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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![Raise your hand who else has daydreamt about travelling to the past with discreetly-camouflaged high-definition digital camera equipment. No such luck with this interesting footage made public today from the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras162/images/thumbnail.png "CC Diaporama: Vancouver, 1966")
CC Diaporama: Vancouver, 1966
Posted on November 6, 2017 | 89 CommentsRaise your hand who else has daydreamt about travelling to the past with discreetly-camouflaged high-definition digital camera equipment. No such luck with this interesting footage made public today from the […] -
CC TV: A Blame Game Double Feature
Posted on September 7, 2017 | 77 CommentsThe US auto industry had massive drug use and absenteeism in their assembly plants in the 1960s and ’70s (at least). Working conditions were brutal and the workplace environment was […] -
![In “Kodachrome”, Paul Simon sings of past loves, “Everything looks better in black and white” (Okeh, sometimes he sings “worse” instead of “better”; he says he forgets which he originally […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DValiant_Memory.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: Could-Would-Should-Did You Buy Back Your Old Car?")
QOTD: Could-Would-Should-Did You Buy Back Your Old Car?
Posted on June 1, 2017 | 84 CommentsIn “Kodachrome”, Paul Simon sings of past loves, “Everything looks better in black and white” (Okeh, sometimes he sings “worse” instead of “better”; he says he forgets which he originally […] -
CC Commercial: When Valiants Swarmed
Posted on March 26, 2017 | 53 CommentsNot a lot of people remember it now, but fifty-six years ago San Francisco was overrun with new 1961 Valiants, -
CC Commercial: Chrysler Qualitehh and the End of the Inundated Ignition
Posted on March 25, 2017 | 87 CommentsChrysler’s new-for-’71, standard-for-’73 electronic ignition system means the car is virtually sure to start—even if it’s wet and splashy out! We take such things utterly for granted nowtimes, but -
CC Music Video: Hang Up on New York
Posted on March 17, 2017 | 4 CommentsLike Chris O’Bryant’s post last Sunday, this YouTube find contains a whackload of CCs in (mostly?) New York City. -
CC Commercial: Dodge of a Different Day
Posted on February 15, 2017 | 97 CommentsAh, the good ol’ days, right? Well…maybe not; the good ol’ days never existed—not the way we think we remember them, anyhow. -
CC Commercial: Honda’s Ne Plus Ultras
Posted on February 12, 2017 | 16 CommentsOnce in a great long while there’s a truly smashing advert for something. Once in an almost-never it’s for a car. -
CC Commercial: Hallelujah, It’s the Chrysler Spirit!
Posted on February 6, 2017 | 9 CommentsAbout a decade ago, the idea of “world cars” suddenly got a lot more press and airtime, which was kind of weird because it wasn’t a new notion; it’s easy […] -
CC Commercial: Selling the New Chevrolet, 1977
Posted on February 2, 2017 | 47 CommentsThe new-for-’77 GM B-bodies are an evergreen topic, usually emblematised—then as now—by the Chev Caprice. These cars were big news, a game-changer, a harbinger, blahbitty blah, et cetera; if you’re […] -
![I took this pic of my (departed) ’73 Dart Custom from from up on the roof. 60 second exposure at ƒ/8, lit by only the high-pressure sodium streetlight up the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/73_Dart_Night-e1477530870466.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: Got Spooky Shots Of Cars?")
QOTD: Got Spooky Shots Of Cars?
Posted on October 31, 2016 | 57 CommentsI took this pic of my (departed) ’73 Dart Custom from from up on the roof. 60 second exposure at ƒ/8, lit by only the high-pressure sodium streetlight up the […] -
![This what you’re looking at is the left (passenger) side of a 1994-’96—take a deep breath, now—Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Chamonix Super Select 4WD. The nine additional words after that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Delica_decal.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Mitsubishi Delica Et Cetera In Maxima – A Long Model Name A Long Way From Home")
CC Outtake: Mitsubishi Delica Et Cetera In Maxima – A Long Model Name A Long Way From Home
Posted on March 13, 2016 | 28 CommentsThis what you’re looking at is the left (passenger) side of a 1994-’96—take a deep breath, now—Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Chamonix Super Select 4WD. The nine additional words after that […] -
Lakebed Classic: The Remains of the [Updated with answer]
Posted on March 2, 2016 | 24 CommentsOriginal post: There’s enough evidence here to ID the make, model, and year of these car remains found in a dry lakebed. The actual, singular year, not a year range. […]
