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1957 Archive
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Curbside Classic: 1957 Chevrolet Two-Ten – Overexposed, Commercialized, Handle Me With Care
Posted on May 5, 2023 | 57 Comments(first posted 5/5/2017) Just having photographed a last generation Pontiac Grand Prix for another editor’s article, I turned around to be presented with one of the more famous derrieres in […] -
Curbside Classic: 1957 Pontiac Star Chief Catalina Coupe – You Take A Little Chevy, Add A Little Bit Of Olds…
Posted on December 12, 2022 | 98 Comments(first posted 2/15/2013) My dear Pontiac fans, I hate to offend you. However, your brand had absolutely no identity for the majority of its life on the automotive landscape. […] -
Curbside Classic: 1957 Studebaker Commander – Eureka!
Posted on September 16, 2022 | 80 Comments(first posted 9/16/2016) Is there a car that you learned about way after you should have? Is there a car that you have never seen in real life even though […] -
Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Custom 300 – A Migration To Parts Unknown
Posted on September 14, 2022 | 41 Comments(first posted 9/14/2016) It was a surreal glimpse into an event that would have been far less noteworthy forty years earlier, but this vision was as certain as the heat […] -
Car Show Classic: 1957 Packard Clipper Town Sedan – I Used To Be Somebody
Posted on June 18, 2022 | 85 Comments(first posted 12/13/2012) Packard, Packard, Packard. What did you get yourself into? We could talk all day about the Studebaker-Packard marriage and its chaotic aftermath, but since it’s been talked […] -
Curbside Classic: 1957 Nash Ambassador – Getting Its Kicks on Route 66
Posted on August 8, 2021 | 93 Comments(first posted 7/30/2015) Normally I am not one to gawk, but this time I did. Even my non-car enthusiastic co-worker was curious as he turned us around to head back. […] -
Automotive History: The Short Life And Personal Times Of The 1955-1957 Thunderbird
Posted on October 20, 2020 | 49 Comments(first posted 10/20/2014) The first generation Thunderbird has never been a car I’ve paid much attention to, but seeing this one outside a European car show in its patinated […] -
Automotive History: The Studebaker Sedan’s Last Decade of Styling – Magic with Leftovers
Posted on September 22, 2020 | 131 Comments(first posted 9/22/2014) It is well documented that the last really new Studebaker was the 1953 model. The Starliner and Starlight Coupes got all of the glory, but the […] -
Vintage Snapshots: The 1957 Ford Wagon
Posted on January 11, 2020 | 24 CommentsIn all my traipsing through pictures at “Missouri’s Historic Highways” I found this really delicious yet plain 1957 Ford wagon. It does rather pale next to the Mercury wagon and […] -
Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Thunderbird – The Most Perfectly Styled American Car Of The 1950s?
Posted on July 25, 2019 | 95 CommentsIt is generally accepted that General Motors was the long-reigning king of automotive styling. Names like Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell are well known for the long stream of attractive […] -
Curbside Classic: 1953456789601234 Studebaker ChampmanderStarhawk – The Ultimate Kit Car
Posted on May 24, 2019 | 54 Comments[If we needed more proof of the CC Effect it was in full force this week when, with zero coordination between two editors on two continents, we see two complementary […] -
CC Walk & Talk Photo Album: Some Spring Cleaning Of My Photo Archives
Posted on April 27, 2017 | 58 CommentsSpring is here in full-throttle mode. The blossoms are gone from the trees and the leaves aren’t yet fully mature. It’s a wonderful time of the year, with the days […] -
The 2015 Blue Suede Cruise
Posted on May 29, 2015 | 44 CommentsEvery May sees the Blue Suede Cruise in beautiful Tupelo, Mississippi. Held concurrently this year with the 2015 Ford Galaxie National Convention, the Blue Suede Cruise attracted over 900 cars […] -
Museum Classics: The Heartland Ford Museum
Posted on April 2, 2015 | 39 CommentsSituated in the middle of a corn field near the tiny Northeast Missouri town of Bethel is a community called Heartland. Amongst the restaurants, housing developments, and dairy is the […]