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![(Updated 5/25/2026) This shot, posted by William Rubano, perfectly bookends the long and varied efforts by Nash/AMC to find success in the compact segment of the market. In both […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AMC-Rambler-and-Pacer.jpg "1950 Nash Rambler and 1978-80 AMC Pacer Wagon: The First And Last Compacts From AMC – A Compact Arc of (Pudgy) History")
![(Updated 5/24/2026) Yes, I like dump trucks, especially of about this vintage and size. Just the thing to haul some gravel or a really big load of compost, or […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CC-221-011-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1952 REO F-22 – I Can Dig It")
![(posted at the Cohort by Staxman) (2018, updated 2026) Maybe I should start a series of the cars of my Boy Scout troop leaders. The memories made riding […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CC-359-001.jpg "Auto-Biography: 1965 Ford Falcon Futura Hardtop – The O’Neill-Mobile")
![(Updated 5/22/2026) Fageol is an endlessly fascinating company. The company was founded by Rollie, William, Frank and Claude Fageol in 1916 to manufacture trucks, tractors, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/49792305708_1eb0f0a1cb_o.jpg "Late 1930s Fageol Ice Cream Delivery Truck: The Future First Peterbilt – A 100 year Lineage")
![(Updated 5/21/2026) The 810 had pretty iffy styling. Not just the typical mid-70s Nissan weirdness, which actually was toned down by this time. It was its proportions, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/datsun-8100001-crop-top.jpg "R&T Vintage Review: 1977 Datsun 810 – A Four Door 240Z – Under the Skin, That Is")
![(Updated 5/19/2026) There it was, on the pullout on Seavey Loop Road, with a plaintive note in the windshield, as we were heading out to Mt. Pisgah for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CC-417-004.jpg "1983 Buick Skylark – “Plz Do Not Tow!” – A GM Deadly Sin or Divine Grace?")
![1965 PV 544 Sport (first posted 5/18/2026) This is the seminal Volvo. It laid the foundations for generations of classic RWD Volvos, built for over half a century (1947-1998). […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CC-111-047-1200.jpg "Curbside Classics: Volvo PV444 and PV544 – I Roll, Starting Here")
![(Updated 5/18/2026) I’m not going to add much commentary to Road and Track’s first look at the new Olds Diesel (Delta 88 Royale) in the November 1977 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/98-top.jpg "Vintage R&T Reviews: 1978 Oldsmobile 88 and 98 Diesels – A Decent Start, But Some Questions")
![(pictures posted at the Cohort by Bryce) (Updated 5/17/2026) Bryce, why are you showing me these pictures of a Simca 1000 at bed time? This is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Simca-1000-f-1200.jpg "Curbside Classic: Simca 1000 – The Franco-Italian Baby Corvair")
![(Updated 5/16/2026) The Peugeot 504 was of course, the other relatively popular European diesel in the US (and Europe) along with the Mercedes before the VW […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/504-diesel0001-top.jpg "R&T Vintage Review: 1977 Peugeot 504 Diesel Automatic – Noisy, Slow, But Not Lacking in Gallic Charms")
![(2026) In 1965, my father’s career took a great hop leap forward. He was recruited by Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore to be professor of Neurology and to head […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/a-kad-gr-115x115.jpg "(A New) Auto-Biography: 1965 Opel Kadett – My Father’s Little Green Hopping Frog (Der Laubfrosch)")
![(Updated 5/15/2026) The VW Diesel Rabbit (Golf Mk1) really was a game changer, and I’m not using the word lightly. Finally there was an affordable, compact ultra-efficient […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/scans0001-top.jpg "Vintage R&T Review and 24,000 Mile Long Term Test: 1978 VW Rabbit Diesel – Quicker Than a Fiat X1/9")
![I did a double take when I first saw this monstrosity. Whoa! That thing is endless! And what a rear overhang. It would be mighty easy to drag that on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CC-349-039.jpg "Curbside Find: World’s Longest Class C Motorhome")
![(Updated 5/13/2026) The great irony of Olds’s introduction of its new big diesel V8 cars is that it came out just shortly before the only other large […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/300SDL-top-1.jpg "Vintage R&T Review: 1978 Mercedes 300SD – Mercedes Shows GM How To Make A Fast, Efficient and Durable Big Diesel Sedan")
![In the late ’50s, GM’s Detroit Diesel Division’s “Million Miler” -71 diesel engine was so superior to the competition, resulting in such market dominance that GM was forced by an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GM-mark-of-exc-2-Mediocrity.jpg "The 1978 Oldsmobile 5.7L Diesel V8: Diesel Disaster – GM’s Deadly Sin #34")
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