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- Retired industrial designer.
![(Updated 11/2/2025) After finishing the repair work on my ’95 F150 yesterday, I drove up into town (pop. 1400) to fill up the gas tanks. As I crested the final […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013_68deville_fleft.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1968 Cadillac de Ville Convertible: Casting A Long Shadow")
![(Updated 9/27/2025) When I was growing up, there was one sure thing around our household–come Labor Day weekend, you could be sure Dad would have some labor for my brothers […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013_62falcon_rfront.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1962 Ford Falcon With Teardrop Camper – Drivin’ The Dream")
![(Updated 9/23/2025) We were in Franklin, Tennessee recently, enjoying a visit with our son and grandkids who are at that super-cute stage (ages 2-1/2 and 4-1/2). Son suggested […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/7.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1964 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible – What Goes Around Comes Around")
![(Updated 9/15/2025) The Volkswagen Routan is a “badge-engineered” version of the Gen 5 Chrysler Town & Country / Dodge Grand Caravan minivan, and around 58,000 units were sold in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 2012 VW Routan SEL – The Orphan That Caravaned From Town to Country")
![(Updated 9/14/2025) The old saying “Make hay while the sun shines” simply means taking advantage of good conditions to ensure a quality harvest. It only takes a little rain to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2013_ssix_lfront2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Hesston 6400 Windrower – The Slant Six Dons Work Clothes")
![(first posted 4/16/2019) I have several route options for my daily commute, and one of the more rural (and scenic) ones takes me past this farm where a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/olds98-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Finds: Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Regency(s) – Postlude in C, Opus 94-96")
![Here’s another find from our excursions yesterday. Pinpointing the exact vintage of this Olds Cutlass (Ciera) Cruiser S would have been quite difficult had I not spoken with the owner […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/94_cruiser_lside.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser S – The Station Wagon’s Last Gasp?")
![(first posted 8/17/2013) Following a decent 14,634 unit run of the Austin-Healey 100 from 1953–56, Leonard Lord, the Managing Director of Austin, asked Donald Healey to design an affordable, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sprite_front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1958-61 Austin-Healey Mark I Sprite – A Sports Car For The Masses"){kind=icon}
![(first posted 1/5/2013) I never knew my paternal grandfather—he died when my Dad was just 16, but from the stories I’ve heard, he was instrumental in setting up the Air […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/800px-SR_Caravelle.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Photo Album Outtake: 1957 Sud Aviation Caravelle—Dawn of the Modern Commercial Jet")
![(first posted 2/12/2013) In 1966, the American Motors Corporation (AMC) unveiled a pair of radically styled concept cars called AMX (American Motors eXperimental) in an attempt to better connect with the youth […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/amx_grill_badge.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic/Automotive History: 1977 AMC Hornet AMX – The Long Slow Decline Of The AMX"){kind=icon}
![(first posted 1/26/2014) “So,” said Estella, “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IMG_5141.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1974 Matador X Coupe – <br>Great X-pectations")
![(first posted 5/16/2013) Okay, boss, here’s the copy for the Firenza brochure (I can’t believe I went to college for this *sigh*). Corporate keeps pushing these tin cans on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/86_firenza_badge.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1986 Oldsmobile Firenza S Coupe – J-School Graduate"){kind=icon}
![(first posted 11/14/2017) In Part I, we were introduced to Darlene Dorgan and her 1926 Ford Model T Touring Car, in which she and four other […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/darlene_01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1926 Ford Model T Touring Car – Part III, “The Gypsy Coeds” Ride Again")
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Automotive Histories and Misc. 
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Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
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Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
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