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![Curbside Classic: 1962 Ford Styleside F-100 Pickup – That Most Feminine Truck (first posted 6/4/2011. It’s still as relevant as ever; more so, actually) The fact that men, particularly blue collar workers, have suffered disproportionately in America’s changing economy of the past […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CC-93-053-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1981 VW Diesel Pickup – The Most ’80s Car Ever – I Could Replace My Whole Fleet With One What were the key ingredients that really defined the new cars of the 1980s: Compact. Front wheel drive, Diesel. Import brands. Four cylinders. Compact trucks and SUVs. Fuel efficient. Unibody. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_2441.jpeg)
![The Very Wide (and Rare) Chevy Superior Camper Van – Superior In Width If Not In Looks (And Track) (first posted 12/14/2018) CC Cohort Owen Smith has found a unicorn, a very wide one at that. In the early 70s, Superior sold these widened Chevy vans, which kept […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/a-wide-van-f.jpg)
![Parking Lot Find: Battered 1978 Pontiac Bonneville Survivor (first posted 12/9/2018) tbm3fan posted a couple of shots of this survivor, which is showing the ravages of time. Looks like some red tape or plastic wrap is being […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/a-pontiac-2.jpg)

![Vintage Snapshot: Margaret Ransohoff With Her First Car (Update: She Became A CC Reader and Member Because Of This Post) (first posted 12/8/2018) Update: I got a lot of flack in the comments on this post by readers who thought I was being inappropriate by posting this picture but even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-05-195728.jpg)
![Driveway Find: Is This The Most Pristine 1976 Toyota Pickup? Restored Or Original? Given that battered old Toyota trucks are practically an obligatory driveway fixture here, for hauling the compost for the garden and such, you’ll have to excuse my momentary shock when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_2436.jpeg)
![Curbside Find: 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 XL “429” – Ignite The Afterburners 1964 would be the last year for the big round jet exhausts taillights on the the big Fords. They had become a trademark fixture since 1959, spreading to the Falcon, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/54179571413_e7da0dcfc2_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1964 BMW 1800 “New Class” – The Tesla Model S Of Its Time curbside BMW 1800 shot by William Oliver (first posted 12/7/2018. It’s interesting to look back at this and see how much has changed. And how Tesla proved the nay-sayers (including […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/31177877047_fd61fa4d08_k.jpg)
![This Week’s Gallery Of Some Of The Best Finds By The CC Cohort As promised last week, we’re going to try to do a weekly gallery of some of the best finds posted at the CC Cohort. Now this is not a contest, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/54174263255_e8dd826675_k.jpg)
![Vintage Review: 1965 Buick Skylark Gran Sport – Buick’s Hot New GTO-Fighter Falls A Bit Short Pontiac’s 1964 GTO rocked the automotive world. Its formula elevated the intermediate car into an all-round performance car, one that not only scorched the pavement in a straight line […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gs-cl-top2-horz.jpg)
![Dodge 1500 Still On the Go In Buenos Aires, Argentina – Where’s a Cricket? (first posted 12/4/2018) William Stopford entertained us with the VW1500 in a recent chapter of his epic “Obscure Rebadges From Around the World“. It was of course a rebadged Dodge […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/45241850305_82b3fb63ea_k.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1980 Plymouth Arrow – The Only Postwar RWD Plymouth Pickup (first posted 12/30/2012) No, Plymouth was not a common sight on pickup tailgates. After a brief fling with them between 1937 and 1942, Chrysler left it to Dodge to do […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC-66-173-800.jpg)
![Cohort Classic: 1968 Buick GS California – Far From Home (first posted 12/2/2018) The CC Cohort is full of goodies; way too many to show all here. But this rather battered survivor of a 1968 Buick GS […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/45876008811_8d58513833_k-crop.jpg)


