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![Curbside Classic: 1985 Ford EXP – Ford’s Ugly Little Sin (first posted 9/15/2013) The original 1960 Corvair Monza coupe introduced and pioneered a European-inspired category to the US: the sporty compact coupe. The formula: a new roof line, maybe some […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CC-130-146-925.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1984 Toyota 4Runner – Beginning Of A Long Line; End Of The Solid Front Axle (first posted 10/27/2016) True confessions: After almost eight years, the number of cars that we’ve never covered here at CC is seriously dwindling. And the number of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-304-001-1200.jpg)
![A Gallery Of Vintage Cars and Trucks Shot By Simon White Simon White is a stellar photographer and has been posting at the CC Cohort for some years now, and we’ve featured his work here before. He’s recently uploaded some new […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/a-sim-23.jpg)
![All Those Glamorous Four-Door Hardtops, Part 1: The 1950s Given the immediate popularity and glamour of the 2-door hardtop that was first introduced by Cadillac in 1949, it was just a matter of time—five years, precisely—before the first four […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/a-chev-56-sfq-vert.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Ford Courier – A Survivor of the The Lesser Pickup Epoch (first posted 3/22/2019) The whole mini-pickup boom is quickly becoming another historical era, like the Great Brougham Epoch. Pickups are of course more in than ever, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CC-385-007.jpg)
![1966 Ford LTD – “Remarkable! I Do Believe Your Ford Is Quieter!” All these years, and we’ve never had a proper ’65 or ’66 LTD four door. I wrote my ’65 LTD CC “It Launched the Great Brougham Epoch” using a two […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ford-1966-ltd-side.jpg)
![1955 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible – This Is The Cadillac For Me It’s not the first time I’ve said it, but for me, 1954-1956 was the high water mark for Cadillac in the post war era. The ’48-’49s were handsome, but a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CC-236-186-crop.jpg)
![A Gallery Of Vintage Cars and Trucks Shot By Ralf K. Ralf K. (Don Kincl) long ago became one of my favorite posters at the CC Cohort. He not only finds splendid subjects but then does them justice with his superb […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/54092760627_1ce6d96c49_k.jpg)
![The 1960 Ford Was A Big Styling (And Sales) Flop — Here’s How It Might Have Looked Yes, the 1960 Ford has fans. But the sad reality is that there weren’t nearly enough of them around in 1960 to keep it from being a serious sales flop, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/a-quest.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: ZIL-117 Convertible – Russia’s Big-Wig Ragtop (first posted 3/17/2019) Stanislav Alexeyev posted this shot of a ZIL-117 convertible in the comments the other day. Since he also posted it in the Cohort, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ZIL-117-fq.jpg)
![Bus Stop Classic: 1958 Kässbohrer Setra Continental Trailways Super Golden Eagle – Strike Two For The Articulated Highway Bus (first posted 8/12/2014) Although articulated transit buses have become commonplace in urban areas around the globe, articulated long-distance highway coaches have been a flop, although not for lack of trying. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CC-231-111-1200.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Ranchero – The First American Ute From today’s perspective, Rancheros – and their El Camino counterparts – are just cool, funky, fun and desirable, thanks to their unique configuration as half passenger car, half truck. What […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CC-45-061-800.webp)
![This 1973 Mercury Marquis Had Its 429 V8 Swapped For A Falcon 200 Six — Gets 20 MPG, But Yes, It’s A Bit Slow Want really big car comfort but don’t like the gas bills? Ditch that giant gas hog V8 and replace it with a little six! That’s what the owner of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-11-9.04.36-AM.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille – The First Curbside Classic This was the first Curbside Classic, posted in 2009 at the other site and posted here in 2011. I didn’t really have a clear format yet for CC, or know […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/fgb.jpg)


