- Description
- William Stopford hails from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia but recently lived for a year in his favorite city, New York City. Having been an active contributor on Curbside Classic while living in two different countries, William has been able to provide readers with articles from both an American and an Australian market perspective. He has been an enthusiast from a very young age, and was once pulled aside by his preschool teacher and asked to bring something other than car magazines for show and tell as he was “boring” the other children.
![It’s a funny feeling when one encounters a car from a far-flung country that looks kind of “off”. On this site, we see 1960s-vintage Chevrolet Opalas treated to 1980s redesigns […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/holden-commodore-ute-former-ambulance-1.jpg "CC Outtake: 1996-2000 Holden VS Commodore Ute – No, They Weren’t All This Funny-Looking")
![William Oliver continues to impress with his Cohort contributions. In this series of photographs, taken in Toronto, he’s captured two of the most beautiful GM products of the 1960s: first-generation […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/william-oliver-buick-riviera-cadillac-eldorado-1.jpg "Cohort Outtakes: The Golden Era Of GM Design – 1963-64 Buick Riviera and 1969 Cadillac Eldorado")
![Imagine having a beautiful plant in a garden where everything else seems to die. Or a favourite supporting character on a TV show where everybody is constantly in mortal peril. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/kia-stinger-qps-2.jpg "CC Outtake: 2018 Kia Stinger – Don’t Die On Me!")
![Much like Prince Akeem went looking for a bride in Queens in Coming To America, I should’ve known Las Vegas was the place to go for a Vega. Right as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/chevrolet-vega-in-vegas-7.jpg "Return To The Great Vega Hunt, Part II: 1971-73 Chevrolet Vega in Las Vegas")
![This Buick Skylark is a tough old cookie. Last week, Paul shared some photos of it taken this year by Cohort contributor William Oliver. I instantly recognized it, having photographed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/197579-buick-skylark6.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1978 Buick Skylark – The Dauntless Little Buick")
![An example of the Ferrari-engined Lancia Thema 8.32 would be a novel enough find on a European classifieds site but this one is on Craigslist. Located in scenic San Francisco, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lancia-thema-832-15.jpg "CC For Sale: 1987 Lancia Thema 8.32 – A Golden Opportunity By The Golden Gate?")
![Remember the Great Vega Hunt? Paul was looking for surviving, running, non-garage queen examples of Vegas with the original 2300 engine. This 1974 Chevrolet Vega I photographed in Washington Heights […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/chevrolet-vega-3.jpg "Return Of The Great Vega Hunt: Part I – A 1974 Hatchback In NYC")
![New York City is a city of bumper guards. It’s a city where street parking is the norm and where scratches, dings and dents are unfortunately a fact of life. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/oldsmobile-1960s-full-size-2.jpg "CC Outtake: 1965 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Delta – Park Very, Very Carefully")
![Those of you who are easily tempted by classified ads, look away. Those of you whose spouse is already grumbling you have too many cars, click on another article. Here […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/volkswagens-on-craigslist.jpg "Weekend Classifieds/QOTD: Five Volkswagens – Which VW Is For You?")
![Paul has been chronicling the last of the Toyota Previas in use in Eugene as taxis (see here, here and here). Well, this may be the last Tarago (Previa) I’ve […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/toyota-tarago-previa-extraterrestrial-embassy-2.jpg "CC Outtake: The Last Extraterrestrial Embassy Previa")
![A while ago, I made a new rule: I wouldn’t photograph cars in undercover parking lots anymore. The photos never turned out all that great, rarely meeting my standards for […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1965-chrysler-valiant-3.jpg "CC Outtake: 1965 Chrysler Valiant Safari – A Blue Oasis In A Concrete Desert")
![When Toyota introduced the Sportivo variants of its XV40-series Camry and Aurion, they gave them what’s often referred to as a hero color – that color that’ll feature most prominently […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/toyota-camry-sportivo.jpg "CC Outtake: Toyota Sportivos In Cyber Green – It Ain’t Exactly British Racing Green")
![The skies were grey and the roads were slick. Storms had lashed Brisbane before easing into a mere drizzle and the endless concrete and bitumen of Gympie Road looked dreary […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1971-buick-electra-profile.jpg "CC For Sale: 1971 Buick Electra 225 – A Solid Texan Socialite")
![Even before the demise of the Aussie Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore, Brisbane’s taxi companies were heavily embracing Toyota. The streets were dotted with HiAce vans, Camry Hybrids and Priuses. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/toyota-prius-taxi-berlin-2.jpg "CC Outtake: Today’s Berlin Taxis – Toyota’s Next Step On The Way To Global Domination?")
