![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")
![We’re back at the Toyota Automobile Museum for a substantial slice (make that a slab, even) of all-American cheesecake in the elongated shape of an open-topped Packard Twelve that used […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DSC_2646_edited-115x115.jpg "Museum Classic: 1939 Packard Twelve Presidential Phaeton by Rollson – The Four-Wheeled Head Of State")
![(Updated 7/29/2026) I’m writing this literally from the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as the island of Hokkaido. And it so happens that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_20200722_101822-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1974 Citroën HY Van – Corrugated Irony")
![As much as I’d like to think that I know a thing or two about cars, some marques are more familiar than others. Although I wrote a pretty long history […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG20260405113409_edited-115x115.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1936 AC 16/70 Special DHC – Unusual Suspect")
![It’s not every day you find a prewar Bentley, but this one takes the cake. Allow me to introduce both parties: Bentley, this is CC. CC, this Bentley is otherwise […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG20250629102542_edited-115x115.jpg "1927 Bentley 4.5 Litre Tourer by Vanden Plas – Beauty Of The Beast")
![(Updated 7/23/2026) Remember the heyday of Mitsubishi, back when the three-diamond marque’s automotive creations were conquering markets everywhere, even – nay, especially! – in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_20200612_140807-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1973 Mitsubishi Colt Galant (A50) 16L GS – Preserved For Posterity")
![One hundred years ago, the mid-‘20s were roaring along nicely. It was the time of the Charleston; the jazz bands were hotter, the skirts were getting shorter and the cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG20260215091507_edited-115x115.jpg "1929 Amilcar CGSS – Long Scarves And Breakneck Speeds")
![Three-wheelers have had their partisans in many countries, but it’s probably not a controversial statement to claim that Britain is where this peculiar breed of vehicle truly proliferated, at least […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG20250629094712_edited-115x115.jpg "1934 Morgan Super Sport – Star Trike: The Previous Generation")
![It’s kind of bold to go for an obscure late ‘90s Simpsons reference for a post title, but when am I going to write up my next Singer? If present […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CC_singer-115x115.jpg "1935 Singer Le Mans – Pardon My Singer")
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