- 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.
![One could argue that there are only so many ways to style a box on wheels. Their owners, however, may disagree. And they may have a point; there are many […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/55159346848_bb693e9d72_k-115x115.jpg "Classic Vans As Seen Through the Lens of Ralf K")
![Text by Patrick Bell. We have another round of wagons today with many in action at what they did best. They were quite common back in the day, and today’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-02-15-20.29.40-115x115.png "1950s Station Wagons In Vintage Photos – Family Haulers In Their Golden Days")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The itch to get away is going to need scratching soon, so it is time to start thinking about some of the mundane aspects of it, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-03-31-17.29.58-115x115.png "Picnics and Roadside Snacks In Vintage Photos – 1950s & 1960s")
![Time to do our occasional Cohort tour to check out what finds from around the world have shown up in recent days. We’ll start today’s gallery with this 1968 Ambassador […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/55161131400_b7b47bbfc5_k-115x115.jpg "1968 Ambassador 2-door Hardtop Coupe and Other Cohort Finds From Around The World")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Kansas native Walter Percy Chrysler would have celebrated his 151st birthday this week if he was still around. He passed away in 1940, and in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot_20260305-005736-115x115.png "1950s Chrysler & Imperial Cars in Vintage Photos")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Spring weddings are around the corner, and it is time to plan which vehicle to use. Today we are looking at how it was done in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot_20260320-001936-115x115.png "Just Married: Vintage Photos Of Wedding Cars In The 1950s & 1960s")
![In the last year, I’ve come across several early Nissan Micras on my daily runs around San Salvador. I’m well aware that, unlike me, most people don’t pay attention to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot_20260308-23592a7-115x115.png "1983-1992 Nissan Micra (March) & The Pike Cars – From Practical Beginnings To Cool Retro Creations")
![We’ll go for a rare and exclusive dose of old-school Chrysler today, in the form of a LeBaron Salon Coupe LS Limited edition, of which only 2,257 units were sold […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/518378881_10172268339870038_1585541038455174469a_n-115x115.jpg "1980 Chrysler LeBaron Salon LS Limited Coupe – A Rare Special Edition, Hanging On To Tradition In A Changing World")
![Text by Patrick Bell It is convertible time again in many parts of the northern hemisphere. Time to get out and feel the wind and bring that spring fever under […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-15.16.40-115x115.png "Convertibles In The 1950s In Vintage Photos – Basking In The Sunshine Of Their Golden Years")
![Let’s add another entry to our CC Global files, this time in the form of a 1980s Toyota LiteAce van that I came across during one of my tropical countryside […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/51266291195_bdc1082707_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1979-1984 Toyota LiteAce (M20) – 1980s Workhorse")
![Here’s a utilitarianly attractive shape that I believe should be familiar to US readers as the Fox. In this case, however, it’s in its original guise: a Brazilian-built VW Parati, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_20220817_143813994_HDR-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1982-1995 Volkswagen Parati (Fox) – Outfoxing Fate")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Nearly 14 million full size Chevrolet’s were produced in the 1960-1969 decade. Today we have 14 images to view from that decade where Chevrolet made few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot_20251117-225105-115x115.png "1960s Full-Size Chevrolets In Vintage Photos – When Chevy Ruled The Road")
![An early VW Scirocco! One of those pretty cars from my childhood that I hadn’t seen in… decades! Even before I was aware of CC (August 2015), the 1975-1981 Scirocco […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_20250629_162851_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1975-1977 Volkswagen Scirocco – Left Behind, But Not Forgotten")
![I know that many out there have a soft spot for old Chevy/GMC C/K trucks, myself included. Naturally, this long bed one caught my eye as soon as it was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/55137001853_ae3ca050a6_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1962 GMC Longbed, V6 Pickup- Still At Work?")
