![Car design is a matter of taste, of course. Your list of beautiful cars may not overlap with anybody else’s, which is fine. Has anyone ever included the Renault 6, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC_2830_edited-115x115.jpg "Museum Classic: 1960 Valiant V-200 – Unchained Malady")
![I see a lot of Ferraris around Tokyo. It’s a habitual hazard that I’ve come to begrudgingly accept. The great majority are 21st Century ones, naturally, but older ones from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG20250928091148_edited-115x115.jpg "1969 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2 – Greener On The Other Side")
![Remember when retro was a new thing in cars? Kind of an oxymoronic (or just plain moronic) question, but if you do, you must be in your seventies at least. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_20240428_082915_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1966 Alfa Romeo Gran Sport Quattroruote by Zagato – The Avant-Garde Of Retro")
![Good things, like coachbuilt sporty Italian coupés, come in small packages. This is especially true when we’re talking about a car from the height of the carrozzerie era, in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG20260405084227_edited-115x115.jpg "1962 Fiat-Abarth 850 Coupé Scorpione by Allemano – Tailored Arachnid")
![There’s always something to be said for a base model. Not necessarily the absolute miserly no-options stripper, but a car’s honest standard version, usually the biggest seller, is a worthy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC_3147_edited-115x115.jpg "1967 Mercedes-Benz 250 S (W108) – Straight And Not-So-Narrow")
![We’ve given the Karmann-Ghia quite a lot of love here on CC. It’s going to be my third post on the matter, and I’m kind of running out of things […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_20240616_085054_edited-115x115.jpg "CC Find: 1961 Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia (Type 14) – Red And Approved")
![This is not the first Subaru car. As most of you will know I trust, that honour was bestowed upon the minuscule 360 kei car (1958-70), though there was an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_20240901_085822_edited-115x115.jpg "1968 Subaru 1000 (A12) Deluxe – Humble Re-Beginnings")
![As we peruse through my stash of ‘60s beauties for the next couple of months, there will be many beauties and a few rarities. Nonetheless, I doubt any of them […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG20260315083612_edited-115x115.jpg "1965 Honda S600 Coupé – For A Few Cubic Centimeters More")
![It’s a tired trope to liken Japanese cars with European or American ones. I’m guilty of it just as much as anyone – the Bellett is the Japanese Alfa Giulia, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_20250112_090003_edited-115x115.jpg "1969 Nissan Laurel 1800 (C30) – Murayama’s Neue Klasse")
![We’re back in Asukayama Park in North Tokyo, and just a few meters away from the D51 steam engine we saw in the previous instalment is this streetcar. For most […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_20200415_152133_edited-115x115.jpg "Trackside Classic: Japan’s Railway Heritage – Part 2: Tokyo Trams")
![(Updated 8/20/2026) I’ll admit to being a bit apprehensive. This is my first post about the fantastic ’59s. One should tread carefully on this pinnacle of American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_20200801_172029-copy.jpg "Museum Classic: 1959 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe – The Chevy Horror Picture Show")
![(Updated 8/10/2026) I recently went back to the Toyota Megaweb History Garage, which Jim Klein and I visited last year, and saw a number of cars that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_20200801_164727-copy.jpg "Museum Classics: 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 Duetto – Music By Simon & Garfunkuttlefish")
![This post has long been on my to-write list. As I will be travelling during August, I figured that would give me the impetus to finally put it together. I’m […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IMG_20200301_114717_edited-115x115.jpg "Trackside Classic: Japan’s Railway Heritage – Part 1: Steam Engines")
![(Updated 8/1/2026) I really don’t know why the universe wanted me to encounter one of these bastardized Biturbos again. I thought I had made myself clear the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_20200731_171429-copy.jpg "Curbside Find: 1997 Maserati Ghibli GT – The Last Vulgarati")
![We started this little prewar escapade in a big beautiful British blue-blood coachbuilt in two-tones-of-blue, and we’ll end it that way. Only this superlative slab of British beef will be […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DSC_1590_edited-115x115.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1928 Rolls-Royce Twenty Phaeton by Barker – Once In A Blue Rolls")
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