- 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.
![I saw this familiar shape on a night when I was paying a touristy visit to the town of Suchitoto, in El Salvador. Familiar, from a distance that is. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_20260101_202445_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1991-1992 Eagle Summit Hatchback – This Little Eaglet Flew Far From Home")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Fords are the feature today and we have a fine gallery of what you would see everywhere if you went back in the day. I owned […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/44701190932_21e96bd15c_b.jpg "Everyday Fords Of The 1960s, Seen In Vintage Photos")
![The passage of time is a curious thing. As events fade into the distance, memories become selective, and the mind picks the ones to cherish and preserve, and the trying […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_20241212_164418541_HDR-scaled-e1769995336622-115x115.jpg "1966 Plymouth Belvedere II 4-Door Sedan – The (Mostly) Sensible Side Of The Muscle Car Era")
![This recent find uploaded by Matt Wilda to the CC Cohort seems to follow on a subject that Tatra87 touched on a while ago; that of the Toyota X70 Cressida […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/55046526068_816e8d73e6_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1985-1988 Toyota Cressida Wagon – Custom California Job")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The only street car I recall riding was the tourist type in San Francisco, and that was over fifty years ago. Preparing for this was very […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-18-21.54.43-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Street Cars and Interurbans In Traffic – 1950s, 1960s & 1970s")
![We just can’t let a week pass at CC without featuring a full-size 2-door American car. Especially, if it still seems in “curbside classic” running condition, and also, if it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/54429657298_25b9b0e6fb_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1976-1977 Mercury Marquis Brougham – 2-Door Hardtop Grandeur")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Trucks are the feature today with a good gallery showing them in action, whether it was work or play. These were all regular, everyday type vehicles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot_20251016-024929-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Trucks At Work And Play – 1950s – 1970s")
![Time for some colorful utilitarian charm in a picturesque setting, with this Isuzu Elf from 1975-1980 found in Central America. Rather unknown in the US, these light-duty trucks were among […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_20231230_150909140-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1975 Isuzu Elf – Global Japanese Workhorse")
![It was November 1994 and I was visiting an old friend in El Salvador, riding by his side as he drove his anything-but-exciting Daewoo Cielo when, entering a roundabout, he […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_20220519_174214068_HDR-115x115.jpg "1992-1994 Toyota Tercel: Honest Small Car, For A Peaceful Time")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today, we’ll be taking a look at a Cadillac dealer during the brand’s 1950s heyday: Frank Kent Motor Co. in Fort Worth, Texas. This dealership started […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-16-22.59.45-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of A Cadillac Dealership At The Height of 1957 Luxury")
![Talk about a survivor from a bygone era; a 1975 Imperial LeBaron coupe with oh-so-seventies opera-windows Crown trim and a green on green on green colour combo. Talk about a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/54981534307_cff7204fde_k-115x115.jpg "Green On Green Grandeur: 1975 Imperial LeBaron Crown Coupe – American Luxury From The Mega-Coupe Era")
![Here’s a curious face I hadn’t forgotten, and that I had been hoping to find these past few years: that of a ’69-’70 Toyota 1000, a model that went by […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_20240315_164136513_HDR.jpg "1969 Toyota 1000 (Publica P30): Toyota Heart, Italianesque Body – And Ford/MoPar Face?")
