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![(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")
![After decades of bopping down endless gravel forest roads at a brisk clip without an incident, I’ve now slid off the road for the second time in two years. And […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_1266-1-115x115.jpeg "Auto-Biography: Another Close Encounter With A Ditch – Time To Take My Keys Away?")
![(Updated 6/3/2026) Toyota and Nissan 4×4 pickups from the ’80s are still fairly common here. But a Mazda 2600i 4×4? It’s been a while, so finding this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-413-024.jpg "Curbside Find: 1989 Mazda B2600i 4×4 – Something Of A Rarity")
![(Updated 6/2/2026) The Great Fastback Epoch swept across America like so many sudden feverish automotive (and food) fads, unleashed by the 1963 Sting Ray. Some were good, like the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CC-124-061-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 Fiat Dino GT Coupe – A Delectable Fastback")
![(Updated 6/2/2026) This 1978 review of the newly-introduced Jeep Wagoneer Limited provides an interesting perspective, as it was right about the time that the Wagoneer morphed from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jeep-top.jpg "Vintage R&T Review: 1978 Jeep Wagoneer Limited – “Can You Imagine An American Manufacturer Building the Same Body For 15 Years?” How About 29 Years!")
![(Updated 6/1/2026) I assume Ford just plain ran out of A-team stylists when it came around to giving the quite nice-looking ’64 Fairlane a re-skin. It’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CC-107-026-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1965 Ford Fairlane Sports Coupe – The Failane")
![Where does design inspiration come from? In the case of Harley Earl, GM’s legendary design chief from 1927 through 1958, after WW2 it most often came from aviation. The jet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CC-228-042-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1961 Buick LeSabre Two-Door Hardtop – Harley Earl’s Bubbletop Has Its Last Flight")
![(2016, updated 2026) My best friend Jerry in eighth grade was one of ten kids (yes, it was a Catholic school). His mom drove a Dart 270 sedan like this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/a-dr-115x115.jpg "Auto-Biography: 1964 Dodge Dart 270 – The Estro-Dart")
![posted at the Cohort by Colin (Updated 5/29/2026) The Chevrolet Impala sport coupe was America’s sweetheart for so many years, peaking in popularity in 1965. It and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/29220367760_965974b4fb_k.jpg "1978 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe – The End Of The Road For America’s Favorite Coupe")
![(Updated 5/28/2026) I just couldn’t pass up this 1957 Ford F100 posted at the Cohort by Fred Oliver. First off, it’s a vintage of the F series […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/49911649792_b6a2694b9d_k.jpg "Curbside Find: 1957 Ford F100 – Paint It Purple")
![(Updated 5/26/2026) My son has made a career out of writing about certain aspects of the car industry, primarily autonomy and Tesla, and most of what he’s learned is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CC-162-151-800.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2000 Lexus RX 300; The First True CUV — “There, My Son, Is The Future Of The Car” (And the World)")
![Minivans nowadays really aren’t mini; they’re all about 204-205″ long, which is hardly mini by any stretch of the imagination, or word. But the genre really did start out small; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_0990-115x115.jpeg "Curbside Finds: Two SWB Chrysler Minivans, One With A Stick Shift – Back When Minivans Were Actually Small")
![(Updated 5/25/2026) Only Volvo could have built the P1800, introducing a new car in 1961 whose design had been fresh way back in 1957, at a time when styling […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CC-41-017-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1964 Volvo P1800S – Transcending Time, Distance And Fashion")
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