- 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.
![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")
![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")
