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Vintage Dealer Snapshots: The New 1957 Chevrolets Arrived! – Oct. 1956
Posted on April 17, 2024 | 32 CommentsThis is a topic that has appeared fairly often at CC and I’m pretty sure it’s always welcomed. I’m talking about the introduction of new year models and the excitement […] -
Curbside Classic: 1988 Nissan Silvia (S13) Convertible – Silvia Got Roofied
Posted on April 17, 2024 | 6 CommentsI assume we’re all die-hard Silviophiles here. I mean, what’s not to like about a reasonably-sized and beautifully-styled RWD 4-cyl. coupé like the S13? What’s that? You would rather have […] -
COAL: Cycles Of A Lifetime – ’77 Harley-Davidson XLCR – With Apologies to Willie G.
Posted on April 17, 2024 | 16 CommentsI went from a chopper to a Cafe Racer. It wasn’t that surprising since I had made a few improvements to my earlier chopper to make it more roadworthy. -
Curbside Classic: 1966 Pontiac Star Chief Executive – Executive Privilege
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 91 Comments(first posted 5/21/2013) If you look and listen, you can almost hear the late night television commercial: “Hey, folks, Honest Abe here at Honest Abe’s Used Car Emporium, Tire Shop, […] -
Curbside Classic: 1966 Plymouth Valiant – Aging In Place
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 149 Comments(first posted 4/16/2018) Most of the cars featured on Curbside Classic are unlikely survivors – the one-in-a-thousand cars that are still intact long after most contemporaries met their […] -
CC Brochure Boggle: 1986 Dodge Michigan—They Sold What, Where?!
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 52 CommentsOriginally posted 4 December 2020; rewritten 4/2024 with more and better images, and text translations This is a still from a Japanese animated movie called Shitī Hantā (“City Hunter”). The […] -
Vintage Snapshots: Volkswagen People In The ’60s & ’70s
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 28 CommentsReality is stranger than fiction, and Volkswagen’s history certainly fits that assessment. The unlikeliest automotive powerhouse, that rose on the unexpected success of the curious and offbeat VW Beetle. The […] -
CC Capsule: 1998 Tommykaira ZZ – Gone In (Almost) 60 Seconds
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 11 CommentsJust a short post for this second installment of “JDM Rarities Week,” but it’s one that really took me by surprise. I assume some of you might have heard about […] -
Curbside Musings: 1959 Ford Galaxie – On Becoming Stanley Roper
Posted on April 16, 2024 | 42 CommentsThis past March marked the first month since August of 2012 in which I had returned to my hometown of Flint, Michigan twice. Last month was bookended by two trips, […] -
Vintage Editorial: “Reflections from an English Country Inn” (Brock Yates, C&D 1968)
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 69 Comments(first posted 5/23/2013, as a follow-up to yesterday’s Grosse Pointe Myopians) This is the kind of stuff I inhaled as a fifteen year-old: Brock Yates analyzing the British Car industry, […] -
In-Motion Classic: 1970 Ford F-250 Sport Custom Camper Special – Workhorse
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 29 Comments(first posted 4/11/2018) I love visiting Las Vegas as much for enjoyment of some of its many excesses as for cultural observation. It has also occurred to me that […] -
Vintage Dealer Snapshots: Cadillacs On Display In Texas, 1956
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 13 Comments -
Cohort Pic(k) Of The Day: 1973 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser — Lots Of Cruising, Fewer Vistas
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 28 CommentsLet’s take a brief look at this Cohort find by nifticus392; a 1973 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, from the first year the wagon appeared modeling GM’s new colonnade body. Also, the […] -
Museum Outtake: 1963 Studebaker Truck Prototype – In Search Of Quiet Places
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 27 CommentsI love museums. Etymologically, “museum” is Latin by way of the Ancient Greeks; you may notice that the root is “muse,” as in “to inspire.” Therefore, the museum is a […] -
Museum Classic / Automotive History: 1947 Tama E4S-47 – Arch-EV-ological Artefact
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 11 CommentsThis week, we are going back to the weird and wonderful world of JDM – the twist here being that the cars we’re going to examine are genuine rarities, even […]