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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.
![One of the wonders of a car show, and indeed CC, is finding the familiar car in the unfamiliar setting – a 1948 Morris Minor up against a 1975 Maserati; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1963-buick-invicta-hardtop-2.jpg "1960 Buick Invicta Hardtop – Never Heard Of It, But I Want One")
![(Updated 9/27/2025) The CC Cohort is a gift that keeps giving. Staxman has recently posted these shots of an Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300Ti which he saw in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/48468824957_6e01466264_o-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1969 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300Ti – Nice Alfa!")
![(Updated 9/26/2025) What do you consider to be the most significant car of the 1980s? Plymouth Voyager/Dodge Caravan? Renault Espace? Mercedes-Benz 190E? GM J-car or X-car? Chrysler K-car? The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSC04709.11.jpg "Curbside Classic: Peugeot 205 – The Most Significant Car of the 1980s?")
![Recently, Paul Niedermeyer showed us a Fiat 1100 pick up, which was derived at least in terms of bodywork from the 1956 1100 saloon. It was the mainstay of Fiat’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/54523696471_594ac6668d_b-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: Fiat 1100D – From 1953 To 2001; From Turin To Mumbai")
![(first posted 9/6/2019) Here’s one you don’t see every day, or indeed, except one day last summer, any day. An Innocenti Coupé. My first reaction, and maybe yours […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC08736-2.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1968 Innocenti C – Italy Builds A Better British Sports Car")
![(first posted 9/1/2019) The history of the British owned elements of the motor industry in Australia is not as straight forward as you might have expected. The story […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC00100.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1975 Leyland P76 Executive V8 – The End Of Empire")
![(first posted 8/19/2019) You probably know the feeling. Wandering through a car show field, you glimpse a familiar but rarely seen profile. Your antennae react and your brain […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC00410.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1978 Alfa Romeo 2300 Rio – Doing A World Car, The Alfa Romeo Way")
![CC has seen the Talbot Tagora before – indeed one of the first CC profiles I did was of the Tagora. In that case, it was a car show ready, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54642444560_558106a657_b.jpg "Curbside Find: 1982 Talbot Tagora DT – Surviving Against The Odds")
![For various reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve not been able to go to as many car shows as usual this summer. And I’m going to miss the National […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20250315_121848-tile.jpg "The 2025 CC Cohort Classic Car Show – The European Section")
![Car museums can be presented in many ways, around varying themes, some more finely tuned than others in their content and presentations. Some feature just cars from one country, such […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DSC00967-tile.jpg "A Visit To Fahrtraum, The Ferdinand Porsche Museum")
![(First Posted 10/28/2015) In 1972, an expedition led by then-Major John Blashford-Snell, of the British Army’s Royal Engineers, was the first vehicle based expedition to traverse both American continents from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1953-land-rver-series1.7.jpg "Curbside Classic: Land Rover Series 1 – After 67 Years, The Night Watchman Comes Back To The Pavilion*")
![Is there a brand we’d all like to see revive more than Lancia? It may not have the huge sport and racing heritage of Alfa Romeo, the thoughtful individualism of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2027/06/20250530_084709.jpg "Rental Car Review – 2025 Lancia Ypsilon Ibrida LX Mild Hybrid: Is This A Lancia?")
![(first posted 4/30/2019) CC has looked at the history of the gently eccentric and very British Bristol before, but this example and the photographs taken by Nathan Williams […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/47629849162_a5073af949_o.jpg "Curbside Find: 1952 Bristol 401 – Timeless Elegance Of An English Spa Town")
![(note: the Microlino is not available in the US) Do you miss the Isetta and Messerschmidt bubble cars? Do you think one could be an answer to today’s traffic, width […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250115_110417.jpg "2024 Micro Microlino – This Electric Bubble Car May Be All You Need If You Don’t Need To Exceed 56 MPH")
![(first posted 7/10/2013) There’s an adage in the car industry – if a car is good enough, it’ll sell. It’s not the only way to successfully sell a car, of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DSC03305.4.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1978 Vauxhall Cavalier Sportshatch – If It’s Good Enough, It’ll Sell")
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