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- I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, the Vehicle City. I grew up in an environment chock-full of working-class joie de vivre. Flint was a magical place to grow up, with its myriad factories, vibrant Cultural Center, and being steeped in car-culture. Growing up in Flint undoubtedly shaped my tendency to gravitate toward urban scenes.
![Last summer, I had made my first-ever appearance at the annual tailgate party at my former high school. On what is usually the second Saturday of August, the rear parking […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/171-rotated-1.00-shift-FINAL-1977-Lincoln-Continental-Mark-V-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V – Keeping It Classy")
![(first posted 2/11/2019) More than a few years ago, I had been semi-voluntarily vacuumed into the guilty TV pleasures that were the early seasons of “America’s Next […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1973-Buick-Riviera-GS-5-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1973 Buick Riviera GS – Be Memorable")
![(first posted 1/28/2019) When I think about things I consider to be stylish or “cool”, one factor has remained crucial and essential: the lack of apparent […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1962-Plymouth-Valiant-2-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1962 Plymouth Valiant – Doing Too Much")
![The third-generation Chevy Camaro will always make me think immediately of only a handful of people, including a friend I had first met while in college in Gainesville, Florida over […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/097-1992-Chevrolet-Camaro-RS-For-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1992 Chevrolet Camaro RS – Base Model Beauty")
![(first posted 2/4/2019) Winter has returned to Chicago with full fury, with this past Thursday, January 31st, 2019 bringing some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1972-Oldsmobile-Toronado-2-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1972 Oldsmobile Toronado – A Brougham For Winter")
![It was December of 2023 when I had first discovered a die cast model of a yellow 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S fastback for sale on the shelf of a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_20241229_105643750-2011-Chevrolet-HHR-1LT-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 2011 Chevrolet HHR – Reflection Of A Reflection")
![Occasionally, I will stumble across old photos of a car that I had taken long before I had discovered Curbside Classic. In September of 2011, when I had first seen […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/6183126824_647535b6a1_o-1973-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-S-Zodiac-Blue-Sunday-9-25-2011-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass S – At The Beginning")
![(first posted 1/21/2019) Recently, there have been a few things from my early childhood that have come back into my present consciousness, eliciting genuine affection. Having been […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1979-Pontiac-Bonneville-4-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1979 Pontiac Bonneville – Yacht Rock")
![Mere weeks before we entered 2025, I was blessed with a visit from my college-aged niece and her best friend, with their friendship going back to young childhood. It had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/012-1967-Ford-Thunderbird-Landau-Sedan-for-CC-2024.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1967 Ford Thunderbird Landau Sedan – Dressed Like A Grownup")
![(first posted 1/14/2019) I’m well into my forties and I still, occasionally, like to join friends for a night out dancing. No one will ever accuse me of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/009-1992-Buick-Roadmaster-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1992 Buick Roadmaster – Old Kid On The Block")
![The December holidays may be over, but I still have a taste for all of those seasonal goodies that surface around that time of the year. Just because the month […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/344-1968-Chevrolet-C-10-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1968 Chevrolet C-10 Fleetside – Big Red")
![(first posted 1/7/2019) I’ve been an AMC fan since my adolescence in the mid-/late-1980s. I don’t know if perhaps it was because something of that make’s “underdog” aura […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_7156-1974-AMC-Hornet-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "In-Motion Classic: 1974 AMC Hornet – We All Have Our Gifts")
![It’s the first Tuesday of the new year, and I’d hope everyone in Curbsideland is having a great start to 2025, or at least is giving themselves the grace to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/117-1964-Chevrolet-Corvair-Monza-convertible-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible – It’s Tuesday")
![(first posted 12/20/2018) Believe it or not, this is my second post at CC on a J-Body Buick Skyhawk spotted in my neighborhood within the past […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1982-86-Buick-Skyhawk-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: J-Body Buick Skyhawk Coupe At Sam’s")
![As I look back through my previous essays at Curbside Classic, I realize there have been a few, specific models to which I’ve often returned. I’ve tried to vary my […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/882-1971-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Eldorado-convertible-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Musings: 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Convertible – Deuces")
