![I took my usual stroll on the first Sunday in April this year – always keeping an eye out for the odd automotive encounter, which happen fairly regularly in Tokyo […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230402_142332-copy.jpg "Car Show Classics: Nihonbashi Bridge Spring Festival, April 2023")
![When is a brand-new car worthy of featuring on CC? When it’s a superbly handmade replica of a legendary classic car, of course! The famous (and famously gorgeous) 1967-70 Toyota […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230226_152534-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 2022 Rocky 3000GT – A Star Is Re-Born")
![Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! We’ve had so many CCs on old air-cooled Transporters, gnarly as they are, it would require something pretty, like, out there to justify one more. And not to bogart […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20220731_123717-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1975 Volkswagen Transporter – You’ve Stayed The Same, Man")
![Nissan gave us the Pike cars, ushering the neo-retro craze. Mitsuoka took that to the next level, essentially becoming a carmaker dedicated to retro. All the big boys, from Subaru […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20221111_083744-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1996 Autozam “Carolls-Royce” – Urine For A Surprise")
![In the Great Book of Long-Lived Cars that I wrote in my head, there is a relatively small chapter dedicated to sports cars and convertibles. Just between the MG B […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20221204_133721-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1992 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce – Tall Tails")
![There there, we’re almost done. Just this last hundred-plus bunch of pics and we can call it a day. We will start proceedings by way of a stunning BMW M1 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230312_131741-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (January-May 2023) – Part 3: German, Italian, French & Swedish Cars")
![I’ve chosen to start the foreign car posts with the two largest contingents (by nation of origin) encountered in Tokyo over the winter and spring of this year – the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230506_110527-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (January-May 2023) – Part 2: British & American Cars")
![Five months of brief encounters is a lot in this town, but I think I should be able to make it all fit in three roughly equal 100-plus-pic posts. Why […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230205_122915-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (January-May 2023) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![(first posted 5/31/2017) Thank you for your patience: I realize this is the moment some of you were waiting for, our final chapter, the death of NSU. Unlike […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GermanDS2_NSU.jpg "Automotive History: German Deadly Sins (The Neckarsulm Chronicles, Part 3) – The NSU Ro 80, Todsünde Durch Technik")
![(first posted 5/30/2017) The Neckarsulm Chronicles will be making a pit stop (via Saxony) in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. After all, whatever is left of NSU is now called […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GermanDS2_DKW.jpg "Automotive History: German Deadly Sins (The Neckarsulm Chronicles, Part 2) – DKW: Two-Strokes And You’re Out")
![(first posted 5/29/2017) Grüẞe, Kurbivoren! This is the second trilogy on German Deadly Sins, now focusing on the Baden-Württemberg town of Neckarsulm (though we will visit Bavaria again […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GermanDS2_neckar.jpg "Automotive History: German Deadly Sins (The Neckarsulm Chronicles, Part 1) – Fiat Get Their Neckars In A Twist")
![When it comes to automotive esthetics, a case could be made that there are three kinds of cars: some are beautiful all around, some are ugly through and through (looking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230312_125856-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1972 Toyota Corona Mark II (X20) GSS Coupé – Shocked And Peeved")
![Boy, was this tough. Ten times I’ve tried to write an opening sentence for this post, but they all sounded inane or pompous. How could one write something silly when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230331_091821-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental DHC by Carlton Carriage – Seeing Ghosts")
![It took me close to four years. I kept bumping into all manner of Mitsuokas, mock BMC Princesses, shrunken VW vans and the like. Heck, I even found yet another […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230421_113157-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 2004 Suzuki Alto Lapin “Quatre” by DAMD – Gimme Four")
![Pencils have erasers; cars have reverse gears. As a CContributor, then, it was perhaps in the very nature of the beast that a (long) pause would take place. But there’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20220724_141811-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V Collector’s Series – Mark? My Word!")
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