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About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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Vintage Photos: Colorado Boulevard in the ’60s (and COAL Outtake: Smelly Old Chev Vans)
Posted on February 3, 2021 | 31 CommentsThis pic of Deane Buick amidst the visual din of Denver’s Colorado Boulevard in Autumn 1963 sparked some fun car spotting when I posted it the other day, so let’s […] -
COAL: 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass – Weren’t They All That Colour?
Posted on January 30, 2021 | 83 CommentsMother threw a high holy tantrum shortly after we got to Denver in the Spring of 1980. The thing of it was, we hadn’t quite exactly moved to Denver; we’d -
COAL: 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic – Movin’ Upward-Westward
Posted on January 23, 2021 | 92 CommentsThe new car was The New Chevrolet: a metallic medium-deep red (“Carmine”) ’78 Caprice Classic with a blood-red vinyl interior, ordered at Bryner Chevrolet— -
COAL: 1970 Dodge Dart and Associates – Earliest Influences
Posted on January 16, 2021 | 41 Comments(»This is Cars of a Lifetime, so I’m gonna tell the whole story, back to the first roots and shoots of my awareness of cars. There’ll be some chronological turbulence […] -
Curbside Classics: The Morning After The Night Before
Posted on January 14, 2021 | 49 CommentsLast Wednesday the postie delivered a letter for the previous owners of our house. They didn’t move very far away, and after supper I walked it over to them. As […] -
Vintage Photo: A Bigger Smile for a Better Dodge
Posted on November 29, 2020 | 40 CommentsPaul’s post of about a week ago showed a quartet Dodge dealers doomed to a third model year’s beating. Look at their posture and their faces—plainly they know they’re hosed, […] -
QOTD: What’s This Car?
Posted on November 11, 2020 | 54 CommentsThat’s my husband’s mother driving in Toronto in 1961. -
CCs For Sale: Argentine Valiants on the Spectrum in Midwinter
Posted on August 9, 2020 | 24 CommentsI’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 as hell can hurt to “just look”—but -
Automotive History: Diesel Chrysler Slant-Sixes, In-House and Otherwise
Posted on May 19, 2020 | 71 CommentsLately 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 have been built but […] -
QOTD: What Was Your First or Best Ticket? Part I—The Ones We Got
Posted on March 8, 2020 | 76 CommentsLonger ago than I thought came stories about first accidents. Now how ’bout first (or best) tickets? One sunny day after my last-period class, I hopped proudly into my recently-purchased […] -
QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods
Posted on February 23, 2020 | 79 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 […] -
Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?
Posted on February 3, 2020 | 68 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 […] -
QOTD: What was your first car accident?
Posted on December 29, 2018 | 73 CommentsNew driving licence: check. Authorised access to a car: check. All the pieces were in place, -
Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles
Posted on November 26, 2018 | 47 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 […] -
CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box
Posted on November 2, 2018 | 79 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 […]
![Vintage Photos: Colorado Boulevard in the ’60s (and COAL Outtake: Smelly Old Chev Vans) This pic of Deane Buick amidst the visual din of Denver’s Colorado Boulevard in Autumn 1963 sparked some fun car spotting when I posted it the other day, so let’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/colo-blvd-at-virginia.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


![COAL: 1970 Dodge Dart and Associates – Earliest Influences (»This is Cars of a Lifetime, so I’m gonna tell the whole story, back to the first roots and shoots of my awareness of cars. There’ll be some chronological turbulence […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1117_Cropped.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classics: The Morning After The Night Before Last Wednesday the postie delivered a letter for the previous owners of our house. They didn’t move very far away, and after supper I walked it over to them. As […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/95-Caravan-Headlamp.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Vintage Photo: A Bigger Smile for a Better Dodge Paul’s post of about a week ago showed a quartet Dodge dealers doomed to a third model year’s beating. Look at their posture and their faces—plainly they know they’re hosed, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/62_Lancer_Dealership_H72.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


![Automotive History: Diesel Chrysler Slant-Sixes, In-House and Otherwise 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 have been built but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DieselSlantSixPrototype.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What Was Your First or Best Ticket? Part I—The Ones We Got Longer ago than I thought came stories about first accidents. Now how ’bout first (or best) tickets? One sunny day after my last-period class, I hopped proudly into my recently-purchased […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lloyd-christmas-youtube-screenshot.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods “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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Boogelow-Wagon-34-Large.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out? 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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/monolithic_converter.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)

![Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles 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&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box 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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/89Caprice_Rear.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


