![(Updated 9/21/2025) I found something rather rare and interesting the other day: a used car dealer specialized in “Premium Used Cars,” i.e. old luxury barges in various state of disrepair. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190831_160730-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1980 Toyota Crown Super Saloon (S110) Hardtop Sedan – Forecourt Queen")
![(Updated 9/19/2025) We’ve had some really good luck with JDM Nissans recently and there will be other great ones soon, but let’s be realistic, here: there were always a number […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190909_111442-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1978 Nissan Bluebird (811) 1800 – Pilloried Sedan")
![Streamlining did not come naturally to most UK carmakers. The square shapes of the ‘20s had been ideal for British designers’ propensity to fashion quite staid and narrow machines. But […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_1638_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1936 MG PB Airline Coupé – Economy Plush")
![(Updated 9/14/2025) It’s been a while since we haven’t had a Mitsuoka sedan on CC. I’ve been one of the main purveyors of these fascinating machines on this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190909_111323-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1998 Mitsuoka Galue (Series I) – Downhill From There")
![(Updated 9/18/2019) It’s fascinating to discover the bigger JDM cars, but there are many, many kei cars, vans and trucks around that also want a little […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190825_151000-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1985 Honda Acty 4WD Pickup – ¡Kei Suerte!")
![(Updated 9/16/2025) It’s difficult to make sweeping generalizations about Japanese cars, especially those that you actually find on the streets and parking lots of Japan. Take these two, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190831_143518-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Finds: Daihatsu Copen / Toyota Crown Comfort – Japan, Land Of Paradoxes")
![The Toyota Automobile Museum contains an excellent selection of ’30s cars – pretty much every important model of the decade can be found there. This includes a Bugatti 57, a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_2600_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1938 Cadillac Series 60 Special – Suddenly, It’s 1940!")
![Race cars in the ‘30s… Ah, those legendary Auto-Union 16-cyl. monsters and glorious Mercedes Silver Arrows… the striking blue Bugattis and Delahayes… the little green ERAs, repeatedly winning their 1500cc […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_20240407_121043_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza – Chequered Black & White And Red All Over")
![(Updated 9/12/2025) Each of the ‘60s/’70s Euro-American V8 hybrids had its own quality. AC was the meanest, Monteverdi was the coolest, Iso was the sportiest, De Tomaso was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GB_DS4_cover3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "British Deadly Sins (High-Brow Hybrids, Part 3) – Jensen-Healey, The Double-Barreled Deadly Sin")
![(updated 9/11/2025) Many European aircraft-makers ended up dabbling in automobiles. Most started said dabble after the First World War – legendary names such as Armstrong Siddeley, Farman, Maybach, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GB_DS4_cover2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "British Deadly Sins (High-Brow Hybrids, Part 2) – Bristol 603 / Britannia / Blenheim: Arrested Development")
![(first posted 9/12/2019) ‘Ello, guvs. It’s time for another paddle-less trip up the proverbial creek that is Britain’s overflowing carmaker graveyard. We’ve seen everything from toff-carriages and prol-mobiles, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GB_DS4_cover1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "British Deadly Sins (High-Brow Hybrids, Part 1) – The Surprisingly Long Story Of AC")
![It had to happen one day. I just never expected it would take place 9000km away from Bohemia. Yes, Tatra87 finally found and photographed a T87 – perhaps the only […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_2517_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1946 Tatra 87 – Meet My Hero")
![(first posted 9/6/2019) Again with the Gloria?! Yep. Third time in one week. Isn’t CC-spotting a strange thing? Only one post, authored by Paul back in 2011, featured […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_20190825_150535-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1990 Nissan Gloria (Y31) Gran Turismo SV – In Excelsis Deo")
![NSFW warning: our little journey through the ‘30s will now take a turn for the erotic, if not outright pornographic. I mean, can you look at this delicious Delage D8 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_2630_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1939 Delage D8-120 Roadster by Figoni & Falaschi – Straight Eight, Curvy Everything Else")
![Streamlining in cars really became a thing in the early ‘30s, but it was a process of trial and error that took a little sorting out. Chrysler’s odd-looking Airflow bowed […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_2573_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1937 Lincoln Zephyr – Ford’s Streamline Revolution")
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