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![QOTD: What Was Your Most Memorable Automotive Experience In 2014? That’s easy for me: my 1000 mile trip to pick up our new Acura in Boise, and bring it home, quickly (Full story here). It’s now got 12k miles on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CC-222-078-1200.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1953 Ford – And A Surprise Under The Hood (first posted 3/7/2011) 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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CC-124-267-801.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: Peugeot D4 Van – The Pig Nosed Pug Yohai Rodin has posted a picture of a vehicle by one of my favorite companies, but not one that I’m very familiarwith. It obviously is FWD, thanks to the give-away […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Peugeot-D4-Van.jpg)
![Parking Lot 1969: Only One Pickup In the Ranchero CC yesterday, the point that pickups were considered work vehicles and not welcome on suburban driveways was reiterated in the comments. And then I stumbled into this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ChicagoAutoShow-1969-_AmphitheatreWeb.jpg)
![Oddball CC For Sale: 1988 Plymouth Ultra Grand Voyager Brougham – Just The Thing For The Final Voyage CC reader Teddy sent me the link to this ’88 GV for sale. He said he’d never seen one like this before, nor have I. We’ve seen quite a few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dodge-1988-GC-hearse.jpg)
![CC Capsule: Alfasud – Alfa’s Big Jump Into Small FWD Cars image posted at the CC cohort by Yohai Rodin We hear that the future generation of Alfa will be reverting to RWD, after a long fling with FWD. That first […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Alfasud-Yohai-Rodin.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Ranchero – The First Respectable Truck (first posted 11/15/2011) From today’s perspective, Rancheros – and their El Camino counterparts – are just cool, funky, fun and desirable, because of their unique configuration and, well; because they’re […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CC-45-061-800.jpg)

![A Christmas Day Walk: Cars, Quotes, and Just Walking (a ghost from a Christmas past) Walking is man’s best medicine. (Hippocrates) The Christmas ham is metabolizing, the wrapping paper is in the recycling bin, the dishes are taking a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CC-157-090-800.jpg)
![A Christmas Greeting From The Land of (Wild) Christmas Trees Oregon Christmas tree farms supply much of the western part of the country with trees. And they’re certainly cheap enough here. But since it was a mostly dry day on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0654.jpg)
![QOTD: What Car From Your Year Of Birth Do You Most Desire? This QOTD was suggested by Robert Swartz, and it’s a good one (even if it’s a bit late in the day). Of course, these kind of questions are hard to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cadillac-1953-ghiabt8.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: 1963 Mercury Comet S22 – The Granada/Monarch Of Its Time Today’s Granada CC reminds me that its concept, of a more formal and better-trimmed compact, wasn’t exactly new. The 1960 Comet essentially played that role fifteen years earlier, and was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mercury-1963-comet-r.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: Chevette – Still Haulin’ the Groceries I’m finding it hard to resist just about everything Joseph Dennis posts at the Cohort, thanks to the combination of great finds and terrific photography. This Chevette was shot in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Chevette-Joseph-Dennis.png)
![Cohort Outtake: Peugeot 404 – Still My Beating Heart – And Our 404 Portal Christmas has arrived early at the CC Cohort. It’s awash in toys of the most varied kind from all over the world. But how can I resist this lovely 404, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Peugeot-404-red-side-Yohai-Rodin.jpg)
![Rampside Outtake: LAX, 1968 I’m working on a longish post, which involves the main competitor to this Boeing 707. But in my research, I stumbled upon a treasure trove of vintage pictures from LAX […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=860,height=529,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/B-707-399C-G-AVKA-LAX-06-04-68-Bob-Proctor.jpg)


