- 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.
![This has to be one of the best car chases I’ve ever seen in a TV show. I say that not just because it’s filmed in some hilly Los Angeles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "CC TV: Car Chases – Daytona Versus Firenza In Hunter")
![It seems like almost overnight, Suzuki design became funky and fresh again. Sadly for our North American Curbivores, that happened shortly after Suzuki withdrew from the US and Canadian markets. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/suzuki-jimny-cream-view.jpg "Missing Out? The 2019 Suzuki Line-Up – Suzuki Gets Their Mojo Back")
![Jeep is planning to release their smallest model yet, a subcompact crossover dwarfed by the Compass and even the Renegade. Although Jeep’s stylists may try to make it look butch […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jeep-compass-suzuki-jimny.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1998-2018 Suzuki Jimny & 2007-10 Jeep Compass – One’s Jeep-Like, The Other’s A Jeep")
![(Read Part I) The sight of a row of first-generation Celicas at All-Japanese Day reminded me of something: the rows of Mustangs at the last two All-American Day shows I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/suzuki-jimny-blue.jpg "Car Show Classics: All-Japanese Day At Banyo, Part II – “Young People Don’t Like Cars”")
![W-Body aficionados – and surely there are some of you out there – will be delighted to read this Craigslist post. The original owner took the most attractive of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1989-oldsmobile-cutlass-supreme.jpg "CC For Sale: 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme – It Has A Stick!")
![“Young people don’t like cars” is one of those erroneous beliefs many enthusiasts espouse, based purely on anecdotal evidence. I think the more accurate statement is “Young people don’t like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/all-japanese-day-1.jpg "Car Show Classics: All-Japanese Day At Banyo, Part I – “Young People Don’t Like Cars”")
![Those of you in the Seattle area with $11,000 to burn may be wise to check out this listing because, after all, when are you going to see another Eunos […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/eunos-cosmo-4.jpg "CC For Sale: 1991 Eunos Cosmo – Mazda’s Grandest Luxury Car Could Be Yours")
![Last weekend’s RACQ Motorfest had an interesting little sideshow. You could get your photo taken with famous cars from movies! You may notice this ECTO-1 isn’t a ’59 Cadillac like […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ghostbusters-ford-ltd.jpg "Car Show Outtake: Get Your Photo Taken In An “Iconic Movie Car”")
![When Lincoln switched to alphanumeric names like MKX and MKZ, they were justifiably pilloried for implementing a confusing naming system. Where the Germans (and now Cadillac and Infiniti) had relatively […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lexus-range-3.jpg "CC Outtake: The Lexus Alphabet Soup – So Those Initialisms DO Mean Something!"){kind=small}
![The other weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the wedding of a friend and coworker of mine. For context, my friend, the bride, is a supremely […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/citroen-traction-avant-3.jpg "CC Outtake: A Beautiful Wedding Car For An Even More Beautiful Bride")
![In hindsight, I should’ve rented a Mustang and photographed it in front of the imposing, monolithic and long-shuttered Michigan Central Station. I didn’t see this coming, though: Ford purchasing a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/chevrolet-camaro-michigan-central-station.jpg "Automotive News: Ford’s Michigan Central Station Purchase – An Institution Buys An Iconic Landmark")
![From 1982 until 1997, the Stopford family had a VH Commodore. It didn’t look quite like this one, mind you. Our Commodore was canary yellow with a brown vinyl interior […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/holden-vh-commodore-sl-wagon-2.jpg "Auto-Biography: 1981-83 Holden VH Commodore – Mum, Let’s Go For A Drive")
![As an enthusiast, it’s tough seeing old cars become scrap metal. It’s especially upsetting when a particular model is almost completely wiped from the face of the earth, even if […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ford-explorer-1g.jpg "Outtake/QOTD: 1991-94 Ford Explorer – Are You Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone?")
