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![Curbside Find: 1967 Sunbeam Alpine – Let’s Try To Remember Summer (first posted 2/24/2019) I know, complaining about winter is boring. And it’s not really cold here, just perpetually rainy and cloudy. It’s dumping as I write this. So let’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/dgh.jpg)
![One Year Oddity: 1961 Chevrolet Impala 2-Door Sedan – And A Fake Super Sport Version This is the rarest Impala body style ever. For some inexplicable reason, in 1961 Chevrolet decided to offer its top-tier Impala in the staid 2-door body style, normally reserved for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imp2.jpg)
![AI-Generated “Classic Car Guide” – Polluting The Web With Garbage By now we’re all-too familiar with AI-generated images of cars, among other things. Some of them are quite artistic, and we’ve had our fun with them here in the past […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/a-colt-71-tile.jpg)
![Curbside Newsstand: Why The Japanese Invasion of Europe Never Happened – Update: Why The Chinese Invasion Is Happening (first posted 2/21/2019. Updated 2/18/2025 at the end about an even greater threat to the European auto industry from Chinese manufacturers) For today’s CN, we’re going to tackle a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/NYT-chart.jpg)
![1967 Pontiac LeMans Sprint OHC Six: Road Tested In Europe – Pontiac Tries And Fails To Build A European Sport Sedan John DeLorean’s hubris had him convinced he had the 200% solution: Pontiac would not only build the best American-style muscle cars, but also the best European-style sporty cars. The GTO, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sp2-vert.jpg)
![Curbside Classic Capsule: 1962 Chevy C10 Pickup – Saint Patina of Goodwill (first posted 2/18/2019) Yes, I’m a fan of patina, if it’s been come by honestly. And this old Chevy truck has earned it more honestly than any […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CC-320-065.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1983 Nissan Pulsar Five Door – So Rare I Forgot It Existed (first posted 5/21/2014) This one had me stumped for, a while. I just didn’t remember this car being sold in the US; I thought the Pulsar moniker was used strictly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CC-133-123-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Chevrolet Biscayne With 250 Six and PG – “Frugal” – Don’t Look For It In The Brochure Here’s a truly rare bird; a car that wasn’t even listed or shown in the 1971 Chevrolet brochure. For that matter, the Biscayne was already missing from the 1970 brochure; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Chevrolet-1971-Biscayne-front.jpg)
![1967 Corvette 427 Tri-Power With Powerglide – 90 Mph In Low; 140+ Mph In Second Chevrolet’s two-speed Powerglide automatic had a long and somewhat curious relationship with the Corvette—both the first and last Corvettes to use PG came with triple carburation. The first Corvette (1953) […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1967Corvette1-33028.webp)
![Cohort Outtake: Jeepster Commando – Somewhere Folks Are Driving Top-Down With an F-head (first posted 2/11/2019) These pictures posted by William Oliver are dated December 2018. It’s nice to know that in sunny Southern California folks were still driving with their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/44365349800_21dd8cd272_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport – There’s Nails In This Velvet Glove The 1964 Pontiac GTO unleashed a tiger, sales wise as well as performance wise. Everyone wanted in on the action, even the relatively staid Buick division. It got a bit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CC-108-019-crop.jpg)
![1966 220 HP 283 Chevrolet V8 – A One Year Oddity That Proves The Power Of Dual Exhausts In a spring day in 1966 a brand new Chevrolet Impala sedan showed up in our neighbor’s driveway. I went to check it out, and the first thing I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/chev-66-283-220-sticker-vert.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: 1969 AMC Rebel SST – Rebel With Rather Little Cause William Rubano found something a bit out of the ordinary here: a ’69 Rebel SST. This is the last year for this body style that first arrived in 1967, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/46847392312_9605b0538d_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1959 Edsel Daily Driver With Turbo 2.3 L Four – 100% Better Mileage And Quicker Too Want a daily driver Edsel, but not its 1950’s 10 mpg fuel-gulping ways? And at least as good or better performance than the original V8? The solution is just […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CC-138-076.jpg)
![Vintage Review: 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne 283 V8 With Three Speed Manual – An Ideal Car For The Traveling Salesman In A Hurry Who was still buying lowest-trim “stripper” full-size two-door sedans in the ever-more affluent 1960s? There were a few who ordered a Biscayne like this with the 425 hp solid lifter […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/a-bis-top1.jpg)


