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![The Radically Advanced But Aborted 1947 Chevy Cadet: GM’s First Deadly Sin? The Willys Aero CC got me thinking (again) about the Chevy Cadet, and how close it came to production. In a GM Deathwatch I wrote at TTAC, I even made […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Chevy-Cadet1.png)
![The Slantback Rear Window Goes Global – Did I Forget Someone? (Updated: Yes I Did) The Mercury Breezeway’s Breezeway slantback rear window may have been just a short breath of recycled (from the Lincoln) air in the US styling continuum, but it made a bigger […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ford-Anglia.png)
![Want DOHC Heads On your VW? Build Them Yourself When I first encountered the rare 1946 VW at a gas station, its owner was in too much of a hurry to stop for pictures, but invited me out to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-109-004-800.jpg)
![CC Outtake: Instant Karma’s Gonna Get Ya’ Since we’re dabbling in Eastern philosophy today, how about that other great automotive equalizer, karma? I shot this Valiant parked in the handicapped zone, but waited until its very functional-seeming […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-114-055-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1972 Datsun 1200/Sunny Coupe: The Yang To The 1972 Cadillac’s Yin Yin -yang: complementary opposites. Sometimes described as “the sunlight (yang) over a shady mountain in the valley (yin)”. Now what swept this sudden regurgitation of late-sixties profundity over me, other […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-7-025-800.jpg)
![CC Outtake: The Really Big Maserati All this talk about the Biturbo and and its frailties suddenly reminded me of these shots. So would you rather take this Quatroporte limo as a project? Let’s take a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-48-019-800.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Defining And Polishing The Brands OK; the CC corporate biannual retreat and strategic planning session in Jackson Hole is over, and we’ve returned in the Gulfstream. Your input to my previous post and private e-mails […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/gm-cars-1950.jpg)
![Snapshot From 1960: Berkeley Sport – Would The Gentleman Care to Drag? From time to time, I will randomly flip open the Auto-Parade 1960 that a generous reader sent me, just to see where it lands. Today it takes us to Biggleswade, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Berkeley-Sports-001-800.jpg)

![CC At Six Months: My Cup Runneth Over, A Few Burning Questions, And The Top 10 So Far Like this precocious six month-old, CC is up and walking quicker than average. Thanks to you, we’re growing steadily, with over a half-million views so far, and over 55k Unique […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Six-Month-old-walking.jpg)
![101 Year-Old Woman Still Changes Oil Herself On 1930 Packard – Do You? Feeling old? Someone isn’t, apparently. Margaret Dunning bought this superb 1930 Packard 740 in 1949, and not only does she still drive it a few times a year, including to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Packard-1930.jpg)
![CC: 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne Three Door Sedan – The Chevy Cherry Gets Popped Why is the loss of innocence such a recurring theme in automotive writing? Blame it on GM; or the other car companies. They perpetually stoked our dreams for the next […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-108-061-800.jpg)

![Seven Curbside Classics Reissued For Today: Any More To Add To The List? [The discussion jpcavanaugh started with his suggestion that GM should never have taken the B-Body Caddy out of production reminded me of this piece I wrote back in 2008. Before […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CC-126-121-xb.jpg)


