- 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. We are going to travel around today, checking out some towns and cities from the past. Not all locations are known, perhaps some of you can […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-04-21-15.31.27.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Vintage Traffic And City Streets In 1950s-70s America")
![It’s back to the showroom with today’s short vintage photo gallery, a collection of images of ladies at Rambler/American Motors dealers in the 1960s. Background info on these was nonexistant, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/metadc1336456_xl_UNTA_AR0847-004-03-195.jpg "The Rambler Appeal: Vintage Photos Of Female Car Buyers At Rambler Dealers")
![In recent days, I’ve been on a mission to review Cohort material that I may have missed sharing with the larger CC readership. And here was one from a few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54299016429_0ab6389000_b.jpg "Rare Find: 1967 Imperial With Director’s Chair Option – Chrysler’s Luxury Statement")
![I knew this car seemed familiar. About a year ago, we got a solitary shot at the Cohort of this rare Packard drop-top in motion. Now, about a year later, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-17-00.01.46.jpg "Rare Classic: 1953 Packard Convertible – Classic Elegance At The Parking Lot")
![I don’t see Wile E. Coyote anywhere near this 1972 Road Runner for sale posted at the CC Cohort by Hyperpack. However, it doesn’t take a lot of viewing to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54716869036_08b6542127_k.jpg "Front Lawn Deal: 1972 Plymouth Road Runner For Sale – ACME Tools Needed To Fix This Classic")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today we have another selection of vehicles in transit. I have always enjoyed viewing truckloads of new cars rolling down the road, and unloading when I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-14-00.02.12-e1755153987494.jpg "Vintage Car Carrier Photos: The Iconic 1957 Cars, Arriving Fresh From The Factory")
![The arrival of the modern limited-access US highway system was an era-defining event, with distances shortened in ways previously unimaginable. Before the US Interstate Highway Act of 1956 unleashed the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-03-23.50.30.jpg "Scenes Of America’s Early Turnpikes – Paid Previews Of Freeways To Come")
![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")
