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![1981 Honda Prelude – A Prelude to Greater Things To Come (first posted 6/20/2018) The Prelude was a highly pragmatic move on Honda’s part to expand into the then large and lucrative sporty coupe market. The Celica was making […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CC-348-001.jpg)
![Curbside Find: 1976 Ford Courier – As Tough As A Toyota? It’s a fair question as to whether these Mazda-built Couriers were as tough as the Toyota pickup back in the day, but this one seems up to the task of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_0754.jpeg)
![Vintage Review: 1964 Corvair Monza 110 HP, 4-Speed – Now Even More Of A “Poor Man’s Porsche” – And Finally An Explanation For Its Handling Exoneration By NHTSA Corvair lovers may endlessly debate their preferences for either the gen1 (1960-1964) or the gen2 (1965-1969), but one thing is for certain: the 1964 was the best of the first […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/co-13-vert.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1976 Mustang II Cobra II – Ford’s Deadly Sin II (first posted at ttac in 2010 and here on 2/10/2012) Powered By Ford. There’s something special about those words, something iconic, something that evokes nightmares of an uniquely American scope, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CC-35-107-800.jpg)
![Auto-Biography: Gen1 Taurus – My Father Finally Takes My Advice and Treats Himself to a Nice Car (first posted 6/17/2018) Father-son relationships can be complicated. Sons naturally want to exert their ever-growing prowess, which is a good thing when it’s channeled properly, but when it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CC-362-010.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Sunbeam Tiger – The Other Cobra (first posted 4/9/2013) The legend of how Carroll Shelby was inspired to create the Cobra–his idea was to stuff Ford’s new and very compact V8 into an elderly and underpowered little British […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gfgfff.jpg)

![Curbside Classic: 1970 Saab 95 – Saab Shows Ford How To Make The Shortest Three-Row Wagon (first posted 7/24/2012) The full-size three-row station wagon was the stereotypical American family hauler until the rise of the minivan. Just yesterday we wallowed in the luxurious personal automotive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Pictography-3-034-1200.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1965 Fairlane – The Most Forgotten Car of the 60s? (first posted 6/7/2018) If you’re one of our younger (or even middle-aged) readers and don’t readily recognize this car, you’re forgiven. It’s about as dull and anonymous as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CC-346-001.jpg)
![For Sale: 1964 Renault Dauphine EV – No Battery, No Suspension, No Rear Brakes, No Seats, But It Comes With Half A Ducati Bike In It – $3000 There’s a lot of weird stuff out there on Craigslist and FB Marketplace, but this takes the cake, at least for today. CC’s dman sent me the link to this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/442484331_7709383285788991_5541222000952342550_n.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: 1960 Chrysler 300F Found on the Street in Germany – What Solar System Are You From? (first posted 5/6/2013) Really big American cars always tend to look rather out of place in Europe, but some look like they’ve just landed from outer space. Few more so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Chrysler-1960-300F-r.jpg)
![Vintage Road Test: 1963 Ford Galaxie 427 NASCAR Stock Car – “Wild Bursts of Speed…Unbelievable Massive Four-Wheel Drifts” Don’t let the title fool you: the Ford 427 V8 with a single four-barrel carb may have been rated at 410 hp by the factory, but by the time Holman […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/na-1-vert.jpg)
![Curbside Outtake: Ready For Anything These folks just can’t bear to go on vacation and leave anything at home. There’s the skis on the roof, the motorcycle out back, the cargo trailer full of…and the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_0653.jpeg)
![Automotive History: An Illustrated History Of Checker Motors (first posted 8/25/2012. Updated 6/1/2018) For sixty years, Checker Motors had a record unbroken run of profits building a few thousand cars per year in a small little factory in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/5bd365cd3d601.image_.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1969 Buick Special DeLuxe Wagon – Not So Very Special In 1969 (first posted 7/5/2013) I should have a “CAUTION – I Brake For Curbside Classics” sign on the back of my car; it’s spotting cars like this that’s going to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CC-203-045-900.jpg)


