- 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.
![We might not realize it, but we are spoilt. For all the bemoaning about the loss of “character”, modern cars are vastly safer, more powerful, more fuel-efficient and produce fewer […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/toyota-camry-sedans-3.jpg "Curbside Comparisons: Two Generations Of Toyota Camry")
![Last year, I ran a four-part QOTD called “Say One Nice Thing”. The challenge was for you to, as the name suggested, say one nice thing about some of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/toyota_paseo_1995_images_1_b.jpg "Challenge of the Day: “Say One Nice Thing” – Toyota and Lexus Edition")
![Swapping the front clip of a Ford Fairlane or LTD onto a shorter-wheelbase Falcon is nothing unusual in Australia; the same applies to Statesman/Caprice clips on Holden utes. Just five […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ford-falcon-ltd-australia-wagon-4.jpg "CC Outtake: Now Just What Is Going On Here?")
![Ask an Aussie on the street if they’ve ever heard of a Nissan Silvia and they’ll most likely say yes. Ask an Aussie on the street if they’ve ever heard […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nissan-gazelle-sgl-coupe-7.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1984-86 Nissan Gazelle 2.0 SGL Coupe – Entering The Lion’s Den")
![The Japanese sport coupe wasn’t invented in the 1990s. After all, the Toyota Celica, Datsun/Nissan SX and Z-Cars, and Honda Prelude all launched in the 1970s. But by the beginning […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/photos_mitsubishi_eclipse_1989_1_b.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Favorite Coupe From The Japanese Sport Coupe’s Golden Age?")
![The two generations of Honda CR-X earned critical acclaim for their light weight and tossable handling. But when it came time to replace the second generation CR-X, Honda went in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/honda-crx-del-sol1.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1993-98 Honda Civic del Sol/CR-X – More Reboot Than Sequel")
![In 2014, the Ford Motor Company was the world’s 6th-largest automaker with 6.32 million unit sales. In January of this year, this same global juggernaut announced it was pulling out […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ford-laser-lynx-6.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1994-96 Ford Laser Lynx – The Sun Sets In The East")
![American Curbsiders, imagine that all the best-selling cars of the 1980s vanished off of your local roads. Ford Tempos, Chevrolet Cavaliers, Honda Accords, all gone. Now, for some of you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mitsubishi-sigma-wagon.jpg "CC Outtake: 1978-87 Mitsubishi Sigma – Hugely Popular Becomes Hugely Rare")
![Let’s try something a little bit different. Let’s play a game: Curbside Classic Bingo! You’re probably wondering, “How do you play bingo when you’re not sitting in a big room […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/buick-rainier.jpg "Curbside Classic Bingo: Let’s Play A Game!")
![The automotive world has lost a lot of brands over the past twenty-some years, most of them American. Some brands were starved of new product and wasted away before succumbing; […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/final-plymouth-lineup.jpg "QOTD: Which Domestic Brand Had The Best Lineup When It Was Axed?")
![Mitsubishi has always been a much stronger player in the Australian market than in North America. In 2015, it was the 5th best-selling brand, overtaking Ford despite the absence of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mitsubishi-pajero-io-2.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1999-2005 Mitsubishi Pajero iO – Little Moon Rover")
![It’s not unusual for an old car to continue be produced in developing nations long after its original run is over. The 1956 Morris Oxford famously became the Indian Hindustan […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/kia-pride-wagon.jpg "Cohort Outtake: 1987-2000 Kia Pride – The Festiva Continues")
![Any street scene is interesting to look at after many years have passed and that is even more true for street scenes from faraway lands. Our Yohai Rodin uploaded this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/nairobi-1986-2.jpg "Cohort Outtake: Car-Spotting In 1986 Nairobi")
![Not every car that is parked on the street in Manhattan becomes a dented and destroyed mess. Not every 1980s car parked on the street in Manhattan is slowly rusting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/plymouth-caravelle-2.jpg "CC Outtake: 1986-88 Plymouth Caravelle – Mint in Manhattan")
