- Description
- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![It may seem difficult to conceive today, when even a Prius has close to 200hp and will do 0-60 in a tick over seven seconds, but a car’s ability to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1950-Nash.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad Tropes: Hill Climbing")
![Action! For almost as long as there has been the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, automakers have been trying to get some of that movie magic to rub off on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1939-De-Soto-Myrna-Loy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad Tropes: Cars on Movie Sets")
![The germination for our next trope came from some comments made on my sliding sunroof history post a while back. To draw attention to the then-new sliding sunroof, advertisers would […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Golde-Scheibedach.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad Tropes: People Standing in Sunroofs")
![Time for another look at cars in ads appearing in places they clearly don’t belong. Today, we’re looking at another trope (age-old, as it turns out), cars parked/driving on golf […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jeep-1984-Grand-Wagoneer-ad-a1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad Tropes: Cars Parked on Golf Courses")
![Trope: a convention or device that establishes a predictable or stereotypical representation of a character, setting, or scenario in a creative work (dictionary.com) For almost as long as there have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1962-Studebaker-poolside.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad Tropes: Car Parked Poolside")
![Welcome to the third and final installment of my search for full-sized American cars from model year 1970 and later with a three-on-the-three manual transmission. For this installment, we will […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSCI3193.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Unicorn Hunt: 1970+ Full-Sized Cars with Manual Transmission, Part 3 – Chrysler Edition")
![In Part 1 of this series, our big game (and I do mean big) was 1970-1973 GM full-sized cars with a three-on-the-tree transmission. We came back with our unicorn bags, if […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Monosnap-1970-Ford-LTD-351-3-Speed-Stick-3-OTC-BURNOUT-Test-n-Tune-YouTube-2022-12-18-13-46-56.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Unicorn Hunt: 1970+ Full-Sized Cars with Manual Transmission, Part 2 – Ford Edition")
![(first posted 1/5/2017) Old cars can be like a neighborhood cat: When you see them sitting out in the summer, it can be hard to tell if someone loves them […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IMG_6238.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1962 Chrysler New Yorker – Adios Fins")
![It may seem difficult to believe, but some American full-size cars were available with a manual transmission as late as 1973. After the decline of full-sized muscle cars in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/shift-pattern2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Unicorn Hunt: 1970+ Full-Sized Cars With Manual Transmission, Part 1 – GM Edition")
![The 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe (SWC) has become an icon, and one of the most expensive and sought-after of all classic Corvettes. But that wasn’t always the case. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1963-Vette-SWC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Unicorn Hunt: 1963 Corvette Without a Split Rear Window")
![I’m back with another round of AI-generated cars that never were (but should have been). As before, the images are exactly as generated by the DifusionBee (a port of Stable […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1957-Chevrolet-Thunderbird-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "What If: More AI Generated Cars That Never Were (But Should Have Been)")
![Images generated via artificial intelligence “Text to Image” programs are making a lot of noise in machine learning circles, and are starting to hit the mainstream. The latest buzz-generating program […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1940-Chevrolet-Corvette.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "What If: AI Generated Cars That Never Were")
![It is no secret that I like convertibles a lot. It is also no secret that convertibles (like their sedan counterparts) are rapidly disappearing from the automotive landscape (at least […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1967_lincoln_continental_convertible.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: Which Brand has Gone the Longest Without a Convertible in the US?")
![While the 1970s may have been the golden age of the Personal Luxury Coupe, their inspiration came from the Executive Luxury Coupes of the late 1960s. The prototypical ELC is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/images_ford_thunderbird_1967_2.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive History: 1967 Ford Thunderbird Apollo – One Small Step For A Car, One Giant Leap for Thunderbirds")
![So I’ve had a BP gas credit card in my wallet for most of my adult life – 30 years to be exact. So it came as somewhat of a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_3097.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Credit Card of a Lifetime: Parting Ways With BP After 30 Years – A Brief History of Gas Station Credit Cards")
-
-
-
American Brands: GM 
American Brands: Ford 
American Brands: Chrysler 
American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others 
Automotive Histories and Misc. 
Asian Brands 
UK Brands 
Australian Brands 
European Brands 
Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
Buses 
Trucks, Pickups and Vans 
Design 
Trains, Planes & Ships 
Motorcycles, Trikes, Bicycles 
Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
RVs, Motorhomes, Trailers, Campers
