(first posted 8/21/2017, Updated 4/8/2024) For a car named after a celestial event, Mitsubishi actually used surprisingly few pictures of solar eclipses in their print ads for their […]
The Lincoln Lawyer, with two seasons streaming on Netflix, follows the story of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, and is based on the series of Michael Connelly novels […]
A compromise is a scenario in which every participant gets at least some of what they want. But it could also be a situation where no one gets what they […]
My wife constantly accuses me of losing things. I often correct her to say that my things are not lost, just misplaced. Lost implies that they are gone forever, which […]
Some of my favorite Curbside Classic posts are those that show the real-world locations of vintage car ads, such as the world travel ads posted by Eric703 this past summer. […]
The story of the fall of Cadillac from the Standard of the World to a slightly fancier Chevrolet is one of the defining arcs of 20th-century automotive history. As such, It […]
CC has not featured any Imperial models from the early 1970s, and it is not hard to understand why: By this time, the Imperial brand was on its last gasp. […]
While manufacturers have been name-dropping their competition for as long as they have been making advertisements, actually showing a picture of a car from another manufacturer in an ad is […]
While the 1960s were a time of extreme experimentation in tire sidewall technology (among other things), most of the variations on the classic single white stripe had a short shelf […]
Pencils down, everyone. Enough with the history lessons, time for some whitewall fun! The 1960s were a time of unprecedented cultural change, and that is reflected even in something as […]
When we left Part 2 in 1942, whitewall tires were slowly starting to fade from manufacturers’ ads as part of the buildup to World War II. For today’s installment, we […]
In Part 1 of this series, I covered the early history of the whitewall tire, led by the B.F. Goodrich Silvertown tire. Whitewall tires were largely confined to the replacement […]
Whitewall tires are an interesting historical oddity, peaking in popularity between the 1950s and 1970s. As popular as they once were, I have not found an accurate, comprehensive online history […]
We’ve recently covered several taboo subjects that seldom appear in vintage car ads: Smoking and Religion. To me, these topics that are (mostly) off-limits to advertisers are far more interesting […]