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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.
![There’s a first time for everything they say. And to prove it, last Thursday, I took photographs of a motorcycle, parked in a field as the sun set. And why? […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220602_210243.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1956 Sunbeam S7 – Their Last, My First")
![On paper, everything about the 1959 Austin A95 Westminster was simple – a uncomplicated steel monocoque construction, an overhead valve straight six engine and four speed gearbox lacking synchromesh on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP_20160316_005.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1959 Austin A95 Westminster – Keep It Simple; Make It Complicated But Ultimately Sinful")
![x (first posted 5/27/2016) A Ford Granada coming towards you on a Sunday afternoon, whist waiting at a bus stop. Noteworthy – any Granada on the road now deserves […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2-granadas.1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "In Motion Classics: 1976 Ford Granada Ghia 3.0 and 1985 Ford Granada 2.3GL – Objects In The Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear")
![We can no longer read LJK Setright on a monthly basis as we used to, but a bit of internet browsing can unearth gems of his thoughts and wisdom, as […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/6800483308_27ade7d3ac_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Magazine Rewind: CAR, May 1992 – Will There Ever Be A Better Mini Than The Mini?")
![(first posted 5/24/2016) Forty years ago today (in 2016), two aircraft landed at Washington Dulles Airport. The supersonic age had arrived, and with it a true design and technology […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/mach2-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: BAC/Sud Aviation Concorde – Before You Leave, You Arrive")
![“Bonjour, Monsieur, Madame; comment allez-vous? Bienvenue au garage du Boulevard Winston Churchill, agence Peugeot. We offer a full range of new Peugeot cars and autres grand marques, d’occasion. How can […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20210903_184312.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classique: 1958 Peugeot 403 – A Vendre, Grand Choix de Voitures Neuves et d’Occasion, Petit Prix*")
![According to the registration records, this is a 1969 VW Beetle 1600. Your eyes may suggest something – the obvious is a 1957 Porsche 356A Speedster. The manufacturer calls it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20210905_121737.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD – 1969 VW Type 1 Beetle 1600, Reimagined As A Chesil Speedster – Do Curbivores Approve?")
![Picking the greatest, or the worst, of anything or any group, be it people, places, events or objects, is always a subjective thing to do. Here at CC, I’ve nominated […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/motorsportcover.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Racing Retrospective: Sir Stirling Moss’s 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR – The Greatest Car, Driver and Race?")
![By the early 1950s, Rover had realised that the Land Rover (then still the Series 1) had scope beyond the stop gap it was originally foreseen to be. Alongside the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20210904_104229.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1953 Minerva Tout Terrain – A Land Rover For Belgium, From Belgium")
![(first posted 4/19/2016) In retrospect, the automotive marketplace in Britain in the early 1960s was a straightforward place. There were small cars, medium sized family cars, large family cars, luxury […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DSC04099.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1969 Vauxhall Ventora (FD Series) – Trying To Adapt, With Difficulty")
![You may recall reading about the Vauxhall Cavalier Sportshatch on CC earlier this year. This was the Vauxhall version of General Motors Europe’s competitor to the Ford Capri II, Renault […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP_20180624_19_07_27_Pro_LI-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: 1983-6 Opel Manta GT/J Coupe – Germany’s Better Capri")
![(first posted 10/19/2013) 1963 was an important year in the United States for new cars, but possibly just as important in the UK and Europe. It was the birth […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/P6-1964.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classics: 1963 Rover 2000 and Triumph 2000 – Britain Leads The Way")
![Alfa Romeo has a record, longer and stronger than most, of offering a coupe alongside a saloon, often with more than one choice at a time. The 105 series Giulia […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20200802_162150.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: 2006 Alfa Romeo Brera 2.4JTD – I Think I Could Forgive It Anything, Except Being Alfa’s Last Coupe")
![(first posted 4/9/2022) CC has previously looked at the Hillman Imp (Sunbeam Imp) and the Hillman Hunter (Sunbeam Arrow) and examined their role in the decline and fall of the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1973-hillman-avenger-estate.9.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1973 Hillman Avenger 1500 Super Estate – After Optimism, Exile")
![CAR magazine may now be one of the UK’s major motoring enthusiasts’ monthlies, but it has an interesting back story. It was founded in 1962, and has always tried to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cover-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Magazine Rewind: CAR’s Good, Bad and Ugly, June 1977 – Some You’d Expect, Some Surprises, But Nothing Bland")
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