- Description
- A fan of cars—and drawing them—since childhood, and a reader of Road & Track and Motor Trend since my teenage years. After studying at the CalArts Film School, I worked in TV commercial production in the 1990s and independent filmmaking in the 2000s and beyond. I’ve been an author at Curbside Classic since 2022 and Managing Editor since 2023, where my lifelong interests in cars, art, and visual storytelling happily come together.
![When it comes to vintage dealer photos, few are as exciting as those capturing new-model-year unveilings, particularly as they took place in the 1950s and 1960s. These were true community […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-11-05-19.51.59-115x115.png "Vintage Dealer Photos: The New 1954 Buicks Arrive! – When Buying A Buick Was An Occasion")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Station wagons are the feature today, the family cars that have all but disappeared from the roads. We have many that were very common, and a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Screenshot_20261002-231623-115x115.png "Before Minivans and SUVs: Family Road Trips in the Station Wagon Era — 1960s-1970s")
![Just a quick reminder that we are still looking for new voices to help keep our Cars Of A Lifetime (COAL) stories going. Here’s your chance to tell the stories […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Kansas_coal_miner-115x115.jpg "COALers Needed")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Nashville, Tennessee, is where we are headed today to visit the E. B. Smith Chevrolet dealership. They bought the Coggin Chevrolet shop in May of 1968, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Screenshot-2026-10-21-at-1.49.52-PM-115x115.png "Dealer Time Travel: Z-28 and Mod Top Camaros at E.B. Smith Chevrolet in 1968")
![If there’s one conversation from my college days in the early 1990s that I still vividly remember, it’s one I had with my classmate Michelle. “Have you seen all those […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/55527033379_d225cf96da2_k-115x115.jpg "Teal Was So 1990s: A Junkyard Gallery of Cars in the Color of the Decade")
![Just about everywhere, there are old roads that have fallen into disuse or lost their relevance as newer, more efficient routes came along. No blame there; we all like getting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Screenshot_20261030-040106-115x115.png "Route 66 in Its Heyday: Vintage Postcards From America’s Mother Road, 1950s-1960s")
![There aren’t many cars that can compete with a Beetle when it comes to fun displays. A pumpkin-themed Halloween getup? Well, naturally, it suits the model just fine, particularly when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_20221029_161200269_HDR-115x115.jpg "Car Show Finds: Pumpkin Beetles And Killer Clowns")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Our feature today is a gallery of vintage experiences that for the most part were not fondly remembered, but were part of our lives nonetheless. Thankfully, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-06-17-16.18.21-115x115.png "Flat Tires and Roadside Trouble: When Motoring Went Wrong in the 1950s-1970s")
![What was tiny, budget-minded, German-built, powered by an air-cooled rear engine, and sold in the U.S. back in the day—but was not a VW Beetle? If you dig a little […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/55562663827_10f62bfc8f_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1960 NSU Prinz – A Little German Classic Waiting for Its Next Owner")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today we are going to tour some vintage neighborhoods and soak in these sights of the 1950s – 1970s. There is a lot to see with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot_20251117-000258-115x115.png "The Cars That Lived In Our Neighborhoods In The 1950s – 1970s")
![In recent days, CC Cohort contributor canadiancatgreen has uploaded a batch of junkyard finds to our Flickr group. It’s been a while since our last visit to this yard, so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/55580482856_08e01beed5_k-115x115.jpg "Remember These? — A Junkyard Tour Through the 1990s")
![Text by Patrick Bell The Chrysler Corporation built some popular cars that became classics during this time period, and that is what we are featuring today. Most of them were […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot_20261006-012841-115x115.png "When Chargers, Road Runners and Challengers Roamed The Streets: Vintage Photos 1960s-1970s")
![Today’s time-traveling wheels take us back to the mid-century era, when Googie and Modernist influences had transformed roadside restaurants and diners into architectural attractions. It’s a destination we revisit every […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-10-21-17.00.09-115x115.png "Neon Signs & Glass Facades: Googie And Modernist Restaurants In Vintage Postcards – 1950s-1960s")
