- 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. Today we are going to wish David Dunbar Buick a belated Happy Birthday. He was born on September 17, 1854, in Scotland, and moved to Detroit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-16-14.54.44-115x115.png "Vintage Snapshots: Buick Style In The 1950s-1970s")
![If Chrysler’s products of the early ’60s were flamboyant, doesn’t a stretched one turn them into even bolder statements? I certainly think so. Exactly, how long are those fins now? […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/upload_2022-9-14_18-25-5-115x115.png "The Chrysler And Pontiac Limousines Of Hawaii – Cruising Paradise In The 1960s")
![In retrospect, however short-lived it turned out to be, one can safely assume that the arrival of the 4-door hardtop station wagon was inevitable. Both the station wagon and the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1957-Mercury-Commuter-and-1957-Oldsmobile-Golden-Rocket-88-Fiesta-115x115.webp "All Those Glamorous Four-Door Hardtops – Hardtop Station Wagons Of The 1950s")
![So there I was, on my visit to Antigua Guatemala last March, when on my way to our hotel, I came across a 1954 Pontiac custom job being used as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_20250308_161402_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "1954 Pontiac: One-Of-A-Kind In Guatemala")
![Text by Patrick Bell. You don’t see people hand washing their cars much anymore, or at least I don’t. As a car washer from way back, even I haven’t done […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-09-21-00.05.49-115x115.png "Vintage Snapshots: Soap And Shine – Car Washing In The 1950s-1970s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Fifty-five years ago today the Pinto galloped into the world as Ford’s domestic entry into the subcompact market. In its decade of production, over 3.1 million […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/77c6e25e9f1da1eca02ee170a8764e3a-115x115.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Loving Our Ford Pintos – 1970s-1980s")
![If I remember correctly, Honda was about the least Brougham-y of the Japanese carmakers. But well, if a Honda is to get the Woodie treatment, an early CR-V is probably […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-07-16.08.27-115x115.png "Curbside Find: Honda CR-V – Homemade Woodie Edition")
![Maybe I didn’t live in the right California city back in the ’90s, but as far as I can recall, even then, finding an unrestored early Karmann Ghia was a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/KarmannGuia_Patina1-115x115.png "1955 Karmann-Ghia Convertible Wearing Its Patina Well")
![Summer is coming to an end, but that’s not the only season that’s changing around us, particularly here at CC, since some of our current COALers will soon finish their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-02-16.01.20-115x115.png "COALers And Contributors Needed")
![There I was, waiting for an old friend of mine in the corner of 24th and Mission in San Francisco, just by the BART station, when this white Alfa Romeo […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_20241205_151228_aHDR-115x115.jpg "In Motion Classic: Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV – Pure Seduction")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The call of the open road can come on strong enough to get the creative juices flowing. To avoid the expense of motels people will find […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-1-A-3-115x115.jpg "Rolling Oddities: Vintage Campers Through The Years – From Mild To Wild")
![At first glance, this might look like just another Volkswagen T3 double cab, but appearances can be deceiving. Robadr captured one of the rarest versions ever built: the T3 Transporter […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54743427037_c0d819cc8f_b-115x115.jpg "Rare Find: VW T3 Transporter Double-Cabin TriStar – The 4-Door Transporter")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today is the 68th anniversary of Edsel Introduction Day, or E-Day. It was a highly publicized event that attracted a lot of attention, but not very […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tumblr_p8qucjs4gi1qcdxvpo1_a1280-115x115.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Remembering Edsels In The 1950s & 1960s")
