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Rampside Classic Archive
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![(first posted 6/24/2013. Updated 5/25/19) The big Opels always looked the most like their Detroit cousins, and this 1954 Kapitän certainly doesn’t belie its stylistic origins. In Germany at the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BL-Opel-Kapitan.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classics: The Stratocruiser Captain’s Kapitän – Updated With Two Videos")
Rampside Classics: The Stratocruiser Captain’s Kapitän – Updated With Two Videos
Posted on May 24, 2025 | 84 Comments(first posted 6/24/2013. Updated 5/25/19) The big Opels always looked the most like their Detroit cousins, and this 1954 Kapitän certainly doesn’t belie its stylistic origins. In Germany at the […] -
![(first posted 1/5/2013) I never knew my paternal grandfather—he died when my Dad was just 16, but from the stories I’ve heard, he was instrumental in setting up the Air […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/800px-SR_Caravelle.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Photo Album Outtake: 1957 Sud Aviation Caravelle—Dawn of the Modern Commercial Jet")
Photo Album Outtake: 1957 Sud Aviation Caravelle—Dawn of the Modern Commercial Jet
Posted on November 30, 2024 | 56 Comments(first posted 1/5/2013) I never knew my paternal grandfather—he died when my Dad was just 16, but from the stories I’ve heard, he was instrumental in setting up the Air […] -
![(first posted 5/29/2018) As prevalent as a first generation Taurus used to be, so it was with the Boeing 737-200. To see a nice original 1986 Taurus today is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Boeing-737-200.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: Boeing 737-200 – Once As Common As a Taurus")
Rampside Classic: Boeing 737-200 – Once As Common As a Taurus
Posted on May 28, 2024 | 83 Comments(first posted 5/29/2018) As prevalent as a first generation Taurus used to be, so it was with the Boeing 737-200. To see a nice original 1986 Taurus today is […] -
![(first posted 4/29/2018) We all know the Lancaster – the real heavyweight of the RAF’s campaign over Germany and the occupied nations of Western Europe. As Britain celebrates the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/01-Color-photo-of-a-RAF-Vickers-Wellington-MkX-RAF-82OTU-Red-17-J-HE575-England-01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic – 1937 Vickers Wellington – Bomber Command’s Only Ever-Present")
Rampside Classic – 1937 Vickers Wellington – Bomber Command’s Only Ever-Present
Posted on April 29, 2024 | 35 Comments(first posted 4/29/2018) We all know the Lancaster – the real heavyweight of the RAF’s campaign over Germany and the occupied nations of Western Europe. As Britain celebrates the […] -
![(first posted 3/17/2017) When the RAF needed to go supersonic to meet the threat of Soviet long distance bombers, it did it in style. The English Electric Lightning looked like […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b1f6b5731242efebba24b61730f1bf03.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: 1960 English Electric Lightning – Two Everests in Three Minutes")
Rampside Classic: 1960 English Electric Lightning – Two Everests in Three Minutes
Posted on August 25, 2023 | 27 Comments(first posted 3/17/2017) When the RAF needed to go supersonic to meet the threat of Soviet long distance bombers, it did it in style. The English Electric Lightning looked like […] -
![(first posted 8/3/2017) After the disappointment of the pioneering Comet, how was the British aircraft industry to compete with the Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8? The […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/00-GARVC_VC10_goldenSB-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Aviation Classic: 1962 Vickers VC-10 – A Great Step Backwards In Aviation")
Aviation Classic: 1962 Vickers VC-10 – A Great Step Backwards In Aviation
Posted on August 3, 2023 | 72 Comments(first posted 8/3/2017) After the disappointment of the pioneering Comet, how was the British aircraft industry to compete with the Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8? The […] -
![(first posted 7/23/2017) “Knee-high by the Forth of July” is a saying that’s become obsolete out here in the Middle West, the heart of corn and soybean country […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ag06.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside & Fieldside Classic: 1967 Aero Commander S-2D – Stick & Rudder Down in the Corn")
Rampside & Fieldside Classic: 1967 Aero Commander S-2D – Stick & Rudder Down in the Corn
Posted on July 23, 2023 | 47 Comments(first posted 7/23/2017) “Knee-high by the Forth of July” is a saying that’s become obsolete out here in the Middle West, the heart of corn and soybean country […] -
![(Submitted by Ed Hodges. First posted 11/6/2016) One of the great things about a day spent at the airport, besides the obvious plane spotting opportunities, is the chance […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IH-fueler-side.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: 1982 International COF 5370 Aircraft Fueler")
Rampside Classic: 1982 International COF 5370 Aircraft Fueler
Posted on November 6, 2022 | 42 Comments(Submitted by Ed Hodges. First posted 11/6/2016) One of the great things about a day spent at the airport, besides the obvious plane spotting opportunities, is the chance […] -
![(first posted 9/25/2016) The first jetliner in the world wasn’t a Boeing or a McDonnell Douglas. It was a government sponsored project, conceived in war to serve a post-war Empire. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DSC06214.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Aviation Classic: De Havilland Comet – Britain Pushes Aviation Boundaries, Maybe A Bit Too Far")
Aviation Classic: De Havilland Comet – Britain Pushes Aviation Boundaries, Maybe A Bit Too Far
Posted on September 25, 2022 | 87 Comments(first posted 9/25/2016) The first jetliner in the world wasn’t a Boeing or a McDonnell Douglas. It was a government sponsored project, conceived in war to serve a post-war Empire. […] -
![(first posted 5/24/2016) Forty years ago today (in 2016), two aircraft landed at Washington Dulles Airport. The supersonic age had arrived, and with it a true design and technology […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/mach2-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: BAC/Sud Aviation Concorde – Before You Leave, You Arrive")
Rampside Classic: BAC/Sud Aviation Concorde – Before You Leave, You Arrive
Posted on May 24, 2022 | 79 Comments(first posted 5/24/2016) Forty years ago today (in 2016), two aircraft landed at Washington Dulles Airport. The supersonic age had arrived, and with it a true design and technology […] -
![(first posted 5/8/2016) We all know the significance of the Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster. All these great aircraft were powered by the immortal Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; brilliantly engineered and superbly […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/01-feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic – 1943 De Havilland DH-98 Mosquito – The Wooden Wonder That Rewrote The Rulebook")
Rampside Classic – 1943 De Havilland DH-98 Mosquito – The Wooden Wonder That Rewrote The Rulebook
Posted on May 8, 2022 | 63 Comments(first posted 5/8/2016) We all know the significance of the Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster. All these great aircraft were powered by the immortal Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; brilliantly engineered and superbly […] -
![(First posted at CC on 2/23/2013) This article by David Saunders first ran in 2010 at the old site and was the first guest submission for a Curbside Classic. As […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/emebv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1966 Envoy Epic – An Epic Find, And An Epic Beginning")
Curbside Classic: 1966 Envoy Epic – An Epic Find, And An Epic Beginning
Posted on January 10, 2022 | 53 Comments(First posted at CC on 2/23/2013) This article by David Saunders first ran in 2010 at the old site and was the first guest submission for a Curbside Classic. As […] -
![(first posted 7/27/2015) We all love to see how the American iron ( and aluminum) get their life span stretched in other parts of the world, especially here in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/T33.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Aviation History: Bolivian T-33 – The Endless Duty")
Aviation History: Bolivian T-33 – The Endless Duty
Posted on July 27, 2021 | 29 Comments(first posted 7/27/2015) We all love to see how the American iron ( and aluminum) get their life span stretched in other parts of the world, especially here in […] -
![(first posted September 13, 2014) For many people in Nazi dominated Europe, the distinctive silhouette of an Avro Lancaster against a moonlit sky (or in the beam of searchlights) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lancaster-burning-and-turning.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Rampside Classic: 1945 Avro Lancaster B1 – Even More Than The Sports Car, This Is The Shape Of Freedom")
Rampside Classic: 1945 Avro Lancaster B1 – Even More Than The Sports Car, This Is The Shape Of Freedom
Posted on September 13, 2020 | 97 Comments(first posted September 13, 2014) For many people in Nazi dominated Europe, the distinctive silhouette of an Avro Lancaster against a moonlit sky (or in the beam of searchlights) […] -
Carrier Classic: F-14 Tomcat -Top Cat
Posted on May 18, 2020 | 26 CommentsNow who doesn’t like the F-14 Tomcat. Well, except for an opposing pilot who sees this look in their rear view mirror.
