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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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COAL: 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass – Weren’t They All That Colour?
Posted on January 30, 2021 | 83 CommentsMother threw a high holy tantrum shortly after we got to Denver in the Spring of 1980. The thing of it was, we hadn’t quite exactly moved to Denver; we’d -
COAL: 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic – Movin’ Upward-Westward
Posted on January 23, 2021 | 92 CommentsThe new car was The New Chevrolet: a metallic medium-deep red (“Carmine”) ’78 Caprice Classic with a blood-red vinyl interior, ordered at Bryner Chevrolet— -
![(»This is Cars of a Lifetime, so I’m gonna tell the whole story, back to the first roots and shoots of my awareness of cars. There’ll be some chronological turbulence […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1117_Cropped.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1970 Dodge Dart and Associates – Earliest Influences")
COAL: 1970 Dodge Dart and Associates – Earliest Influences
Posted on January 16, 2021 | 41 Comments(»This is Cars of a Lifetime, so I’m gonna tell the whole story, back to the first roots and shoots of my awareness of cars. There’ll be some chronological turbulence […] -
![Last Wednesday the postie delivered a letter for the previous owners of our house. They didn’t move very far away, and after supper I walked it over to them. As […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/95-Caravan-Headlamp.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classics: The Morning After The Night Before")
Curbside Classics: The Morning After The Night Before
Posted on January 14, 2021 | 49 CommentsLast Wednesday the postie delivered a letter for the previous owners of our house. They didn’t move very far away, and after supper I walked it over to them. As […] -
![Paul’s post of about a week ago showed a quartet Dodge dealers doomed to a third model year’s beating. Look at their posture and their faces—plainly they know they’re hosed, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/62_Lancer_Dealership_H72.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Photo: A Bigger Smile for a Better Dodge")
Vintage Photo: A Bigger Smile for a Better Dodge
Posted on November 29, 2020 | 40 CommentsPaul’s post of about a week ago showed a quartet Dodge dealers doomed to a third model year’s beating. Look at their posture and their faces—plainly they know they’re hosed, […] -
QOTD: What’s This Car?
Posted on November 11, 2020 | 54 CommentsThat’s my husband’s mother driving in Toronto in 1961. -
CCs For Sale: Argentine Valiants on the Spectrum in Midwinter
Posted on August 9, 2020 | 24 CommentsI’ve all but quit trawling local-ish ads for interesting old cars—anyone who’s recovered from Mad Car Disease and Elevated Collectserall knows it sure as hell can hurt to “just look”—but -
![Lately it’s Diesel Days here at CC. Paul’s put up articles about a gasoline-engine-based diesel that went just fine (VW’s 4-pot), and one that probably shouldn’t have been built but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DieselSlantSixPrototype.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: Diesel Chrysler Slant-Sixes, In-House and Otherwise")
Automotive History: Diesel Chrysler Slant-Sixes, In-House and Otherwise
Posted on May 19, 2020 | 71 CommentsLately it’s Diesel Days here at CC. Paul’s put up articles about a gasoline-engine-based diesel that went just fine (VW’s 4-pot), and one that probably shouldn’t have been built but […] -
![Longer ago than I thought came stories about first accidents. Now how ’bout first (or best) tickets? One sunny day after my last-period class, I hopped proudly into my recently-purchased […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lloyd-christmas-youtube-screenshot.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Was Your First or Best Ticket? Part I—The Ones We Got")
QOTD: What Was Your First or Best Ticket? Part I—The Ones We Got
Posted on March 8, 2020 | 76 CommentsLonger ago than I thought came stories about first accidents. Now how ’bout first (or best) tickets? One sunny day after my last-period class, I hopped proudly into my recently-purchased […] -
![“The Incredible Shrinking Woman” is a Lily Tomlin movie released most of forty years ago in February 1981. Having learnt of its existence, I had to see for myself whether […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Boogelow-Wagon-34-Large.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods")
QOTD: Why Would They Do That? Weird Movie-Car Mods
Posted on February 23, 2020 | 79 Comments“The Incredible Shrinking Woman” is a Lily Tomlin movie released most of forty years ago in February 1981. Having learnt of its existence, I had to see for myself whether […] -
![Legend has it, “Let there be catalytic converters!” said GM’s Ed Cole, and »poof« the catalytic converter sprang into existence and evolved into the kind we now use. How it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/monolithic_converter.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?")
Automotive History: The Dawn of the Catalytic Converter – Who Put the Cat Out?
Posted on February 3, 2020 | 67 CommentsLegend has it, “Let there be catalytic converters!” said GM’s Ed Cole, and »poof« the catalytic converter sprang into existence and evolved into the kind we now use. How it […] -
![There’s a sturdy argument to be made that GM’s HEI (High-Energy Ignition) is so damn good because GM were so damn fixated on being so damn cheap. Wait…what? How does […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ignition_Comparo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Tech: HEI – GM’s Superior Sparks, At Home and Elsewhere")
CC Tech: HEI – GM’s Superior Sparks, At Home and Elsewhere
Posted on February 16, 2019 | 66 CommentsThere’s a sturdy argument to be made that GM’s HEI (High-Energy Ignition) is so damn good because GM were so damn fixated on being so damn cheap. Wait…what? How does […] -
QOTD: What was your first car accident?
Posted on December 29, 2018 | 73 CommentsNew driving licence: check. Authorised access to a car: check. All the pieces were in place, -
![Over seventeen years’ time, a lot of technical innovation and technological progress can happen. Can, that is, but not necessarily will, and when something comes kicking stalled evolution in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cartoon1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles")
Monday Funnies: Headlamp Hassles
Posted on November 26, 2018 | 47 CommentsOver seventeen years’ time, a lot of technical innovation and technological progress can happen. Can, that is, but not necessarily will, and when something comes kicking stalled evolution in the […] -
![They say if you strap a piece of toast, butterside-up, to the back of a cat and drop the assembly, it’ll hover a few feet above the floor, doing lazy […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/89Caprice_Rear.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box")
CC For Sale: 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic—Almost the Last Box
Posted on November 2, 2018 | 79 CommentsThey say if you strap a piece of toast, butterside-up, to the back of a cat and drop the assembly, it’ll hover a few feet above the floor, doing lazy […]
