- 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.
![Yesterday’s Celebrity showed some GM cars can weather a lot of abuse. But isn’t a Chevrolet just too common? Let’s climb the Sloanian ladder and check out what may be […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cadillac-deville-beater-2.jpg "Battle of the Beaters – Part 3: La Grandé Finale")
![Yesterday, we looked at a bright yellow (and gray and black) Fiat 131 that had earned proud beater status, and which had fortunately not been found torched in a ravine […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/chevrolet-celebrity-beater-1.jpg "Battle of the Beaters – Part 2: A Celebrity Falls From Grace")
![Shiny, clean and restored classic cars are always an impressive sight when we see them. It’s wonderful to see someone who appreciates a classic car and dedicates their time, money […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fiat-131-beater-3.jpg "Battle of the Beaters – Part 1: Bondo It Again, Tony")
![Take a smaller than full-size car, shove a big engine in it and you have a muscle car. That was the recipe in the 1960s, when big-block V8s were wedged […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/plymouth-sundance-duster.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1992-94 Plymouth Sundance Duster – Little Car, Big Engine")
![The 1989 Ford Capri, exported to North America as the Mercury Capri, is a curious car that deserves a more thorough write-up. These were a victim of timing, given […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ford-capri-2.jpg "CC Outtake: The Aisle of Capri")
![Leafing through some old issues of Motor Trend, I came across this wonderful three-page ad. All of these production and race cars employed Goodyear Eagles. But which one would you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/goodyear-eagle.jpeg "QOTD: Which 1988 Goodyear Eagle Wearer Would You Pick?")
![I mean no disrespect to the Rover 600, but I’m a little dumbfounded that this conservative sedan was voted “Most Beautiful Car” one year by a panel of Italians. “Most neatly proportioned”, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/rover-600-2.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1993-99 Rover 600 – What Price Chrome and Wood?")
![Applying a matte paintjob to one’s car is an aftermarket trend that has become immensely more popular than chrome-plating. Lately, some manufacturers are even offering a matte finish from the factory. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cadillac-xlr.jpg "Curbside Outtake: Matte As Hell")
![This Rolls-Royce looks like it has been driven right off a private jet that was chartered in the United Arab Emirates. Just in case the bluff, imposing Rolls-Royce Phantom wasn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/rolls-royce-phantom-1.jpg "Curbside Outtake: Chrome If You Want To")
![During one of my afternoons exploring the wonderful city I used to call home, I stumbled across two Buick Electras in the same part of the Lower East Side. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/buick-electra-2.jpg "Curbside Outtake: The Odd Couple")
![I don’t recall ever having seen Holden Special Vehicles’ fettled version of the Holden Adventra crossover wagon before. With only 333 built between 2003 and 2005, that comes as little […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/hsv-avalanche-2.jpg "Curbside Outtake: HSV Avalanche – The CC Effect Strikes Again")
![In early 2000s Australia, with SUV sales booming and crossovers emerging as a significant growth segment, Ford and Holden each developed their own crossover SUVs to storm the market and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/holden-adventra-6.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2003-07 Holden Adventra – Territory Enemy")
![I happened across this interesting tableau and it shows just how diverse manufacturer lineups are nowadays. You can thank changing consumer desires as well as globalization for Nissan offering both […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nissan-cube-armada.jpg "Curbside Outtake: A Dinghy and A Galleon")
![You can add Australia to the list of global markets that received a better compact Ford in the 1980s than North America did. Ford’s much ballyhooed “global” Escort was so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ford-kb-laser-4.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1981-85 Ford KA/KB Laser – A Beam of Light")
