![Passion for Alfa Romeos is a worldwide phenomenon, including in Sweden, better known for its stolid Volvos, quirky Saabs and flamboyant classic American cars. Alfas of the 1990s and 2000s are a common sight, and Alfas of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1-Spider.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: Ciao, GTV! Hej, Spider!")
![Welcome to the first part of what I expect to be a three or more part series about the second life of the car shown above: a 1986 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. This […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1-Front-view1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My Global CC: To The Gambia, In Your Grandmother’s Oldsmobile")
![Cadillac made its “last convertible” in 1976 with its widely hyped final run of Eldorado ragtops, but unknown to most, anyone (with a lot of cash) could order a new de Ville […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "Vintage Ad: 1979 Hess & Eisenhardt LeCabriolet")
![When the types of cars that are the focus of this website appear on television, the program usually is on a nostalgia cable network and is as old as the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1-1977-Olds-Delta-88.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CCTV: Cars of The Americans")
![Merlettes, actually. The classic Cadillac crest has two groups of three birds that are usually identified as ducks, but are really merlettes – a bird used in French heraldry that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/3-Ducks-in-a-row.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Ducks in a Row")
![Long before any car becomes a classic, it was a new car, and the advertisements dreamed up by the Mad Men usually proclaim every new car to be the latest and greatest. In the case of the 1978 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/300SD-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Left Brain Ad: 1978 Mercedes-Benz 300SD Turbodiesel")
![On Stockholm streets filled with a vast fleet of classic American cars, one particular tall ship – a very tall one indeed – towers over the rest. Here, any American […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1-Front-view.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic Global: Dodge Ram Van Charger 4×4 in Sweden")
![“Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?” “No, but I served in a company of heroes.” Richard Winters spoke these famous words in the interview that concluded the epic […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/KW-Parts-for-American-Cars.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global Outtake: Not a Classic Van, But It Serves in a Company of Classics")
![A black hearse that is itself only a few miles from the auto graveyard is most people’s image of an ideal Halloween car. The hearse usually will be a Cadillac, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Halloween-Volvo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Halloween Hearse, Swedish Style")
![Spotted on a street in Stockholm, Sweden, this Ford Taunus from the “Project 5” (P5) generation of 1964-67 immediately created the feeling that I had seen it before somewhere. I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1-Taunus.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 1964-67 Ford Taunus – Der Deutsche Falcon")
![Growing up in the United States, almost everyone becomes familiar with the Sesame Street song and regular feature, “One of These Things Is Not Like the Others.” Here is an […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Transporter.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others")
![(image courtesy weilinet.com) Volkswagen do Brasil has produced a number of models over the years by taking familiar VW designs and conducting radicalsurgery to tweak and twist them in surreal ways. The VW Gol […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1-Front2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: VW Brasilia – Another Alternate Universe Brazilian VW")
![“What is the ultimate Volkswagen van?” is a question that should inspire debate. A flower-power-painted hippy bus would be the answer to some. A Samba tour bus with its many windows and giant sunroof would the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1-Van.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: VW Westfalia Inspired by Porsche")
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