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Car Show Classic Archive
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1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 442 – Subtle Muscle In The Cutlass-Peak Era
Posted on October 18, 2025 | 2 CommentsRight around the peak of Cutlass-mania in the 1970s, this is what an Oldsmobile 442 looked like. Based on the Cutlass S, it was only a shadow of its former […] -
1947 Lincoln Sedan: “Nothing Could Be Finer,” Except Maybe A Cadillac
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 9 CommentsEdsel Ford was truly a remarkable man. With a personality completely unlike his tempestuous father’s, he was able to assert himself in Ford Motor Company despite his father’s conscious or […] -
Lead East Car Show Memories: Reliving The ’50s From 1986 to 2000
Posted on October 12, 2025 | 11 CommentsThat’s LEAD, baby—rhymes with “head,” as in the metal customizers and body work professionals use to re-sculpture car bodies or repair rust. I’ll never forget the day I first discovered […] -
Alfa Romeo Club Meet at Blackhawk Auto Museum
Posted on October 10, 2025 | 13 CommentsThis past June 7th, the Alfa Romeo Club held a small car show outside the Blackhawk Auto Museum, which I took the opportunity to go see. I expected fun cars, […] -
1967 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon: Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Posted on October 9, 2025 | 44 CommentsThe Monkees’ famous single “Pleasant Valley Sunday” made it all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 on the strengths of its up-tempo beat and […] -
Car Show Finds: Would You Rather Have A Restored Or An Untouched 1928 Pontiac 6-28 Sport Landau Sedan?
Posted on September 22, 2025 | 17 CommentsI have a good friend at work who is about fifteen years younger than I am, and he regularly asks me and another work friend outlandish “would you rather?” questions. […] -
Car Show Classic: 1936 MG PB Airline Coupé – Economy Plush
Posted on September 19, 2025 | 14 CommentsStreamlining did not come naturally to most UK carmakers. The square shapes of the ‘20s had been ideal for British designers’ propensity to fashion quite staid and narrow machines. But […] -
Car Show Classic: 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza – Chequered Black & White And Red All Over
Posted on September 15, 2025 | 5 CommentsRace cars in the ‘30s… Ah, those legendary Auto-Union 16-cyl. monsters and glorious Mercedes Silver Arrows… the striking blue Bugattis and Delahayes… the little green ERAs, repeatedly winning their 1500cc […] -
Car Show Classic: 1970 Renault 12 TL – Anti-Trailer Queen
Posted on September 13, 2025 | 27 CommentsThere were no straw hat wearing judges at the 2025 Renaultoloog Meeting & Market to methodically examine the surplus of patina -or whatever it was- on this 55 years old […] -
1982 Mustang-Chevy: Fox Body, Chevy Power – Identity Crisis
Posted on September 5, 2025 | 12 CommentsI was going to make this one a “CC Wordless Outtake”, but I couldn’t keep silent. Nope. I realize I write a lot about having grown up in Flint, Michigan, […] -
Car Show Classic: 1967 Pontiac Tempest — In A Sea Of GTOs, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Posted on September 2, 2025 | 15 CommentsAlthough a 1969 GTO convertible ignited my love for General Motors products at the tender age of 20 or 21, GTOs mostly escape my notice anymore. In my sleepy little […] -
Car Show Classics: 1973 Opel Kadett B And 1970 Opel Rekord C – Two Beige Two-Door Sedans
Posted on August 26, 2025 | 32 Comments(first posted 9/10/2017) Kadett, Ascona, Rekord, Commodore, Admiral, Diplomat. That was Opel’s sedan-ladder in the seventies, a variety unmatched by any other automaker on the European market. […] -
Car Show Finds: 1968 Pontiac Tempest & 1969 Pontiac LeMans – Muscle Car Flair For The Masses
Posted on August 21, 2025 | 6 CommentsCarl Jung, the famous psychologist, conceived the idea of the collective unconscious, and in doing so, he explained that there were archetypes and images that humans innately understood from birth. […] -
Car Show Classic: 1978 Alfa Romeo 2300 Rio – Doing A World Car, The Alfa Romeo Way
Posted on August 18, 2025 | 39 Comments(first posted 8/19/2019) You probably know the feeling. Wandering through a car show field, you glimpse a familiar but rarely seen profile. Your antennae react and your brain […] -
1960 Jensen 541R: They Weren’t All Interceptors, You Know – Little Known, Fantastic British Coupe
Posted on August 18, 2025 | 17 CommentsOne of the clues in today’s New York Times “The Mini” is, “There are roughly ten million billion (10^16) of these in a grain of salt.” (Of course, the answer is “atoms.”) […]
![1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 442 – Subtle Muscle In The Cutlass-Peak Era Right around the peak of Cutlass-mania in the 1970s, this is what an Oldsmobile 442 looked like. Based on the Cutlass S, it was only a shadow of its former […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1947 Lincoln Sedan: “Nothing Could Be Finer,” Except Maybe A Cadillac Edsel Ford was truly a remarkable man. With a personality completely unlike his tempestuous father’s, he was able to assert himself in Ford Motor Company despite his father’s conscious or […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PXL_20230812_151534202.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Lead East Car Show Memories: Reliving The ’50s From 1986 to 2000 That’s LEAD, baby—rhymes with “head,” as in the metal customizers and body work professionals use to re-sculpture car bodies or repair rust. I’ll never forget the day I first discovered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251007_174114-artguru.png?resize=115%2C115&quality=80&ssl=1)
![Alfa Romeo Club Meet at Blackhawk Auto Museum This past June 7th, the Alfa Romeo Club held a small car show outside the Blackhawk Auto Museum, which I took the opportunity to go see. I expected fun cars, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rsz_alfa_show_06_2025_009.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1967 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon: Another Pleasant Valley Sunday The Monkees’ famous single “Pleasant Valley Sunday” made it all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 on the strengths of its up-tempo beat and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PXL_20250628_150424493-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Finds: Would You Rather Have A Restored Or An Untouched 1928 Pontiac 6-28 Sport Landau Sedan? I have a good friend at work who is about fifteen years younger than I am, and he regularly asks me and another work friend outlandish “would you rather?” questions. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-13-073510.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1936 MG PB Airline Coupé – Economy Plush Streamlining did not come naturally to most UK carmakers. The square shapes of the ‘20s had been ideal for British designers’ propensity to fashion quite staid and narrow machines. But […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC_1638_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza – Chequered Black & White And Red All Over Race cars in the ‘30s… Ah, those legendary Auto-Union 16-cyl. monsters and glorious Mercedes Silver Arrows… the striking blue Bugattis and Delahayes… the little green ERAs, repeatedly winning their 1500cc […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_20240407_121043_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1970 Renault 12 TL – Anti-Trailer Queen There were no straw hat wearing judges at the 2025 Renaultoloog Meeting & Market to methodically examine the surplus of patina -or whatever it was- on this 55 years old […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_4489.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1982 Mustang-Chevy: Fox Body, Chevy Power – Identity Crisis I was going to make this one a “CC Wordless Outtake”, but I couldn’t keep silent. Nope. I realize I write a lot about having grown up in Flint, Michigan, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/164-Frankenstang-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1967 Pontiac Tempest — In A Sea Of GTOs, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On Although a 1969 GTO convertible ignited my love for General Motors products at the tender age of 20 or 21, GTOs mostly escape my notice anymore. In my sleepy little […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/009a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classics: 1973 Opel Kadett B And 1970 Opel Rekord C – Two Beige Two-Door Sedans (first posted 9/10/2017) Kadett, Ascona, Rekord, Commodore, Admiral, Diplomat. That was Opel’s sedan-ladder in the seventies, a variety unmatched by any other automaker on the European market. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_4673.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Finds: 1968 Pontiac Tempest & 1969 Pontiac LeMans – Muscle Car Flair For The Masses Carl Jung, the famous psychologist, conceived the idea of the collective unconscious, and in doing so, he explained that there were archetypes and images that humans innately understood from birth. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tempest-and-LeMans.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Car Show Classic: 1978 Alfa Romeo 2300 Rio – Doing A World Car, The Alfa Romeo Way (first posted 8/19/2019) You probably know the feeling. Wandering through a car show field, you glimpse a familiar but rarely seen profile. Your antennae react and your brain […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC00410.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1960 Jensen 541R: They Weren’t All Interceptors, You Know – Little Known, Fantastic British Coupe One of the clues in today’s New York Times “The Mini” is, “There are roughly ten million billion (10^16) of these in a grain of salt.” (Of course, the answer is “atoms.”) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20240714_150133860.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


