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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
Curbside Classic Archives
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![QOTD: Spoilers Ahead! What Is Your Favorite Automotive Wing? We’ve all seen good cars ruined by bad spoilers and wings. Well, this isn’t that post: Today I want to talk about cars whose looks were actually improved by the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/TA.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What Is Your Biggest Automotive Movie Pet Peeve? Movies by definition are a form of escape, and require a form of social contract called “Suspension of Disbelief.” Basically it means that I am willing to overlook the fact […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/g.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside History: The All-Too-Brief History of Diagonally Canted Headlights Like a meteor crashing through the sky, diagonally canted quad headlights were a styling trend that shone brightly and then burned out quickly. Let’s take a look at this short-lived […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1961-DeSoto-Front-View.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![COAL: 2015 Q3 and 2009 TT – Audi Duty Time It has been over two years since I finished my Cars of a Lifetime series, so I figured I would check in with a quick update (two, actually). As the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_9062-EFFECTS.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What is the Worst Automotive Name Reuse? Crossover Utility Vehicles are all the rage now, while cars are slowly disappearing from the showrooms. However, manufacturers seem to have no compunction about taking the names off of these […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ford-mustang-hybrid-teaser.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Who Wants to be a Mileage Millionaire – The Oddballs Cue the theme music, because it is time for another round of Who Wants to be a Mileage Millionaire! In these virtual pages we’ve seen our share of diesel duallys […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/vlad-gurea-zPFzMlw34Ls-unsplash.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Who Wants to be a Mileage Millionaire – The Most Expensive High Mileage Cars for Sale in America Welcome back, fellow Mileage Millionaires! I want to everyone for coming up with great suggestions for this series (I’ll try to get to as many as I can in future […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/92c37903b1664c9f352f5f91c02dda3a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Who Wants to be a Mileage Millionaire – The Ugly American (Car) Edition My first post on high mileage vehicles for sale was so popular I’ve decided to make it a semi-regular feature, and I’ve even given it a name: Who Wants to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/c1f13532db8774aafde4a5ff49905d0c.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Classifieds: The Highest Mileage Vehicles For Sale in the United States One of the pillars of Curbside Classic is the survivor car that is still serving its intended purpose after many years or even decades. I wanted to take this premise, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Record-your-odometer-Reading-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classics: Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance 2019 Beverly Hills is home to the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance, a yearly celebration of cars that even people jaded by daily exposure to exotic cars flock to. Held every year […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_0276.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![What’s in a Name? The Second Lives of Edsel Model Names While today we usually just call them all Edsels, when it debuted in 1958 Edsel was actually a full vehicle lineup, sporting both “Senior” and “Junior” models, each with a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/names.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Tech: The Illuminated History of Light-Up Grille Badges Light-up grille logos are the latest questionable automotive styling trend, popping up on vehicles ranging from Mercedes to Infiniti (and beyond). Many readers may not realize that this styling feature […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Wolesely.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC How-To: Renting a Car through Turo (Author’s note: This was originally part of my C7 Corvette Review, but it became so long that I decided to make this a separate post). I’ll be the first to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_0294.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Rental Car Review: 2017 Chevrolet Corvette – Stranger in a Strange Land While on my recent vacation in Southern California, I decide to make things a little more interesting by renting a fun car for the day from Turo, the peer-to-peer […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_0176-EFFECTS.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Cinema: 1962 Lincoln Continental and Ford Thunderbird Wixom Assembly Line The artificial intelligence at YouTube is getting to know me pretty well, because it keeps feeding me cool videos like this gem. It is a vintage film shot by Ford […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/computer.gif?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1)


