![(Originally posted 8/9/2020; updated 8/9/2026) I’ve all but quit trawling local-ish ads for interesting old cars – anyone who’s recovered from Mad Car Disease and Elevated Collectserall knows it sure […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/YellowVal.jpg "Argentine Valiants on the Spectrum in Midwinter")
![(Updated 5/29/2026) Lately it’s Diesel Days here at CC. Paul’s put up articles about a gasoline-engine-based diesel that went just fine (VW’s 4-pot), and one that probably shouldn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DieselSlantSixPrototype.jpg "The Chrysler Diesel Slant-Sixes That Never Made It")
![(Updated 2/2/2026) Legend has it, “Let there be catalytic converters!” said GM’s Ed Cole, and »poof« the catalytic converter sprang into existence and evolved into the kind […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/monolithic_converter.jpg "The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?")
![An update of an older post, with more brochure pages and translations – but fewer comments. This is a still from a Japanese animated movie called Shitī Hantā (“City Hunter”). […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-28-15.12.23-115x115.png "1986 Dodge Michigan—They Sold What, Where?!")
![(first posted 2/16/2019) There’s a sturdy argument to be made that GM’s HEI (High-Energy Ignition) is so damn good because GM were so damn fixated on being so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ignition_Comparo.jpg "CC Tech: HEI – GM’s Superior Sparks, At Home and Elsewhere")
![(first posted 5/27/2018) Here’s a nifty ’60 VW single-cab pickup parked last week in front of a pop-up junque shop in the high street of Nelson, BC. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/VW_60_Truck_Interior_0129.jpg "CC Vee-Dubble Feature: VW ’60 Metal Single Cab & ’58 Paper Microbus (Vintage Review)")
![But first, the end of the Accord. Someone else at the studio had got a similar car, so scenes like this were common in the Autumn of 2022 into early […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2014-Mazda-Capella-Front_8345.jpg "Post-COAL: 2014 Mazda 6 – Leveraging the CC Effect")
![A sanitary Beetle—a real Beetle, parked up at the curb, just as regular as you please: a sight that was so common as to be invisible, all round the world, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/68_Beetle_LF34_7524.jpg "1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum…")
![Donno about you, but I consider it a good omen when I find an old car at a shop I’m about to patronise. Not just any old car(s), mind; one […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/53-Hudson-Hornet-RF34_4794.jpg "1953 Hudson Hornet – Hubba Hubba!")
![This is bustling Buenos Aires, Argentina, sometime in the 1960s. There’s a Valiant II (what North Americans would call a ’62 Valiant) just to the right of the centre, and…what […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Buenos-Aires-by-Night-in-the-60s_2.jpg "Vintage Photo & QOTD: One Night in Buenos Aires – What Do You See?")
![This didn’t start out as the Sunday paper, it started out as the Thursday paper. It’s the Hanna (Alberta) Herald for Thursday, 4 October 1962, to be exact, and it’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hanna-Herald-Frontpage.jpg "CC Sunday Paper: New Cars, 60.7 Years Ago")
![This panther looks like it’s sleepin’ it off after getting its jaw busted and its ear boxed in a fight. The rest of it looks to be in tidy shape, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Crouching-Panther_3752.jpg "1980-’83 Continental Mark VI: Laid-Up Lincoln")
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