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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7103.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6852.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/n_1970.5-Ford-Falcon-Folder-01.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_4185.jpeg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_4088.jpeg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_7018.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1007-01-automotive-air-conditioning-chevrolet.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1007_02-automotive_air_conditioning-vintage_car_interior.jpg "Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 2 – The Aftermarket")
![(first posted 6/1/2017) I’ve never really seen a good, comprehensive history of Automotive Air Conditioning, so I decided to take it upon myself to write one, being somewhat […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/3604083691_bef5fcfaa1_b.jpg "Cold Comfort: History of Automotive Air Conditioning, Part 1 – Pre-World War II")
![(first posted 5/29/2017) In honor of Memorial Day, let us take a look back at World War II through the eyes of U.S. Automakers, and specifically their advertisements. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1942-Buick-Ad-01.jpg "Automotive History: World War II Auto Advertisements")
![(first posted 4/24/2017) While researching my JC Whitney article, I found literally hundreds of great items from their catalogs over the years: Far to many for me to feature in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/JC-Whitney-Barefoot-Pedal.jpg "QOTD: JC Whitney Scavenger Hunt")
![(first posted 4/24/2017, updated and expanded over the years. Much to my surprise, this article is often the top non-paid Google search result for JC Whitney. I am humbled […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/JCW-Logo-1.jpg "JC Whitney: The Rise and Fall of an Automotive Icon"){kind=logo}
![(first posted 4/17/2017) The tragic story of the downfall of Packard has been told many times. In this Forgotten Future installment, we look at the Packard future that almost […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1956-Packard-Predictor-factory-front-34.jpg "CC Forgotten Future: 1957 Packard")
![(first posted 4/14/2017) As my regular readers know, I take pictures. Lots of pictures. I take pictures of my cars. I take pictures of my rental cars. For this dive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/samp28cfd76c6e9720f9.jpg "Road Signs Of A Lifetime")
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