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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![Now that my youngest son is old enough to drive, it’s time to add yet another car to the Halter household. He wanted something small and sporty, with two doors […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_1409.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2005 Chrysler Crossfire – The Undercover German")
![My recent post on the 1953 Chrysler Airtemp air conditioning system and its rather unusual R-22 refrigerant spawned a little confusion over various A/C refrigerants, so I pulled together this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/s-l1600-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: R-12, R-134a, and Beyond: The Alphabet Soup of Automotive Air Conditioning Refrigerants")
![After having covered most of the early GM and FoMoCo factory A/C systems, I’ll be turning my attention next to Chrysler, who made some truly interesting systems over the years. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a-ac.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: 1953 Chrysler Airtemp Air Conditioning")
![Over the past several years, I’ve detailed much of the early history of automotive air conditioning in my Cold Comfort series of posts. However, air conditioning did not really become […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/014-1949-chevrolet-pickup-dash-fan.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: How People Kept Cool in Cars Before Air Conditioning")
![Paul has already extensively covered the full story of the Continental Mark II, and we all know the broad strokes: In the early 1950s, Lincoln was looking for a follow-up […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1956_Continental_parked_in_front_of_the_Continental_division_building_Ford_Motor_Company_Archives_3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Forgotten Future: Alternate Designs for the Continental Mark II")
![Has there ever been a US president more closely associated with a particular car than John F. Kennedy and the fourth generation Lincoln Continental? Both have since become icons of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JFK2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classic: Two JFK Lincoln Continentals Up For Sale")
![News of manufacturers discontinuing their cars has been coming in fast and furious over the past several months, a trend that is being accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic. Let’s take […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SUVs.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Newsstand: Carpocalypse Edition – Which Brands Will Soon Be Car Free?")
![It seems that every other car you see today is some shade of gray: Either black, gray, silver, or white. How much truth is there to this, and how far […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Harlequin-Golf.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Analysis: Fade to Gray – Where Have All The Car Colors Gone?")
![My summer COVID-19 travel moratorium continues, so I am back to trawling the airport rental lot looking for some more interesting cars to drive. I had just about given up […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rental Car Review: 2019 Jaguar XE – Entry Level Catsuit")
![US Federal Safety Standard FMVSS-215 went into effect on September 1, 1972 (a Friday, in case you were curious). This standard mandated that all vehicles be able to take an […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_1091.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1974 Ford Maverick – Peak Bumper")
![It is that time of year when I take my annual summer vacation. These trips were usually good for some rental car reviews, and last summer I even rented a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_1273.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rental Car Review: 1985 Porsche 928S – Eighties Fast")
![There are lots of automotive auctions that take place every year, most of which go unnoticed on this site. Every once in a while one will pop up that is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/9D_1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Auction Classic: Don Beneventi Collection of Nearly New Classic Chevrolets")
![COVID-19 has left a bloodbath of failed retailers in its wake, many of which were already on shaky ground before the pandemic. You can add famed mail order automotive parts […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/jcw-logo.jpg?resize=115%2C94&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Newsstand: JC Whitney to Cease All Sales"){kind=logo}
![Yesterday, I covered the history of single-zone automatic climate control systems. Today, I’d like to talk about something a little more modern: Dual-zone (and multi-zone) climate control. Dual-zone climate control (the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_1154.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: The History of Dual-Zone Automatic Climate Control")
![Most cars today are equipped with (or at least have available as an option) some form of automatic climate control, where you set the desired temperature, press auto, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1964-Comfort-Control.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cold Comfort: The History of Automatic Climate Control")
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