- Description
- Art Center grad with automotive product planning, development, and research experience over 34 years with Volvo and Ford. Former Petersen Museum vault docent and freelancer for Bring a Trailer. Monthly EV sales reports and curated alternative powertrain news reports for Motor Intelligence. Still playing with cars after all these years, from a Sunbeam Tiger to a stick-shift Mazda5 van...
![Last week’s post briefly touched on the initial design ideation for Volvo’s next-generation small cars which would replace the Swedish automaker’s compact S40 sedan and V40 station wagon. Those quick […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volvo-Safety-Pins.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part Three")
![When my Swedish colleagues returned from their 1998 summer vacation period, I found myself working in the Marketing team for a new-car project intended to replace Volvo’s first-generation S40 and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Volvo-Concept-Wagon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part Two")
![When we ended last week’s post, I had moved from New Jersey to Sweden, where I was to work on the marketing side of a small-car project just then beginning […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/66-Mustang-GT-Conv-1-e1729801265282.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My ’66 Mustang GT: Playing The Ponies In Gothenburg")
![Less than a month after competing in my first four-day, 1000-mile car rally (read about it here) I was in a business-class seat on an SAS flight from Newark Airport […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Landvetter-Airport-e1729287503330.png?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Working Where Volvos Are Born – Part One")
![Toward the end of 1977, my boss at Volvo of America Corporation asked me to develop a few simple idea sketches based on the C202, a Volvo military 4×4 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1979-volvo-c202-laplander-ext-e1728506897742.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Find: The Volvo C202")
![In last week’s post, I listed multiple-day rally competitions as one of the ways in which to enjoy getting behind the wheel of my second (and current) Sunbeam Tiger. During […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/98-NE-1000-Tiger-resting-e1728165470200.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Rallying on the NE 1000 – A Tiger? In New England?")
![One might have thought that my first Sunbeam Tiger experience (recently described here and and here) would have put me off that particular model of Little British Car for good. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tiger-at-Lewis-Morris-3-e1727214535942.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Buying a Mustang GT350 or a Tiger – No Bad Choices")
![He was asked to leave Art Center College before his graduation because he had decided that he could submit his assignments without actually attending class. He worked on the stillborn […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Larry-Shinoda-photo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Larry Shinoda’s Remarkable Automotive Design Legacy")
![My earlier post on the 343 GT concept car described Volvo of America’s interest in the North American sales potential for a face-lifted and re-powered version of Volvo Car BV’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/480-ES-Cover-Illustration.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Volvo 480 ES – Dutch Treat or Cruel Trick?")
![I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never had much use for four-door sedans; all of my collector cars have been two-doors, whether convertibles, coupes, or sedans. And sure, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/745-Turbo-from-Volvo-75-Years.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Auto-Biography: Serial Swedish Station Wagons")
![In last week’s post, the ’66 Tiger had safely arrived at its new home. The next order of business was to perform a PPI. Most cautious collector-car buyers recognize […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/First-Rusty-Tiger-A-8-20-24-e1724275744484.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My 1966 Sunbeam Tiger: Tyger, Tyger, Rusting Fright (Part Two)")
![Now, back to my Sunbeam adventures. I had attended a number of car shows and other car-club events since the purchase of my ’67 Sunbeam Alpine, and as a result, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Patriots-in-Alpine-rotated-e1724275371392.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "My 1966 Sunbeam Tiger: Tyger, Tyger, Rusting Fright (Part One)")
![This wasn’t our family’s first home with a garage, but it was our first garage after I received my driver’s license, so it suddenly took on more importance than it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1920s-garage-additions.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Garages of a Lifetime: Part One")
![1993 Volvo brochure cover. Faithful CC readers, we’ve now come to the last chapter of our Volvo 240-series chronology, focusing on the annual changes and updates made to the U.S. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/93-Volvo-244-and-Amazon.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Volvo 240’s U.S. Journey – Chapter Seven")
![Dear readers, you’ve reached the sixth chapter of the Volvo 240’s long-running stateside history. By the close of the 1988 model year, these stalwart examples of Swedish design had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Volvo-240-assembly-line-worker.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Volvo 240’s U.S. Journey – Chapter Six")
