- 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. Family photos are always fun to view as the people and their apparel really show how time changes our world. And when you have their cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_20260410-105235-115x115.png "When the Family Car Was Everything: 1950s to 1970s Life in Vintage Photos")
![Today’s tour through vintage images will be thanks to postcards of American main streets and downtowns. Before the era of big-box stores, sprawling shopping centers, and endless suburban development, these […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/55130251934_759f2d7d29_h-115x115.jpg "Vintage 1950s & 1960s Postcards Of Main Streets And Downtowns")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The 1960’s and 1970’s were good years overall for Dodge, as they (like many others) went after the youth market brought on by the baby boomer […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_20260322-004848-115x115.png "Dodges In Their Prime — Vintage Photos 1960s-1970s")
![A recent batch of images posted in the CC Cohort by RJ offered up a nice selection of 1980s and 1990s curbside classics still out there running. As a twist […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantallaa-2026-08-18-15.35-115x115.png "1980s-1990s Curbside Finds In Estonia")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Vintage gas stations are on the tour schedule today, though most of them could be called “service stations”, as service is what you used to receive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-15.08.50-115x115.png "Gas Stations Of the 1950s – 1970s In Vintage Photos")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Chevrolet’s momentum of the 1950’s carried over to the next decade and into the beginning of the malaise era as well. By then the world had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-05-11-20.17.42-115x115.png "Chevrolets In Their Prime – Vintage Photos, 1960s-1970s")
![Photos from the CC Cohort by Hyperpack. In general, the public has a fascination with origin stories—and endings. Today, we have one of the latter, with a closing chapter that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/55348027197_a31841f7a1_k-115x115.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Brougham Convertible — Last of the Big Pontiac Convertibles")
![Today’s postcard tour takes us back to Pontiac’s glory years, from the 1960s into the 1970s, when the division was turning out some of its most memorable cars. As usual, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-14-23.11.33-115x115.png "Pontiac’s Best Years In Vintage Postcards — 1960s-1970s")
![Today’s gallery of vintage Ford dealership postcards takes us back to the 1960s and 1970s. From Falcons and Fairlanes to Mustangs, Galaxies, and hardworking pickups, there’s plenty of familiar Fords […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_20260811-225518-115x115.png "1960s-1970s Ford Dealers In Vintage Postcards")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Our feature today is another round of images from the Dave Gelinas Collection. The photos in Dave’s collection show that he truly had an eye for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-10-09.21.19-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Everyday Street Scenes In The 1950s & 1960s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. The fin fad and the post WWII economic boom grew in parallel from the late 1940’s until the late 1950’s when they also crashed about the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantallaa-2026-08-07-01.22.44-115x115.png "The Golden Age Of Car Fins — Vintage Photos Of The 1950s And 1960s")
![The CC Cohort has been quite active in recent days with several finds that deserve some attention. Being the summer, the mix of finds goes from worn classics by the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/55380313719_bd10ed2652_b-1-115x115.jpg "A Gallery Of Finds From The CC Cohort — Summer Edition")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Plymouth was Chrysler Corporation’s low priced line for much of the last century. They built a fine product for the most part, but usually ran third […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshota_20260503-040552-115x115.png "Plymouths In Their Prime: Vintage Photos From The 1960s")
![Photos from the CC Cohort by So Cal Metro Datsuns of the 1970s have been conversation pieces every so often since they came out, mainly thanks to their curiously wonky […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Captura-de-pantallaa-2026-08-03-13.53.56-115x115.png "1970s Datsun 620 RV: Straight Out Of A 1970s Sci-Fi film? — Nope, A Very Rare Scorpion Motorhome")
![Text by Patrick Bell. As there are many types of trailers, our focus today for the most part is on the camping type. Many people heed the call of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tumblr_3684e5278474e024afa07a3cc1c2d6a7_1d361c69_1280-115x115.jpg "Trailer And Car Life In Vintage Photos — 1950s-1970s")
