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Editorial Archive
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Curbside Musings: 1993 SAAB 900 S Convertible – Color Of Success
Posted on April 8, 2025 | 51 CommentsI had been gifted with my first boombox during Christmas of 1984. It could be described more accurately as just a portable radio, as it wasn’t large or complex, but […] -
Curbside Musings: 2008 Ford Focus Two-Door – Blurred Stylistic Vision
Posted on April 1, 2025 | 66 CommentsThere’s no “April fooling” when I say that this may be it. This may possibly be the year that I get corrective lenses. Again. Almost immediately following my move to […] -
Curbside Musings: 1987 Ford Ranger – Fun-Sized
Posted on March 25, 2025 | 34 CommentsI was traveling through northern Michigan while on vacation last August when I had the chance to stand face-to-face with a life-sized cutout of one of my childhood authority figures: […] -
Curbside Musings: 1972 Chevrolet El Camino – Repurposed Container
Posted on March 18, 2025 | 7 CommentsWhen I was young, I had thought that the El Camino was simply a Chevelle or Malibu wagon with the rear section of the roof and cargo area lopped off […] -
Curbside Musings: 1953 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan – Old Henry
Posted on March 11, 2025 | 36 CommentsI’m glad I had started to realize the importance of just listening before some of my elders had passed away. As a young adult, I had wanted to speak my […] -
Curbside Musings: 1966 Chevrolet Impala Convertible – Don’t Blink
Posted on March 4, 2025 | 33 CommentsWelcome to March. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was back in Las Vegas for what had been something of a last-minute decision to spend time there both with […] -
Curbside Musings: 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille – Cruella
Posted on February 25, 2025 | 33 CommentsI loved animated Disney movies as a kid. When I was in elementary school in the early ’80s, there was this period when I had not only seen many classics […] -
Curbside Musings: 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V – Keeping It Classy
Posted on February 18, 2025 | 52 CommentsLast summer, I had made my first-ever appearance at the annual tailgate party at my former high school. On what is usually the second Saturday of August, the rear parking […] -
Curbside Musings: 1992 Chevrolet Camaro RS – Base Model Beauty
Posted on February 11, 2025 | 23 CommentsThe third-generation Chevy Camaro will always make me think immediately of only a handful of people, including a friend I had first met while in college in Gainesville, Florida over […] -
Curbside Musings: 2011 Chevrolet HHR – Reflection Of A Reflection
Posted on February 4, 2025 | 33 CommentsIt was December of 2023 when I had first discovered a die cast model of a yellow 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S fastback for sale on the shelf of a […] -
Curbside Musings: 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass S – At The Beginning
Posted on January 28, 2025 | 44 CommentsOccasionally, I will stumble across old photos of a car that I had taken long before I had discovered Curbside Classic. In September of 2011, when I had first seen […] -
Curbside Musings: 1967 Ford Thunderbird Landau Sedan – Dressed Like A Grownup
Posted on January 21, 2025 | 46 CommentsMere weeks before we entered 2025, I was blessed with a visit from my college-aged niece and her best friend, with their friendship going back to young childhood. It had […] -
Curbside Musings: 1968 Chevrolet C-10 Fleetside – Big Red
Posted on January 14, 2025 | 32 CommentsThe December holidays may be over, but I still have a taste for all of those seasonal goodies that surface around that time of the year. Just because the month […] -
Curbside Musings: 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible – It’s Tuesday
Posted on January 7, 2025 | 34 CommentsIt’s the first Tuesday of the new year, and I’d hope everyone in Curbsideland is having a great start to 2025, or at least is giving themselves the grace to […] -
Curbside Musings: 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Convertible – Deuces
Posted on December 17, 2024 | 44 CommentsAs I look back through my previous essays at Curbside Classic, I realize there have been a few, specific models to which I’ve often returned. I’ve tried to vary my […]