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Curbside Classics – American Brands Archive
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1966 Buick Wildcat Custom Gran Sport: One-Year-Only Full-Size Buick Muscle “For Young People Of All Ages”
Posted on September 29, 2026 | 11 CommentsBy 1966, the sporty car market had shifted inexorably to intermediates and pony cars, but Detroit thought there might be still some remaining demand for full-size performance models. Even Buick […] -
Curbside Classic: 1990 Ford Probe GT – A Turbocharged Ford From the Road Not Taken
Posted on September 28, 2026 | 85 Comments(Updated 9/28/2026) It took some doing, but I was able to locate a first-generation Ford Probe in desirable GT trim, if not quite-so-desirable condition. Even when roads were teaming with […] -
1963 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Custom Sports Coupe: A Bucket Seat Thunderbird-Fighter In Size XXL
Posted on September 28, 2026 | 22 CommentsIn 1961, Oldsmobile added a sporty Starfire convertible with bucket seats, aimed squarely at the Ford Thunderbird. A year later, they added a hardtop Starfire Coupe. As if that wasn’t […] -
1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Fastback: Bench Seat And Rare 4-Speed With A Z-Code 390
Posted on September 27, 2026 | 26 CommentsThe 1965 full-size Ford was as new as it had been since 1949, with a brand-new coil spring chassis beneath its crisp new styling. While 87.8 percent of these cars […] -
1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme – Rehabilitating The GM10 Cutlass
Posted on September 26, 2026 | 70 Comments(Updated 9/26/2026) Speaking positively of the GM10 platform is a hard sell given our well-informed audience and given the many well-documented reasons it was such a serious misstep in GM’s […] -
1968 Buick GS 350 Sport Coupe: Not Quite A Muscle Car, This Junior GS Was The Best-Handling Buick Of Its Time
Posted on September 26, 2026 | 23 CommentsWith only 280 gross horsepower and a 2-speed automatic, this 1968 Buick GS 350 hardtop wasn’t going to run with GM’s big-engine A-body muscle cars, but when equipped with the […] -
1967 Shelby Mustang G.T. 350 – California Screamin’
Posted on September 25, 2026 | 14 CommentsIt doesn’t take a whole lot to give a car a little character. The way Carroll Shelby did it with the 1967-68 Mustangs involved a little fiberglass, different taillights, a […] -
Curbside Classic: 1998 Ford Windstar – How Hard Can It Be To Make A Minivan (part 7)
Posted on September 24, 2026 | 66 Comments(Updated 9/24/2026) The place: Dearborn, Michigan. The date: March 1, 1994. “We here in the Ford organization (that we like to think of as a big family) […] -
1967 Cadillac De Ville Convertible – Undress To Impress
Posted on September 24, 2026 | 15 CommentsFor the better part of the 20th Century, i.e. right until the Cimarron, Cadillacs were designed to impress. They were big, often bold, sometimes beautiful and always remarkable. Everyone has […] -
Curbside Classic: 1964 Studebaker Avanti – Fall Forward Onto The Sword, Rise Like The Phoenix
Posted on September 23, 2026 | 69 Comments(Updated 9/23/2026) The Studebaker is the most Christ-like of all personal coupes. I’m not too sure that the end of production at South Bend fell on a Friday, or whether […] -
Museum Classic: 1960 Valiant V-200 – Unchained Malady
Posted on September 21, 2026 | 31 CommentsCar design is a matter of taste, of course. Your list of beautiful cars may not overlap with anybody else’s, which is fine. Has anyone ever included the Renault 6, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1970 Ford F-100 – A Celebration Of Old Age Usefulness
Posted on September 20, 2026 | 36 CommentsPosted to the Cohort by Tim Finn (Updated 9/20/2026) As time goes on I keep finding old pickups to be more and more appealing. No, I […] -
1974 Ford Torino – Life Ain’t Always Gran
Posted on September 18, 2026 | 43 Comments(Updated 9/18/2026) Lest one think all American branded four door sedans of the 1970s were so ornamented as to have a tackiness quotient comparable to a high […] -
1960 Ford Galaxie Town Sedan: Rare Six And Overdrive In One Of Ford’s Biggest Full-Size Flops
Posted on September 18, 2026 | 21 CommentsAt Ford, 1960 was really the year of the Falcon — as the new compact soared, the bigger-than-ever full-size Fords languished, with unpopular styling, cumbersome handling, and indifferent quality control. […] -
Curbside Find: 1960s Cabana FG 23 Motor Home – A Survivor
Posted on September 17, 2026 | 22 Comments(Updated 9/17/2026) This vintage Cabana motor home showed up in our neighborhood about a year ago, and it’s still around. I saw it parked by the […]
![1966 Buick Wildcat Custom Gran Sport: One-Year-Only Full-Size Buick Muscle “For Young People Of All Ages” By 1966, the sporty car market had shifted inexorably to intermediates and pony cars, but Detroit thought there might be still some remaining demand for full-size performance models. Even Buick […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1966-Buick-Wildcat-Custom-GS-2HT-Flame-Red-Bring-a-Trailer-5-side-right-badge-inset-115x115.webp)
![Curbside Classic: 1990 Ford Probe GT – A Turbocharged Ford From the Road Not Taken (Updated 9/28/2026) It took some doing, but I was able to locate a first-generation Ford Probe in desirable GT trim, if not quite-so-desirable condition. Even when roads were teaming with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-08-27-15.26.40.jpg)
![1963 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Custom Sports Coupe: A Bucket Seat Thunderbird-Fighter In Size XXL In 1961, Oldsmobile added a sporty Starfire convertible with bucket seats, aimed squarely at the Ford Thunderbird. A year later, they added a hardtop Starfire Coupe. As if that wasn’t […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1963-Oldsmobile-98-Custom-Sports-Coupe-Provincial-White-RM-Auctions-right-side-and-buckets-left-115x115.webp)
![1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Fastback: Bench Seat And Rare 4-Speed With A Z-Code 390 The 1965 full-size Ford was as new as it had been since 1949, with a brand-new coil spring chassis beneath its crisp new styling. While 87.8 percent of these cars […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1965-Ford-Galaxie-500-2HT-Vintage-Burgundy-Orlando-Classic-Cars-front-3q-right-inset-115x115.webp)
![1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme – Rehabilitating The GM10 Cutlass (Updated 9/26/2026) Speaking positively of the GM10 platform is a hard sell given our well-informed audience and given the many well-documented reasons it was such a serious misstep in GM’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014-08-07-17.24.16.jpg)
![1968 Buick GS 350 Sport Coupe: Not Quite A Muscle Car, This Junior GS Was The Best-Handling Buick Of Its Time With only 280 gross horsepower and a 2-speed automatic, this 1968 Buick GS 350 hardtop wasn’t going to run with GM’s big-engine A-body muscle cars, but when equipped with the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1968-Buick-GS350-2HT-Ivory-Gold-Connors-Motorcar-Company-front-3q-right-badge-inset-115x115.webp)
![1967 Shelby Mustang G.T. 350 – California Screamin’ It doesn’t take a whole lot to give a car a little character. The way Carroll Shelby did it with the 1967-68 Mustangs involved a little fiberglass, different taillights, a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG20260215113453_edited-115x115.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1998 Ford Windstar – How Hard Can It Be To Make A Minivan (part 7) (Updated 9/24/2026) The place: Dearborn, Michigan. The date: March 1, 1994. “We here in the Ford organization (that we like to think of as a big family) […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1998-Ford-Windstar-07.jpg)
![1967 Cadillac De Ville Convertible – Undress To Impress For the better part of the 20th Century, i.e. right until the Cimarron, Cadillacs were designed to impress. They were big, often bold, sometimes beautiful and always remarkable. Everyone has […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_20240229_142511_edited1-115x115.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1964 Studebaker Avanti – Fall Forward Onto The Sword, Rise Like The Phoenix (Updated 9/23/2026) The Studebaker is the most Christ-like of all personal coupes. I’m not too sure that the end of production at South Bend fell on a Friday, or whether […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a-avanti.jpg)
![Museum Classic: 1960 Valiant V-200 – Unchained Malady Car design is a matter of taste, of course. Your list of beautiful cars may not overlap with anybody else’s, which is fine. Has anyone ever included the Renault 6, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC_2830_edited-115x115.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1970 Ford F-100 – A Celebration Of Old Age Usefulness Posted to the Cohort by Tim Finn (Updated 9/20/2026) As time goes on I keep finding old pickups to be more and more appealing. No, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/50334787987_939cfe003a_c.jpg)
![1974 Ford Torino – Life Ain’t Always Gran (Updated 9/18/2026) Lest one think all American branded four door sedans of the 1970s were so ornamented as to have a tackiness quotient comparable to a high […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IMG_1265.jpg)
![1960 Ford Galaxie Town Sedan: Rare Six And Overdrive In One Of Ford’s Biggest Full-Size Flops At Ford, 1960 was really the year of the Falcon — as the new compact soared, the bigger-than-ever full-size Fords languished, with unpopular styling, cumbersome handling, and indifferent quality control. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1960-Ford-Galaxie-4SD-Sultana-Turquoise-Druk-Auto-Sales-front-3q-left-lede-115x115.webp)
![Curbside Find: 1960s Cabana FG 23 Motor Home – A Survivor (Updated 9/17/2026) This vintage Cabana motor home showed up in our neighborhood about a year ago, and it’s still around. I saw it parked by the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-394-073.jpg)


