- 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 thing about daily life is how it changes, slowly, with us hardly noticing. Then, one day, it hits; something once commonplace is suddenly gone. In today’s case, the run-down […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/29856667168_a5e2312537_b-115x115.jpg "When Did All The Beater Mustangs Disappear?")
![Text by Patrick Bell. DeSoto was a medium priced Chrysler Corporation brand that was positioned between Dodge and Chrysler for many years. As was and is often the case, budgets […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot_20260303-003912-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Classic DeSoto Cars In The 1950s-1960s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The “Standard of the World” was Cadillac’s claim, and in many ways they achieved it. They were certainly untouchable in the sales department for many years. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/tumblr_oi7h80nxQ91qcdxvpo1_1280.jpg "Peak Cadillac: Vintage Photos From The 1950s")
![Frequent CC Cohort contributor Ralf K (Don Kincl) recently added a series of images from Tacoma taken in 1980. A brief glance at the city’s downtown, specifically, Pacific Ave. between […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/55126126158_8f1fcc8d7a_k-115x115.jpg "Vintage Photos: A Street In Downtown Tacoma In 1980, by Ralf K")
![For 1965, Oldsmobile’s brochure promised Rocket Action for every pocket, and the 4-door Oldsmobile F-85 Deluxe offered just that. There were flashier, more exciting, and more luxurious offerings in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_20251221_170136_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "1965 Oldsmobile F-85 – Rocket Action For Every Pocket")
![Text by Patrick Bell. We are celebrating Studebaker today as the last one rolled off the assembly line in Hamilton, Ontario, sixty years ago this month. There is a good […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-03-02-16.07.24-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Studebakers – Daring To Be Different")
![When these modest Japanese subcompacts arrived on foreign shores back in the 1960s and early 1970s, not much was expected of them. Products from carmakers with no image, dubious backgrounds, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_20251225_17040a_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1971 Datsun 1200 – Little Wagon That Could")
![Time for a new gallery of recent finds by Ralf K (Don Kincl) uploaded at the CC Cohort. It’s a varied collection of curbside and junkyard finds, and as always, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/55126951877_0f3f410c31_k-115x115.jpg "A Gallery Of Vintage Cars and Trucks Shot By Ralf K")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Station wagons were the utility vehicles of their day and were a popular part of the typical American family; as such, they make for a good […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-02-28-15.46.47-115x115.png "Life With The Station Wagon In Vintage Photos – 1950s, 1960s, 1970s")
![Ever since they first showed up in the mid-nineties, I found the 406’s coupe shape to be pretty, svelte, seductive, and sleek. One of the standout coupe designs of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/55121146875_81dd5662a6_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 2005 Peugeot 406 – Timeless Grand Tourer")
![Time to visit some Buick dealers, on this occasion stepping into the 1960s and 1970s. Not too many sweepspears in this installment as the brand was evolving, but still a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-03-01-22.10.22-115x115.png "Vintage Photos of 1960s and 1970s Buick Dealerships")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Shopping can be fun … when you stay in the parking lot and look at the cars. That is just what we are doing today, as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/upload_2023-6-19_19-7-3-115x115.png "Shopping Center Parking Lots in the 1950s and 1960s: Vintage Photos")
![Let’s give a couple of minutes of attention to these little Škoda utes that have been toiling away since they showed up in the early 1990s. These boxy utilitarian subcompacts […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/24137988613_4a47ff198b_k-115x115.jpg "1991-1995 Škoda Pickup – Basic Does It")
