![“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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-05-18-22.17.18.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-21-24-25-16867_main_l.jpg-JPEG-Image-1200-×-800-pixels-—-Scaled-89.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/571-17.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mercury-medalist-1958-11.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1958 Mercury – Is It a “Mercury”, a “Medalist”, or a “Custom”?"){kind=small}
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=9001,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/00V0V_4zGrv8zW6VT_0CI0t2_1200x9001.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29466942-1958-buick-limited-thumb1.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1953_Packard_advertising_illustration_Robert_Tate_Collection_RESIZED_11.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/4a4488bd983c324237afa690bdcd83681.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-20-52-51-464498225_1098764371956660_1042799004112935624_n.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-×-720-pixels-—-Scaled-99.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-23-at-18-12-55-40656174990_d3b4b9145c_b.jpg-JPEG-Image-1024-×-576-pixels.jpg "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 and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250223_102532-1.jpg "My 1962 Imperial Custom–Rescuing The Big Green Monster")
![The 1958 Oldsmobile has often been maligned for its over-the-top styling. But that’s exactly what makes it so wonderful and compelling, to me at least. So I’m happily going out […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-04-at-23-14-06-.png "1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88: So Much Incredible Styling All In One Car!")
![(first posted 1/30/2019) Let’s take a tour of New York City. But this is a different kind of tour. We will not only move from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/c59f8beb24f8dca1ca0dde88205929f91.jpg "Driving Through Manhattan in the Spring of ’62")
![(first posted 12/5/2018) The story begins in 1964 when my mother was working as a secretary for David Long, Northeast Regional Sales Manager for Ford Motor Company in Teterboro, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181201_151538_resized.jpg "My Car Of A Lifetime: 1962 Mercury Comet S-22")
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