- 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. General Motors was at the top of the heap during much of the twentieth century. Nearly 58 million domestic new cars were sold in the U.S. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-18-01.06.29-115x115.png "When Chrome Ruled: Classic 1950s GM Cars In Vintage Photos")
![Today’s 1956 Continental, uploaded to the CC Cohort by robadr, is going to make for something of a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty short post. Longtime readers may remember this very car from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/55327905403_cbd6b18370_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1956 Continental Mark II – Waiting For Its Second Chance")
![There was a time when the local shopping mall wasn’t just a place to buy things—it was a destination. These vintage postcards capture that moment when sprawling shopping centers were […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-07-17-13.30.38-copia-115x115.png "Vintage Postcards: Malls And Shopping Centers In The 1950s-1960s")
![It was December 2024, and I was making one of my regular visits to good ol’ USA. As often happens before these trips, my mind drifted into CC daydreaming from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_20241208_112052_PORTRAIT-115x115.jpg "1990 Buick Estate Wagon — Revisiting One Of The Last Traditional Station Wagons")
![Hoarders are a familiar subject at Curbside Classic, and today we’ve got a British take on the theme thanks to a Cohort find from Nathan Williams. His photos show a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/55304370627_9c9b6657e2_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds: A Yard Full of Prewar and Early Postwar British Classics")
![Text by Patrick Bell. One of the things American cars from the 1950’s are known for was the wide variety of two tone colors and styles. New paint technology led […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_20260616-212854-115x115.png "Color And Chrome: 1950s Cars In Two-Tone Magic")
![Our COAL bunker is running low again. That means it’s time to recruit a few more Cars Of A Lifetime (COAL) contributors –our long-running series, where readers share the car […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/960x0-115x115.webp "In Search Of New COALers")
![It didn’t take long for Plymouth’s Duster to catch on, and this group of photos from Zumwalt Chrysler-Plymouth in Santa Rosa, California, makes that awfully clear. Although they’re not precisely […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-06-14-00.19.31-e1783903258820-115x115.png "Vintage Dealer Photos: When Dusters Ruled Plymouth Dealerships")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Oldsmobile was a fine medium price car line that really hit their stride in the 1970’s with the hot selling Cutlass Supreme. Unfortunately, that all turned […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_20260317-033840-1-115x115.png "Oldsmobiles In Their Prime: Vintage Photos From The 1960s-1970s")
![Today’s gallery of vintage Chevrolet dealer postcards takes us back to some of the brand’s best days of the 1960s and 1970s. Along with a nice array of Chevrolets to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_20260406-015044-copia-115x115.png "1960s–1970s Chevrolet Dealers in Vintage Postcards")
![Text by Patrick Bell. There was a time when just about every town had its own baker, plumber, appliance dealer, TV repair shop, and fuel distributor, each with a fleet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-14.53.18-e1783195563423-115x115.png "Service And Trade Vehicles Of The ’50s-’60s, In Colorful Period Livery")
![Every car has a story, but the cars themselves are only part of the whole—they’re the backdrop for road trips, first jobs, family adventures, questionable purchases, and the memories that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-07-06-17.04.35-115x115.png "COALers Needed")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Neighborhoods are the theme today, with many to view in today’s vintage photo gallery. The photos date from the 1960s and ’70s, and offer a good […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-01-27-14.53.42-115x115.png "The Cars That Lived In Our Neighborhoods In The 1950s to 1970s")
![Chrysler products have always been rare sights on Dutch streets, yet Cohort contributor Corey Behrens recently came across not one, but two. The first is a well-preserved 1969 Plymouth Fury […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/55362023898_a92a1f06f3_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Finds: 1969 Plymouth Fury III & 1989 Dodge Mini Ram C/V — Vintage Chryslers Still Roaming the Netherlands")
![Time to do a quick catch up with the curbside finds that our Cohort contributors have been uploading in recent days. We start with a CC favorite, a well-preserved F-Series; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-06-24-13.52.15-115x115.png "A 1966 Ford F-100 And Other Cohort Finds")
