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![Vintage SCI Review: 1956 Porsche Speedster 1600 – “…One of the most significant technical accomplishments of our time” (Updated 7/14/2026) This review written by Griff Borgeson at Sports Car Illustrated was a treat, as it’s the first vintage review I’ve read about the Porsche Speedster. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Porsche-1956-Speedster-rq.jpg)
![Auto-Biography: Getting Paid To Break (In) New 1971 Fords (Including a Mustang Mach 1 HO) (2007, 2026) Having paid penance for my illicit driving, at seventeen I finally joined the ranks of legally sanctioned drivers. I could have taught the driver’s ed class by then, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gonein60.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Thunderbird – Do We Detect a Wee Bit of Corvette Envy? (Updated 7/10/2026) Given the Corvette’s miserable sales in its first few years, it was a very good move on Ford’s part to reposition their sports car project […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Thunderbird-1957-from-high.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Review: 1957 MGA – New Body, Familiar Sensations (Updated 7/7/2026) “MG” was synonymous with “sports car” for several decades. It all started with the spidery TC, a 1920’s style roadster that American GIs discovered while […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MGA-1500-Roadster-red-1.jpg)
![Cold Comfort: Firestone Thermador Car Cooler (Evaporative “Swamp Cooler”) (Updated 7/6/2026) I’ve been hoping to find a vintage automotive “swamp cooler” for quite a while, since I remember these so well from our annual trips to Colorado. And […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CC-229-123-1200.jpg)
![Autobiography: 1972 Toyota Corona Coupe – High School Drama And Trauma Revisited (first posted 8/22/2013) High school: some say it was the best years of their life. Maybe for the prom queen. Intense and confusing, but the memories certainly are indelible. Finding […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/a-cor.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Dual Road Test: 1957 Corvettes, Dual Quad Carbs and Fuel Injected – Fast and…Fast posted at the Cohort by LeSabretoothTiger (Updated 7/3/2026) Our survey of 1957 sports cars and GT cars wouldn’t be complete without the Corvette, especially since that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Corvette-1957-2-sfq.jpg)
![GMC TDH-5105 Old Look Transit Bus: GM’s Greatest Hit #9 — Despite Being the Agent of a GM Deadly Sin (Updated 7/2/2026) The GMC “Old Look” bus was first made in 1940, and was phased out when the “New Look” buses arrived in 1959. They utterly dominated […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CC-127-057.jpg)
![Curbside Find: 1964 or 1965 GMC B-Series Short-Conventional Truck (Updated 7/1/2026) Fred Oliver has found a truck that’s long eluded me: the 1960-1965 GMC B Series short-conventional truck/tractor. This was a way to utilize the standard Chevy/GMC pickup-truck […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/49898872638_96b91e9a69_k.jpg)
![Happy Canada Day! And A Big Shout Out To Our Many Canadian Readers And Contributors I want to extend a very heartfelt greeting to all of our vary many Canadian readers and contributors. From the beginning, CC seems to have made a somewhat outsize connection […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/a-Cars-of-Canada-115x115.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Morgan Plus Four (TR-3 Engine) – Already Outdated, or The Anti-190SL (Updated 6/29/2026) The evolution of the sports car has a number of key developmental milestones. But one company decided to ignore them early on, and just stay […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Morgan-1957-Plus-4-red-white.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Mercedes 190SL – “A Sense of Security and Perfection” (Updated 6/28/2026) The Mercedes 190SL is the unfortunate victim of my stupidity. No, actually it’s the other way around; given that I passed on the opportunity to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Mercedes-190SL-M2.jpg)
![Auto-Biography: 1968 Dodge Dart 170 Two-Door Sedan – The Neurologist’s Car Of Choice (2015; updated 2026) There are a number of chapters of the Niedermeyer Auto-Biography still unwritten. Some of you might greet that news with yawns, groans, or worse. But […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/a-pops-115x115.jpg)
![Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Plymouth Fury – The Best All-Round Performance Car Of Its Time? (Updated 6/25/2026) Chrysler pioneered the big American performance car. By that, I mean the complete package, not just a hot engine option on a marshmallow-suspended sedan […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Plymouth-1957-fury-fq.jpg)
![Vintage R&T 24,000 Mile Test: 1971 Vega 2300 – “Reliable” But It Got a New Short Block, Carb and Exhaust System (Updated 6/24/2026) Yes, it was “reliable” in that it didn’t actually break down and leave them stranded, but it’s hardly a word that is applicable in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Vega-1-top-1.jpg)


