Curbside Classic Archives
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American Brands: Chrysler 
American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others 
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European Brands 
Cars Of A Lifetime & Auto-Biography 
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Trucks, Pickups and Vans 
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Motorcycles, Trikes, Bicycles 
Engines, Transmissions and other Tech 
Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment 
RVs, Motorhomes, Trailers, Campers Privacy
Blog Archive
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Curbside Find: 1993-1996 Eagle Summit – Not To Americans’ Taste
Posted on January 7, 2025 | 36 Comments(first posted 1/5/2012) TheProfessor47 managed to catch a rare bird indeed, the Eagle branded version of the Mitsubishi RVR, known in the US as the Expo LRV, and […] -
In-Motion Classic: 1974 AMC Hornet – We All Have Our Gifts
Posted on January 7, 2025 | 55 Comments(first posted 1/7/2019) I’ve been an AMC fan since my adolescence in the mid-/late-1980s. I don’t know if perhaps it was because something of that make’s “underdog” aura […] -
CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (October-December 2024) – Part 3: Foreign Cars (German & French)
Posted on January 7, 2025 | 24 CommentsWelcome to the second week of the traditional T87 Singles roundup. Cramming three months of brief CC encounters into reasonably digestible posts proved quite challenging, so I hope these won’t […] -
CC In Scale: An Assortment Of Models To Start 2025 (And Coming Attractions)
Posted on January 7, 2025 | 20 CommentsA happy New Year to you all. Welcome to my little pocket of space/time weirdness! Fancy, it’s 2025 already? I feel like I’m still in 1970. Last year I began […] -
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 […] -
CC Outtakes: A Year’s Worth of Random Finds and Other Items
Posted on January 6, 2025 | 27 CommentsWith 2024 in our collective rearview mirror, I figured it’s a good time to look back through my photographs at some cars that I only got a glimpse of – […] -
CC Tech: Thinwall Iron Castings For Engines – Why Detroit Turned Away From Aluminum
Posted on January 6, 2025 | 48 CommentsIn the early ’60s, Detroit had a brief flirtation with aluminum engines, but high costs, manufacturing problems, and warranty headaches soon drove automakers back to cast iron, taking advantage of […] -
Truck Stop Classics: 1971 And 1975 Magirus-Deutz Eckhauber 6×6 – Square Lined And Air Cooled
Posted on January 5, 2025 | 25 Comments(first posted 11/4/2018) When a Dutch earth moving company was in the market for a new, heavy 6×6 truck in the seventies, there was plenty of choice. Truck […] -
Curbside Find: 1987 Nissan Pathfinder – The Long and Winding Path Started Here
Posted on January 5, 2025 | 47 Comments(first posted 12/20/2018) You want to know why Nissan has run a distant number two to Toyota for almost ever? Here’s just one of very many reasons: inconsistency. […] -
Car Show Classics: Autotron, November 2 – Part One Of Several Parts
Posted on January 5, 2025 | 29 CommentsA 1972 Buick, 1971 Opel, 1969 Tatra, and 1977 Chevy Corvette, captured in one picture. An eclectic mix of vehicles is guaranteed when visiting an Autotron classic car event in […] -
Curbside Finds: 1971 Dodge Coronet and 1968 Pontiac GTO – Stuck In The Early ’70s
Posted on January 5, 2025 | 34 CommentsPhotos from the Cohort by Jerome Solberg. On a recent visit to California, it was nice to see in person that the Golden State is still one place to find […] -
Curbside Grab Bag: Mixed Nuts, California Style (and Two More Things!)
Posted on January 5, 2025 | 25 CommentsThe holidays saw the Kleins visiting the in-laws in Orange County, California once again, although this time the climate was curiously rather the same as here in Northern Colorado, i.e. […] -
Cohort Outtake: Vanden Plas Princess 1100 – When Status Came In Small Packages
Posted on January 4, 2025 | 72 Comments(first posted 12/20/2018) Benoît found and posted something a bit out of the ordinary for us to savor. It’s a Vanden Plas Princess 1100, the most luxurious and […] -
CC Commentary: Two Key Automotive Industry Developments from Japan
Posted on January 4, 2025 | 23 CommentsThe recent holiday season has brought two major, perhaps landmark, automotive news stories from Japan. The first is obviously the potential merger of Honda and Nissan. Lots of commentary and […] -
CC History: 1968 German Ford 15M RS (P6) – The Successor To Dearborn’s FWD Cardinal Dons Its Track Suit, But Prefers To Walk
Posted on January 4, 2025 | 12 CommentsFord’s compact Cardinal never made it to America, but Ford of Germany managed to sell 680,206 units of the German Taunus 12M P4 version through 1966, plus a further […]
![Curbside Find: 1993-1996 Eagle Summit – Not To Americans’ Taste (first posted 1/5/2012) TheProfessor47 managed to catch a rare bird indeed, the Eagle branded version of the Mitsubishi RVR, known in the US as the Expo LRV, and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Eagle-Summit-1993-1996-side-by-theProfessor47.jpg)
![In-Motion Classic: 1974 AMC Hornet – We All Have Our Gifts (first posted 1/7/2019) I’ve been an AMC fan since my adolescence in the mid-/late-1980s. I don’t know if perhaps it was because something of that make’s “underdog” aura […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7156-1974-AMC-Hornet-CC.jpg)
![CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (October-December 2024) – Part 3: Foreign Cars (German & French) Welcome to the second week of the traditional T87 Singles roundup. Cramming three months of brief CC encounters into reasonably digestible posts proved quite challenging, so I hope these won’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_20241022_144658_edited.jpg)
![CC In Scale: An Assortment Of Models To Start 2025 (And Coming Attractions) A happy New Year to you all. Welcome to my little pocket of space/time weirdness! Fancy, it’s 2025 already? I feel like I’m still in 1970. Last year I began […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/70SuperBeePink3.jpg)
![Curbside Musings: 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible – It’s Tuesday It’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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/117-1964-Chevrolet-Corvair-Monza-convertible-for-CC.jpg)
![CC Outtakes: A Year’s Worth of Random Finds and Other Items With 2024 in our collective rearview mirror, I figured it’s a good time to look back through my photographs at some cars that I only got a glimpse of – […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dodge-Rampage.jpg)
![CC Tech: Thinwall Iron Castings For Engines – Why Detroit Turned Away From Aluminum In the early ’60s, Detroit had a brief flirtation with aluminum engines, but high costs, manufacturing problems, and warranty headaches soon drove automakers back to cast iron, taking advantage of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1962-02_MT_Iron_Parts_Can_Be_Lighter.jpg)
![Truck Stop Classics: 1971 And 1975 Magirus-Deutz Eckhauber 6×6 – Square Lined And Air Cooled (first posted 11/4/2018) When a Dutch earth moving company was in the market for a new, heavy 6×6 truck in the seventies, there was plenty of choice. Truck […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_7538.jpg)
![Curbside Find: 1987 Nissan Pathfinder – The Long and Winding Path Started Here (first posted 12/20/2018) You want to know why Nissan has run a distant number two to Toyota for almost ever? Here’s just one of very many reasons: inconsistency. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CC-375-013.jpg)
![Car Show Classics: Autotron, November 2 – Part One Of Several Parts A 1972 Buick, 1971 Opel, 1969 Tatra, and 1977 Chevy Corvette, captured in one picture. An eclectic mix of vehicles is guaranteed when visiting an Autotron classic car event in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_3754.jpg)
![Curbside Finds: 1971 Dodge Coronet and 1968 Pontiac GTO – Stuck In The Early ’70s Photos from the Cohort by Jerome Solberg. On a recent visit to California, it was nice to see in person that the Golden State is still one place to find […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/54220773297_dc1ddb524b_k.jpg)
![Curbside Grab Bag: Mixed Nuts, California Style (and Two More Things!) The holidays saw the Kleins visiting the in-laws in Orange County, California once again, although this time the climate was curiously rather the same as here in Northern Colorado, i.e. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_8830.jpg)
![Cohort Outtake: Vanden Plas Princess 1100 – When Status Came In Small Packages (first posted 12/20/2018) Benoît found and posted something a bit out of the ordinary for us to savor. It’s a Vanden Plas Princess 1100, the most luxurious and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/32173093908_7ab7b5343e_k.jpg)
![CC Commentary: Two Key Automotive Industry Developments from Japan The recent holiday season has brought two major, perhaps landmark, automotive news stories from Japan. The first is obviously the potential merger of Honda and Nissan. Lots of commentary and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/images-4.jpg)
![CC History: 1968 German Ford 15M RS (P6) – The Successor To Dearborn’s FWD Cardinal Dons Its Track Suit, But Prefers To Walk Ford’s compact Cardinal never made it to America, but Ford of Germany managed to sell 680,206 units of the German Taunus 12M P4 version through 1966, plus a further […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1968-Ford-15M-RS-front-3q-IMG_1155-e1736104988772.jpg)


