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- Car nut with a soft spot for classic Lincolns and early automotive air conditioning.
![Model names are some of the most valuable assets that an automaker has: Companies spend millions of dollars per year on advertising in the hopes of building a durable brand […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Re446b9ad1b2a420f23b9944a65c51936.jpeg "Automotive History: U.S. Model Name Debasement from the 1950s to 1970s – And The First Shall Be Last")
![We’ve already observed how GM was unique among the Big 3 US automakers in having bespoke V8 engines for each of its five automobile divisions. Contrast this with Ford Motor […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1961-Buick-215-V8.jpg "Automotive History: When Did Each GM Division Stop Making Their Own V8 Engines? A Brief History of V8 Engine Sharing at GM")
![Everyone seems to love these vintage family road trip stories, so I figured I’d contribute one of my own from my family (actually my wife’s family, but close enough). This […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_1581.jpg "Vintage Road Trip: Summer 1936 Cross Country in a Packard Club Sedan")
![Clearly, I’ve got showroom mileage, time capsule cars on the brain lately, as my recent posts will attest. And why not? These unicorns are fun to speculate about: Why would […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/B3606-R152-0003.jpg "QOTD: What Current New Car Would You Save In Your Time Capsule?")
![I gotta admit, I fell off my chair when I saw the result of this auction for a 1980 Ford F-250 over at Bring A Trailer the other day. $97,000! […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/F250.jpg "Auction Classic: 1980 Ford F-250 with 76 Miles Sells for $97,000")
![The transition to electric power in our automobiles just got a big boost with GM’s recent announcement that their entire fleet of cars and light trucks will be all-electric by […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1910-model-63.jpg "QOTD: What Will Be the Last Internal Combustion Powered Car?")
![Here’s something you don’t see every day. A pair of cream-colored 1979 Lincolns with as-delivered mileage: A 1979 Mark V with 10 miles, and a matching 1979 Continental with just […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/dsc0655-1610117000138@2x.jpg "Auction Classic: Matched Pair of Brand New 1979 Lincolns"){kind=small}
![There’s little doubt that electrification is the future of the automobile. Witness the bevy of EVs that are now for sale and coming soon, like the Mustang Mach-E. Cadillac is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/32.jpg "QOTD: How Soon Until We Start Seeing EV Curbside Classics?")
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_1409.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/s-l1600-1.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a-ac.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/014-1949-chevrolet-pickup-dash-fan.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1956_Continental_parked_in_front_of_the_Continental_division_building_Ford_Motor_Company_Archives_3.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JFK2.jpg "Auction Classic: Two JFK Lincoln Continentals Up For Sale")
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