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Curbside Classic: Fiat X1/9 – The Mid-Engine Revolution Arrives On Main Street
Posted on May 2, 2025 | 55 Comments(first posted 12/26/2014) With depreciation and cars like the Porsche Boxster and the Lotus Elise keeping mid-engined cars from being completely unreachable for anyone below Fortune 500 […] -
Help Me Choose My New Car (Mis)adventure, Meet the Contenders – 2024/25 Edition
Posted on February 20, 2025 | 65 CommentsGreetings, fellow Curbsiders, and welcome to another instalment of my automotive misadventures. It’s been a little over two years since I last asked you to weigh in on an automotive […] -
CC Capsule: Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint – Giorgetto Giugiaro’s Brilliant Debut
Posted on October 23, 2024 | 21 Comments(First posted Dec. 1, 2013) The 1963 Alfa Romeo Sprint GTV is indisputably one of the finest and most enduring designs of the century. It’s just brilliantly beautiful, clean, and […] -
Trackside Classics – Monterey Historic Automobile Races, August 2000: Just A Random Roll Of Film
Posted on February 9, 2024 | 15 Comments(first posted 12/18/2017) Back when we lived in Northern California, attending the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca was on our list of things to do almost every […] -
By Car, Train, and Boat: Invading Los Angeles County
Posted on June 30, 2023 | 62 CommentsThis is the city – Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is a city whose name is known in many corners of the planet, a city having an abundance of offerings […] -
COAL: 1987 Alfa Romeo 33 – Project Car Hell, or How to Own a Car Without Driving it Even Once
Posted on December 26, 2021 | 31 CommentsAlfa Romeo. The name alone is enough to set a car nut’s heart aflutter. So much history, romance, myth and legend encapsulated within those two words. So much in fact, […] -
In-Motion Outtake: 1959-1966 Alfa Romeo Giulietta/Giulia Sprint Speciale – They Drive On The Wrong Side In Japan As Well
Posted on October 27, 2019 | 14 CommentsThere’s nothing more frustrating than seeing something special approaching from more than a block away and realizing there is no way to get any closer as it passes by. Sometimes […] -
Car Show Classics: Alfa Romeo Classic Club Israel – Growing As We Speak
Posted on October 19, 2019 | 10 CommentsRecently the Israeli Alfa Romeo Classic Club has moved to a new, dedicated venue, and celebrated this with unveiling a GTV6 belonging to one of its members. That club has […] -
Cohort Classic: 1969 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300Ti – Nice Alfa!
Posted on September 28, 2019 | 24 CommentsThe CC Cohort is a gift that keeps giving. Staxman has recently posted these shots of an Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300Ti which he saw in Seattle on Milan registration plates, […] -
CC Outtake: An Alfa Romeo Lover Lives Here
Posted on September 26, 2019 | 8 CommentsThe recent Honda Civic Tourer COAL required a photo of a Civic hatchback, and since there are two of these parked on a street near my home, I duly set […] -
CC Car Show: Italian Day at Portland Cars & Coffee
Posted on August 10, 2019 | 17 CommentsIt had been a few months since I’d been to a Cars and Coffee event, so when I noticed the next week’s theme was going to be Italian Day, I […] -
CC Review: 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Sport AWD – La Dolce Vita Indeed!
Posted on June 12, 2019 | 43 CommentsChristmas came early to the Rocky Mountain outpost of Curbside Classic as I was offered the use of an Alfa Romeo Giulia for close to a week by the […] -
Future Classics: 2019 Denver Auto Show – Sightings And Musings And Tidbits, Oh My!
Posted on April 5, 2019 | 24 CommentsWhile Edward Snitkoff did a wonderful job of covering most of the vehicles at the Hudson Valley Auto Show recently, I got invited to the Media Day at the Denver […] -
COAL: 1985 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce – Ciao, Baby!
Posted on April 29, 2018 | 27 Comments(First posted 12/1/2013) Clarkson once remarked: “You can’t be a true petrolhead until you’ve owned an Alfa Romeo”, a sentiment with which I would agree. Obviously this is easier in […]