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![Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1961 IH Scout – “Who Is Going To Buy The Scout?” The Scout was the first competitor to the Jeep, reflecting the rising interest in off-road capable vehicles. But it was still early days; only the gnarly JC and the slightly-less […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/i-5.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: A Six Tail-Light C3 Corvette John Lloyd posted this shot of a six-shooter C3 Corvette. In Tom Halter’s post on the six tail light Corvette, he mused that the larger lights and narrower rear panel […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/4277231535_18488c9acf_c.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1978 Ford F-250 SuperCab – A Superior Cab Leads To Everlasting Supremacy (first posted 2/24/2017) How did Ford become the perpetual number one selling pickup truck? Well, there’s several reasons, but in my mind by far the biggest single one was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CC-317-015.jpg)
![Chart: Ford Model T And Tesla Production 100 Years Apart – Tesla Set To Finally Overtake The T? Note: Tesla production projected (conservatively) for 2023 and 2024 The many parallels between Henry Ford and Elon Musk have been chronicled many times. Self-made men, pioneering new concepts in automobiles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Chart-T-and-Tesla.jpg)
![Vintage Motor Trend Road Test: 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder – “Chevrolet Has A Problem With The Corvair Turbo” As I read more of these old Car Life and Motor Trend magazines, my appreciation for Roger Huntington increases steadily, especially since I just found out that he was paralyzed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sp-1.jpg)
![Vintage Car Life Tech: “Air Cooling For Cars?” – There Was One Benefit That I’d Not Considered Before In addition to road tests, Car Life also had a regular tech column, written by Roger Huntington, who really knew of what he said and wrote. This article, from March […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/air-10.jpg)

![Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: William Garret’s Finds William Garrett posted some of his more recent finds at the Cohort, so let’s take a ride along with him, starting with this ’66 Toronado that he found in this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/52689816074_056c2d3d59_k.jpg)
![Vintage Ad: 1940 Willys – “100,000 Mile Or Three Year Guarantee” I’ve long wanted to do a history on the pre-war Willys, which were the true pioneers of compact cars, starting with the Model 77 back in 1933. There even used […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/5836896159_cc718d3037_c.jpg)
![Vintage Ad: The Kanzler Coupe – Even AI Couldn’t Have Come Up With This We’ve covered a lot of seventies “schlockmobiles” here over the year, but I keep running into new ones. In this case, I rather wish I hadn’t actually. It never fails […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/5810405795_fc480de80e_c.jpg)
![Vintage Motor Trend Road Test: 1962 Chevy II With 340 HP 327 Corvette V8 – Factory Built; Dealer Option Coming Soon! This is the magazine article I’ve been waiting 61 years for! I’ve been well aware of guys (and dealers) swapping in hot 327s into the new Chevy II all those […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2-2.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Peugeot 304 Cabriolet – Sweet Baby Pug posted by J.C. Here’s a charming little Peugeot cabriolet to get my juices flowing. No, it’s not a sports car; just a French style cabriolet in the classic tradition: a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/52669817331_657965ae87_k.jpg)
![Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1961 Rambler American With OHV Six – Why Don’t Cars Of “Great Merit” Sell As Well As They Should? For the second time, I’m being forced to rethink my long-held disdain low-opinion of the lowly Rambler American. The first time was Road and Track’s test of a 1959; they […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/a-1.jpg)
![“Midnight Modern”: Palm Springs Classics Under The Full Moon (first posted 2/19/2017) Stephanie found this gallery of shots of Palm Springs mid-century classic houses that were all shot by moonlight. And several have some very appropriate cars parked with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PS-1.jpg)


