- 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.
![Nissan’s Vanette is known in the US for self-combusting in ways that can put a Pontiac Fiero to shame. How Nissan turned this basic transport into an infamous quick-cash-grab gaffe […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/49594781203_10c44b20ba_k.jpg "Curbside Classic: Nissan Cherry Vanette C120 – The Good, Non-Fiery Version")
![I had finished my shift at the Florida theme park I was working at for that summer. It was close to sunset and the shuttle to the interns’ compound […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.57.23-PM.jpg "Rolls Royce Silver Shadow – La Revolución Is Here!")
![Even in these latitudes filled with Korean and Japanese fuel efficient machinery, Swifts and Metros come out of the woodwork when gas prices swell. In the last few months these […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220501_092008527.jpg "Curbside Classic: Swift-Metro “Bumblebee” Edition")
![It was mid-morning that school day when Mr. Machuca called us by name, both me and my partner in-not-quite-crimes, George. Lucky us, we had been selected for a special mission. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20220129_131800955_HDR.jpg "Curbside Classic: Opel Kadett (B) – The First Repair")
![My wife, the ’68 Beetle, and I, in 2024. Time to create a link to my not-too-extensive COAL Series. Not that varied in cars, and all rather humble ones (Say […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-11-28-00.31.22.jpg "Rich Baron’s COAL Series")
![As we all know, last couple of years brought endless hours of forced ‘stay at home’ entertainment. During the height of such days, I got lucky (?) the cultish British […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-03-03-at-11.41.49-PM.jpg "CC TV: Cars of The Avengers – Mrs. Peel, We’re Needed")
![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")
