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About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![“The Incredible Shrinking Woman” is a Lily Tomlin movie released most of forty years ago in February 1981. Having learnt of its existence, I had to see for myself whether […]](https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Boogelow-Wagon-34-Large.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods")
QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods
Posted on February 23, 2020 | 77 Comments“The Incredible Shrinking Woman” is a Lily Tomlin movie released most of forty years ago in February 1981. Having learnt of its existence, I had to see for myself whether […] -
![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 we now use. How it […]](https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/monolithic_converter.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?")
Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?
Posted on February 3, 2020 | 57 CommentsLegend 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 we now use. How it […] -
![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 damn cheap. Wait…what? How does […]](https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ignition_Comparo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Tech: HEI—GM’s Superior Sparks, At Home and Elsewhere")
CC Tech: HEI—GM’s Superior Sparks, At Home and Elsewhere
Posted on February 16, 2019 | 66 CommentsThere’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 damn cheap. Wait…what? How does […] -
QOTD: What was your first car accident?
Posted on December 29, 2018 | 70 CommentsNew driving licence: check. Authorised access to a car: check. All the pieces were in place, -
![Over seventeen years’ time, a lot of technical innovation and technological progress can happen. Can, that is, but not necessarily will, and when something comes kicking stalled evolution in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cartoon1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles")
Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles
Posted on November 26, 2018 | 33 CommentsOver seventeen years’ time, a lot of technical innovation and technological progress can happen. Can, that is, but not necessarily will, and when something comes kicking stalled evolution in the […] -
![They say if you strap a piece of toast, butterside-up, to the back of a cat and drop the assembly, it’ll hover a few feet above the floor, doing lazy […]](https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/89Caprice_Rear.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box")
CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box
Posted on November 2, 2018 | 73 CommentsThey say if you strap a piece of toast, butterside-up, to the back of a cat and drop the assembly, it’ll hover a few feet above the floor, doing lazy […] -
![(Note: the writer obviously transposed “month” to “week” so the weekly mileage, and all the service intervals, undoubtedly should be “per month”, not “per week”. If you make that change […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Science_Mechanics_7-70_cover.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Review: 1970 Dodge NYC Taxi (Plus! How They Make Them Last!)")
Vintage Review: 1970 Dodge NYC Taxi (Plus! How They Make Them Last!)
Posted on October 24, 2018 | 38 Comments(Note: the writer obviously transposed “month” to “week” so the weekly mileage, and all the service intervals, undoubtedly should be “per month”, not “per week”. If you make that change […] -
QOTD: What Car Did Mister Rogers Drive?
Posted on September 15, 2018 | 53 CommentsIf you grew up in the States after 1969, you probably remember Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, as I surely do. There’s a -
![I’d seen this ’63-’66 Beetle around town from time to time for quite awhile by the time I finally caught up with it in an Office Despot car park some […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Spoiler_Alert.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Spoiler Alert! – Double Your Mileage and Keep the Engine Cooler! Maybe")
CC Outtake: Spoiler Alert! – Double Your Mileage and Keep the Engine Cooler! Maybe
Posted on August 26, 2018 | 29 CommentsI’d seen this ’63-’66 Beetle around town from time to time for quite awhile by the time I finally caught up with it in an Office Despot car park some […] -
CC Capsule: 1992 Chrysler Spirit—Illegal Alien
Posted on August 6, 2018 | 41 CommentsHere’s a detail of a car seldom seen by most of us. You doubt? Read on! -
CC Capsule: ’77-’79 Mercury Cougar Brougham. What’s 2nd Prize, Two Of Them?
Posted on July 27, 2018 | 75 CommentsHere’s a mostly well-preserved example of the offensively ugly American Ford products of the 1970s. This is a -
CC Vee-Dubble Feature: VW ’60 Metal Single Cab & ’58 Paper Microbus (Vintage Review)
Posted on May 27, 2018 | 23 CommentsHere’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 guy in the shop asked -
![We—my photographer husband and I—are in the middle of a road trip round the BC interior. Yesterday afternoon we pulled off at a scenic lay-by and off in the distance […]](https://i1.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MysteryCar_BC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Car Is This?")
QOTD: What Car Is This?
Posted on May 19, 2018 | 27 CommentsWe—my photographer husband and I—are in the middle of a road trip round the BC interior. Yesterday afternoon we pulled off at a scenic lay-by and off in the distance […] -
CC Outtake: Good Chryslers Make Good Neighbours
Posted on April 27, 2018 | 16 CommentsA member of my chosen family sent me this from below the li’l ol’ Mason-Dixon line, with the caption Look, my neighbors have a fetish you share. He’s a little -
CC Matinée: The Making of the First Valiant
Posted on April 21, 2018 | 36 CommentsBack in the beforetimes, theatregoers would see a newsreel and/or cartoons before the billboard movie. This morning’s
