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- Drives an Alfa Romeo Giulietta and a 1996 Alfa Romeo Spider when the suns shines at the weekend. Gradate of Coventry University, Britain's Detroit.
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![Curbside Outtake: 1999 Fiat Barchetta – It’s All In The Details. Fiat, along with MG and Triumph, was perhaps the greatest exponent of the affordable, European roadster and after the 124 Spider and the X1/9 had taken (well deserved) retirement, there […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1999_fiat_barchetta_2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Outtake: 1949 Armstrong Siddeley Whitley – One Aristocrat Meets Another! Armstrong Siddeley is a brand name that may well have little recognition now and especially so outside the UK, but it has a history that can be traced back to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1967-Citroen-H-van.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Clue Joseph of Eldorado (I wonder what he drives?) seems to have had the best answer to Jason Shafer’s Mercury Monterey earlier this month. But what’s this, from the other end of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/262363_448774731867112_767296165_n.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)

![Curbside Outtake: 1926 Humber 14/40 Saloon – Waiting For A Sunny Day Smartphones with cameras are a brilliant invention, and done properly with a good user interface are quite absorbing, as many people have undoubtedly noticed. They are also a persistent cause of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1926-humber14-40.1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Outtake: 1965 Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint – Bellissima Doesn’t Get Close! I don’t know about you but I always feel better when I see an old Alfa Romeo, and a 1965 2600 Sprint is close enough to amazing to deserve reporting. I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1965-alfa-romeo-2600_5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)

![CC Clue David 42 and Ramon got the Rover 214 recently, but it did take 11 minutes. So, you’ve eaten your turkey and feeling sharp, so can you spot this, which […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1980TriumphTR7-14.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Carshow Outtake: 1985 Fiat Strada 65CL – Standing Out From The Pack, In More Ways Than Expected Many of us have personal preferences for various types and fashions in the styling of a car. Some like the fins of a 1959 Cadillac, some admire the simple but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fiat-1978_128_8models_1978.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Outtake: 2014 Renault Zoe – The Electric Light Has Been Switched On CC has had lively discussion over the last few weeks touching the subject of alternative fuels, triggered by the VW emission scandal. One subject that has come up several times […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2014_renault_zoe-21.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Outtake – 1967-76 Fiat 238 Scuola Bus – Certainly Beats Walking I guess we all remember how we got to school. Personally, I walked most of the time. Other kids went on a school bus and in Italy the kids may […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/fiat238scuolabus.3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: Does The CC Community Like Scrappage Schemes? Fellow Curbivore Joseph Dennis asked a question in the Comments on my recent piece about the Rover 216 Vanden Plas. I had noted how the UK scrappage scheme from 2009 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC07645.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: Which Technical Advance Can You Live Without? There have been many technical advances based on electronics applied to cars over the last thirty or more years. Some are central to modern safety, such as anti-lock brakes and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/keyless-Entry2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![French Holiday Outtakes: Lots Of CCs Ageing Like Fine Wines My wife and I have recently completed a two week holiday in France, partly in Brittany on the north west tip of the country and partly in the south west, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RENAULT-4.21.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


