![This is going to be a van week, CCompadres. We’re going cubic, we’re going blue collar, we’re going slow. Issues of prime import will include load capacity, twinned rear tyres […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_20240607_102735_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1974 Chevrolet G10 SportVan – More Like Spart-an")
![(first posted 10/5/2018) I was in southern France a few months ago when I caught this “Mercedes 306 D” pickup. I said it before and I’ll […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Harb_1_cropped.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1975 Mercedes-Benz L 306 D “Harburger Transporter” – The Matador’s Final Avatar")
![Wilkommen to the third and final part of the summer roundup of Tokyo’s CC scene. I don’t think the W123 would be in my top three classic Mercedes, but it’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_20240915_093647_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (July-September 2024) – Part 3: More Foreign Cars (German & British)")
![(first posted 10/3/2018) Some cars have a split personality. It’s all in the front fascia. The headlamps, the trim, the model year changes and the colour all play a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IMG_20180609_191416-Copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Twofer: 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super / 1974 Alfa Romeo 2000 – For Your Four Eyes Only")
![There are always about twice as many imported CCs as there are JDM classics around Tokyo. This time, we’re kicking off the foreign car double post with the Detroit iron. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20240915_091816_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (July-September 2024) – Part 2: Foreign Cars (American, Italian & French)")
![As I was saying a couple weeks ago in my Daihatsu Compagno post, I found two great CC subjects in one day. The Daihatsu was one, this was the other. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1946_aprilia1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1946 Lancia Aprilia Berlina – Vincenzo’s Symphony In V4 Major")
![‘Tis the time of the season for yet another one of these little wrap-up posts. The summer heat was brutal this year, so yours truly did not prowl the pavement […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20240926_110938_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (July-September 2024) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![It’s usually very difficult to pinpoint anything to do with automotive design with accuracy. The Citroën Traction Avant was not the first mass-produced FWD design. There were all-steel wagons well […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20240407_092828_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1948 Cisitalia 202 SC – Pinin’s Magnum Opus")
![Not every Pininfarina design was flawless – even the best in the business get it wrong once in a while. The Alfa Romeo Spider, which had an unusually long production […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20240922_091018_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1980 Alfa Romeo Spider 2000 Veloce – Not So Cut And Dry")
![Lancia’s final decade as an independent carmaker was glorious in so many ways. They launched two completely new FWD models while carrying on with the elegant Flaminia, and got their […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20240407_115603_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1968 Lancia Flavia Coupé – Appreciating The Finer Things")
![(first posted 9/25/2018) Beware: one CC can hide another. It has happened to me a few times now, so when I find a good subject, I know […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/redfords_pic.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Twofer: 1965 Mustang / 1978 Escort Mk II – Unlikely Red Ford Duo")
![(first posted 9/23/2018) This French Deadly Sins installment’s final case study will take us back to the late ‘40s and into the rarefied air of bespoke coachwork […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FR_DS3_topPic_Delahaye.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: French Deadly Sins (Third Helping, part 3) – Delahaye 4.5 Litres (type 175 / 178 / 180) & Delage D6: Cream And Punishment")
![For this Italian-themed week, we will regale our eyes with a few coupés styled (and sometimes also built) by Pininfarina. We might as well start at an 11 with the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_20220917_123241_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1971 Dino 246 GT – A Supercar For The Superpeople")
![(first posted 9/22/2018) On to our second French Deadly Sin of the Third Kind and over to the glorious ‘50s we go! As we saw yesterday, Berliet […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FR_DS3_topPic_Salmson.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: French Deadly Sins (Third Helping, part 2) – Salmson Randonnée, The French Alfa That Never Was")
![(first posted 9/21/2018) It’s been a while since our last European Deadly Sins series. And it so happens I’ve recently regained access to a few documents pertaining to the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FR_DS3_topPic_Berliet.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: French Deadly Sins (Third Helping, part 1) – Berliet Dauphine 39: Collateral Damage")
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