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Curbside Classic: 1987 Cadillac Brougham – The Elder Statesman

– Posted on November 10, 2026

(Updated 11/10/2026) I would be willing to bet that there is no car that General Motors made more money on than this generation of Cadillac. For those under about the age of 40, when someone says Cadillac, this is the car that comes to mind. It should, because this was in constant production for about 16 years and in virtually this exact flavor for about 13. Nobody planned for this car to be around for so long, but just like the great old Vaudeville performers, the car kept coming out for one encore after another before finally leaving the stage.

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Curbside Classic: 1989 Acura Legend LS Sedan – The Empire Strikes Back

Brendan Saur

– Posted on November 10, 2026

(Updated 11/10/2026) Until 1984, the phrase ‘luxury car’ was largely used to described two very different types of vehicles in North America. The first was the traditional American luxury car, coming mainly from Cadillac and Lincoln. Predominately rear-wheel drive and V8-powered, these cars featured upright styling, soft suspensions, and touches including vinyl roofs, wire wheels, and loose-pillow style seating.

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Classic Cars of Greece and Spain: Renault, Rover, Nissan and SsangYong

Saunders David

– Posted on November 10, 2026

Last year my wife and I took a trip to Europe that covered several countries. In the previous entries we looked at France, Ireland and Malta. We shall finish off in Greece and Spain. This early Renault 5 was found in a dusty building in Athens and was a highlight, but far from the only unexpected find.

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1965 Plymouth Valiant 100 Sedan: A Car For Those Who Are Completely Off The Grid

Aaron65

– Posted on November 10, 2026

There’s a certain romance about the idea of going completely analog: Turn off the phones, read a book, take a hike, and set the points on your 1965 Plymouth Valiant. The 100 model. With a three-speed. And no radio. Yes, this Valiant’s original owner wanted virtually the cheapest new Mopar they could buy, and it has stayed pretty cheap; this one just sold on Bring a Trailer in Woburn, Massachusetts, for $3,800.

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Found: 1963-1965 Jeep Gladiator With Two Tornado OHC 230 Six Engines – Willys Builds A Race Car Inspired OHC Hemi For Trucks And Jeeps

Paul Niedermeyer

– Posted on November 10, 2026

The Willys Tornado OHC six has to be the most unusual engine to find under the hood of a 1960s American pickup truck. I’ve been looking for one on streets here since…forever. Not only have I finally found one, but this Gladiator has two of them! Well no, they’re not both attached to the driving wheels; one is obviously a spare in the bed. Which is a good thing to have when your truck has one of these engines under the hood, as they are very unusual and parts are becoming rather scarce.

Thanks to my ’66 Jeep parked behind it, the two most unconventional American engine cylinder head types of the ’50s and ’60s are represented here: The Tornado 230 six with a race-car inspired OHC hemi head and the F-head Hurricane 134 Four. When it came to engines, Willys went its own way; a true independent.

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1976 Chrysler Cordoba – The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

Gerardo Solis

– Posted on November 9, 2026

(Updated 11/09/2026) Have you ever had an amazing dream? A dream that was equal parts awesomeness, fulfillment and a sensation that what you have done was the best thing ever done? Did you find out later that said dream was actually quite dumb? This “Small” Chrysler represented that for me. And I have no idea why.

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Junkyard Classic: 1986 Renault Alliance – The Public Defender’s Car

Jim Klein

– Posted on November 9, 2026

(Updated 11/9/2026) I can’t decide if the Renault Alliance was really a bad car or if it was somehow broadly misunderstood, it certainly doesn’t get much respect even though it was very highly touted the first couple of years it was on offer. This particular one was brand new soon after I got my driver’s license and I know I had zero interest back then in getting to know one any closer. While they are nowadays extremely rare to find (although two seemed to be in the background of two different posts on CC this week!), this particular one was in the domestic section of the junkyard badged as an AMC. Which of course makes some sort of sense, seeing as how it was the pride of Kenosha, and built there as part of AMC’s alliance with Renault. Read the rest of this entry »

1962 Triumph Italia 2000 – Fleeting Beauty

Tatra87

– Posted on November 9, 2026

What do you get when you mix a very capable British sports car chassis with top-notch Italian coachbuilding? You’d have thought the answer might have been “success,” but if the Triumph Italia is anything to go by, “financial ruin” would be far more accurate. It wasn’t through lack of trying, though.

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When Cadillacs and Lincolns Went Camping: Vintage Photos of Vacationing in Style

Rich Baron

– Posted on November 9, 2026

Text by Patrick Bell.

Camping has been a part of car culture for nearly as long as there have been cars. Today we are looking at a slice of that; people with luxury cars as a tow rig. Luxury cars were better tow cars in many ways than trucks of the day, and comfort was at the top of the list. We have campers and a few boats in many sizes, but the cars were all large and cushy highway cruisers, so let’s take a look.

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Mazda’s Rotary Cars In Scale — From Family Sedans To Le Mans Winners

Peter Wilding

– Posted on November 9, 2026

For a while there, it looked really exciting. The first new engine design to reach production for ages, decades! And it was so simple. It seemed everybody was taking up licences, producing prototype engines, test cars. But as often happens when something seems simple, there was a lot of careful thought and engineering involved – and testing, testing, testing.

And the result was a tiny engine that thrived on revs, put out a phenomenal amount of power for its size, and was unbelievably smooth… but also unbelievably thirsty. And when exhaust emissions became an issue – oops!

Time showed that rotor seals wore out, much more quickly than rings in a piston engine. You didn’t want to be near a rotary with a blown muffler. But while it was running, it looked like the way of the future – provided you could keep it fed.

It broke NSU. Of all the companies that experimented with it, Mazda alone persisted.

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1953 Chrysler Special By Ghia: Born In Virgil Exner’s Basement, Built In Turin

Aaron Severson

– Posted on November 9, 2026

This is, believe it or not, a Chrysler. Not only is there a 1953 Chrysler New Yorker chassis underneath its sleek Italian-made skin, this car was actually designed by Chrysler Advance Styling director Virgil Exner at his home studio in Birmingham, Michigan, to be built by Carrozzeria Ghia in Italy. Only a handful of these handsome Italian-American coupes were ever sold to the public.

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Curbside Classic: Triumph TR6 – Last Call

Paul Niedermeyer

– Posted on November 8, 2026

(Updated 11/8/2026) For decades, British roadsters had a spell on Americans. The rivalry between the MG and Triumph, the two leading exponents of the genre, was legendary. They each had loyal adherents to the respective marques, and the stiff competition kept the improvements coming, even if not exactly at breakneck pace. But by about the time this TR-6 first appeared in 1969, the race was essentially over: the new MGC was DOA, and the MGB was quickly slipping into its ossification period; meanwhile the Triumph reveled in its final incarnation of the classic formula: old school, but with a healthy kick of life in it yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Curbside Classic: 1959 FMR Messerschmitt KR200 – No Wing And A Prayer

Tatra87

– Posted on November 8, 2026

(Updated 11/8/2026) Why was I not surprised to find a Messerschmitt in Tokyo? That old Axis connection, perhaps. And the well-known local penchant for everything exotic, unusual and left-field, at least in automotive terms (and barring anything called Kia or Hyundai – there are still a few taboos here). Nevertheless, I did do a double take when I saw this sitting in front of someone’s house, because even back when these were made, they looked positively alien.

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Studebaker Dealerships Of The 1950s And 1960s: A Look Back

Rich Baron

– Posted on November 8, 2026

1964 models on display in Arcata, CA.

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2026 Ford F-Max And 2022 Ford Transit Courier – The Big And The Small Of It

Johannes Dutch

– Posted on November 8, 2026

With the exception of the Transit Connect and Transit City (a BEV from China), all Ford commercial vehicles for the European market are made by Ford Otosan, headquartered in Turkey. Early September, I caught their full-size tractor and smallest cargo van at the same event.

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