![(first posted 2/26/2012) Thanks to Mr. Tactful’s recent post on the V8 1995 Cougar, I thought it appropriate to mention this Thunderbird LX I spotted in downtown Moline a couple […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Thunderbird-LX-1-e1330303000415.jpg "CC Capsule: 1996-97 Thunderbird LX – Counterpoint")
![(first posted 3/17/2012) You have to hand it to GM. The 1980 X-bodies were by all accounts an unmitigated disaster. Yet they took that very same platform, updated and enlarged […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-12-12-006-e1331845266890.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988 Chevrolet Celebrity – When Life Hands You Lemons…")
![(first posted 4/5/2012) Does this face look familiar? British Motor Corporation (later merged into infamous British Leyland) did a lot of business with Pininfarina in the 1960s. Starting with the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/A110-5-e1333576455526.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1962 Austin A110 Westminster – Junior Jaguar Or English Fintail?")
![N. Cunningham Avenue, Urbana IL, 7/1/87 (first posted 4/25/2012) Yes, I haven’t yet run out of vintage photos from the ’80s and ’90s, you lucky CCers! This time, I have […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pekin-IL-e1335319247645.jpg "Street Scenes Part IV: Back To The ’80s (Again)")
![(first posted 12/10/2012) Time for another B-body! Yes, it’s well-established that many of us here at CC love the 1977-90 B-body, so I will shamelessly appeal to those well-versed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/aa-coupe-roofline.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Landau Coupe – Bent Glass Beauty")
![(first posted 9/7/2012) This was the first real Mercedes sports car of the 1960s. Without doubt, M-B had designed some fine postwar cars, and the Fintail was quite modern (well, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/5-30-2012-002-e1346612263324.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1963 Mercedes-Benz 230SL")
![(first posted 5/9/2012) About thirty years ago, Toyota pickups such as our featured CC were everywhere. And why not? They were tough, efficient, and hauled a fair amount of stuff. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/05-01-2012-007-e1336520290206.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1982 Toyota Truck – When Compact Pickups Roamed The Land")
![N. Henderson Street, Galesburg IL, 2/21/86 (first posted 5/2/2012) Here we go again, to Illinois in the mid-1980s (For those of you just joining us, previous Street Scenes posts can […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Galesburg-IL-e1335909443600.jpg "Street Scenes Part V: Midwesterners Liked Their Broughams")
![(first posted 11/19/2012) My mother has always had pretty nice cars. As I mentioned in previous CCs, her first and second cars were a ’59 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/5-04-and-5-05-2012-015-Copy-e1351263687807.jpg "Mom’s Ex-Curbside Classic: 2001 Dodge Viper GTS – Yes, You Heard Correctly")
![(first posted 10/23/2012) Time for something a little different. These retired workhorses have been part of the scenery in front of a quarry near Blackhawk State Park for years, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/09-30-2012-062-e1349562526246.jpg "Construction Classic: 1940s Euclid R24 And NW Engineering Crane – Quite A Pair")
![(first posted 10/31/2012) A while back, jpcavanaugh told us about a Ford product that didn’t get any respect. Here’s another one: The “fat” 1971-73 Mustang. And while the Boss 351 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/09-30-2012-034-e1351093575575.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1971 Ford Mustang Grande – Como Se Dice Brougham?")
![(First published 6/11/2012) The Maxima has been Nissan’s top-drawer model since the early ’80s. While today it is a sporty large sedan, back in the 1980s, it was a comfortable, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rear-quarter-e1339444912796.jpg "Cohort Classic: 1987 Nissan Maxima Wagon – The Smart Side Of Luxury Wagons")
![(first posted 6/1/2012) I consider myself a well informed car nut, but this was a car I didn’t know existed until recently. Oh sure, I knew that Kaiser got started […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/aa-5-22-2012-005.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1954 Kaiser Special Club Sedan – Some First Car!")
![Galesburg IL, 2/21/86 (first posted 4/4/2012) A lot of times I’ll think, “why didn’t someone take pictures of common things twenty or thirty years ago?” I would have loved to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Galesburg-IL-e1333492326448.jpg "Street Scenes: Curbside Classics In Their Prime")
![(first posted 3/26/2012) First things first: I like these cars. The downsized 1986 Riviera was a little too downsized, and its resemblance to the N-body Somerset/Skylark made matters worse. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-20-12-009-e1332432011412.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989 Buick Riviera – What The 1986 Riviera Should Have Been")
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