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Car Show Classics: The Miscellany Of Como Park

– Posted on November 3, 2026

(Updated 11/3/2026) I present to you the final installment in this series which began in September. I’ve been lucky enough to have covered single marques in the previous three posts, but now I end with a scattering of some of the other brands present at the Como Park shows. First up is this Iso Rivolta IR 300/340/350, the first I’ve seen in person and let me tell you, it’s very, very desirable in the flesh. Some of you will already recognise a concealed Chevrolet; the Iso packed the Turbofire 327 in two states of tune putting out 300 or 340bhp (upgraded to 350bhp after 1966).

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Curbside Classic: 1947 Chevrolet Stylemaster – What’s New Became Old; Now It’s New Again

Eric703

– Posted on November 3, 2026

(Updated 11/3/2026)

“What is that big old car?”

A passerby asked that question as I was taking the above photo… timely, since I was transfixed by seeing a 1940s-era car in a modern setting. We’ve discussed this topic before here at Curbside Classic – that modern cars are dimensionally similar to those of the 1940s – but viewing such a comparison in a random parking lot drove this point home for me. This 1947 Chevrolet, and the Toyota that’s six decades newer, share a mighty similar size, though the journey from there to here took a long, low and wide detour.

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1967 Alfa Romeo 1600 Spider: Everyone Should Own At Least One Alfa; Maybe This “Duetto” Is For You

Aaron65

– Posted on November 3, 2026

Jeremy Clarkson has said that you can’t be a “petrolhead” unless you’ve owned an Alfa Romeo. Obviously, that’s an exaggeration (I’m as much a gearhead as anyone), but I’m finding myself more and more inclined to take his advice. I’ve been tempted by a lot of Alfa Romeo Spiders lately, namely the “Duetto,” and this example is up for auction on Hagerty Marketplace in Marion, New York. It’s been owned by the same person for 40 years, and I for one will be watching the auction with an itchy bidding finger.

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Dealer Time Travel: Z-28 and Mod Top Camaros at E.B. Smith Chevrolet in 1968

Rich Baron

– Posted on November 3, 2026

Text by Patrick Bell.

Nashville, Tennessee, is where we are headed today to visit the E. B. Smith Chevrolet dealership. They bought the Coggin Chevrolet shop in May of 1968, and started a journey that capitalized on the muscle car movement. Their showroom displayed many of them to attract floor traffic, and they always had a good stock of all models, so you could be sure to find a car to fit your needs, desires, and budget.

Here it is! We begin with a 1968 Camaro Z-28 on the showroom floor. It was Ermine White with a black vinyl roof, stripes, and interior. It appeared to have the Air Spoiler Equipment option that included a special front valance and rear deck spoiler. Plus a plastic diaper was attached to protect the showroom carpet.

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1995 Chrysler Concorde: At 79,000-Mile, This 1995 Example Is a Time Capsule

Adam Dixon

– Posted on November 3, 2026

I was browsing Facebook Marketplace, which is what I tend to do when what I’m watching on television is not terribly interesting. It’s something that, unfortunately, happens more often than I care to admit. On one recent night, however, it led to a “Hey, I know that car!” moment: a 1995 Chrysler Concorde I’d seen several months earlier in motion, and not just any Concorde, but a remarkably well-preserved example with just 79,000 miles on the clock, now looking for a new owner.

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1961 Pontiac Ventura: Short-Lived B-Body Bubbletop With 4-Speed, 425A Tri-Power, And A Fabulous Tri-Tone Interior

Aaron Severson

– Posted on November 3, 2026

If someone mentions the Pontiac Ventura, you probably think of the Chevrolet Nova-based compact of the ’70s, but for a brief two-year period in the early 1960s, the Ventura was a full-size Pontiac model with fancy all-Morrokide interior trim. This 1961 “bubbletop” Ventura Sports Coupe also has the rare 4-speed manual transmission and the hot 425A Tri-Power 389, the engine later made famous in the midsize Pontiac GTO.

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The Short Life And Personal Times Of The 1955-1957 Thunderbird

Don Andreina

– Posted on November 2, 2026

(Updated 11/2/2026) 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 glory I was struck by how well the design holds up against its transatlantic contemporaries. Thunderbird week gives me the ideal opportunity to share a personal take on this model.

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Vintage R&T Review: 1972 Toyota Carina – Toyota’s First “Hybrid”

Paul Niedermeyer

– Posted on November 2, 2026

(Updated 11/2/2026) The Carina was a somewhat curious addition to Toyota’s lineup in 1972, as it squeezed into the rather modest-sized gap between the smaller Corolla and larger Corona. Presumably not a lot of folks in the US thought that gap needed filling, and the Carina was a relatively modest seller, and only offered here for three model years (1972-1974).

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Small-Scale Event – Full-Scale Classics

Johannes Dutch

– Posted on November 2, 2026

The Metropole Druten car and truck museum in the Netherlands is the only museum within walking distance of my place. How convenient! Late October, some owners of old and not so old heavy trucks and tractors showcased their classic vehicle in the yard next to the main building. The weather was far from nice, but as they say, you can’t have it all.

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The Fabulous Fifties in Scale: Ten Favorite American Car Model Kits

Peter Wilding

– Posted on November 2, 2026

Let’s do the ‘Ten favourite kits’ theme again, but this time we’ll look at kits of fifties cars. We all like the fifties, don’t we?

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1977 Buick LeSabre Custom Coupe: A Big (Downsized) Buick Just Like Grandpa Used To Have

Aaron65

– Posted on November 2, 2026

It’s impractical and expensive to buy everything you want, such as a 1977 Buick LeSabre, especially if it’s only because your grandpa owned one and drove you to elementary school in it after making you breakfast and introducing you to coffee. When you were eight. (I still remember the jitters today, and I still have the habit.) Regardless, I’d like to sit in this similar LeSabre Custom Coupe just to smell the interior and bring back those mid-1980s memories of my dear, long-departed grandfather, who sang silly songs for the entire ride. If you’d like to actually buy the car, it’s posted on eBay at Druk Auto Sales in Ramsey, Minnesota, with a reasonable asking price of $8,980.

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1965 Prince Skyline (S54) 2000 GT-B – Red Hot Royalty

Tatra87

– Posted on November 2, 2026

It took a little while, but we got there in the end. Back in 2019, a few months after having landed in this country, I encountered my first S50 Skyline – a late-model 4-cyl. car, which was all sorts of lovely. A couple years later, I found a 2000 GT (i.e. with the 2-litre six), but that was the tame “A” version. Finally, a grand red-carpeted welcome for the Prince of Princes, the true icon and racetrack star of the mid-‘60s, the Skyline 2000 GT-B.

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Curbside Classic: 1991 Chrysler New Yorker – Paging Bill Blass

J P Cavanaugh

– Posted on November 1, 2026

(Updated 11/1/2026) There was a sad and dark time in the 1980s when the world was shrinking, and the big American sedan was forced to shrink with it. The conventional wisdom was that the only way the traditional sedan would survive would be to reduce to 60 percent of its former self, but in a way that left the proportions of the traditional car largely intact. DeVilles, Park Avenues and Ninety Eights held their breath, tightened their belts and switched their drive wheels, but lived to cater to their graying customers another day (or decade).

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Classic CARmentary: 2001 Volvo V70 T5 – A a Luxury Wagon With 247 Turbocharged Horses

Adam Dixon

– Posted on November 1, 2026

(Updated 11/1/2026) Sometimes the best press cars are the ones you never asked for. I originally requested a Land Rover Discovery for a 500-mile family-moving expedition, but the press-car gods had other plans. Instead, I ended up with a 2001 Volvo V70 T5, a nearly $43,000 turbocharged luxury wagon that turned out to be a rather excellent substitute—and a reminder of why Volvo knew a thing or two about building station wagons. Read the rest of this entry »

Teal Was So 1990s: A Junkyard Gallery of Cars in the Color of the Decade

Rich Baron

– Posted on November 1, 2026

If there’s one conversation from my college days in the early 1990s that I still vividly remember, it’s one I had with my classmate Michelle. “Have you seen all those teal new cars that are around? Boy, talk about a color that’s going to feel soooo 1990s!” Yep, Michelle, you certainly called that one!

Now, thanks to a bunch of junkyard finds uploaded to the Cohort by canadiancatgreen, we can continue our 1990s automotive tour from last week, this time devoting the whole gallery to that very ’90s thing called teal. Or tealish, in the case of a few of these cars. You know, just to keep things fun.

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