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Blog Archive
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Rare Find: 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Lakewood – The Short-Lived Corvair Wagon
Posted on August 23, 2025 | 16 CommentsCorvair wagons were not common back in the day, much less so nowadays. A mere 26K sold in ’61, with a scant 6K more selling in ’62 before the curtains […] -
Rare Find: 1977 Citroën SM Tissier Auto Transporter – French Luxury Meets Utility
Posted on August 22, 2025 | 15 CommentsAnd now for something Frenchly different, found and posted by Guillaume Vachey at the CC Cohort. It’s just the thing for those who need a car carrier and find a […] -
CC Global: 2024 And 2025 Harvest Days – Agro-Modernities And Their Supporters
Posted on August 22, 2025 | 6 CommentsAfter last week’s classics, the focus is now on the present times in agriculture. Which means, among many other things, that each and every land vehicle has a safe and […] -
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. […] -
Curbside Find: 1992-96 Buick Roadmaster Sedan – Who Needs An SUV?
Posted on August 20, 2025 | 64 Comments(first posted 8/20/2015) The re-introduction of a full-size, body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive sedan to Buick’s lineup in the 1990s was somewhat surprising. After all, despite switching almost entirely to front-wheel-drive […] -
CC In Scale: Miniature Luxury – Scale Models Of Personal Luxury Coupes
Posted on August 20, 2025 | 28 CommentsThis was something of a bothersome theme for me. Just what is a personal luxury coupe? Some are obvious candidates to include, like this Grand Prix; others less so. Where […] -
In Motion Classic: Pagoda De Ville Long Island Edition
Posted on August 19, 2025 | 6 CommentsIn the early 1960s, Cadillac brought some short deck variants to market – known as the Park Avenue. Pictured here is the aftershock – the extended deck Cadillac Sedan DeVille […] -
Rare Find: 1967 Imperial With Director’s Chair Option – Chrysler’s Luxury Statement
Posted on August 19, 2025 | 17 CommentsIn recent days, I’ve been on a mission to review Cohort material that I may have missed sharing with the larger CC readership. And here was one from a few […] -
1999 Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ75 Pickup – The World’s Finest Prepper Truck
Posted on August 18, 2025 | 34 Comments(first posted 8/14/2019) Body-on-frame, live axles with leaf springs, a manual transmission, and -above all- a big lump of a naturally aspirated diesel engine with a mechanical injection […] -
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.”) […] -
Dodge L700 Tilt Cab – The Big-Boy A100
Posted on August 17, 2025 | 12 CommentsTriborough has found a truck I’ve been keeping an eye out for way too long: A Dodge L700 tilt cab medium duty with the cab borrowed from the A100 van/pickup. […] -
Curbside Finds: 1982 Corona and 1986 Cressida Wagons – A Toyota RWD Wagon Lover Lives Here
Posted on August 16, 2025 | 31 Comments(first posted 9/25/2017) I’d seen this very clean Corona wagon before in town, on the go. But I finally stumbled into where it lives, and it appears that […] -
Rare Classic: 1983 Hurst/Olds 15th Anniversary Edition
Posted on August 16, 2025 | 17 CommentsCC Cohort William Rubano found and posted a car that is not exactly a common sights on the streets. This 1983 version of the Hurst/Olds was the 15th Anniversary of […]
![Rare Find: 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Lakewood – The Short-Lived Corvair Wagon Corvair wagons were not common back in the day, much less so nowadays. A mere 26K sold in ’61, with a scant 6K more selling in ’62 before the curtains […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-22-23.41.11.jpg)
![Rare Find: 1977 Citroën SM Tissier Auto Transporter – French Luxury Meets Utility And now for something Frenchly different, found and posted by Guillaume Vachey at the CC Cohort. It’s just the thing for those who need a car carrier and find a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-08-17-16.27.05.jpg)
![CC Global: 2024 And 2025 Harvest Days – Agro-Modernities And Their Supporters After last week’s classics, the focus is now on the present times in agriculture. Which means, among many other things, that each and every land vehicle has a safe and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_4316.jpg)
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tempest-and-LeMans.jpg)
![Junkyard Classic: 1989 Subaru Justy GL ECVT – There Just Isn’t Any Justice (first posted 8/24/2019) Justice – If such a concept really existed, then any of the total beaters of the world that we see every day would be […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_4457.jpg)
![Curbside Find: 1992-96 Buick Roadmaster Sedan – Who Needs An SUV? (first posted 8/20/2015) The re-introduction of a full-size, body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive sedan to Buick’s lineup in the 1990s was somewhat surprising. After all, despite switching almost entirely to front-wheel-drive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buick-roadmaster-2.jpg)
![CC In Scale: Miniature Luxury – Scale Models Of Personal Luxury Coupes This was something of a bothersome theme for me. Just what is a personal luxury coupe? Some are obvious candidates to include, like this Grand Prix; others less so. Where […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/69GP-1.jpg)
![In Motion Classic: Pagoda De Ville Long Island Edition In the early 1960s, Cadillac brought some short deck variants to market – known as the Park Avenue. Pictured here is the aftershock – the extended deck Cadillac Sedan DeVille […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/caddypag1.jpg)
![Rare Find: 1967 Imperial With Director’s Chair Option – Chrysler’s Luxury Statement In recent days, I’ve been on a mission to review Cohort material that I may have missed sharing with the larger CC readership. And here was one from a few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/54299016429_0ab6389000_b.jpg)
![1999 Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ75 Pickup – The World’s Finest Prepper Truck (first posted 8/14/2019) Body-on-frame, live axles with leaf springs, a manual transmission, and -above all- a big lump of a naturally aspirated diesel engine with a mechanical injection […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_8296.jpg)
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC00410.jpg)
![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PXL_20240714_150133860.jpg)
![Dodge L700 Tilt Cab – The Big-Boy A100 Triborough has found a truck I’ve been keeping an eye out for way too long: A Dodge L700 tilt cab medium duty with the cab borrowed from the A100 van/pickup. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dodge-L600-7000-f.png)
![Curbside Finds: 1982 Corona and 1986 Cressida Wagons – A Toyota RWD Wagon Lover Lives Here (first posted 9/25/2017) I’d seen this very clean Corona wagon before in town, on the go. But I finally stumbled into where it lives, and it appears that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CC-337-023.jpg)
![Rare Classic: 1983 Hurst/Olds 15th Anniversary Edition CC Cohort William Rubano found and posted a car that is not exactly a common sights on the streets. This 1983 version of the Hurst/Olds was the 15th Anniversary of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Olds-1983-Cutlass-Hurst-fq-e1755392777241.png)


