- 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.
![Aren’t Corollas of this vintage getting awfully thin on the ground? The 2nd generation Corolla, from upstart Toyota, slowly and unexpectedly ascended to worldwide dominance. Who could have seen it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220326_171638206_HDR.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1973-74 Toyota Corolla – Appearances are Deceiving")
![We were to take the 1996 VW Golf for our honeymoon in Livingston, Guatemala. I had owned the car for a good 11 years (I take very literally Car of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Scan-220401-0002.jpg "COAL: 1996 VW Golf – Going Green")
![Here in the metal is a follow up to Don Andreina’s entry The Long, the Short and the Ugly. Most of the goodies on Datsun’s popular 620 pickups are discussed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220321_161917814_HDR.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1972-79 Datsun Ute Coupe U620 – Meeting the Ugly")
![(Some driving and some sightseeing) It was winter in Madrid and as we walked towards the supermarket she took me to look at the car, a Rover 200 handed down […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.11.51-PM.jpg "COAL: 1990 Rover 200 Series – Fading Empires")
![The car was in ruinous state, long way from what it had been just 5 years before. How long had it sat on the front lawn without use? No way […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IM000029.jpg "COAL: 1980 Toyota Corolla (E70) – One Last Stand for the Wounded Warrior")
![The Futura has been getting some love at CC lately and here is a chance to give it a South American take, or Colombian as is the case. I was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20210905_121056504.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1966 Ford Falcon Futura Found In Bogota")
![(Note: not much sightseeing, but lots of border trouble.) The drive from Oaxaca to Tapachula (the southernmost city in Mexico) was a tedious and uneventful affair. An 8-hour 6,000 feet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ze-return.jpg "COAL 1968 Beetle – A Drive Through Mexico, Part III")
![This Plymouth Belvedere is one of the final chapters in the Engel-Exner transition years at Chrysler, a chapter already covered at CC in more than one instance. Station wagons, with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20211217_145141443_HDR.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1965 Plymouth Belvedere Station Wagon – One Of The Last Of The Engel-Exner Editions")
![After my arrival to Guadalajara, I was ready for some sightseeing the next day; to walk, let my mind wander and leave behind –for a moment- the worries of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/bug1.jpg "COAL 1968 Beetle – A Drive Through Mexico, Part II")
![By December 2002, after a couple of years of poor finances the harsh truth couldn’t be denied: my stay in the city of San Francisco had come to an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Untitled-1.jpg "COAL 1968 Beetle – A Drive Through Mexico, Part I")
![She wanted me tag along, to go and together to check out a Corolla FX on Craigslist. Could I look it over? Make sure it was in sound condition? Sure, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/toyota.jpg "COAL: 1987 Toyota Corolla FX – Certainty in Uncertain Times")
![Edmund S. generally avoided performing work for others, instead staying busy on his own cars; a couple of 1980 beige Rabbits, and a faded black one of same vintage. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_20220102_160651787_HDR.jpg "COAL: 1980 VW Rabbit – Hellish Ride in GTI Guise via Westmoreland!")
![It sat for a couple of months in a corner of the Arco station on Glenoaks Blvd, Glendale. A used light blue 1968 Beetle, in straight shape, sitting next to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-02-04-16.07.57.jpg "COAL: 1968 Beetle, Part II – Learning to live with the Bug.")
![What in the name of Europe is this? I said, as I approached the recently discovered VW salvage yard in search of missing Golf A3 parts. An unknown shape on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_20220129_131615846_HDR.jpg "Curbside Recycling: Audi 50 – Fitting the Pieces")
