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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1962-jetsons-push-button.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7127.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6708.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_2712.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_4811.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "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://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7080.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: 1962 Chevrolet Corvair with Factory Air Conditioning")
![(first posted 7/3/2017) While we Curbivores prefer our classic cars to be of the curbside variety, some cars are so rare that they can only be seen at […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7103.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: The Last Unmolested 1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse?")
![(first posted 6/28/2017, updated 6/29/2023) While we normally don’t cover dealerships on Curbside Classic, Classic Autos Restored Simply, LLC (CARS – get it?) is a very special dealership that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6852.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Dealer Classic: The Brain Melting Cars of Classic Autos Restored Simply, LLC")
![(first posted 5/27/2020, updated 6/28/2023.) Half-model year vehicles are an interesting historical oddity that you don’t see anymore. They briefly gained favor in the sixties as a way […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/n_1970.5-Ford-Falcon-Folder-01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: 50% Better – A Half-Baked History of Half Model Year Cars")
![Like many of us here, I like to enjoy the occasional car show. I must say that hanging around Curbside Classic over the years has changed my automotive tastes, for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_4185.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1970½ Ford Falcon – Flipping the Bird")
![I serendipitously stumbled upon this eight-car cache hidden away behind a commercial building after making a wrong turn, which ended up being oh-so-right. Whoever owns this collection clearly has very […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_4088.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: A Collection of 1950s Mopars and 1990s Mercedes SL500s. Wait, What?")
![(first posted 6/5/2017) It is said that you can learn more from failure than you can success. Well did I learn a lot from this CC find. Come […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_7018.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 2016 Kia Cadenza – A Horse With No Name")
![(first posted 6/3/2017) After seeing the explosion of the aftermarket air conditioning sales in the early 1950’s, Detroit decided to get back into the factory air conditioning business […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1007-01-automotive-air-conditioning-chevrolet.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 3 – Post-World War II")
![(first posted 6/2/2017, updated 6/2/2023) As I detailed in Part 1 of this series, Packard, Cadillac, and Chrysler all dabbled in automotive air conditioning between 1940 and 1942. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1007_02-automotive_air_conditioning-vintage_car_interior.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 2 – The Aftermarket")
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