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Curbside Classics Archives
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![(first posted 7/9/2017) It was a hot day to be out and about in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s trendier districts. And it seems whoever owned this Corniche was so […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_20170708_102401.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1991 Rolls-Royce Corniche III – Dark Suit And White Gloves Compulsory")
CC Capsule: 1991 Rolls-Royce Corniche III – Dark Suit And White Gloves Compulsory
Posted on July 9, 2023 | 31 Comments(first posted 7/9/2017) It was a hot day to be out and about in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s trendier districts. And it seems whoever owned this Corniche was so […] -
![Temperatures are now reaching their usual uncomfortable summer peaks in Tokyo. It’s nothing compared to what some of you over in the southern US have had to endure in recent […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20230219_113106-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1961 Porsche 356 B 1600 Super Roadster – Ice-Cold And Air-Cooled")
Curbside Classic: 1961 Porsche 356 B 1600 Super Roadster – Ice-Cold And Air-Cooled
Posted on July 7, 2023 | 5 CommentsTemperatures are now reaching their usual uncomfortable summer peaks in Tokyo. It’s nothing compared to what some of you over in the southern US have had to endure in recent […] -
![The ‘80s may now be regarded as the decade of square car design par excellence, but it was arguably the third such era in automotive history. Back in the ‘20s, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230416_102918-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1965 Simca 1000 GLS – Cute Cubic CC")
Curbside Classic: 1965 Simca 1000 GLS – Cute Cubic CC
Posted on July 3, 2023 | 21 CommentsThe ‘80s may now be regarded as the decade of square car design par excellence, but it was arguably the third such era in automotive history. Back in the ‘20s, […] -
![Maserati are doing pretty well these days. That’s an outlier in the marque’s history though: for most of the 20th Century, Maserati were either about to go under or trying […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230228_142721-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1992 Maserati 430 4v (AM332) – The Better Biturbo")
Curbside Classic: 1992 Maserati 430 4v (AM332) – The Better Biturbo
Posted on June 26, 2023 | 16 CommentsMaserati are doing pretty well these days. That’s an outlier in the marque’s history though: for most of the 20th Century, Maserati were either about to go under or trying […] -
![In the aftermath of the Second World War, the “Export or die” era of the British motoring industry, when steel was only allocated to carmakers who sold ¾ths of their […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230319_143357-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "In-Motion / Car Show Classic: 1950 Austin A90 Atlantic – Missed The Boat")
In-Motion / Car Show Classic: 1950 Austin A90 Atlantic – Missed The Boat
Posted on June 21, 2023 | 16 CommentsIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the “Export or die” era of the British motoring industry, when steel was only allocated to carmakers who sold ¾ths of their […] -
![As you long time CC hangers-on know, I now have three classic cars from the late 50s/early 60s in my stable. But the fact is you really need a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20230219_153214-1-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Reader’s Curbside Classic: 2005 Jaguar S-Type–My Kitty")
Reader’s Curbside Classic: 2005 Jaguar S-Type–My Kitty
Posted on June 20, 2023 | 33 CommentsAs you long time CC hangers-on know, I now have three classic cars from the late 50s/early 60s in my stable. But the fact is you really need a […] -
![(first posted 5/23/2013) By 1961, the Rootes Group was established as one of the Big Four in the UK, along with BMC (Austin/Morris/MG/Wolseley/Riley), Ford and Vauxhall (representing GM and then […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hillman-Super-Minx-1966-fq.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1966 Hillman Super Minx – Rooting For Rootes")
Curbside Classic: 1966 Hillman Super Minx – Rooting For Rootes
Posted on June 18, 2023 | 66 Comments(first posted 5/23/2013) By 1961, the Rootes Group was established as one of the Big Four in the UK, along with BMC (Austin/Morris/MG/Wolseley/Riley), Ford and Vauxhall (representing GM and then […] -
![first posted 22 May 2013 I’m walking to the the subway on a lovely May day, and a glimmer of chrome on powder blue in the distance hits me. It’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IMG_5790.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1968 Volkswagen Automatic Stickshift · Chrysler’s Fluid Drive Returns In The Safer Käfer")
Curbside Classic: 1968 Volkswagen Automatic Stickshift · Chrysler’s Fluid Drive Returns In The Safer Käfer
Posted on June 17, 2023 | 103 Commentsfirst posted 22 May 2013 I’m walking to the the subway on a lovely May day, and a glimmer of chrome on powder blue in the distance hits me. It’s […] -
![(first posted 5/23/2013) Take a compact economy car chassis and make it into an inexpensive utility vehicle for your country’s armed forces. In Germany, this formula produced the Volkswagen-based Kubelwagen […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1-Moke-front.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: Austin Mini Moke – The Mini Thing")
Curbside Classic: Austin Mini Moke – The Mini Thing
Posted on June 15, 2023 | 62 Comments(first posted 5/23/2013) Take a compact economy car chassis and make it into an inexpensive utility vehicle for your country’s armed forces. In Germany, this formula produced the Volkswagen-based Kubelwagen […] -
![(first posted 5/23/2017) OK; old British cars have a rep, but this one has been defying it for many years. I’ve seen it coming and going on the streets of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-164-087-900.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: Triumph TR4A IRS – Stereotype Defying Tractor-Engined IRS Daily Driver")
Curbside Classic: Triumph TR4A IRS – Stereotype Defying Tractor-Engined IRS Daily Driver
Posted on June 9, 2023 | 54 Comments(first posted 5/23/2017) OK; old British cars have a rep, but this one has been defying it for many years. I’ve seen it coming and going on the streets of […] -
![Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! We’ve had so many CCs on old air-cooled Transporters, gnarly as they are, it would require something pretty, like, out there to justify one more. And not to bogart […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20220731_123717-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1975 Volkswagen Transporter – You’ve Stayed The Same, Man")
CC Capsule: 1975 Volkswagen Transporter – You’ve Stayed The Same, Man
Posted on June 8, 2023 | 24 CommentsDuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! We’ve had so many CCs on old air-cooled Transporters, gnarly as they are, it would require something pretty, like, out there to justify one more. And not to bogart […] -
![In the Great Book of Long-Lived Cars that I wrote in my head, there is a relatively small chapter dedicated to sports cars and convertibles. Just between the MG B […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20221204_133721-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1992 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce – Tall Tails")
Curbside Classic: 1992 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce – Tall Tails
Posted on June 5, 2023 | 10 CommentsIn the Great Book of Long-Lived Cars that I wrote in my head, there is a relatively small chapter dedicated to sports cars and convertibles. Just between the MG B […] -
![There are some cars you wouldn’t expect to encounter parked next to a vacant commercial building in Virginia. A Rolls-Royce hearse is one of them. Before coming across this vehicle, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1991-Rolls-Royce-Hearse-RR-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1991 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur II Hearse – One Foot In The Grave")
Curbside Classic: 1991 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur II Hearse – One Foot In The Grave
Posted on June 1, 2023 | 27 CommentsThere are some cars you wouldn’t expect to encounter parked next to a vacant commercial building in Virginia. A Rolls-Royce hearse is one of them. Before coming across this vehicle, […] -
![Boy, was this tough. Ten times I’ve tried to write an opening sentence for this post, but they all sounded inane or pompous. How could one write something silly when […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230331_091821-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental DHC by Carlton Carriage – Seeing Ghosts")
Curbside Classic: 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental DHC by Carlton Carriage – Seeing Ghosts
Posted on May 26, 2023 | 10 CommentsBoy, was this tough. Ten times I’ve tried to write an opening sentence for this post, but they all sounded inane or pompous. How could one write something silly when […] -
![(first posted 5/16/2017) Thanks to CC reader Martin M., who shot this rare 1956 Rometsch Beeskow in Novato, CA., We can finally give this Porsche 356/Karmann Ghia alternative […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Rometsch-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1956 Rometsch Beeskow – Coach-Built VW")
Curbside Classic: 1956 Rometsch Beeskow – Coach-Built VW
Posted on May 16, 2023 | 40 Comments(first posted 5/16/2017) Thanks to CC reader Martin M., who shot this rare 1956 Rometsch Beeskow in Novato, CA., We can finally give this Porsche 356/Karmann Ghia alternative […]
