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About Author: Tom Klockau
Posts by Tom Klockau
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Turkey Day Question: What’s Your Most Favorite Turkey? What’s Your Least Favorite Turkey?
Posted on November 27, 2014 | 134 CommentsThere are so many great cars in the past, and plenty of efficient, if unremarkable ones too. But then there are the turkeys. Cars that had perhaps not the worst […] -
CC Outtake: A 2003-04 Mercury Marauder – With A Carriage Roof?
Posted on November 27, 2014 | 52 CommentsThis rather interesting car was seen at the Hot Rod Power Tour when they stopped in the Quad Cities last summer, on their way up to Wisconsin. Yes, yes, this […] -
CC Clue
Posted on November 25, 2014 | 5 CommentsThis must be a gray car, right? Mmm…maybe. -
CC Outtake: A GT With No Spoiler? What Gives?
Posted on November 22, 2014 | 37 CommentsSomething a bit odd: What appears to be a Mustang GT convertible sans spoiler. It seems all Mustangs from the 1998-2004 period had a spoiler; even my sister’s first car, […] -
QOTD: 1998 Lincoln Navigator – Did It Kill The Town Car?
Posted on November 20, 2014 | 70 CommentsHere it is: The original Lincoln Navigator. I remember seeing these at the 1997 Chicago Auto Show, and thinking of it as a 4WD Town Car. But, lo! Today the […] -
CC Clue
Posted on November 17, 2014 | 21 CommentsAre we inside or outside the car? Hmm… -
eBay Find: 1969 Dodge Monaco – This Fulsome Fuselage Is Fundamentally Fine!
Posted on November 17, 2014 | 103 CommentsI love Fuselage Mopars. Pretty much all of them, as a matter of fact. And while there are highs and lows in Fuselage-land (high: 1970 Three Hundred convertible; low: 1969 […] -
CC Outtake: Double Mint
Posted on November 16, 2014 | 19 CommentsI caught these two Hondas at Hobby Lobby last week. What is rather rare is catching two metallic mint green Hondas next to each other. It was never a popular […] -
CC Outtake: Sunburned
Posted on November 15, 2014 | 34 CommentsThis circa-1993 Sunbird sedan was spotted way back in March, when I was in Iowa City for the day. -
CC Wordless Outtake: The Ghost Of Harley Earl
Posted on November 14, 2014 | 15 Comments -
CC For Sale: 1973 BMW 2002 tii – Beautiful, But Beware!
Posted on November 12, 2014 | 39 CommentsSouth Hampton Service in the small town of Hampton, IL, is a real, honest to gosh garage. Oh sure, you can get fuel, a doughnut and cuppa just like any […] -
CC Clue
Posted on November 9, 2014 | 2 CommentsExtreme close-up time! What is it? -
CC Outtake: An Honest Truck
Posted on November 8, 2014 | 37 CommentsA few months back I was on my way somewhere on a dreary day when I spotted something bright off to my right. It materialized into a classic 1973-87 Chevrolet […] -
Brochure Classic: The 1971 Firenza, By General Motors
Posted on November 7, 2014 | 54 CommentsToday I am sharing a blast from the past–the 1971 Firenza brochure from my personal collection. For those of you Canadians who might possibly remember seeing a rare survivor, now […] -
CC Clue
Posted on November 5, 2014 | 6 CommentsWhat could this be?
![Turkey Day Question: What’s Your Most Favorite Turkey? What’s Your Least Favorite Turkey? There are so many great cars in the past, and plenty of efficient, if unremarkable ones too. But then there are the turkeys. Cars that had perhaps not the worst […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1978-Ford-Mustang-II-05.jpg)
![CC Outtake: A 2003-04 Mercury Marauder – With A Carriage Roof? This rather interesting car was seen at the Hot Rod Power Tour when they stopped in the Quad Cities last summer, on their way up to Wisconsin. Yes, yes, this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6-12-2014-178.jpg)

![QOTD: 1998 Lincoln Navigator – Did It Kill The Town Car? Here it is: The original Lincoln Navigator. I remember seeing these at the 1997 Chicago Auto Show, and thinking of it as a 4WD Town Car. But, lo! Today the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lincoln-Navigator-e1416524798917.jpg)

![eBay Find: 1969 Dodge Monaco – This Fulsome Fuselage Is Fundamentally Fine! I love Fuselage Mopars. Pretty much all of them, as a matter of fact. And while there are highs and lows in Fuselage-land (high: 1970 Three Hundred convertible; low: 1969 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/KGrHqZnwFIuBdwSYQBSNonzr7Q60_57-e1410562392625.jpg)
![CC Outtake: Double Mint I caught these two Hondas at Hobby Lobby last week. What is rather rare is catching two metallic mint green Hondas next to each other. It was never a popular […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/0011.jpg)


![CC For Sale: 1973 BMW 2002 tii – Beautiful, But Beware! South Hampton Service in the small town of Hampton, IL, is a real, honest to gosh garage. Oh sure, you can get fuel, a doughnut and cuppa just like any […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/aa-10-16-2014-007.jpg)

![CC Outtake: An Honest Truck A few months back I was on my way somewhere on a dreary day when I spotted something bright off to my right. It materialized into a classic 1973-87 Chevrolet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5-04-2014-034.jpg)
![Brochure Classic: The 1971 Firenza, By General Motors Today I am sharing a blast from the past–the 1971 Firenza brochure from my personal collection. For those of you Canadians who might possibly remember seeing a rare survivor, now […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/aa-4-26-2014-and-4-27-2014-078.jpg)



