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![Old cars and other vehicles are all about reliving our youths, right? As in the actual experiences we had in them, or wish we had (we didn’t all get to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_1464-115x115.jpeg "My New 1948 Farmall Cub – Reliving The Past By Putting It To Work Again")
![(Updated 6/22/2026) Although most commonly known as the Austin-Healey 3000, that version of the “Big Healey” (to differentiate it from the Sprite) was the third major […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/austin-healey-100-6-1959-fq-.jpg "Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Austin-Healey 100-6 – The Big Healey Gets a Six")
![(Updated 6/20/2026) In their Sports Car Directory, SCI included a few select “American Gran Turismos”. It would be a couple more years before Studebaker’s Hawk Gran Turismo […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Studebaker-1957-GH-side.jpg "Vintage SCI Review: 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk – As Fast As The Chrysler 300C, And A Lot Cheaper")
![(none of the images are of his actual car. I found this one recently at BAT and it’s a pretty good facsimile except for lacking the actual deep rust) (2007; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/a-mga-2-115x115.webp "Autobiography: 1957 MGA – Learning From Big Brother")
![(Updated 6/19/2026) Everyone knows that the legendary Shelby Cobra was of course, an AC Ace with a massive dose of Ford V8 hormones. But probably fewer of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/AC-Ace-WP-2.jpg "Vintage Sports Car Illustrated Review: 1957 AC Ace – The Progenitor of the Cobra With An Engine Dating Back to 1919")
![(Updated 6/18/2026) CC reader Laurence M. sent me his prized copy of the 1958 Sports Car Illustrated Directory, which includes a number of reviews of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/C100Paa2_IMG003-115x115.jpg "Vintage Sports Car Illustrated Review: 1957 Chrysler 300C – The Duesenberg SJ of the 1950s")
![(Updated 6/15/2026) One of my favorite stopping off points downtown is Joe Potter’s shop. A superb restoration specialist who often works closely with the Sports Car Shop across the street, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CC-140-053-800.jpg "Fiat Abarth 1000 – The Little Mouse That Roars")
![1964 Super Nova (Updated 6/14/2026) It’s a well known fact that GM didn’t approve production for what eventually became the Camaro until six months after the Mustang was released, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/486424969_1101432528689788_5943778860344239710_n-115x115.jpg "The Birth Of The Camaro")
![(Updated 6/14/2026) The housing crisis that has developed the last couple of decades has turned a lot of underused RVs into…actual motor homes. As in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/a-rv1-vert-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds: Winnebago Chieftain and American Clipper – Two Relics From The Great ’70s RV Boom")
![(2007, revised 2026) Once I crossed the line and became a fifteen year-old driving addict, there was no turning back. Nothing could stop me from using my drug of choice. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/LSD_trip_II_by_Meteoritu.jpg "Auto-Biography: The Drug Of Choice")
![How many 60 year-old cars and trucks are still being used as regular working vehicles, doing what they were designed to do when new? I bought my ’66 F100 39 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_1360-115x115.jpeg "My ’66 Ford F-100 Celebrates Its 60th Birthday – And It’s Not Ready To Retire Yet")
![(2007. Revised 2026) I was fifteen and had never driven a car on the street before. It was a Sunday and the parents and my younger brothers were away for the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/a-dfj-115x115.jpg "Auto-Biography: D Stands For (First Illicit) Drive")
![(Updated 6/5/2026) I hadn’t seen this ’61 Chevy Impala clay before, and it’s quite intriguing. The front end is just like how it ended up, but from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/chevrolet-1961-impala-concept.jpg "Concept Classic: The 1961 Chevy Impala Coupe That Wasn’t")
![(Updated 6/5/2026. Calvin Mehlert, who had a distinguished career in the Foreign Service, passed away on January 2, 2018) When Calvin Mehlert, age 86, left San Jose behind the wheel […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CC-226-430-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 Rover 3500S V8 (P6) – “Sell It Now? I’d Rather Cremate It And Have It Interred With Me”")
![(Updated 6/4/2026) It’s been a while since I’ve seen a gen1 Prelude curbside. My full CC on one is here, and that was shot ten years […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-417-058.jpg "Curbside Outtake: Honda Prelude (gen1) – An Epilog to The Prelude of The Real Thing")
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