![Gateway Classic Cars is offering this 1958 Buick Special on eBay. Carlsbad Black really shows the chrome off well, and that’s a good thing because this is the least chrome-y […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/571-5.jpg "CC For Sale: 1958 Buick Special Sedan–Black Shows Off The Chrome")
![Back in 2002, I was teaching a class at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, New Jersey) called Freshman Writing Workshop. Professors were always encouraged to come up with interesting topics for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221104_113526.jpg "CC College: Writing About Cadillacs, 1959 and 2002")
![Imagine a world where there was no Internet–no Google search, no street views; no Amazon, no eBay, no Craigslist, no YouTube; no blogs, no social media, no email, no […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220926_162321-1.jpg "Curbside Classic-ing in the 1980s: My First Published Automotive Article, 34 Years Ago Today")
![Spotting cars from the ’50s while driving around on everyday errands isn’t quite as common as it was in the 1970s and ’80s when I first started doing it. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20220909_143140.jpg "Curbside Classic Spotted at Target–1954 Cadillac Sedan in Arlington Green")
![We continue our look at the famous automotive dot charts from Consumer Reports magazine. In this issue there are 9 pages of charts covering 162 separate models, 1976-81. If you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-19-52-34-OIP.oYgrHe0IYTnFmgXCPWeEcwHaFj-JPEG-Image-474-×-355-pixels.jpg "Consumer Reports Automotive Dot Charts, Part 5 (1976-82): Just Before The Reformation"){kind=tracking}
![When a genuine Curbside Classic appears, I think it’s important to document it even if conditions are not ideal. You may never see it again, so this may be your […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220608_205415.jpg "CC At Night: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500–The Once Commonplace Becomes Exotic")
![I was cruising Craigslist, and I found this nice 1957 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special for sale. As I went through the seller’s many pictures, I saw something that really […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screenshot-2022-05-10-at-19-37-39-1967-Cadillac-Series-60-cars-trucks-by-owner-vehicle.jpg "CC For Sale: Finding Othmar H. Ammann’s 1957 Cadillac, 65 Years Later")
![I was recently going through Dr. Samuel Berg’s collection of Newark photos from the early 1960s (and there are a lot to go through–all 2,788 of them!) It reminded […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screenshot-2022-05-01-at-09-02-40-282-280-278-Market-Newark-Public-Library-Digital-Repository.png "CC Photography: Ghosts of the Past–Gritty Commercial and Industrial Scenes of Newark N.J.")
![While searching in some rather obscure corners of the Web, I found some period photos of vandalized and abandoned cars. Photos like these are relatively rare and hard to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/blackout_gallery_02.jpg.1ffa53631ef98d79a39ab96ff80bf6e61.jpg "Vintage Photos: Vandalized and Abandoned Cars, 1950s-80s")
![I was originally going to call this “Car Wars IV: Rise of the [Japanese] Machines”.](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/consumer-reports-vintage-magazine-apr-1-19761.jpg "Consumer Reports Automotive Dot Charts: Every Dot Has a Story, Part 4 (1972-75)")
![How’s this for a fascinating discovery? Earl Scheib’s grandson Don Scheib is apparently having someone convert old 16mm films of Earl’s classic TV commercials to online digital formats for easy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/earlscheibphoto1.jpg "CC Film Vault: Earl Scheib Commercials from 1962-63–Not on YouTube")
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