- 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.
![Today, it’s visit time to Lincoln-Mercury dealers as they appeared from the 1950s through the 1970s—a period when the dealerships themselves went through quite a transformation. What began as fairly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-09-14-18.32.29-115x115.png "Lincoln-Mercury Dealers In Vintage Postcards — 1950s-1970s")
![As with pets, we automotive types tend to believe that cars often resemble their owners. A “truism” that has become less applicable in recent times, perhaps, but when it comes […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_20260627_172451_PORTRAIT-2-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds: Two VW Double Cab Pickups, Two Different Lifestyles")
![Text by Patrick Bell. It’s tour day, and this time we’re going downtown—or, more accurately, to several downtowns. Not the increasingly rare downtowns we know today, but the vintage kind, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-15.16.29-115x115.png "Cars And Storefronts Downtown And On Main Street, 1950s-1970s")
![There’s something rather neat about seeing Cadillac and Oldsmobile together in several of these old dealer photos–a collection of gleaming Oldsmobiles representing a family that was moving up in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantaalla-2025-10-09-01.37.46-copia-115x115.png "Cadillac and Oldsmobile at the Dealer: Vintage Photos From the 1950s–70s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Studebaker was a long time car maker that faded away in the 1960’s. Their cars were loved by many, but unfortunately by not enough. Today we […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot_20260413-021554-115x115.png "Studebaker Through the Years In Vintage Photos")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Chryslers and Imperials are the focus today as we take a look at a few from the 1960’s and 1970’s. They were known as a company […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-06-17-16.19.53-115x115.png "Chrysler And Imperial In Their Prime — Vintage Photos, 1960s-1970s")
![It’s back to the Eighties with this find by Dave Saunders, uploaded to the CC Cohort. My, how times change. To think there was a time when Oldsmobiles like this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/55446892284_e7a11659d7_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1989-1991 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight – Once Everywhere, Now a Rare Sight")
![Today’s vintage gallery of dealer shots offers a chance to watch Dodge transform over the course of the 1960s. The brand began the decade with a grown-up mission, and curious […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-11-00.14.51-115x115.png "Dodge Dealers In Vintage Photos — 1960s-1970s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Labor Day weekend is the last holiday of summer, and in spite of high fuel costs many folks will be traveling. Today we have a gallery […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-28-18.09.41-115x115.png "Ready for the Road: Vintage Photos of 1950s–1970s Travelers and Their Cars")
![Today’s visit to dealers of the past will be a very short one, but if you’re a fan of AMC’s pony-car contender, it might be just the ticket. The Javelin […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/16662983732_36387dde69_b-115x115.jpg "Vintage Photos: AMC Javelins at the Dealer")
![Photo from the CC Cohort by Guillaume Vachey. Nope, that’s not a typo in this post’s title; it really is a Chrysler Stratus, the badge and name under which these […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/55472683850_4dcd8fe318_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1995-1998 Chrysler Stratus – An Unlikely American in France")
![Text by Patrick Bell. On the menu today is a nostalgic tour through the fast-food joints, diners, and roadside eateries of 1950s–70s America. These vintage photos provide a fun look […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-26-16.26.42-115x115.png "When Cars, Diners and Fast Food Went Together: Vintage Photos From the 1950s–70s")
![It’s another visit to Pontiac dealers of the past through vintage photos, on this occasion featuring some of the brand’s better days, when it went from a conservative GM division […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantallaa-2026-08-25-23.52.53-115x115.png "Vintage Photos: Pontiac Dealers In The 1960s-1970s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Buick had their game going in the 1950’s. They offered style, reliability, and power to the hungry car buying public. Today we have several examples to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-22-18.57.09-115x115.png "Buicks In Their Best Decade — Vintage Photos 1950s")
![Wait, what is it we got here? That was my first thought as I approached this boxy ‘Sheer Look’ 1981 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale sedan and then noticed… Diesel badges! Quite […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_20260705_143905_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1981 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale Diesel – Unlikely Survivor From GM’s Diesel Era")
