- 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.
![After a brief hike in the scenic Glass House Mountains, my brother suggested we go to nearby Kilcoy to get some delicious sausage rolls and pies from their bakery. Upon […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1963-LeSabre-Gemini-Panel-Van-280ZX.jpg "Car Show Classic: Kilcoy Classics on Wheels 2014")
![The global auto market and the cars competing in it have changed markedly over the past few decades. While years ago, a Citroen would share almost nothing with an Alfa Romeo, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dodge-Avenger-5.jpg "Dodge Goes Global: Taking a Plastic Fork to a Knife Fight")
![I saw this Ford XD/XE Falcon very recently, and was shocked. American Curbsiders might be mystified by my surprise; it looks like a fairly generic, 1980s two-door sedan/coupe, right? Crisp […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo.jpg "Curbside Outtake: Dr. Frankenstein’s Falcon")
![Brighton Beach is a diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn, home to generations of Russian-speaking immigrants. Situated near Coney Island, it is one of the best places in New York City to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photo-2.jpg "Curbside Capsule: Black Russian")
![Recently, I showed you how prevalent the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera was in a particular two-block section of Chelsea where, in a small area, I’d noted over half a dozen different of those […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/quest-villager-9.jpg "Curbside Classic: Nissan Quest and Mercury Villager – Official Car of Washington Heights")
![The Chelsea Houses and the John Lovejoy Elliott Houses are a group of housing projects located between West 25th and 27th Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues in the Chelsea […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Cutlass-Ciera-wagon-1b-e1398088602349.jpg "CC Capsule: Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera – Official Car Of The Chelsea Projects")
![Soon it will be time for me to pack my bags and move across the world again. Once more, I will own a car. This time of being carless hasn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/0103608-Alfa-Romeo-159-3.2-JTS-V6-Q4-TI-2007.jpg "Help Me Pick My Next* COAL")
![Pop quiz, hot shot. It’s 2029 and you’re walking down the street. An older gentleman is pulling the cover off a shiny, black, early 2000s muscle car in his […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/800px-Mercury_Marauder.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 7")
![After a short break, it’s time to look again at cars of the new millennium that will attract the attention of the Curbside Classic Cohort. We come to this site […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Crosstour-brown.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 6")
![Welcome to this week’s installment of Future Curbside Classics, where we take a critical look at cars from the past decade that will be rare or intriguing sightings by the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Envoy-XUV-1.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 5")
![It’s a new year, and as time marches on, the car-buying public forget more and more of the underwhelming, underperforming or just plain unappreciated cars that littered market over the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/800px-06-08_Mitsubishi_Eclipse_coupe.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 4")
![So it continues. The 2000s were a decade of dying domestic brands, rapidly expanding German lineups, transitioning Korean automakers and the occasional misstep by the indefatigable Japanese. I present to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/800px-Saab_9-7X_-_01-07-2012.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 3")
![We pick up where we left off last week, looking at the cars sold from 2000-2012 that us Curbside Classic denizens will be fussing over in 15-20 years’ time when […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/800px-Buick_Terraza_-_09-26-2009.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Cars We’ll Be Photographing Later – Part 2")
![It almost seems a tragic coincidence that the same month I said goodbye to the first car I ever bought, my 2004 Ford Falcon XR6, Ford Australia announced the permanent […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Falcon-Photo-6.jpg "Cars Of A Lifetime Number Two: 2004 Ford Falcon XR6")
![We all have fond memories of our first car. Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, your first car tends to be a family hand-me-down, or […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Photo-27-07-10-13-50-52.jpg "Cars Of A Lifetime # 1: 1997 Holden Astra – First Love")
