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![click on images for larger size (first posted 9/11/2017) Time to go back and pay another visit to Dave Gelina’s Flickr page of his collection of vintage Kodachorme […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DG-50s-gas-2.jpg "Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots: Gas Stations of the 50s and 60s")
![shoveling a load of “black gold” (well-aged manure) in 2008 (first posted 9/8/2017. Updated 9/8/2023) I bought my ’66 F100 in the summer of 1987 for one main purpose: to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/manure-008.jpg "Truck Of A Lifetime: 1966 Ford F-100 – Thirty (Six) Years of Hauling Shit, Cheaply")
![(first posted 9/6/2017) Two door sedans are always popular fare here, so this ’64 Custom 500 sedan posted at the Cohort by chrisjcieslak gets its 15 minutes of fame […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/36908944331_28fd1ed7d2_k.jpg "Cohort Outtake: 1964 Ford Custom 500 Two Door Sedan – Change Is Not Always An Improvement")
![Yeah, I kid you not. Here in Eugene and other hip PNW towns and cities like Portland and Bend and such, there is no greater status symbol than an old […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0861.jpg "Trailside Outtake: Land Rover Series II – The Ultimate Status Symbol Here")
![Having once been common, this generation of Subaru (Leone/GL 1971-1981) has been conspicuously absent on the streets hereabouts for some years. But just when I think a certain car is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0812.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1978 Subaru GL – “Quadrozontal” Front Wheel Drive Tow-Mobile")
![(first posted 8/30/2017) One of the more forgotten engines is the Pontiac 215 six, available on the Tempest and LeMans in 1964 and 1965. It has of course […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pontiac-215-1964-br.jpg "Forgotten Engines: 1964-1965 Pontiac 215 Six – Built by Pontiac or Chevrolet?")
![At the recent 1969 Chrysler 300 review, there were several comments reflecting on the poor sales of Chrysler’s fuselage cars, which arrived that year. And in 2020, Jim Cavanaugh did […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Chart-Big-RWD-matket-share-1965-1974-Big-3.jpg "Charting The Big Cars, 1965-1974 – Were Chrysler’s Fuselage Cars A Failure? Which Brand Dropped The Most? (Hint: It Wasn’t A Mopar)")
![(first posted 8/25/2017) The simple reality is that a substantial segment of the American market likes their things big, as long as it’s affordable. Big Macs; Big McMansions, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CC-333-103.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1972 Oldsmobile 98 – Back When Folks Drove Big Cars Instead of Big Trucks")
![(first posted 8/23/2017) Ask half a dozen guys what “4-4-2” stood for, and you’ll probably get seven different answers. Ironically, several might be right, because the number stood […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CC-333-054.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 – Strength in Numbers; Some of the Time")
![I’ve been seeing this Model T, which I peg as either a 1915 or 1916 model year, repeatedly around Port Orford. It obviously gets used regularly, and the bucolic traffic […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_1467.jpg "Port Orford Outtake: The Well-Used Model T")
![(first posted 6/1/2017) Road and Track tests the new Fiat 131 Mirafiore (“Brava”), which replaced the 124. Although the 131 was very successful in Europe and other locales, it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Fiat-131-1.jpg "Vintage R&T Review: Fiat 131")
![There are times when I think the golden days of CC spotting in Eugene are over. I used to walk down a block and see nothing but cars 25 years […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_1407-1.jpg "Curbside Outtakes: Suddenly It’s 2000!")
![All this talk about annual safety inspections reminded me of this Cherokee I shot at our regular evening hike trailhead near Eugene. OK, it’s not nearly as stripped down as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_0973.jpg "Trailside Outtake: Jeep Cherokee, Open Door Edition – Safety Inspections? What’s That?")
![(First posted 10/17/2013. Pictures of this 603 are from Ebay) With a little imagination (not in short supply here), this could be the 1949 Cadillac or Oldsmobile. In the mid-late […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Tatra-603-front-by-sfm.jpg "Curbside Classic: Tatra 603 – This Could Have Been The First New Post War Cadillac, Olds, Studebaker, Or?")
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