- 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. 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?")
![click images for maximum size Text by Patrick Bell. The car count is high today, too high for me to feasibly ID all of them. I have pointed out many, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rwDrT2c_6pE-115x115.jpg "Parked For The Day: Vintage Photos Of City and Industrial Parking Lots In The 1950s, 1960s, And 1970s")
![Simon White recently uploaded a new batch of his superb images of cars in action to the CC Cohort. Let’s check out some of those, starting with this terrific image […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-16-00.38.28-115x115.png "A Gallery Of Vintage Car And Truck Photos By Simon White")
![Here’s a neat threesome of old-school Toyotas, uploaded to the CC Cohort by Jerome Solberg. Clearly, someone likes their old-school Japanese cars in this Berkeley neighborhood. All RWD models from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/54975224508_b4fbef2da4_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: A RWD Toyota Lover Lives Here")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Chevrolet was America’s favorite car during much of the 20th century, when cars still ruled the roads. Today, we have a good selection of cars from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot_20251117-000152-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Chevrolet In The 1960s & 1970s: An American Icon In Its Heyday")
![Let’s do some time-traveling to the 1980s. Granted, there are probably other aspects of that era’s automotive landscape we would rather revisit than a humble J-car in “upscale” Buick garb. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/53679016126_f5692afedb_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1984 Buick Skyhawk Wagon – Eighties Time-Capsule Ready For The Camera")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The snow season is well underway in the Northern Hemisphere, which makes it a good time to look at some vintage snowy driveways, and the cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1970-Chevrolet-Monte-Carlo-115x115.webp "Winter At Home: Vintage Photos Of Cars In American Driveways Of The 1950s, 1960s & 1970s")
