![Ever since I was smol, as today’s hep young people say, I’ve had something of a loathe-on for GM’s ’71-’76 big cars. When there were still a lot of them […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/71-Olds-Delta-Royale-CV-Headlamps.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1971 Oldsmobile Delta Royale – Getting Warmer")
![This ad ran in Spring-Summer 1965, about 3½ years before the Plymouth Superbird’s name was surely finalised. Pure chance, nudged a little by the limited number of possible [superlative] + […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Buick-Superbird_May-1965.jpg "CC Advertising : Buick Superbird – Wait, who?")
![The giant trunk attracted my attention to this old black car parked outside an auto parts store. I couldn’t tell it was a Ford until I saw the badges, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1940_Ford_Coupe_RR34.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1940 Ford Hot Rod – Latter-Day Raisin Bran")
![AMCs never really latched onto me when they were in circulation as wide as it got. Surely I was aware of them, but they were in back at the edge […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1969-AMC-Rebel_LF34.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1969 AMC Rebel SST – Some Old, Some New")
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/77_Caprice.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Best & Worst Car Dream?")
![(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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Indian_Head_new.jpg "CC Toolbox: Indian Head Gasket Shellac")
![(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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/73_Chev_350_CVCC_Test.jpg "Automotive History: Soichiro Honda Spanks GM CEO")
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Blue_Blue_Corvette.jpg "CC Outtake: Blue-On-Blue Corvette")
![(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/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "CC Commercial: Toyota Mocks the Special-Needs Kid")
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FordLately.jpg "QOTD: Are They Listening To Themselves? – What’s the Worst Unsalesmanship in a Car Ad?")
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