- 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.
![Photos from the CC Cohort by Hyperpack Rust has become less of an issue in cars from recent times, but here, to make up for it, it’s this GMC Sierra […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/55370742831_cbfb56268d_k-e1785535084300-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: A GMC Sierra, One Giant Rust Hole, and a Lot of Questions")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Two and three tone color applications were very popular during the 1950’s and catch much of the attention now, but that does not mean they were […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot_20260227-034605-115x115.png "A Rainbow Of 1950s Cars — Remember When Cars Weren’t Just Black, White, and Gray?")
![Photos from the CC Cohort by Eric Clem I guess this is the only way one of these last-generation Buick Centurys can get me to stop and take a look: […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/55305151197_107a693fb3_k-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 2000 Buick Century — From Retirement Cruiser to Road Warrior")
![Text by Patrick Bell. We are taking a tour today to some small to medium towns around the U.S., plus one north of the border. The itinerary is vintage views […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/upload_2023-1-17_13-1-42-115x115.png "Cars And Storefronts Downtown And On Main Street, 1950s and 1960s")
![Today’s gallery of vintage Pontiac dealer postcards takes us back to a decade that began a dramatic change for the brand. The 1950s saw Pontiac starting to evolve from its […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-07-26-22.40.33-115x115.png "Vintage Photos: Pontiac Dealers In The 1950s")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Today we have some everyday people doing a variety of activities, always with a car or two close by. These are great shots that show how […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_20251117-001027-copia-115x115.png "Vintage Photos Of Everyday Scenes In 1950s-1970s America")
![Text by Patrick Bell. Ford had a good decade in the 1960’s with a few hits that changed the automotive world. Today, we have a good gallery of sixties Fords […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-06-17-16.01.24-115x115.png "Classic Fords In Their Prime: Vintage Photos From The 1960s")
![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")
