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![(Former Ford CEO Donald Petersen passed away this April 24th. We’re running this profile covering his crucial period at Ford’s helm. Originally posted 12/29/11) Oil prices have just hit record […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Petersen-Donald.png "Automotive History: Ford’s Déjà Vu Moment – How Donald Petersen Saved Ford In The Eighties")
![(first posted 5/4/2013. One of my better finds) The early eighties was the most revolutionary and unique time in the American automobile industry ever. Thanks to exploding oil and fuel […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-117-039-800.jpg "Kurbside Classic: 1983 Grumman KubVan – Tiny, FWD, VW Diesel Powered, And Very Rare")
![I’ve been shooting and posting Festivas since the earliest days of CC, when they had clearly established themselves as the shitbox of choice hereabouts. They were all over the place, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_0135.jpeg "Curbside Outtake: Ford Festiva – The Festival Is Still Going")
![(first posted 4/9/2018) I ran into this article in the New Yorker last November, and found it to be an excellent look at the forces re-shaping the auto industry […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/New-Yorker-1980-downsizing.jpg "“The Downsizing Decision” (May 5, 1980) – A Deep Dive Into the Turmoil and Decisions That Reshaped the Domestic Auto Industry in the 1970s")
![CC reader John Kelley sent me these shots of this immaculate Jeep Gladiator parked at Duxbury Beach in Massachusetts just as the sun was slipping away. Not surprisingly, this Glad […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/glad-0.jpg "Beachside Outtake: The Sun Sets On A Splendid Jeep Gladiator")
![(first posted 4/21/2018) The Corona was growing steadily since its start as a rather small little thing. But it was also becoming much more comfortable, and ever-more […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pages0134.jpg "Vintage R&T Review: 1974 Toyota Corona SR Coupe – “Solid, Safe, and Sporty, But Sluggish”")
![(first posted 5/23/2013) My fascination with trains has a particular focus on the birth and early years of what became the utterly dominant GM EMD two-stroke diesel-electric locomotives. My story […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-171-109-1200.jpg "The Birth Of The GM/EMD Two-Stroke Diesel Engine: “Very Well (Ket) – We Are Now In The Diesel Engine Business” (Excerpts From “My Years With GM” By Alfred Sloan)")
![(first posted 5/23/2013. I have no idea what happened to this Medallion, but I’d like to think it’s still running) Is this the very last running 1988 Renault Medallion? I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-201-037-900.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988 Renault Medallion (R21) – These Two Guys Are Determined To Keep What May Be The Last Of Its Kind Running")
![(first posted 3/31/2013. Updated 4/15/2018) Passing by the Sports Car Shop always requires a brief stop to see what’s currently on display. I’d seen this splendid Allard K2 through the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CC-60-033-800.jpg "CC Capsule: 1954 Allard K2 – Proto-Cobra With World’s Most Contorted Shift Lever")
![(first posted 5/23/2013, as a follow-up to yesterday’s Grosse Pointe Myopians) This is the kind of stuff I inhaled as a fifteen year-old: Brock Yates analyzing the British Car industry, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UK-006-2-900.jpg "Vintage Editorial: “Reflections from an English Country Inn” (Brock Yates, C&D 1968)")
![(first posted 4/7/2013) I recently rented a little three-yard dump truck and used it to pay several visits to one of the local quarries–partly to haul gravel, but also as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CC-194-080-900.jpg "Quarryside Classics: Mack R-Series – Rock Solid Since 1966")
![We’ve been in Port Orford this week and I decided to actually pull out my phone and shoot a few more of the natives. As in any small (tiny) PNW […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_0095.jpeg "Port Orford Outtake: 1973 Ford F600 Tow Truck – Rustic")
![(first posted 5/30/2013) In the early sixties, the vast majority of pickups were wimpy, low-riding, six cylinder-powered things; downright effeminate, one might almost say (with a bit of tongue in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Jeep-Gladiator01.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1967 Jeep Gladiator J3000 – The Truck Of The Future")
![(first posted 4/10/2018) Unless one subscribes to a data service, getting US historical auto sales statistics is not so easy; Wikipedia only lists US manufacturers. But I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Market-share-Brits-1961-2016.jpg "Chartside Classics: US Market Share by Manufacturer – 1961-2016")
![(first posted 7/3/2013) Honda CRV, Toyota Rav4, Audi Quattro, VW Syncro, and the whole host of all-wheel drive cars, crossovers and CUVs: they all trace their roots back to this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CC-103-178-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1975 Subaru 4WD Wagon (Leone) – The Revolutionary Four Wheel Drive Wagon That Started The Subaru Legacy")
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