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About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![Car-related nightmares? I’ve had a few of the poor choice/moneypit/serial-breakdown variety, but I’m fortunate to have been spared the dream kind, the real nightmares. Touch wood, I don’t get ’em. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/77_Caprice.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: What’s Your Best & Worst Car Dream?")
QOTD: What’s Your Best & Worst Car Dream?
Posted on June 25, 2022 | No CommentsCar-related nightmares? I’ve had a few of the poor choice/moneypit/serial-breakdown variety, but I’m fortunate to have been spared the dream kind, the real nightmares. Touch wood, I don’t get ’em. […] -
![(Originally published 3 August 2016) Now here is a very old product, shown here in an ancient bottle from when nothing seemed the matter with using “Chief Permatex” as a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Indian_Head_new.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Toolbox: Indian Head Gasket Shellac")
CC Toolbox: Indian Head Gasket Shellac
Posted on June 24, 2022 | 93 Comments(Originally published 3 August 2016) Now here is a very old product, shown here in an ancient bottle from when nothing seemed the matter with using “Chief Permatex” as a […] -
![(Reposted now the missing-all-images problem is fixed ) Rich Baron’s post about Honda’s CVCC engines focused on that technology as framed by enthusiastic actual, real engineer and president Soichiro Honda. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/73_Chev_350_CVCC_Test.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: Soichiro Honda Spanks GM CEO")
Automotive History: Soichiro Honda Spanks GM CEO
Posted on June 23, 2022 | 28 Comments(Reposted now the missing-all-images problem is fixed ) Rich Baron’s post about Honda’s CVCC engines focused on that technology as framed by enthusiastic actual, real engineer and president Soichiro Honda. […] -
![I don’t really think of Corvettes as two-tone cars. Okeh, the early ones from the ’50s, sure, but not ’80s models like this one. And yet…there it is, resplendent in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Blue_Blue_Corvette.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Blue-On-Blue Corvette")
CC Outtake: Blue-On-Blue Corvette
Posted on June 22, 2022 | 26 CommentsI don’t really think of Corvettes as two-tone cars. Okeh, the early ones from the ’50s, sure, but not ’80s models like this one. And yet…there it is, resplendent in […] -
CC Global: Disparate Darts, Variant Valiants • Alternate-Universe A-Bodies
Posted on June 20, 2022 | 54 CommentsGood morning, what’s this? There’s nothing such as what it looks like, a -
![(originally published 9 Feb 2017) While there’s plenty of room at the rarefied ultraluxury/hypercar top for a practically infinite number of brands, the mass-market motor trade is considerably more cutthroat. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras162/images/thumbnail.png "CC Commercial: Toyota Mocks the Special-Needs Kid")
CC Commercial: Toyota Mocks the Special-Needs Kid
Posted on June 19, 2022 | 30 Comments(originally published 9 Feb 2017) While there’s plenty of room at the rarefied ultraluxury/hypercar top for a practically infinite number of brands, the mass-market motor trade is considerably more cutthroat. […] -
CC Outtake: 1993 Asüna Sunfire • It’s a Bïrd! It’s a Pläne! It’s an Isüzü!
Posted on June 18, 2022 | 28 CommentsAsüna was a fine, fabled old Marqüe of Excellence from GM Canada. Oh, wait a minüte, that’s not trüe; it lasted all of 27 whole, entire months -
![I’m a professional copyeditor (amongst other things), so I tend to notice thoughtless phrasing. Take a look at the ’83 Caprice ad up there. Yes. It does. It’s got that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FordLately.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: Are They Listening To Themselves? • What’s the Worst Unsalesmanship in a Car Ad?")
QOTD: Are They Listening To Themselves? • What’s the Worst Unsalesmanship in a Car Ad?
Posted on June 18, 2022 | 167 CommentsI’m a professional copyeditor (amongst other things), so I tend to notice thoughtless phrasing. Take a look at the ’83 Caprice ad up there. Yes. It does. It’s got that […] -
![I don’t recall the asking price, but I do remember thinking it seemed very high when this ’61 Valiant was advertised repeatedly over several years, I think out of somewhere […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RHD_Diesel_60V_2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1961 Valiant Diesel • Clattered When Parked?")
CC Outtake: 1961 Valiant Diesel • Clattered When Parked?
Posted on June 17, 2022 | 29 CommentsI don’t recall the asking price, but I do remember thinking it seemed very high when this ’61 Valiant was advertised repeatedly over several years, I think out of somewhere […] -
![One sunny afternoon in the third week of September 2007, I arrived at my hotel near the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (main railway station) after a train ride from the airport; a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Steyr_200_rear-wiki.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1938 Steyr 200 • It’s Not Polite to Steyr")
CC Capsule: 1938 Steyr 200 • It’s Not Polite to Steyr
Posted on June 4, 2022 | 21 CommentsOne sunny afternoon in the third week of September 2007, I arrived at my hotel near the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (main railway station) after a train ride from the airport; a […] -
CC Capsule: 1928(ish) Chrysler • Grilled to Perfection
Posted on May 23, 2022 | 38 CommentsOne of the nifty things about living here is the variety of old cars to be seen out doing…y’know…car stuff; -
![(first posted 5/22/2016)) That’s my dad at considerably younger than my present age, proudly mowing the front lawn of his and my mother’s recently-acquired house in suburban Philadelphia some […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1117_Cropped.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Lawnside Classic: The Mow You Know")
Lawnside Classic: The Mow You Know
Posted on May 22, 2022 | 110 Comments(first posted 5/22/2016)) That’s my dad at considerably younger than my present age, proudly mowing the front lawn of his and my mother’s recently-acquired house in suburban Philadelphia some […] -
![This shop was around for a long, long, long time in Northeast Seattle’s Roosevelt Way. The bottom of the shopfront windowframe surely must’ve started out as a straight line; I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Pauls_Auto_Upholstery_1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Scenes from an Old Car Upholstery Shop")
CC Outtake: Scenes from an Old Car Upholstery Shop
Posted on May 15, 2022 | 22 CommentsThis shop was around for a long, long, long time in Northeast Seattle’s Roosevelt Way. The bottom of the shopfront windowframe surely must’ve started out as a straight line; I […] -
![For many years, starting with the advent of the electric flashing turn signal, the front indicators emitted white light by means of a colourless incandescent bulb behind a colourless lens […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/61-2-3-4_LANRP.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: When Front Turn Signals Changed Colour • Amber Waves of Pain")
Automotive History: When Front Turn Signals Changed Colour • Amber Waves of Pain
Posted on May 8, 2022 | 67 CommentsFor many years, starting with the advent of the electric flashing turn signal, the front indicators emitted white light by means of a colourless incandescent bulb behind a colourless lens […] -
Curbside Classic: 1958-1960 International Harvester Travelall • Workhorse With Grace and Style
Posted on May 7, 2022 | 38 CommentsWhen I was a little kid, looking out at traffic through the rear door windows, from time to time we’d draw even with a Travelall. Never one
