![I use the word “alien” because this car would be alien to most people–how many individuals living today would be able to identify this as a Lincoln, let alone […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230514_162605.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Junked Classic: 1959 Lincoln Premiere–Crashed Alien Spacecraft")
![While putting together my recent post (How The 21st Century Is Replacing the 20th), I found a number of other photos that I was thinking of including, but they […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/9a1d54ae6b135962e7bfcbb609f3225a1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Photography: ‘Then & Now’ Images of Highways, Businesses, Mansions, and Other Lost Wonders")
![Recently I had occasion to drive through the town I grew up in, and I was surprised to see just how much things had changed since I left in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230423_104638-1-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Industrial Park-eology: How The 21st Century Is Replacing The 20th")
![Saw this on eBay; brought back a lot of memories. Edsels of the same period are typically described as “rare”, but actually this Galaxie 4-door is much more rare today […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/571.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1959 Ford Galaxie Sedan–Rarer Than An Edsel?")
![You may know by now that I like to take old car photos that look as if they may have been taken say, in the early ’60s when the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230412_193010-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk–Twilight Pink")
![This 1961 Dodge Dart Phoenix sedan was offered for sale in October 2022 in Hawthorne, New Jersey (just 25 miles from me), but I just found out about it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image.jpg.76e19f5670647b68471f5e9b74bba7ef1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1961 Dodge Dart Phoenix – How Did I Miss This?")
![Note: This post is an expansion on a previous 1959 Edsel post and a comment I made on it. A LOT has been written about the Edsel. But there is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/173279_7a5df6991067f8471.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: 1959 Edsel–How Did Ford Sell 40,000 of These Things?")
![“–not at a car show!” Yes, in fact I spotted this charming 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air in a funeral home parking lot on North Main Street in Boonton New Jersey, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230227_110843-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air–“Nice To See You”–")
![Traveling along one of the older streets of Boonton, New Jersey I happened upon this 1955 Pontiac parked at curbside. I took out my phone and snapped this photo which […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230215_141011-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1955 Pontiac Star Chief Coupe–Endangered Species")
![San Francisco, California is famous for its ornate Victorian houses, but not many people know that Los Angeles was once a very Victorian city too. To describe it generally, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/default1-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Photography: Losing Victorian Los Angeles–In Kodachrome (Part 1)")
![Just saw this amazing black Imperial coupe on eBay. I could definitely see Batman and Robin driving around in this–that is, if George Barris had never customized the Lincoln Futura […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/s-l16001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "eBay Classic: 1960 Imperial Crown Coupe–If Batman Were a Mopar Guy")
![In the late 1980s/early 1990s, I started noticing that my beloved cars of the ’50s were becoming evermore rare. So I began a project of photographing surviving examples that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/20230115_113013-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Photography: Curbside Classics of 1991 – Freezing Time in a Rectangle")
![Here’s something you don’t see every day (more likely, never)–a Spring Special 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer sedan in two-toned purple and white. With power steering! Super-wide “grandaddy” whitewall tires! A […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/571.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC For Sale: 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer–Hemi V8, But Not Quite Plum Crazy Purple")
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