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![Vintage R&T Road Test: 1975 Mercury Bobcat – More Like Fat House Cat (first posted 1/14/2017) The Bobcat was Mercury’s answer to the energy crisis. It wasn’t a very original answer, considering that it was just a Pinto with a big, chrome […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/rt-7-750018-900-top-crop.jpg)

![Vintage Snapshots: The Cars of Toronto, 1960s-1970s (first posted 1/13/2017) Let’s move on from New York and look at some vintage street scene snapshots from Toronto, Canada. These were posted at vintage.es and are credited to Ellis […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Driving-in-Toronto-ca.-1960s-70s-1.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1967 Thunderbird – Love It Or Hate It? nifticus found, shot and posted one of the more controversial generations of the Thunderbird. Feelings about these tend to be a bit polarized. Where on the spectrum from hot to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/dmkdh.jpg)
![Curbside Camper: Holiday Rambler Imperial – Relive The ’80s, At The Curb If Not On The Road This Holiday Rambler Motor Home is oozing with 1980’s style, with lots of stripes and trim, back before those abstract swoops took over. This is a big guy for the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/52569444054_f4c493a38e_k.jpg)
![Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Six With Powerglide – Just How Slow Was It? Over the years here at CC, there’s few subjects that have created more controversy and misunderstanding than Chevy’s (mostly) unloved Powerglide. Even my post on the Powerglide was titled “A […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bel-air-4.jpg)
![Vintage Ads: Reinforcing Stereotypes We’re all familiar with the Studebaker Scotsman, that ultra-stripped thrift-mobile. But Studebaker wasn’t the only one playing to that stereotype. This Chevy ad doesn’t come out and actually say the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6160822210_a9d672c3bf_h.jpg)
![Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Puch G – Say “Puch”, Not “Pooch” or “Putsch” The main reason I picked this Puch G posted by Roshake is because…I heard two British guys discussing a Puch engine in a video, and one kept calling it a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/52603320483_3fb1a8a90e_k.jpg)
![More Vintage Snapshots of New York In The 1970s (first posted 1/10/2017) A couple of months back, I shared you a gallery of 1970s vintage snapshots of New York. It was popular, so here’s some more. I picked this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/New-Orleans-1959-c-.jpg)
![Vintage R&T Road Test: 1969 Triumph GT6+ — Some Genuine Pluses The original Triumph GT6 was of course a Spitfire with a fastback fixed roof and the larger 2 liter inline six from the Vitesse. It was of course faster, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GT6-1-a.jpeg)
![Curbside Classic: 1963 Pontiac Tempest LeMans – Pontiac Tries To Build A BMW Before BMW Built Theirs, And Almost Succeeds (first posted at CC on 11/30/2012) In the thirties and forties, GM pioneered and brought to market some of the most innovative, successful and lasting new technologies: Diesel-electric locomotives; the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CC-121-103-800.jpg)
![Vintage Ad: “Italy Doesn’t Have A Thing On Ashtabula, Ohio” It was the that fine old Italianate house that caught my eye, but then I’d also forgotten that the Corvette’s fiberglass body was built by MFG (Molded Fiber Glass) there. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6247255453_d793fe12e7_h.jpg)
![Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1963 Rambler Ambassador 990 Twin-Stick – Only Rambler Offered A “5-Speed Manual” For all the endless bitching I’ve done over the years about the lack of a proper manual gearbox with a wide spread of ratios, why do I keep forgetting about […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1963-03_CL_AMC_Ambassador_990_V8_Road_Test_1-51024_11.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega – GM Deadly Sin #27 – Too Little, Too Late, Way Too Expensive images posted at the Cohort by c5carl (first posted 6/4/2012) Yes, the Cosworth Vega deserves a GM’s Deadly Sin designation. It worked mighty hard for years to earn it, so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Vega-Cosworth-fr.jpg)
![Vintage R&T Feature: 10 Best Cars For a Changing World 1975 (first posted 1/7/2017) Car and Driver started its 10Best list in 1983, but Road and Track had been doing something similarly for some time earlier, although not regularly. Their first […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ten-best-cars-900.jpg)


