedroom wall. And here it is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/a-marz.jpg)
![15 Years Outside Has Ravaged The Roof On This Chrysler Cordoba – A Neglected Family Heirloom When I first shot this 1978 Cordoba in 2010, it was in excellent condition. It had been the then-owner’s mother’s car, an anniversary present from her husband. The daughter kept […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/a-cor5.jpg)
![The 1960 Corvair Created A Global Design Revolution – Its Effects Can Still Be Seen The Corvair was a revolutionary car in a number of ways but the biggest and most lasting influence may not be so obvious. The Corvair’s rear engine and sporty handling […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/a-corvair-60-fq.jpg)
![Curbside Classic Lite: 1970 Ford Club Wagon Camper Van – Here’s What I Really Wanted in 1971 (first posted 5/1/2019) I’ve written the story of how my life might have been had I absconded with a 1971 Econoline from my employer, Towson Ford. That was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CC-389-082.jpg)
![Curbside Finds: Two Generations Of Maximas, One A Datsun 810 Diesel – Does A Max Live Here? I’ve seen these two Maximas parked around town over the years, but never together. Is this a new thing? Did the owner of one buy the other? Is one […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2991.jpeg)
![1974 Chevrolet Nova Six – A Chance To Relive High School, Including the Painful Parts Is there a better time capsule for so many men of a certain age than a Nova coupe? It isn’t the Nova you wanted then, which had at least a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CC-382-042.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1978 Plymouth Sapporo – Stayin’ Alive (originally posted 4/5/2011. This was one of the first cars I ever shot. This car was still a regular driver around town for years, and it was starting to show […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Plymouth-Sapporro-004-800.jpg)
![All Those Glamorous Four-Door Hardtops, Part 3: 1965-1969 – Now Available In Sizes S, M, L & XL The second half of the sixties is often called the golden age for American cars, and that certainly applies to four-door hardtops. Not only did full-size versions continue to expand […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/a-66-corvair-tile.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1977 Datsun King Cab Pickup (620) – Yes, We Have Long Legs In America (first posted 2/18/2012) Datsun pioneered the little Japanese truck in America; more correctly, they built their business on it. In the early sixties, their cars weren’t exactly quite […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CC-49-038-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Subaru XT – Subarus Then and Now (first posted 4/22/2019) Not only are Subaru XTs becoming a bit scarce, but this one posing with a more recent Outback compelled me to take a few shots. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CC-387-023.jpg)
![I Just Put Down A Deposit On My Next New Car: The Slate – It’s Brilliant, It’s Simple, It’s Changeable, It Starts At Under $20k, And It’s Just What I’ve Been Waiting For I’d come to accept that there was nothing on the market either now or in the near future that could tempt me to replace my beloved ’05 xB. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/a-slate.jpg)
![Storage Lot Finds: Two Stick Shift Gen1 Chrysler Minivans, Two Chevy Cobalts, And Many Other Gems I’d been noticing a buildup of older cars at this lot right between 7th and 6th Avenues for a while, but when my roving eye spied the red gen1 Caravan, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/a-lot-new.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1984 Toyota Corolla Diesel – Latecomer To The Diesel Party (first posted 4/4/2013) Toyota is an interesting company. Sometimes, they’re comfortable being pioneers, as with their hybrid technology. But when it comes to their bread-and-butter cars, they lean to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CC-176-168-900.jpg)


