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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![Smoking is a smelly, dangerous habit, one that I luckily have never felt the urge in which to partake. However, last century smoking was a much more socially accepted practice […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/window.jpg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Smoking")
![After staring at literally thousands of vintage car ads, one of the most striking differences between vintage and modern ads is how much vintage ads focus on the simple pleasure […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1961-Oldsmobile-F-85.jpg "Vintage Ad Tropes: The Joy of Driving")
![(first posted 8/13/2017) I regularly see the featured car for this post (a beautiful 1956 Lincoln Premiere with factory A/C) at car shows that I exhibit my Mark […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_7911-1.jpg "Cold Comfort: 1956 Lincoln Premiere Factory Air Conditioning")
![(first posted 7/6/2017) Several months back, when I stumbled across a 1957 Lincoln Premiere at the Brain Melting CARS Dealership, I commented on how the 1957 Lincolns had not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_7047.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1957 Lincoln Premier – How to Spoil a Good Design")
![(first posted 7/30/2017) We all know that cars are inanimate objects, but if they were capable of feeling emotions, I would nominate this 1979 Buick Skyhawk Road Hawk […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_7854.jpg "Car Show Outtake: 1979 Buick Skyhawk Road Hawk – Saddest Car Ever Made?")
![Confession time: I have a real soft spot for the 1971-72 Ford LTD. Yes, the very same Bunkie-beaked Fords that Paul famously whipped while working for Towson Ford as a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_6979.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1977 Ford LTD – Fall From Grace")
![Everyone here remembers the brand bloat of pre-bankruptcy General Motors of the early 21st century with no less than nine distinct brands: Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn, GMC, Hummer, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GM-brands.jpg "Vintage Ad: The 9 Brands of General Motors – Too Much of a Good Thing?")
![Regular readers of my Cold Comfort series of posts know that I am fascinated (obsessed, really) with automotive air conditioning. Well it is time to see how the other half […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/heater.jpg "Warm Comfort: What Was the Last American Car Without A Standard Heater?")
![Perhaps nothing more symbolized our promised atomic-age future in the mid-20th century than the humble push button. The future was going to be automatic, and everything could be accomplished with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1962-jetsons-push-button.jpg "Vintage Ad Tropes: Fingers Pushing Buttons")
![(first posted 7/18/2017) I’ve already briefly covered the GM Harrison air conditioning system in the third part of my original Cold Comfort series. This unusually heavily optioned […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7127.jpg "Cold Comfort: World’s Most Optioned 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air")
![(first posted 7/14/2017. Updated 7/14/2023) (Edit: The original version of this post misidentified the feature vehicle as a 1951 Packard.) My wife Kristen and I recently spent a weekend in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6708.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1952 Packard 200 Deluxe – Faded Glory")
![Americans have always had a certain fascination with the French people, their language, and their culture. Does this mid-engined, French-speaking, gray-market 1983 Matra Murena (a car that was never imported […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_2712.jpeg "Car Show Outtake: 1983 Talbot-Matra Murena – Je ne sais quoi")
![(first posted 7/12/2017) I was at a car show last summer when I photographed the Corvette above with an unusual six tail light configuration. Now […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_4811.jpg "Automotive History: Six Tail Light Corvettes")
![(first posted 7/6/2017, updated 7/6/2023) As readers of my three-part Cold Comfort series on factory air conditioning know, I have a preternatural obsession with automotive air conditioning. The response […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7080.jpg "Cold Comfort: 1962 Chevrolet Corvair with Factory Air Conditioning")
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