![A car is a utilitarian object. Its purpose is to move people from place to place. But what I’m showing you here today is much more than that. It […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/61-fury-1-1749060143-68408a2f5eb251.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1961 Plymouth Fury Hardtop Coupe–Best Preserved Original In Existence?")
![In the year of 1962, if you were shopping for a 2-door hardtop in the luxury class, which would you pick–a Cadillac Coupe deVille, or this Imperial Crown? Let’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250601_1703451.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1962 Imperial Crown Coupe: A Baroque And Futuristic Creature — “I, Captain Ahab, Have Spotted The Great White Whale!”")
![What is it about the spooky, mysterious, and unknown that attracts us so? I’ve always been an explorer. But the places I like to explore are the kinds of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/6911-12001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1957 DeSoto Fireflite Sportsman Hardtop – Like The One I Found In A Desolate Location 40 Years Ago")
![“Tribute cars” have become trendy in the old car hobby for a while now. A ’58 Plymouth is painted red and becomes “Christine”. An old Ford sedan from the early […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-05-18-22.17.18.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1975 Dodge Monaco CHP Police Pursuit Cars: True Bluesmobiles (Two of ’em!)")
![Here’s another classic example of a car that once was seen everywhere, but is now virtually extinct. Oh, you might find a convertible or high-performance version of a ’61 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-21-24-25-16867_main_l.jpg-JPEG-Image-1200-%C3%97-800-pixels-%E2%80%94-Scaled-89.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1961 Ford Galaxie 6 Cylinder With Manual Transmission: El Cheapo Luxury"){kind=tracking}
![The Magic Year of 1957 must have been a wonderful time to shop for a car! Chrysler had its dynamic Forward Look; Ford was all-new and graceful; Chevy had a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/571-17.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser–Wowing Prospects on the Showroom Floor!")
![(first posted 5/8/2019) The car above has special significance for me, and non-CCer types would probably respond with, “Why would you care about that ugly wreck?” What […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mercury-medalist-1958-11.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1958 Mercury – Is It a “Mercury”, a “Medalist”, or a “Custom”?")
![I’ve written about the incredible 1958-60 Lincolns before (most recently a 1959 Continental coupe in black) but I was scrolling through Craigslist, and this just stopped me in my tracks! […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/00V0V_4zGrv8zW6VT_0CI0t2_1200x9001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1958 Lincoln Premiere Coupe in Autumn Rose and White: Too Sweet To Pass Up!")
![When I think of the works that man hath wrought, I say “You can’t give up on the human race!” You just can’t. Especially after you see these fantastic […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29466942-1958-buick-limited-thumb1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Greatest Auto Side Trim Designs of All Time — Evoking Smooth and Swift Motion")
![It is 1953. Let’s say that you’re an older, rather conservative person with above average income, and you and your family are Packard loyalists. You value quiet elegance, fine craftsmanship, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1953_Packard_advertising_illustration_Robert_Tate_Collection_RESIZED_11.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1953 Packard Patrician in Black: Old Money")
![One of the great mysteries of life is why we are drawn to the specific things that fascinate us. This starts at an early age, like 4 or 5. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4a4488bd983c324237afa690bdcd83681.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Great Speedometer And Dashboard Designs I Remember – What You See As You Drive")
![When this car was new in 1959, it was one of the most luxurious, most powerful, most optioned, most lushly trimmed, “ultimate dreamboat” American cars you could buy–and it had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-20-52-51-464498225_1098764371956660_1042799004112935624_n.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-%C3%97-720-pixels-%E2%80%94-Scaled-99.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Coupe — Fallen Riches"){kind=tracking}
![A motto for life is, “Excelsior!” Onward and upward. In 2014 I had my ’58 Cadillac and ’62 Imperial, but I was always on the lookout for more interesting […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-18-12-55-40656174990_d3b4b9145c_b.jpg-JPEG-Image-1024-%C3%97-576-pixels.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1962 Mercury Monterey–‘Best-Looking Buy For The Big-Car Man’"){kind=tracking}
![In 2008, my brother said to me, “A friend of mine is selling a 1962 Chrysler Imperial–I think you should go check it out!” I went to the address […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250223_102532-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1962 Imperial Custom–Rescuing The Big Green Monster")
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