![I thought I’d get the obligatory Columbo reference out of the way in the title. The Peugeot 403 is chiefly associated with that show for a lot of you, I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20241224_093619_ed.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1961 Peugeot 403 – Oh, Just One More Thing…")
![Back in the ‘60s and for a couple of decades afterwards, French roads were downright dangerous. Full of potholes, lined by unyielding plane trees, half the drivers drunk on cheap […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20241103_120206_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1966 Citroën Ami 6 – Nightmarish Deep-CC Creature")
![In post-war France, convertibles (or, to give it its more apt denomination, cabriolets) were a relative rarity. Peugeot always had them in their range, but they were rather exclusive. Citroën […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20230730_194259_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1964 Renault Caravelle 1100 – Cheap Thrills")
![Ah, the Falcon. Has Detroit produced anything blander in the blessed decade of the ‘60s? Maybe AMC, but they were the underdog. Ford, on the other hand, should have been […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20230924_114836_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1962 Ford Falcon – Birdie Num-Num")
![Ever since I moved to Asia over a decade ago, I’ve lived without television. That’s not to say I’ve not had a TV set at home, but I don’t watch […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20241114_101414_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1969 Dodge Dart Custom Hardtop – Dog Dish Afternoon")
![It’s no good just hanging around the same gingko-tree-lined avenue on Sundays to find CC fodder in Tokyo. There are classics hiding everywhere, if you look hard enough. This unregistered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20240227_120736_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1960 Chevrolet Impala Convertible – Play Dusty For Me")
![Honda may seem like a proper automotive juggernaut today (especially from North America, where their overseas success has been most marked), but its first steps in the car-making business were […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20240324_085624_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1964 Honda S500 – A Motorcycle Maker Finds Its 3rd and 4th Wheels")
![The demise of Standard is a puzzle. It came out of the blue, in the summer of 1963, a time blessed by relative peace and prosperity throughout the Western world […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GB_DS3_sta.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "British Deadly Sins (A Touch Of Class, Part 2) – Standard: Raising The White Flag For Britain’s Car Industry")
![There’s always a CC in the neighbourhood. Several, in my case. But there’s always one that you know is there, but never see come out and play. Or the one […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20230429_142706_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1969 Toyota Crown (S50) Custom Wagon – Forever Lur-King")
![(first posted 3/5/2019) Greetings, fellow CCurbivores, and welcome to this third salvo of British Deadly Sins. The pickings are rich, in this land of entrepreneurial inventiveness […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GB_DS3_inv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "British Deadly Sins (A Touch Of Class, Part 1) – A Blue-Blooded Sin Called Invicta Black Prince")
![Welcome to the month of March, which I have decided will be placed under the auspices of the 1960s – my favourite postwar decade. Even if you know nothing about […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_20241103_120011_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1965 Nissan Silvia (CSP311) – Japan’s First PLC")
![They called the ‘70s Anni di piombo “the years of lead” in Italy. Social, economic and political turmoil, terrorism, the Maffia, an epidemic of moustaches – times were tough. But […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_20240526_092049_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1977 Maserati Merak SS – Moustaches, Green Balls And Flying Buttresses")
![In the Great Book of Cars That Came Out in 1967, available in my mind in every imaginary bookstore on the face of the Earth, there should be a special […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_20241215_083021_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1971 Fiat Dino 2400 – Fiat By Name, Ferrari By Nature")
![The Alfa 105 Bertone coupé is, as far as classics go, pretty common in these parts. Not that I’m complaining. However, like many Alfas, a lot of them are red. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_20230103_122734_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: 1972 Alfa Romeo GT Junior 1300 – Olive Green Supreme")
![Thus far, I haven’t had much luck finding classic Lamborghinis. I’d love to see a Miura, a 400 GT, or an Espada – that last one, in particular, is high […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_20240616_083058_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1974 Lamborghini Urraco S – Smaller, But Still Unafforda-Bull")
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