![(Updated 12/7/2025) Ah, the late ‘90s. When life was simpler and cars were deadly dull. Maybe not quite as dull as the early ‘90s, but still […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191119_144613-copy.jpg "Curbside Find: 2000 Nissan March (K11) Rumba by Autech – Dancing With The Uglier Of The March Sisters")
![(Updated 12/5/2025) The gradual transformation of the horseless carriage into the modern car took several decades. Many important steps were needed to go from the Benz […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1932_maybach_zeppelin_ds8_stromlinien_by_spohn4.jpg "Pontoon Fenders: An Archeology (1920-1945)")
![French cars of the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and even a few from the ‘90s – the main event of this museum, in other words. A whole room dedicated to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG20250808123239_edited-115x115.jpg "CC Museum: Manoir de l’Automobile, Part 3 – Postwar French Cars")
![As stated in Part 1, the Manoir de l’Automobile (located in Brittany, by the way) features a majority of French cars. But there are a number of very fine imports […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG20250808124211_edited-115x115.jpg "CC Museum: Manoir de l’Automobile, Part 2 – Postwar Imports & Domestic Trucks")
![Welcome to the Manoir de l’Automobile (“Manor of the Automobile”), a thoroughly entertaining place to spend a couple hours (or about three CC posts) in to appreciate a top quality […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG20250808133507_edited_edited-115x115.jpg "CC Museum: Manoir de l’Automobile, Part 1 – Prewar Cars, Bikes & Special Vehicles")
![(Updated 11/30/2025) In a slight deviation from the JDM stuff I’ve been posting lately, here’s a little something I found in an old stash of photos I took […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/28140002-copy.jpg "1983 Citroën CX Orphée Cabriolet by Deslandes – Hello Strangest")
![Crack open the bubbly, it’s a Messerschmitt! The star of the Great Bubble Car Era, which I would say lasted a good couple of decades, like 1945-65, was undoubtedly the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_3135_edited-115x115.jpg "1959 FMR Tg 500 Four-Wheeled “Bubble Car”: The Messer Formerly Known As Schmitt")
![Yes, I had the same reaction you just did. Then, having picked up my jaw from the ground, I took a few photos of this extremely rare (and valuable) Mercedes-Benz […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_20241103_084335_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 S (W188) Coupé – One And Only")
![It’s the season of the sun right now in Tokyo. In November, the air dries out and the sun becomes a near permanent fixture. This, coupled with temperatures hovering between […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG20250713085612_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1950 Volkswagen Beetle – Let The Sunshine In")
![(Updated 11/24/2025) I spent eight years in the tropics, where the seasons are either scorching and sunny or steamy and wet. I am therefore really enjoying my […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191114_101315-copy.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1970 Nissan Skyline 2000GT (C10) – Heaven Sent")
![(Updated 11/23/2025) Kei cabover pickups and vans are not the most stylish vehicles on the JDM, usually. It’s not part of their brief. They’re strictly business, with very […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191103_144224-copy.jpg "1982 Mazda Porter Cab: Back When Kei Trucks Looked Cool")
![(Updated 11/22/2025) Here are a couple of BMWs you are unlikely to meet curbside, classic though they may be. We’re at the same Tokyo showroom where Jim Klein […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191026_124852-copy.jpg "1973 BMW 3.0 CSL & 1981 BMW M1 – Legends In Aspic")
![All good things come to those who wait. It may have taken CC nigh on 15 years, but we’re going to have an in-depth look at what was arguably the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_20241215_093007_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1952 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT – Groundbreaking And Breathtaking")
![(Updated 11/19/2025) I was elated to find this little gem on the dark side of a Tokyo street recently. You don’t run into a 1st generation Corolla everyday, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191026_212341-copy.jpg "1969 Toyota Corolla (E10) Deluxe Wagon – Little Car With A Big Future")
![(Updated 11/18/2025) What do you call a Toyopet found in the wild? A Toyoferal? This 2nd-generation Corona, which looks like a mini imitation-crab American mid-‘50s design, is the first […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_20191014_120919-copy.jpg "1963 Toyopet Corona 1500 Deluxe (T20) – Strike Two For Toyota")
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