- 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. When Chevrolet introduced the subcompact Vega for model year 1971 it was an entirely new design on a new platform. With a sporty version called the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-13-04.26.32-115x115.png "From Vega To Monza: A Look Back At GM’s 1970s H-Body Subcompacts")
![Canadiancatgreen has been one of our most prolific CC Cohort contributors throughout the years, and these past few months, he’s been as busy as ever in his curbside hunting activities. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/54508911516_03f2632339_ak-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds From The Cohort In Canada")
![Today’s collection of vintage dealer photos highlights those with modernist/googie inspired signs on their lots. Designs that mixed Jet-Age motifs, asymmetric compositions, and simple geometric shapes; hallmarks of that Jet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/hamb-78-Park-Avenue-Chevrolet-36-115x115.png "Jet-Age Glow: Googie-Inspired Car Dealer Signs Of The 1950s & 1960s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Our gallery today is a nice selection of Oldsmobiles for your viewing pleasure. Overall they were a quality car line with a stable customer base and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2a7637364164_124785f18e_b-115x115.jpg "Vintage Photos Of Oldsmobile During Its Golden Era – 1960s–1970s")
![photos from the CC Cohort by Jerome Solberg. Finding cars from the 1950s, unrestored, still providing driver duties, has become a very rare thing. So, this old 1956 Plymouth caught […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/54750133234_04b0121084_b-115x115.jpg "1956 Plymouth Suburban – The Trusty Ol’ 2-door Wagon")
![One thing about old vans is how they manage to mix utilitarian traits with a hint of hipness, almost regardless of condition. Something few other vehicles can do. And this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/54847524683_d693e5bbd1_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: Ford Econoline (Gen 1) – Old Box Still Laboring")
![Text by Patrick Bell. We have another round of wagons for today, with a good variety of high end, low end, and mid range offerings. They were still quite common […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-10-23.08.09-115x115.png "Snapshots From The Station Wagon Years – 1960s to 1970s")
![“I want something different, I want something special…” is the kind of expression that’s not rare in our consumerist culture. And today, to please such desires, how about a 1986 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot_20251011-025007-115x115.png "1986 Lincoln Ranger Continental – The Luxury Truck You Didn’t Expect")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today we have a bunch of ’68 Chevrolets heading to market with a few GMCs for good measure. The images consist of full size cars and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-06-23.39.20-115x115.png "When 1968 Chevrolets Were New – Car Carriers On The Move")
![It was a vintage ad that sent me down the peculiar rabbit hole of American models built in South America — that alternate reality where familiar things appear as if […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-06-02.18.54-115x115.png "1969 IKA-Renault Rambler Ambassador – Argentina’s Take On American Luxury")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Henry Ford was all about basic transportation, and I think he would have been pleased with the Falcon, especially the black ones. We are highlighting the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-07-23.34.10-115x115.png "Ford Falcon Memories: The 1960s Everyday Car In Vintage Photos")
![I have to admit that I’ve a personal fondness for the compact Japanese trucks of the 1970s. They were curious things in my childhood, much different from the American-built trucks […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/47953637738_ee6175be17_b-115x115.jpg "Chevrolet LUV and Toyota HiLux – 1970s Compact Trucks Still At Work")
