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- Retired industrial designer.
Curbside Classic Archives
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American Brands: GM 
American Brands: Ford 
American Brands: Chrysler 
American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others 
Automotive Histories and Misc. 
Asian Brands 
UK Brands 
Australian Brands 
European Brands 
Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
Buses 
Trucks, Pickups and Vans 
Design 
Trains, Planes & Ships 
Motorcycles, Trikes, Bicycles 
Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
RVs, Motorhomes, Trailers, Campers Privacy
![Curbside Classic Hat Trick: Houston, We Have A Brougham We’ve enjoyed various “theme days” lately here at CC, but in reality, many of them are completely unplanned—a post will go up, and one or more of us will have […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/meteor_rrear.jpg)

![Curbside Catastrophe: My Road Trip Conclusion – The Storm Breaks When we last left our road trip story, I had alluded to a bright flash on the horizon, which everyone assumed meant the DeLorean DMC-12 had managed to screw itself […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/clouds.jpg)

![Road Trip Outtake: 1981-83 DeLorean DMC-12 – Forward Into The Past! Picking up where we left with my recent road trip to Georgia, I had commented how the pace of traffic picks up pretty radically as you near town. That point […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_6667.jpg)
![Curbside Teething Troubles Well, we’re back online again after our new “virtual private server” kernel panicked — we had to have it breath in a paper bag for a bit to get it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/71vegablower2.jpg)
![Curbside Outtake: Suzuki X-90 – A Lincoln Week Palate Cleanser Hey, guys… Lincoln week has been fun and all that, but having never owned or driven one (nor known any close friends who had one), they’re not really my bag. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_7244.jpg)
![The Cars of Our Fathers: Dad’s Q Ship Continuing our theme for the day, my Dad served as a submariner during the Korean war on the SSR312 Burrfish, keeping the two Fairbanks-Morse diesels in the forward engine room […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/dad.jpg)
![Curbside Outtake: Three Trucks And A Riddle Tom’s scale 1952 Studebaker from earlier today is downright neat—I pass one on the way to work that I think is of early ’60s vintage—I’ll need to stop and photograph […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/threetrucks.jpg)
![Curbside Capsule Redux: 1991 Pontiac Formula Firebird – The Subtle Trans Am The late Third Generation Pontiac Firebirds are among my favorites, and the ’91-92 Formulas sit at the top of the list with its Banshee concept car-inspired nose. The preceding Second […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1991_pontiac_firebird_formula_front.jpg)
![Road Trip Classics: 1957 DeSotos – Still Riding in Chrysler’s Shadow It’s now time to return to the account of my recent road trip to visit my father in Central Georgia. When we last left the story, I was being Passed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/desotos_03.jpg)
![CC Outtake: 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS Convertible – Top Down at Sundown It was a beautiful day yesterday here in the Middle West, and the CCs were out in force. I caught this very nicely restored Impala SS convertible as we were […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1963_impala-ss_conv.jpg)
![CC Clue: Any Port In A Storm… Episode II of my epic road trip story is coming up tomorrow, and here’s a clue to whet your appetite. An additional hint is that, like the Trans Am from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/clue.jpg)
![Curbside Concepts: The Universal Car Jason’s post from earlier today brought back memories of a student project I worked on while studying Industrial Design in the mid-1980s at Georgia Tech. The “Universal Car” was a project for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ucar1.jpg)
![Road Trip Outtake: 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am – Southbound and Down As I hinted recently, I have quite the road trip story to recount, but alas, I’m not going to do it all in one post! My adventure started at […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/73hood.jpg)


