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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Johannes Dutch
Posts by Johannes Dutch
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![These days, heavy-duty Fords with the biggest engines and highest towing capacity come from Turkey. The Ford Otosan company brought out a special, limited edition of their successful F-Max 4×2 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0342.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: Ford F-Max Blackline – Saddle Up And Ride Your Draft Horse")
CC Global: Ford F-Max Blackline – Saddle Up And Ride Your Draft Horse
Posted on August 29, 2022 | 11 CommentsThese days, heavy-duty Fords with the biggest engines and highest towing capacity come from Turkey. The Ford Otosan company brought out a special, limited edition of their successful F-Max 4×2 […] -
![Vrachtwagen met wipkar. That’s Double Dutch for a straight truck with a close-coupled center axle trailer, a widely used combination vehicle in the Netherlands for transporting flowers and potted plants. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0345.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2022 Scania S530 V8 And 2015 DAF XF 510 Potted Plant Movers – Wallflowers They Ain’t")
CC Global: 2022 Scania S530 V8 And 2015 DAF XF 510 Potted Plant Movers – Wallflowers They Ain’t
Posted on August 19, 2022 | 14 CommentsVrachtwagen met wipkar. That’s Double Dutch for a straight truck with a close-coupled center axle trailer, a widely used combination vehicle in the Netherlands for transporting flowers and potted plants. […] -
![A mobile concrete batching plant is something I never saw before. It was also the first truck body I caught that wasn’t built somewhere in the EU. Yet this Swedish-Canadian […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0321.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2020 Volvo FH With Bay-Lynx Volumetric Concrete Mixer – A Canadian In The Mix")
CC Global: 2020 Volvo FH With Bay-Lynx Volumetric Concrete Mixer – A Canadian In The Mix
Posted on August 15, 2022 | 18 CommentsA mobile concrete batching plant is something I never saw before. It was also the first truck body I caught that wasn’t built somewhere in the EU. Yet this Swedish-Canadian […] -
![Growing flowers and potted plants is big business in the Netherlands. Consequently, an immense armada of dedicated trucks and combination vehicles to transport the end products is roaming the roads, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0316.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2021 Scania G360 6×2*4 Truck – They Don’t Make Them Like That Any Longer")
CC Global: 2021 Scania G360 6×2*4 Truck – They Don’t Make Them Like That Any Longer
Posted on August 12, 2022 | 9 CommentsGrowing flowers and potted plants is big business in the Netherlands. Consequently, an immense armada of dedicated trucks and combination vehicles to transport the end products is roaming the roads, […] -
![In January 1963, Swedish truck maker Scania-Vabis introduced the LB 76 cabover series of heavy trucks and tractors, mainly to serve the key export markets, where overall length restrictions had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0312.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Truck Stop Classic: 1964 Scania-Vabis LBS 76 Super – Friendly-Faced Toughness")
Truck Stop Classic: 1964 Scania-Vabis LBS 76 Super – Friendly-Faced Toughness
Posted on August 10, 2022 | 9 CommentsIn January 1963, Swedish truck maker Scania-Vabis introduced the LB 76 cabover series of heavy trucks and tractors, mainly to serve the key export markets, where overall length restrictions had […] -
![(first posted 8/7/2016) Along with all the European trucks that we saw before, there was also a wide variety of classic -and more recent- American trucks at the Truck Show […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_1852.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – American Trucks")
Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – American Trucks
Posted on August 7, 2022 | 28 Comments(first posted 8/7/2016) Along with all the European trucks that we saw before, there was also a wide variety of classic -and more recent- American trucks at the Truck Show […] -
![Finally I caught a panel van that provided some insight into the owner’s business. Normally, everything is hidden behind closed cargo- and sliding doors. As demonstrated here, many compact commercial […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0299.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: The House Painter’s 2013 Peugeot Partner 1.6 HDi – Transparant Workplace")
CC Global: The House Painter’s 2013 Peugeot Partner 1.6 HDi – Transparant Workplace
Posted on August 1, 2022 | 15 CommentsFinally I caught a panel van that provided some insight into the owner’s business. Normally, everything is hidden behind closed cargo- and sliding doors. As demonstrated here, many compact commercial […] -
Wordless Outtake: 1969 DAF B1100 – Raised Roof Sleeper Cab
Posted on July 29, 2022 | 7 Comments -
![(first posted 7/24/2016) Round two of the recently held truck show in Stroe, the Netherlands, starts with a 1958 Ford Thames 500E. Until 1957 this truck model was known as […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_1874.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – European Trucks, Part 2")
Truck Show Classics: 2016 Oldtimer Truck Show Stroe – European Trucks, Part 2
Posted on July 24, 2022 | 29 Comments(first posted 7/24/2016) Round two of the recently held truck show in Stroe, the Netherlands, starts with a 1958 Ford Thames 500E. Until 1957 this truck model was known as […] -
![Snackbar, friture (or frituur), cafetaria, friettent, friet-/patatkraam, frietkot. These nouns are meaning roughly the same, namely a mostly small -or even humble- facility in the Netherlands or Flanders where you […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0297.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2003 SsangYong Korando And 2007 Niewiadów Food Trailer – Burning And Heating Oil")
CC Global: 2003 SsangYong Korando And 2007 Niewiadów Food Trailer – Burning And Heating Oil
Posted on July 18, 2022 | 24 CommentsSnackbar, friture (or frituur), cafetaria, friettent, friet-/patatkraam, frietkot. These nouns are meaning roughly the same, namely a mostly small -or even humble- facility in the Netherlands or Flanders where you […] -
![A huge, almost vertical windshield and a short nose with a slightly sloping hood. Straight lines everywhere. The unmistakable shape of a second gen Mercedes-Benz T2, introduced in 1986. Eliminator […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/709D-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: Mercedes-Benz 709D Flatbed Trucks – Two-Tee-Twos")
Cohort Pic(k)s of the Day: Mercedes-Benz 709D Flatbed Trucks – Two-Tee-Twos
Posted on July 15, 2022 | 11 CommentsA huge, almost vertical windshield and a short nose with a slightly sloping hood. Straight lines everywhere. The unmistakable shape of a second gen Mercedes-Benz T2, introduced in 1986. Eliminator […] -
![Two European B-segment (subcompact) hatchbacks, so close and yet so far apart. A German generalist and a direct Mini-competitor from France. Old Age, as in a 20th century design, vs […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0294.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtakes: 2000 Volkswagen Polo vs 2011 Citroën DS3 Racing – The Not So Fast And The Chic Furious")
CC Outtakes: 2000 Volkswagen Polo vs 2011 Citroën DS3 Racing – The Not So Fast And The Chic Furious
Posted on July 8, 2022 | 4 CommentsTwo European B-segment (subcompact) hatchbacks, so close and yet so far apart. A German generalist and a direct Mini-competitor from France. Old Age, as in a 20th century design, vs […] -
![Watch the on-road fieldtests. And the change from driving on the left to the right side. More than 50 years later, the Scandinavians (let’s not forget Volvo and Finnish specialist […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras162/images/thumbnail.png "CC Video: Sweden In The Sixties – Fertile Soil For The Kings Of The Road")
CC Video: Sweden In The Sixties – Fertile Soil For The Kings Of The Road
Posted on July 5, 2022 | 9 CommentsWatch the on-road fieldtests. And the change from driving on the left to the right side. More than 50 years later, the Scandinavians (let’s not forget Volvo and Finnish specialist […] -
![(first posted 6/30/2016) In 1994 Volkswagen introduced the third generation of the Polo, their B-segment (subcompact) model. Built at the Wolfsburg plant and still very common on the European roads. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/IMG_1773.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1997 Volkswagen Polo 1.6 Automatic – The Golf’s Little Brother")
Curbside Classic: 1997 Volkswagen Polo 1.6 Automatic – The Golf’s Little Brother
Posted on June 30, 2022 | 68 Comments(first posted 6/30/2016) In 1994 Volkswagen introduced the third generation of the Polo, their B-segment (subcompact) model. Built at the Wolfsburg plant and still very common on the European roads. […] -
![Corey Behrens, our man in Noord-Holland, uploaded some brochure-worthy pictures of a 40 years old Renault 4 F6, neatly parallel parked alongside an Amsterdam canal. A fuel-sipping fourgonnette (commercial van) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/R4-F6-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1982 Renault 4 F6 – Allez Le Blue!")
Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1982 Renault 4 F6 – Allez Le Blue!
Posted on June 26, 2022 | 9 CommentsCorey Behrens, our man in Noord-Holland, uploaded some brochure-worthy pictures of a 40 years old Renault 4 F6, neatly parallel parked alongside an Amsterdam canal. A fuel-sipping fourgonnette (commercial van) […]
