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			CC Roadtrip Documentary: Fresh Harvests On Familiar GroundPosted on August 29, 2025 | 27 Comments(Author’s note: This piece has topics ranging from road construction to tourist destinations to Dodge Monacos to shopping baskets. In turn, there are approximately 65 pictures. Please note some of […]
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			Curbside Classic: 1981 AMC Concord – The Underdog Learns One More New TrickPosted on April 21, 2023 | 95 Comments(first posted 8/23/2014) Everybody loves the underdog, so how can we not love this Concord? Or everything else that AMC kept coming up with in its increasingly desperate attempts to […]
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			Curbside Classic: 1970 AMC Hornet – Today Is The First Day of the Rest Of Your LifePosted on January 26, 2023 | 121 Comments(first posted 4/30/2013) The 1970s was the decade of pop psychology. How could anyone alive during that time forget the phenomena of I’m OK, You’re OK and Jonathan Livingston Seagull? […]
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			Curbside Recycling: I Tripped Over A Hornet’s Nest At The Newest Land Of Milk And Honey And PartsPosted on July 23, 2022 | 46 CommentsColorado has an abundance of junkyards but in the great tradition of America, more is always better and less is never enough. For the last couple of years the guys […]
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			Curbside Classic: 1956 Hudson Hornet – Waiting For Death In A Borrowed Four-Tone SuitPosted on August 13, 2021 | 73 Comments(first posted 3/23/2011) A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to […]
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			Curbside Classic: 1981 AMC Eagle Sedan – KindertraumaPosted on August 6, 2020 | 40 Comments(first posted 8/6/2014) As a young child, I could’ve been forgiven for thinking the Subaru DL/GL/Loyale and AMC Eagle were the best sellers in the US. They were extremely popular […]
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			Automotive History and QOTD: The American Wagons of 1972 – Which Would You Choose?Posted on April 23, 2015 | 137 CommentsSitting on the lawn mower is always a wonderful time to have some uninterrupted thoughts. Knowing Wagon Week was coming up, I was pondering which wagon from the year of […]
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			QOTD: eBay Edition – Malaise Era CoupesPosted on April 22, 2014 | 74 CommentsI went into this post hoping to do what would be my first eBay find, but the extensive choices I came across made it posed a challenge. Did I want to […]
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			CC Outtakes: Wintertime BluesPosted on April 11, 2014 | 33 Comments(Submitted by Dan Cluley) After one of the worst winters in recent years, we are finally starting to see signs of Spring, and in the middle of Michigan, these include […]
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			Curbside Capsule: 1974 (?) AMC Hornet- Future Curbside ClassicPosted on January 26, 2014 | 33 CommentsThe Curbside Effect kicked in again, delivering to us this ’74-’77 AMC Hornet. Normally, I’d just throw these pictures in the files for a future Curbside Classic, but I wanted to […]
 
				![CC Roadtrip Documentary:  Fresh Harvests On Familiar Ground (Author’s note:  This piece has topics ranging from road construction to tourist destinations to Dodge Monacos to shopping baskets.  In turn, there are approximately 65 pictures.  Please note some of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_2265.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1981 AMC Concord – The Underdog Learns One More New Trick (first posted 8/23/2014)   Everybody loves the underdog, so how can we not love this Concord? Or everything else that AMC kept coming up with in its increasingly desperate attempts to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CC-130-029-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1970 AMC Hornet – Today Is The First Day of the Rest Of Your Life (first posted 4/30/2013)     The 1970s was the decade of pop psychology.  How could anyone alive during that time forget the phenomena of I’m OK, You’re OK and Jonathan Livingston Seagull?  […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1970AMCHornet04.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Recycling: I Tripped Over A Hornet’s Nest At The Newest Land Of Milk And Honey And Parts Colorado has an abundance of junkyards but in the great tradition of America, more is always better and less is never enough.  For the last couple of years the guys […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_1608.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1956 Hudson Hornet – Waiting For Death In A Borrowed Four-Tone Suit (first posted 3/23/2011) A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hudson-1956-hornet.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Classic: 1981 AMC Eagle Sedan – Kindertrauma (first posted 8/6/2014)    As a young child, I could’ve been forgiven for thinking the Subaru DL/GL/Loyale and AMC Eagle were the best sellers in the US.  They were extremely popular […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-06-30-14.40.15.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Automotive History and QOTD:  The American Wagons of 1972 – Which Would You Choose? Sitting on the lawn mower is always a wonderful time to have some uninterrupted thoughts.  Knowing Wagon Week was coming up, I was pondering which wagon from the year of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1972-AMC-Full-Line-12-13.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: eBay Edition – Malaise Era Coupes I went into this post hoping to do what would be my first eBay find, but the extensive choices I came across made it posed a challenge.  Did I want to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screenshot-2014-04-21-19.24.27.png?resize=115%2C115&quality=80&ssl=1)
![CC Outtakes: Wintertime Blues (Submitted by Dan Cluley) After one of the worst winters in recent years, we are finally starting to see signs of Spring, and in the middle of Michigan, these include […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/A-1974-Dart.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Curbside Capsule: 1974 (?) AMC Hornet- Future Curbside Classic The Curbside Effect kicked in again, delivering to us this ’74-’77 AMC Hornet. Normally, I’d just throw these pictures in the files for a future Curbside Classic, but I wanted to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AMC-Hornet-Hatchback.2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


