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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, […] -
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-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 […] -
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 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1966 Hillman Super Minx – Rooting For Rootes
Posted on June 18, 2023 | 67 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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum…
Posted on June 13, 2023 | 80 CommentsA sanitary Beetle—a real Beetle, parked up at the curb, just as regular as you please: a sight that was so common as to be invisible, all round the world, […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1991 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur II Hearse – One Foot In The Grave
Posted on June 1, 2023 | 29 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, […] -
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 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1956 Rometsch Beeskow – Coach-Built VW
Posted on May 16, 2023 | 42 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 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1974 Triumph Toledo–The Only Car Ever To Be Switched From FWD To RWD?
Posted on May 14, 2023 | 72 Comments(first posted 12/11/2012) Here’s a little number I’d never heard of until I noticed these photos, posted to the Cohort by Down- Under cameraman Bryce. Triumph Toledo? Did they sell […]
![Curbside Classic: 1965 Simca 1000 GLS – Cute Cubic CC 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230416_102918-copy.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1992 Maserati 430 4v (AM332) – The Better Biturbo 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230228_142721-copy.jpg)
![In-Motion / Car Show Classic: 1950 Austin A90 Atlantic – Missed The Boat 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230319_143357-copy.jpg)
![Reader’s Curbside Classic: 2005 Jaguar S-Type–My Kitty 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20230219_153214-1-1.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1966 Hillman Super Minx – Rooting For Rootes (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hillman-Super-Minx-1966-fq.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1968 Volkswagen Automatic Stickshift · Chrysler’s Fluid Drive Returns In The Safer Käfer 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IMG_5790.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Austin Mini Moke – The Mini Thing (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1-Moke-front.jpg)
![1968 Volkswagen Beetle With Roof Rack – Speaking of Chewing Gum… A sanitary Beetle—a real Beetle, parked up at the curb, just as regular as you please: a sight that was so common as to be invisible, all round the world, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/68_Beetle_LF34_7524.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: Triumph TR4A IRS – Stereotype Defying Tractor-Engined IRS Daily Driver (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CC-164-087-900.jpg)
![CC Capsule: 1975 Volkswagen Transporter – You’ve Stayed The Same, Man 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20220731_123717-copy.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1992 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce – Tall Tails 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20221204_133721-copy.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1991 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur II Hearse – One Foot In The Grave 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1991-Rolls-Royce-Hearse-RR-1.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental DHC by Carlton Carriage – Seeing Ghosts 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230331_091821-copy.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1956 Rometsch Beeskow – Coach-Built VW (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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Rometsch-1.jpeg)
![Curbside Classic: 1974 Triumph Toledo–The Only Car Ever To Be Switched From FWD To RWD? (first posted 12/11/2012) Here’s a little number I’d never heard of until I noticed these photos, posted to the Cohort by Down- Under cameraman Bryce. Triumph Toledo? Did they sell […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Triumph-Toledo-2-e1354383355307.jpg)


