- 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.
![All good things come to an end, and in the coming days, the ongoing stories from our current COAL contributors will reach their conclusions. So, once again, we at CC […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-02-16-15.52.02-115x115.png "COALers Needed")
![Text by Patrick Bell. We are going to cruise some neighborhoods of the past today and take a look at the four wheeled residents in the Mid-Century, when cars in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-30-13.53.29-115x115.png "The Cars That Lived In Our Neighborhoods In The 1950s And 1960s")
![It’s new car day at CC today, or more precisely, new cars as they were day. All thanks to some images from Chrysler’s Forward Look days that I recently came […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/5116-115x115.jpg "The Forward Look In Display: Dodge Cars In Showrooms – 1956-1959")
![Here’s something I didn’t expect to find while doing errands around San Salvador; a US-sourced gray-market Chevrolet HHR Panel Van, the first one I’ve ever come across in this city. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_20250705_171221_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 2007-2011 Chevrolet HHR Panel – Plain Wrapper")
![It doesn’t take long to see there’s something very unusual about this 1971 Buick Electra hardtop. Seen straight from the front, you may perhaps miss it, but move a bit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/six-wheeled-electra-115x115.jpg "The Six-Wheeled 1971 Buick Electra You Had Likely Never Heard Of")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today is Valentine’s Day, a commercial holiday where people of all sizes, shapes, colors and creeds stimulate the economy by purchasing stuff to show their love […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot_20260131-004849-115x115.png "Couples and Classic Cars in Vintage Photos from the 1950s and 1960s")
![Let’s add to our weekly dose of late 1970s Brougham admiration with this 1979 Chrysler Cordoba uploaded to the CC Cohort by nifticus392. For a change, this survivor is still […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/55085533470_3438201864_k-115x115.jpg "1979 Chrysler Cordoba – Still Living Its Flamboyant Two-Tone Luxury")
![Text by Patrick Bell. For today, we have a variety of road trip photos that mostly feature campers, with a few boaters, and some that look like they were moving […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot_20251206-232856-115x115.png "Cars, Trailers And Canoes: Vintage Road Trip Photos From The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s")
![Bob Lee’s Islander, Boston, MA. An escapist fantasy, that’s what the Tiki Rooms of the Mid-Century sold. In those evenings of the 1950s and 1960s, no plane tickets were necessary […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/a-bk-115x115.jpg "Postcards From The Tiki Room Age – 1950s-1960s")
![I’m arriving late to this custom wonder, which has been making its rounds around the web for several years and may be familiar to some CC readers. Still, it may […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/F3HvHPiWIAAmtng-copia-115x115.jpg "The Airnado: The 1969 Oldsmobile Toronado-Airstream Motorhome Mashup!")
![We’ve covered GM vans of all sorts here at CC, but here’s a variant we haven’t seen in a while: a Bedford CF, from GM-owned Vauxhall’s Bedford commercial division in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/55074339929_ed83f7014c_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1969-1980 Bedford CF Van")
![File this in the “You Don’t See These Anymore” folder; a stock-looking 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Coupe, a survivor, worn and slightly abused, but otherwise pretty much as they used to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/55070918783_ea557070b4_k-115x115.jpg "1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme – Increasingly Rare Stock-Looking Survivor")
![Text by Patrick Bell. American automobiles stood out in the 1950’s for their color palette and liberal use of chrome, and by the end of the decade, subtlety was no […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-15.09.11-115x115.png "Color And Chrome: 1950s Cars In Two-Tone Magic")
