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Curbside Classic: 1974 Plymouth Satellite Custom – Almost Our Thanksgiving Turkey
Posted on November 27, 2021 | 83 Comments(first posted 11/23/2011) It started simply enough: Oh look – a great car to photograph for a CC. And then I saw the sign – Asking price of only […] -
Curbside Classic: 1958 Buick Special – Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing To Excess
Posted on November 27, 2021 | 112 Comments(first posted 11/27/2015) It is hard to believe that we here at CC have never gotten around to discussing one of the most polarizing cars of the entire 1950s. But […] -
Curbside Classic: 1995 – ’97 Ford Probe GT – It Didn’t Name Itself
Posted on November 26, 2021 | 56 Comments(first posted 11/26/2015) The second-generation Ford Probe seemed to have the unfortunate stigma of being an underdog, with tough competition and lower resale values than other cars in its segment. […] -
Curbside Classic: 1965 Dodge Dart GT – The Elemental MoPar
Posted on November 24, 2021 | 38 Comments(first posted 4/9/2011) Chrysler Week has barreled by as fast as a hemi Ramcharger; so many cars still left for another day. But let’s wrap it up with what […] -
Curbside Classic: 1965 Buick Wildcat – Sabre Tooth Cat Or Dodo Bird?
Posted on November 20, 2021 | 75 Comments(first posted 12/13/2011) What were the sabre tooth cat or dinosaurs really like? We’ll never know what it was like to actually encounter one in the wild. We can […] -
Curbside Classic: 1974 Dodge Dart Custom – “A Body” In Motion Tends To Stay In Motion
Posted on November 12, 2021 | 75 Comments(first posted 3/20/2013) It was a warm day in the spring of 1974, and Clyde and Lorriane were sitting at their kitchen table that Sunday morning discussing their need for […] -
Curbside Classic: 1986 Dodge Daytona – The Un-Boxy K
Posted on November 12, 2021 | 50 Comments(first posted 4/6/2013) Eugene is K-Kar heaven: every permutation of Lee Iakkoka’s Karmagination is on display, everywhere. Sometimes even two at a time: -
Curbside Classic: 1958 Chevrolet Impala – A Ride To Remember
Posted on November 11, 2021 | 57 Comments(first posted 11/11/2015) We’ve covered more 1958 Chevrolet’s here than what I thought. However, for this I have upped the ante by riding in this Impala for an extended length […] -
Curbside Classic: 1978 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency – All The Brougham You Want, In A Tidier Package
Posted on November 10, 2021 | 108 Comments(first posted 4/8/2013) From 1971 to 1976, General Motors had the market covered when it came to luxy, Broughamtastic land yachts. But at the same time, these offerings did not […] -
Curbside Classic: 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI — When Fun Hopped Across The Ocean
Posted on November 10, 2021 | 57 Comments(first posted 11/9/2015) Few cars symbolize their respective decades the way hot hatches symbolize the 1980s. The cars merged the economy car boom of the early part of the decade […] -
Curbside Classic: 1937 International Demi-Semi-Tractor – Loggers Need Them Some Entertainment Too
Posted on November 9, 2021 | 47 Comments(first posted 6/3/2012. Updated with info about this truck’s working history at bottom of article) After a long week of felling giant trees with axes and those new-fangled smoky chain […] -
Curbside Classic: 1965 Toyota FJ Land Cruiser – The First Toyota Sent Out To Conquer The World
Posted on November 8, 2021 | 33 Comments(first posted 8/19/2013) A reference to the “DNA of a brand” is a long overused cliche, which is perhaps, and finally, on the way out. But it can be […] -
Curbside Classic: 1971 Datsun 240Z – Revolutions Don’t Come Often
Posted on November 8, 2021 | 65 Comments(first posted 9/19/2011) The Datsun 240 Z was as a true revolutionary, smashing the long-stagnant sports car market of the sixties into smithereens. It was long overdue too; folks […] -
Curbside Classic: 1965 Rambler Ambassador 880 – Kenosha Cadillac?
Posted on November 7, 2021 | 88 Comments(first posted 10/10/2012) I became really interested in AMC in the late ’90s, due in large part to my purchase of Pat Foster’s American Motors: The Last Independent. I […] -
Curbside Classic: 1911 Ford Model T – Any Colour They Want
Posted on November 6, 2021 | 59 CommentsAbout a century before notorious blowhard Elon Musk put out the Model S and took to mouthing around on Twitter, notorious blowhard Henry Ford put out the Model T and, […]