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LaSalle Archive
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![Popular in Europe since the early ’30s, sunroofs didn’t really catch on in the U.S. until the 1970s, but that didn’t mean automakers didn’t periodically try. Way back in 1939, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1939-LaSalle-Series-50-2SD-Beaumont-Blue-RM-Sothebys-front-3q-with-inset-115x115.webp "Sunshine Turret Top: Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, And Pontiac Offered This Ultra-Rare Pre-WW2 Sunroof Option")
Sunshine Turret Top: Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, And Pontiac Offered This Ultra-Rare Pre-WW2 Sunroof Option
Posted on March 21, 2026 | 12 CommentsPopular in Europe since the early ’30s, sunroofs didn’t really catch on in the U.S. until the 1970s, but that didn’t mean automakers didn’t periodically try. Way back in 1939, […] -
![Cars, like songs, are bound to be plagiarized—sometimes accidentally, sometimes not so accidentally. Everybody copied the Italian coachbuilders in the 1950s and 1960s, but here are four examples in American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Buick-and-Mercury-115x115.jpg "Grand Theft Auto: Four Examples Of American Design Forgery From The Big Three And Beyond")
Grand Theft Auto: Four Examples Of American Design Forgery From The Big Three And Beyond
Posted on March 9, 2026 | 31 CommentsCars, like songs, are bound to be plagiarized—sometimes accidentally, sometimes not so accidentally. Everybody copied the Italian coachbuilders in the 1950s and 1960s, but here are four examples in American […] -
![(Updated 11/8/2025) Kansas City is a great place for finding CCs and my latest trip certainly didn’t disappoint. Sitting behind Union Station was a fabulous pairing of a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_0157-1.jpg "Curbside Find: 1941 Cadillac Fleetwood and 1940 LaSalle – Maintaining The Pecking Order")
Curbside Find: 1941 Cadillac Fleetwood and 1940 LaSalle – Maintaining The Pecking Order
Posted on November 8, 2025 | 50 Comments(Updated 11/8/2025) Kansas City is a great place for finding CCs and my latest trip certainly didn’t disappoint. Sitting behind Union Station was a fabulous pairing of a […] -
![Before about 1930, most cars used unsynchronized sliding-gear manual transmissions, which were aptly nicknamed “crash boxes” because shifting without clashing gears took real skill. In 1929, however, Cadillac and LaSalle […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1929-Cadillac-341B-convertible-coupe-tan-Mecum-Auctions-front-3q-left.webp "1929 Synchro-Mesh Transmission: How An Engineer From Oregon Took The Clash Out of Shifting Gears")
1929 Synchro-Mesh Transmission: How An Engineer From Oregon Took The Clash Out of Shifting Gears
Posted on July 13, 2025 | 14 CommentsBefore about 1930, most cars used unsynchronized sliding-gear manual transmissions, which were aptly nicknamed “crash boxes” because shifting without clashing gears took real skill. In 1929, however, Cadillac and LaSalle […] -
![(first posted 4/4/2012) In the months before the 1928 U. S. presidential election, Herbert Hoover’s campaign slogan was “A chicken in every pot and a car in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1937-PackardSix03-crop.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1937 Packard Six – Prestige on the Installment Plan")
Curbside Classic: 1937 Packard Six – Prestige on the Installment Plan
Posted on November 28, 2024 | 65 Comments(first posted 4/4/2012) In the months before the 1928 U. S. presidential election, Herbert Hoover’s campaign slogan was “A chicken in every pot and a car in […] -
![Cars from the 1930’s are becoming a bit like a foreign language to many of us here. I am now north of sixty years on this orb and these were […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1936-LaSalle-a-06.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1936 LaSalle Series 36-50 – Almost, But Not Quite, A Cadillac")
Car Show Classic: 1936 LaSalle Series 36-50 – Almost, But Not Quite, A Cadillac
Posted on March 3, 2022 | 48 CommentsCars from the 1930’s are becoming a bit like a foreign language to many of us here. I am now north of sixty years on this orb and these were […] -
![Co-author’s Note: This is a collaborative piece written by my seventh-grade daughter and me. We went to the museum as a history lesson and it’s a follow-up of sorts from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_4939.jpg "The Auto World Museum, Revisited")
The Auto World Museum, Revisited
Posted on June 25, 2015 | 39 CommentsCo-author’s Note: This is a collaborative piece written by my seventh-grade daughter and me. We went to the museum as a history lesson and it’s a follow-up of sorts from […] -
![Every 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 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IMG_4389.jpg "The 2015 Blue Suede Cruise")
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 […]
