![(first posted 1/24/2018) Bangkok is home to the largest Japanese expat community in the world. Some work here, but a considerable number also choose to retire in Thailand. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_20180119_121351.jpg "CC Capsule: 1994 Mazda Familia 1400 Super Cab – The Migrant Familia")
![If you hailed a taxi in Italy back in the ‘60s, this would likely have been your ride: a green and black Fiat 600 Multipla, driven at (relative) breakneck speeds […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20230409_133320_edited_edited.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1963 Fiat 600 D Multipla – For A Fistful Of Lira")
![(first posted 1/22/2018) Oxymora sell. Gourmet burger, large studio flat, affordable luxury, freedom fighter, alcohol-free beer, genuine imitation… Those shouldn’t pair up so well. But they do, because they […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_20171227_121653.jpg "Future Curbside Classic: 2015 Chatenet CH 32 Break – The Tallest Dwarf")
![It took a few years, but I finally found one! Ever since moving to Japan back in 2019, I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for a number of must-find JDM […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20231119_094918_edited.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1968 Hino Contessa (PD) 1300 Coupé – Deadly Sin In The Rising Sun")
![(first posted 1/19/2018) From 1960 to 1980, the Renault Estafette and the Citroën HY (a.k.a “Type H” or “Tub”) were straight up rivals in the small world of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/page2garde_estaf_typeH.jpg "CC Twofer: 1972 Renault Estafette / 1976 Citroën HY – A Couple Of Your Best Van De Table, See-voo-play")
![Can you believe we’ve had posts on the 1959 Imperial, Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, the exclusive 300E and even the fascinating Ozzie market Royal (with cheese), but the standard 1959 Chrysler […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20230730_202117_edited.jpg "Car Show Capsule: 1959 Chrysler Windsor Coupe – Suddenly, It’s Still 1957!")
![If you look up “Datsun Sports DC-3” on the web, be it in English or Japanese, you will find a lot of sources – including Nissan themselves – claiming this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20230402_142222_edited.jpg "Car Show Capsule: 1952 Datsun Sports DC-3 Roadster – Historical Revisionism Gone Mad")
![In February 1954, when Mercedes-Benz launched the legendary 300SL at the New York Auto Show, the new gull-winged supercar was flanked by a cute little drop-top companion. It was still […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20231103_143638_edited.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1957 Mercedes-Benz 190SL (W121 B II) – Second Stradivarius")
![(first posted 1/13/2018) Seventy years ago, in the fall of 1948, Citroën unveiled the most iconic small car France had ever seen to a universally frosty and skeptical reception […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_20180101_121652.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1980 Citroën 2CV 6 Spécial – Sumptuous Septuagenarian")
![When Leaving Thailand in mid-2019, I figured the T87 family would be back for a visit sometime in the next year or so. After all, it’s only a six-hour flight […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_20231228_104553_edited.jpg "CC Capsule: 1980 Toyota Corona (T130) 1800 – Five Years And One Corona Ago…")
![Welcome to what will hopefully be the last part of this triptych. Indeed, were it not the final instalment, the very notion of triptych might well be in jeopardy. Let’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231119_095840_edited.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (November-December 2023) – Part 3: British, Swedish & German Cars")
![Welcome to part 2, where we will delve into Italian, French and US-made cars. Call it a foretaste, a premonition or a harbinger, by this sweet yellow Dino was to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231105_124119_edited.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (November-December 2023) – Part 2: Italian, French and American Cars")
![November is a very good month for CCs in Tokyo – the dry, cool and sunny weather makes the autumn the best CC hunting season. So lots (and I mean […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231103_154159_edited.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (November-December 2023) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![When in Provence last August, I did not find a Jaguar Mark 2 (though it will have its day on CC, promised!). Instead, I happened upon something even better: the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20230806_010953_edited.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1968 Daimler V8-250 – Best Of Both Kinds")
![Ah, the 2010s! What a blessed decade that was. For some things, maybe. Car design-wise, it was actually piss-poor, on the whole. The overweight, squinty-eyed, angry-edgy-chunky tanks we are currently […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20221225_144449_edited.jpg "CC Capsule: 2020 Honda S660 Neo Classic – The Masked Avenger")
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