- 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.
![Here’s a nice pair to compare what two automotive eras have offered as daily transport. One more chapter in our ongoing saga of “The Changing Shape Of Cars”. This time, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_20241212_163015436.jpg "Curbside Find: 1974 Dodge Dart And 2014 Honda CR-V – The Changing Shape Of Cars")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Greetings. Winter weather has arrived late in many parts of the U.S., but it definitely has arrived. Today we are going to tour some suburbs from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1974-snowmana.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: What’s On The Driveway – Cars In The Suburbs In The ’50s-’60s (Winter Edition)")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Greetings to all. Today we are going gander at a gallery of merry Oldsmobiles. I have always liked the medium priced cars. They had most of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tumblr_d73ae3e1b15c470bc59761d1def98ec6_dea765a7_1280.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Oldsmobiles On The Road In The ’60s & ’70s")
![Photos from the Cohort by Jerome Solberg. On a recent visit to California, it was nice to see in person that the Golden State is still one place to find […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/54220773297_dc1ddb524b_k.jpg "Curbside Finds: 1971 Dodge Coronet and 1968 Pontiac GTO – Stuck In The Early ’70s")
![Text provided by Patrick Bell Greetings to all. Today we are heading for the slopes, but don’t worry about packing your skis as we are going to stick with the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tumblr_pnhxhwUqs41qcdxvpo1_1280.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Parking Lots And Snow In The ’50s-’60s")
![Text provided by Patrick Bell Greetings to all and Happy New Year. The holidays are about over, the new year has dawned, and the winter doldrums are about to commence. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-04-21-00.37.42.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Traveling And Sightseeing Across The US In The ’50s-’60s")
![Today, it’s time to feature products from the bow tie division as they were back in the day; either on the roads, parked by the curbside, or in the open. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/51426480051_055f8d6580_k.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Chevrolets On The Road In The ’60s – ’70s")
![(Update: I’ve added CC reader Patrick Bell’s detailed comments on each picture) A nice neighborhood probably built in the 1930’s where the sidewalks are cleaner than the streets. In the foreground […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-12-21-01.33.21.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s & ’60s – Winter Edition")
![The time has come once again to wish you all Happy Holidays and a great New Year. As is our custom, CC will take a break from its regular posting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/44583636401_f24f6d9038_o.jpg "Vintage Snapshot: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas And Welcome To CC’s Best Of 2024")
![Time to pay a few minutes of attention to the products from South Bend, as they were back in the day. The photos cover mostly the 1950s era, with a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/upload_2022-10-11_22-22-53.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Studebaker Owners In The ’50s – Bullet Noses, Starlights And Larks")
![Time to celebrate once more the station wagons of yore. This time, in a collection that features them more or less in action as they used to appear on the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tumblr_mqrrkbYPZp1qcdxvpo1_1280.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: Station Wagons On The Road In The ’50s-’60s – Part 2")
![There is a good number of us who remember the days before SUVs had aggressive and edgy styling, an age when plain utilitarian boxiness was the thing. An era when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_20240924_145940894.jpg "Curbside Classics: ’84 & ’89 Mitsubishi Montero – From The Era Of Boxy SUVs")
![I would think most of us have, at some point or another, had a Chevrolet truck owning neighbor. Nothing extraordinary, nor unusual about that. But what I would think most […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_20241206_153217_PORTRAIT.jpg "Curbside Find: A Quartet Of Early ’70s Chevrolet C/K Trucks")
