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Curbside Classics Archive
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Curbside Classic: 1984 Toyota Corolla Diesel – Latecomer To The Diesel Party
Posted on April 24, 2025 | 71 Comments(first posted 4/4/2013) Toyota is an interesting company. Sometimes, they’re comfortable being pioneers, as with their hybrid technology. But when it comes to their bread-and-butter cars, they lean to the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1978 Lancer (Colt) Wagon – The Lesser Known Utilitarian Colt
Posted on April 24, 2025 | 8 CommentsIf you lived through the late 1970s, this is a face you should be familiar with, though its profile will not be. It’s the wagon version of the Mitsubishi Lancer […] -
Storage Yard Classic: Standard Vanguard Vignale – The Rarest CC Find Yet?
Posted on April 23, 2025 | 46 Comments(first posted 3/29/2013) A rear-wheel drive station wagon featuring Italian styling touches and proven mechanicals shared with a contemporary sports car? Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what we have […] -
Curbside Classic: 1987 Toyota Corolla FX16 – When Corollas Still Induced Lust, Not Sleep
Posted on April 18, 2025 | 101 Comments(first posted 8/20/2013) The good old Toyota golden years, when the Corolla could still got one’s blood moving instead of inducing narcolepsy. If it wasn’t the legendary AE-86, or the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1949 Dodge Special De Luxe – What the Plodge?!
Posted on April 17, 2025 | 23 CommentsSo probably the first thing to get out of the way is just what exactly a Plodge is. It is, like the name suggests, the combination of a Plymouth and […] -
Curbside Classic Review: 1990 Toyota Camry LE V6 – Dripping With Fat
Posted on April 16, 2025 | 93 Comments(first posted 8/24/2013) The gen2 and gen3 Camrys are from the heart Toyota’s “fat” years, when seemingly no expense was spared to make them tower over the competition in terms […] -
Curbside Classic: 1958-61 Austin-Healey Mark I Sprite – A Sports Car For The Masses
Posted on April 12, 2025 | 49 Comments(first posted 8/17/2013) Following a decent 14,634 unit run of the Austin-Healey 100 from 1953–56, Leonard Lord, the Managing Director of Austin, asked Donald Healey to design an affordable, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla – The Original Mini-Van?
Posted on April 11, 2025 | 79 Comments(first posted 7/7/2013) Lately we’ve had quite a lot of mini-van discussion hereabouts. So no, I’m not going to really try to argue or defend the headline, as it’s essentially […] -
Curbside Classic: 1985 Dodge Caravan – Chrysler Hits a Grand Slam Homer
Posted on April 11, 2025 | 134 Comments(first posted 8/1/2013) There’s nothing truly original in the car business. Everyone begs, steals and borrows from everyone else. Sometimes, the same (and usually obvious) idea ferments for years in […] -
1960 Dodge Dart Seneca – The Dart Goes Down Under
Posted on April 10, 2025 | 22 CommentsThe year 1960 was a fairly significant one for the automotive industry. It marked, among many things, the final year of the doomed Edsel, the beginning of the end for […] -
Curbside Classic: 1972 MGB GT – Early Adopter
Posted on April 6, 2025 | 33 Comments(first posted 3/24/2012) The MGB is one of the most common classic 1960s British sports car. Even folks who are not into cars probably recognize an […] -
1965 Chrysler Valiant Safari – A Glimmering Blue Oasis In A Concrete Desert
Posted on April 5, 2025 | 27 CommentsA while ago, I made a new rule: I wouldn’t photograph cars in undercover parking lots anymore. The photos never turned out all that great, rarely meeting my standards for […] -
Curbside Classics: A Couple of First Generation FWD Cars
Posted on April 4, 2025 | 33 Comments(first posted 3/31/2019) Naturally I had to stop and shoot this twosome, as they’re both getting on in years. And they represent the first generation FWD cars […] -
Curbside Classic: 1986 Toyota Camry – Toyota Builds A Better Citation; Forever
Posted on April 4, 2025 | 112 Comments(first posted 8/21/2013) So just how exactly does a car become the best selling one in America? In the only reliable way that one becomes number one in just about […] -
Curbside Classic: 1996 Land Rover Defender Diesel – An English Off-Roading Icon
Posted on April 1, 2025 | 7 CommentsWhile passing through a neighborhood in San Diego I stumbled across an oddity: a Land Rover Defender. Well, not exactly an oddity in the sense that it’s still on […]
![Curbside Classic: 1984 Toyota Corolla Diesel – Latecomer To The Diesel Party (first posted 4/4/2013) Toyota is an interesting company. Sometimes, they’re comfortable being pioneers, as with their hybrid technology. But when it comes to their bread-and-butter cars, they lean to the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CC-176-168-900.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1978 Lancer (Colt) Wagon – The Lesser Known Utilitarian Colt If you lived through the late 1970s, this is a face you should be familiar with, though its profile will not be. It’s the wagon version of the Mitsubishi Lancer […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_20240320_172649259_HDR-copia.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Storage Yard Classic: Standard Vanguard Vignale – The Rarest CC Find Yet? (first posted 3/29/2013) A rear-wheel drive station wagon featuring Italian styling touches and proven mechanicals shared with a contemporary sports car? Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what we have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Standard-Vanguard-Vignale-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1987 Toyota Corolla FX16 – When Corollas Still Induced Lust, Not Sleep (first posted 8/20/2013) The good old Toyota golden years, when the Corolla could still got one’s blood moving instead of inducing narcolepsy. If it wasn’t the legendary AE-86, or the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/CC-87-038-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic Review: 1990 Toyota Camry LE V6 – Dripping With Fat (first posted 8/24/2013) The gen2 and gen3 Camrys are from the heart Toyota’s “fat” years, when seemingly no expense was spared to make them tower over the competition in terms […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CC-91-001-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla – The Original Mini-Van? (first posted 7/7/2013) Lately we’ve had quite a lot of mini-van discussion hereabouts. So no, I’m not going to really try to argue or defend the headline, as it’s essentially […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CC-130-086-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1985 Dodge Caravan – Chrysler Hits a Grand Slam Homer (first posted 8/1/2013) There’s nothing truly original in the car business. Everyone begs, steals and borrows from everyone else. Sometimes, the same (and usually obvious) idea ferments for years in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CC-63-042-801.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1960 Dodge Dart Seneca – The Dart Goes Down Under The year 1960 was a fairly significant one for the automotive industry. It marked, among many things, the final year of the doomed Edsel, the beginning of the end for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Seneca1960-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1972 MGB GT – Early Adopter (first posted 3/24/2012) The MGB is one of the most common classic 1960s British sports car. Even folks who are not into cars probably recognize an […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/3-20-12-001-e1332341430792.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![1965 Chrysler Valiant Safari – A Glimmering Blue Oasis In A Concrete Desert A while ago, I made a new rule: I wouldn’t photograph cars in undercover parking lots anymore. The photos never turned out all that great, rarely meeting my standards for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1965-chrysler-valiant-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classics: A Couple of First Generation FWD Cars (first posted 3/31/2019) Naturally I had to stop and shoot this twosome, as they’re both getting on in years. And they represent the first generation FWD cars […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CC-382-011.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1986 Toyota Camry – Toyota Builds A Better Citation; Forever (first posted 8/21/2013) So just how exactly does a car become the best selling one in America? In the only reliable way that one becomes number one in just about […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CC-27-026-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1996 Land Rover Defender Diesel – An English Off-Roading Icon While passing through a neighborhood in San Diego I stumbled across an oddity: a Land Rover Defender. Well, not exactly an oddity in the sense that it’s still on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1996-Land-Rover-Defender-90-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


