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Truck Stop Classic: 1989 DAF FAS 2800 Turbo Intercooling 6×2 Truck – An Earthy Job
Posted on November 25, 2024 | 14 CommentsBVB (Bas van Buuren) Substrates is a producer of growing media. The company recreated one of their heavy DAF trucks from the eighties, in a period correct livery and all. […] -
Curbside Recycling: 1983 BMW 745i – Boosted Bahn Brenner
Posted on November 25, 2024 | 25 CommentsInitially I wasn’t sure that I was going to share this, my latest find. Don’t get me wrong, I was thrilled to find it seeing as how I hadn’t seen […] -
Cohort Outtake: 1962 Cadillac Series Sixty-Two Six-Window Sedan – Plug-In Version (Update: It Was Saved and Restored)
Posted on November 24, 2024 | 40 Comments(first posted 11/25/2018. A comment was left in June 2024 saying that the car was sold to Dubai and was being restored. Photo at bottom of this post) […] -
Curbside Outtake: 1974 – 1986 Witkar – Have Pod, Will Travel
Posted on November 24, 2024 | 18 CommentsA sign of the times…a forward thinking European city doing its best to be ecologically and environmentally friendly implements an innovative car-sharing service utilizing pure Battery Electric vehicles to reduce […] -
Curbside Find: 1979 Mustang With 2.8 V6 Engine – Baby Blue Unicorn
Posted on November 23, 2024 | 44 CommentsPhotos from the Cohort by Slant Six. I would assume that today’s find is basically a unicorn by now: a 2.8L-equipped early third-gen ‘Stang. The only year the Cologne V6 […] -
Aaron Severson (Ate Up With Motor) Joins Curbside Classic As Senior Editor
Posted on November 22, 2024 | 44 CommentsI am very pleased to announce that Aaron Severson — known as Ate Up With Motor from the name of his website, — is joining Curbside Classic as Senior Editor. […] -
Junkyard Classic: 1983 Dodge Rampage – It Can Haul 1145 Pounds Of Hantavirus
Posted on November 22, 2024 | 78 Comments(first posted 11/23/2018) Ah, the Rampage. Dodge’s “Sports Pickup”, sold between 1982 and 1984, was a short-lived phenomenon. While a few are still roaming the streets, as of this […] -
Car Show Classic: 1924 Lorraine-Dietrich B3-6 Saloon by Million-Guiet – Enter Your Second Century In Style
Posted on November 22, 2024 | 5 CommentsI caught this lovely Lorraine-Dietrich last year, when it was still in the two-digit realm (age-wise), but what’s a year and change when you’re that old? It was more than […] -
Curbside Classic: 1956 DeSoto Fireflite – Yeah, It’s Got A Hemi
Posted on November 21, 2024 | 57 Comments(first posted 8/14/2014) Actually, they all had Hemi’s that year, at least the ’56 DeSoto Fireflite sedans like this one did. I drove past it on the way […] -
Curbside Find: 1983 Buick Electra Park Avenue – On The Way Down
Posted on November 21, 2024 | 13 CommentsThe CC effect can sometimes hit twice; only a couple of months ago this post by Joseph Dennis was published with a featured in-motion ’83 two-door Park-Avenue, followed a month […] -
Parking Lot Classic: 1962 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Holiday Hardtop – Happy Haunting
Posted on November 20, 2024 | 58 Comments(first posted 2/12/2013) To continue on the trajectory of early -’60s Oldsmobiles that continues to haunt me, I present this Dynamic 88, which I first met under the cover of […] -
Car Show Classic: 1927 Lancia Lambda (Series VII) Phaeton – Art-Deco Avant-Garde
Posted on November 20, 2024 | 16 CommentsLancia’s reputation for making extremely advanced and unconventional cars was well established even in the marque’s early years. If one model really stood above the rest in terms of sophistication, […] -
Online Classic: 1988 Buick LeSabre T-Type – Can You Go Home Again?
Posted on November 19, 2024 | 65 Comments(first posted 8/1/2018) When I found this LeSabre T-Type on Craigslist, I thought two things. Firstly, this was a surprisingly attractive design for an American GM product […] -
Curbside Musings: 1995 Mercury Cougar XR7 – The Kitty Grew
Posted on November 19, 2024 | 28 CommentsLast month, my essay featuring a Jaguar XJ6 from the mid-’80s prompted memories of one of the cats in my childhood household, a tiger-striped tom named Chester. In that piece, […]