- 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.
![In today’s visit to dealerships from the past, we’ll be seeing some of the Cadillacs we’re most familiar with from the days when the division posted some of its best-selling […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-08-23.50.56-115x115.png "Vintage Photos of Cadillac Dealerships in the 1960s and 1970s")
![Buick was a powerhouse in the sales race during the 1950’s, getting as far as third in sales in 1955 and 1956 with products that showed upward mobility and modern […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/d1e6d083590ef2361f8e5fd15c513c2e-115x115.jpg "Ladies And Buicks: 1950s Style In Vintage Photos")
![Not sure how attention-calling an old Corolla wagon is to regular folk. But to us curbsiders fond of the regular machines that once populated the streets, and still in running […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_20220503_140347093-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1984 Toyota Corolla Wagon – Tough To Kill")
![Text by Patrick Bell. It is tour time again as we are looking at some old business districts across the country. There is a good variety of town/city sizes and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-08-14-01.34.48-115x115.png "The Cars And Storefronts Downtown And On Main Street, 1950s and 1960s")
![I remember these as being a thing since day one. And with reason. After all, the model was a high-performance Caprice heavily based on the 9C1 police package, offering full-size […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/54797178088_a028f92148_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1994-1996 Chevrolet Impala SS – Desirable Beater, Too Cool To Scrap?")
![Saturday’s visit to dealers past is courtesy of a few photos from Orbit Oldsmobile in Michigan City, Indiana. Our opening photo from May 1964 shows Orbit’s new location at 609E. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-02-20-15.22.18-115x115.png "Inside a 1960s Oldsmobile Dealership In Indiana")
![Text by Patrick Bell. On this day in 1954 Ford unveiled its new Thunderbird at the Detroit Auto Show. Production began later that year and they went on sale in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot_20251117-000448-115x115.png "Ford Thunderbirds In Vintage Photos – 1950s and 1960s")
![We’ve been in anniversary mood this week, revisiting CC’s early days and remembering those early Curbside Finds that appeared on the site. Today, we’ll do a variation of that. In […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Olds-1970-cutlass-4-door-CP.png "A Gallery Of Nighttime Curbside Finds By Curtis Perry")
![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")
