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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![(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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/VW_60_Truck_Interior_0129.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Vee-Dubble Feature: VW ’60 Metal Single Cab & ’58 Paper Microbus (Vintage Review)")
CC Vee-Dubble Feature: VW ’60 Metal Single Cab & ’58 Paper Microbus (Vintage Review)
Posted on May 26, 2024 | 29 Comments(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 […] -
![Originally posted 4 December 2020; rewritten 4/2024 with more and better images, and text translations This is a still from a Japanese animated movie called Shitī Hantā (“City Hunter”). The […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Dodge_Michigan_Manga.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Brochure Boggle: 1986 Dodge Michigan—They Sold What, Where?!")
CC Brochure Boggle: 1986 Dodge Michigan—They Sold What, Where?!
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 52 CommentsOriginally posted 4 December 2020; rewritten 4/2024 with more and better images, and text translations This is a still from a Japanese animated movie called Shitī Hantā (“City Hunter”). The […] -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2014-Mazda-Capella-Front_8345.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Post-COAL: 2014 Mazda 6 – Leveraging the CC Effect")
Post-COAL: 2014 Mazda 6 – Leveraging the CC Effect
Posted on August 25, 2023 | 60 CommentsBut 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 […] -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/68_Beetle_LF34_7524.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC’s Best of 2023: 1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum…")
CC’s Best of 2023: 1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum…
Posted on June 13, 2023 | 80 CommentsA 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, […] -
Checker Times Two: A Marathon Runner Lives Here
Posted on June 8, 2023 | 28 CommentsI don’t know a whole lot about Checkers, but I think the silver one’s a Marathon. The green one appears to have done service as a taxicab. Stainless -
Vintage Ad Two-Fer: 1956 Cadillac and Lincoln
Posted on June 8, 2023 | 38 CommentsThis ad is from the June 1956 issue of Sunset Magazine (the magazine of western living!). And -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/53-Hudson-Hornet-RF34_4794.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "1953 Hudson Hornet – Hubba Hubba!")
1953 Hudson Hornet – Hubba Hubba!
Posted on June 7, 2023 | 42 CommentsDonno 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 […] -
MG Midget — Have Three; They’re Small!
Posted on June 6, 2023 | 30 CommentsI’d no idea what kind of an MG this was, except it was tiny. Standing next to it felt as though it came only up to my knees, and -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Buenos-Aires-by-Night-in-the-60s_2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Photo & QOTD: One Night in Buenos Aires – What Do You See?")
Vintage Photo & QOTD: One Night in Buenos Aires – What Do You See?
Posted on June 5, 2023 | 21 CommentsThis 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 […] -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hanna-Herald-Frontpage.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Sunday Paper: New Cars, 60.7 Years Ago")
CC Sunday Paper: New Cars, 60.7 Years Ago
Posted on June 4, 2023 | 34 CommentsThis 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 […] -
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Crouching-Panther_3752.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "1980-’83 Continental Mark VI: Laid-Up Lincoln")
1980-’83 Continental Mark VI: Laid-Up Lincoln
Posted on June 3, 2023 | 31 CommentsThis 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, […] -
![The thoughtless; the selfish, and the attention-starved tampered with their vehicles in unsafe, antisocial ways seventy-one years ago, as they still do now. In that foreign country known as The […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Salinas-Californian-1952-Mufflers-and-Lights_1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Clipping: Illegal Mufflers and Lights in 1952")
CC Clipping: Illegal Mufflers and Lights in 1952
Posted on May 31, 2023 | 48 CommentsThe thoughtless; the selfish, and the attention-starved tampered with their vehicles in unsafe, antisocial ways seventy-one years ago, as they still do now. In that foreign country known as The […] -
1999-2005 Mitsuoka Galue II – Alien Craft
Posted on May 31, 2023 | 42 CommentsI was having an evening walk round the block, as one does, when I saw this Mitsuoka, as one doesn’t. -
1963 Studebaker Lark Daytona – Awake From Hibernation
Posted on May 29, 2023 | 38 CommentsThe CC Effect™ is real! I saw this ’63 Lark Daytona two days after -
Vintage Photo: Swedish Saab-Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Dealer
Posted on May 28, 2023 | 20 CommentsWell, Mercedeses were handled by Studebaker dealerships in the U.S. for awhile, so why not this in Sweden! Closest
