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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![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, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4360.jpeg "Car Show Classic: 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham – The Last True Cadillac?")
![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. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_4422.jpeg "Car Show Classic: 1970 Imperial LeBaron – A Chrysler in Emperor’s Clothing")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1978-Granada.jpeg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Cars From Other Manufacturers")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1973-Imperial2.jpg "Automotive History – The History of Whitewall Tires, Part 5: 1970s through 1990s – The Long Goodbye")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1967-Corvette.jpg "Automotive History – The History of Whitewall Tires, Part 4: 1964 though 1969 – The Wild ’60s")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_3573.jpg "Automotive History – The History of Whitewall Tires, Part 3: 1946 through 1963 – The Golden Age of Whitewall Tires")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1922-Deusenberg.jpg "Automotive History – The History of Whitewall Tires, Part 2: 1920s and 1930s")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_3473.jpeg "Automotive History – The History of Whitewall Tires, Part 1: The Teens and Twenties")
![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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1955-Desoto.jpeg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Guns")
![Other than love, nighttime has to be one of the most popular topics of popular music. In the Air Tonight. Nights in White Satin. Sunglasses at Night. We can […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1960-Pontiac-2.jpg "Vintage Ad Tropes: Nighttime")
![Churchgoing peaked in the US in the 1950s with roughly half of Americans attending church regularly in 1955 (by 2021 that number was down to 33%). However, to go by […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1959-Edsel.jpeg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Cars in Front of Churches")
![While GM can lay claim to inventing the pantheon of automotive brands that Alfred P. Sloan gathered into his eponymous ladder, that didn’t stop other manufacturers from also trying to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/39frd.jpg "Vintage Ads: 1939 Ford Motor Company – Ford Attempts to Build Their Own Sloanian Ladder with Mercury")
![The license plate on our featured Camaro may say 1974, but to me, this car is pure 1985. In that year, I would have been a junior at Rutherford B. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_4384.jpeg "Car Show Classic: 1974 Chevrolet Camaro – Glory of the ‘80s")
![The local office of the company I work for happens to be located in Twinsburg, Ohio. Every year in August Twinsburg hosts its Twins Day Festival, one of the largest […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_4373.jpg "Car Show Outtake: Twin City")
![(first posted 8/20/2017) Pity poor Lincoln: As I mentioned in my 1957 Lincoln Premiere CC, they were still selling trunk-mounted air conditioning systems into 1957, well after […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3-1.jpg "Cold Comfort: 1958-60 Lincoln Continental – Craziest Factory Air Conditioning Ever?")
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