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Curbside Classic: 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham – The Brougham’s Brougham
Posted on January 21, 2022 | 168 Comments(first posted 8/6/2012) The Fleetwood Brougham. The top-of-the-line Cadillac. Luxurious in space, in gadgets, and in power. The best “owner-driven” Cadillac money could buy. While Cadillac wasn’t necessarily the top […] -
Curbside Classic: 1968 Chevrolet Chevy Van 90 – Just The Thing For A Snowy Day
Posted on January 21, 2022 | 18 CommentsWe don’t see snow in Eugene very often, but that did happen on December 27th, when we measured a good six inches at our house. It tends not to stick […] -
Curbside Classics: 1989 Cadillac Coupe de Ville & 1990 Sedan de Ville – Better As Time Goes By?
Posted on January 18, 2022 | 85 Comments(first posted 1/18/2016) Let’s face it, Cadillac’s downsized, front-wheel drive 1985 de Ville (and Fleetwood) do not receive much love, and probably get even more hate than they […] -
Curbside Classic: 1977 Pontiac Firebird Esprit Sky Bird – Pretty Bird
Posted on January 18, 2022 | 60 CommentsI have been reacquainting myself over the past couple of years with many of the television programs I used to love when I was growing up. In an essay that […] -
Curbside Classic: 1973 Buick Centurion Convertible – Catching Cows
Posted on January 12, 2022 | 86 Comments(first posted 1/12/2016) With Toyota Week firing on all four cylinders, now is probably the right time for some respite in the form of a gargantuan US ragtop. To my […] -
Curbside Classics: A Convention of Corvairs at the Boone County Courthouse
Posted on January 12, 2022 | 67 CommentsWhen I married my wife, she owned a rental house. It was in Lebanon, a small town that is the county seat of Boone County, Indiana, about 20 minutes up […] -
Curbside Classic: 1994 Buick Century Wagon – Fighting A Losing Battle
Posted on January 10, 2022 | 76 Comments(first posted 4/4/2013) As you might recall, my part of the country is chock full of A-bodies, particularly the Cutlass Ciera and Century variants. We Midwesterners stuck with GM far […] -
Curbside Classic: 1971 IKA Torino TS – The Legendary Rambler European South American
Posted on January 9, 2022 | 55 CommentsRed Torino shot by Perry Curtis in Buenos Aires, Argentina (first posted 1/9/2016) South America, especially Brazil and Argentina, is famous for its many local adaptions and permutations of US […] -
Curbside Classic: 1975 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Regency – It’s a Bloated, Wallowy Feeling to Have an Olds Around You
Posted on January 8, 2022 | 93 Comments(first posted 3/6/2013) Incredibly, it’s already been 17 years since you could last buy a brand-new Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. But those years of absence are dwarfed by the staggering 55 […] -
Curbside Classic and CC Drive Report: 1969 Mercury Monterey Custom – Buy Yourself A Mercury And Cruise It Up And Down The Road
Posted on January 8, 2022 | 106 Comments(first posted 1/8/2016) As George Washington once said, I cannot tell a lie. Saying I don’t have a certain, indescribable attraction to full-sized Mercury models between roughly 1963 and 1978 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1998-2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue – Oldsmobile’s Last Best Hope
Posted on January 7, 2022 | 107 Comments(first posted 1/7/2016) The Oldsmobile Intrigue was a volley lobbed right at the heart of the American car market. The best-selling cars in America during the 1990s were the Ford […] -
Curbside Classic: 2003 Chrysler Concorde Limited – A Last Hurrah For The LH
Posted on January 6, 2022 | 107 Comments(first posted 1/6/2016) Chrysler’s radical Cab-Forward LH sedans were nothing short of a sheer breakthrough for the smallest Big Three automaker, bringing it out of the dark ages, and for […] -
Curbside Classic: 1983 Cadillac Eldorado – Mmm, Buttery!
Posted on January 5, 2022 | 91 Comments(first posted 9/21/2012) This, friends, is the last of the classic Eldorados. The less said about the ’86 successor, the better, and while the redesigned 1992-02 model was a nice […] -
Bus Stop Classic: GMC TDH-4523 “New Look” Transit Bus – One Of GM’s Greatest Hits
Posted on January 4, 2022 | 135 Comments(first posted 12/29/2012. Revised and expanded 1/3/2022) GM has built some great vehicles in its day, but nothing can top their buses. They literally owned the bus market from the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1970 1/2 Ford Falcon Sedan – Needle, Meet Haystack
Posted on January 3, 2022 | 114 Comments(first posted 3/7/2013) Despite a massive snowstorm on Tuesday, last week was most excellent for me. Long story short, I had been out of work for approximately a month, but […]