- 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.
![If there’s something we enjoy at CC, it’s coming across models that used to be common and that have become the rarest of their species. Today’s find fits that mold […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1966_CHEVYII.jpg "Curbside Talks: 1966 Chevy II Nova 4-Door With Powerglide – Everyday American Motoring As It Used To Be")
![A Gremlin! Not something one comes across easily anymore. A neat find by its own in the quiet neighborhood I was staying in El Cerrito last December. However, really lousy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_20241211_100132_PORTRAIT.jpg "Driveway Find: 1972 Gremlin 401-XR, Dealer Special With 6.6L Punch – Tribute Or Real Deal?")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Cars with the DeSoto nameplate were produced for over thirty years, and have been gone for over sixty. Today we have a good selection of images […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-18-00.53.22.jpg "Vintage Photos: 1950s DeSoto Cars In Their Prime")
![The Find Here’s something I didn’t expect to come across at all. Not that I was entirely sure as to what exactly I was staring at when I saw it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_20250728_160017_PORTRAIT.jpg "Fiat 1500 Familiare Wagon: Patina, Bondo, Dents and Lots Of Character – Or How To Keep Your Fiat Running Forever!")
![I like to think our brains are wired to enjoy contrasts, especially in pairs. Be it size, age, character or otherwise. You know what I mean; Laurel and Hardy, Harold […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-10-16.04.26.jpg "Unlikely Pair: 1968 Cadillac Convertible and 1997 Fiat Cinquecento Found In Hungary")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Our feature today is cars and a few trucks, as they were seen in the neighborhoods of the mid century era. Most of them you never […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/424592529_3b4f8f409d_k.jpg "Classic Cars And Everyday Neighborhoods In The 1950s-1960s – Vintage Photos From A Bygone Era")
![Today, we’ll pay a visit to America’s premier luxury carmaker during its peak era of the ’50s and ’60s, all seen through period postcards around that era. A nice way […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-06-17.36.05.jpg "Picture Perfect Luxury: ’50s-’60s Cadillac Dealer Postcards")
![Text by Patrick Bell. School starts next week in my part of the world, so it seems like a good time to take another look at station wagons and their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/a-dart.webp "Vintage Snapshots: Life With The Station Wagon – Pure ’50s & ’60s Nostalgia")
![In many ways, the 1990s were the peak era for Japanese sporty-car offerings, from hot GTs to specialized sports cars to affordable compacts. The variety at the time was astounding. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sports-compacts.jpg "Small, Fun And Forgotten: Japanese FWD Sports Compacts Of The ’90s")
![The images that Ralf K has uploaded to the CC Cohort throughout the years have been some of our favorites. And as some of you know, in recent months we’ve […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-04-15.05.59.jpg "A Gallery Of Vintage Car Finds By Ralf K")
![Today’s automotive curiosity comes thanks to a couple of images shared by riveranotario at the Cohort; a 1991 Yugo Skala, a model I had no idea had reached South America. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-03-11.08.32.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1991 Yugo Skala – The Fiat 128 Pick Up")
![Text by Patrick Bell. As the 1948 sales brochure stated; “This time it’s Hudson”. I’ve never had any experience with one, as they were all about gone in my part […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/e823a18f05f2caa4a3ff56e5152b605f.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Hudsons and Their People In Their Best Era")
![We’re on for another chapter of American cars of the ’60s-’70s in Europe. Today is the muscle car variety, with a 1970 Chevelle SS in Hungary uploaded by Roshake at […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1970_ChevelleSS_Inmotion_11.jpg "In Motion Classic: 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS In Hungary")
![I don’t know about you, but my fondness of looking for old cars that used to be common comes in different degrees — from the ones that I dearly miss […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/1977_Toyota_Corona1.jpg "Curbside Find: 1978 Toyota Corona – Some Rash, But This Old Pal Is Still Rolling!")
