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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![(Note: the writer obviously transposed “month” to “week” so the weekly mileage, and all the service intervals, undoubtedly should be “per month”, not “per week”. If you make that change […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Science_Mechanics_7-70_cover.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Review: 1970 Dodge NYC Taxi (Plus! How They Make Them Last!)")
Vintage Review: 1970 Dodge NYC Taxi (Plus! How They Make Them Last!)
Posted on October 24, 2018 | 38 Comments(Note: the writer obviously transposed “month” to “week” so the weekly mileage, and all the service intervals, undoubtedly should be “per month”, not “per week”. If you make that change […] -
QOTD: What Car Did Mister Rogers Drive?
Posted on September 15, 2018 | 55 CommentsIf you grew up in the States after 1969, you probably remember Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, as I surely do. There’s a -
![I’d seen this ’63-’66 Beetle around town from time to time for quite awhile by the time I finally caught up with it in an Office Despot car park some […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Spoiler_Alert.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Spoiler Alert! – Double Your Mileage and Keep the Engine Cooler! Maybe")
CC Outtake: Spoiler Alert! – Double Your Mileage and Keep the Engine Cooler! Maybe
Posted on August 26, 2018 | 33 CommentsI’d seen this ’63-’66 Beetle around town from time to time for quite awhile by the time I finally caught up with it in an Office Despot car park some […] -
CC Capsule: 1992 Chrysler Spirit—Illegal Alien
Posted on August 6, 2018 | 41 CommentsHere’s a detail of a car seldom seen by most of us. You doubt? Read on! -
CC Capsule: ’77-’79 Mercury Cougar Brougham. What’s 2nd Prize, Two Of Them?
Posted on July 27, 2018 | 75 CommentsHere’s a mostly well-preserved example of the offensively ugly American Ford products of the 1970s. This is a -
![We—my photographer husband and I—are in the middle of a road trip round the BC interior. Yesterday afternoon we pulled off at a scenic lay-by and off in the distance […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MysteryCar_BC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "QOTD: What Car Is This?")
QOTD: What Car Is This?
Posted on May 19, 2018 | 27 CommentsWe—my photographer husband and I—are in the middle of a road trip round the BC interior. Yesterday afternoon we pulled off at a scenic lay-by and off in the distance […] -
CC Outtake: Good Chryslers Make Good Neighbours
Posted on April 27, 2018 | 16 CommentsA member of my chosen family sent me this from below the li’l ol’ Mason-Dixon line, with the caption Look, my neighbors have a fetish you share. He’s a little -
CC Matinée: The Making of the First Valiant
Posted on April 21, 2018 | 36 CommentsBack in the beforetimes, theatregoers would see a newsreel and/or cartoons before the billboard movie. This morning’s -
In-Motion Classic: 1979-’80 Plymouth Horizon TC3
Posted on April 6, 2018 | 45 CommentsYesterday was rainy in Vancouver—no foolin’!—and while waiting for the lights to change on Commercial at Broadway I spotted this very tidy Plymouth Horizon TC3. -
CCs Through the Looking-Glass: Closer Than They Appear
Posted on March 31, 2018 | 28 CommentsYesterday’s ’52 Chrysler in the sideview mirror got enough positive response to make me dredge through my archives to find more. Today’s -
![Right out in East Vancouver traffic, a Ziploc-perfect 1952 Chrysler Windsor DeLuxe. The driver even honked his horns (great big spiral ones made by Auto-Lite Canada in Sarnia, Ontario), and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/52_Chrysler.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "In-Motion Classic: 1952 Chrysler Windsor DeLuxe")
In-Motion Classic: 1952 Chrysler Windsor DeLuxe
Posted on March 30, 2018 | 22 CommentsRight out in East Vancouver traffic, a Ziploc-perfect 1952 Chrysler Windsor DeLuxe. The driver even honked his horns (great big spiral ones made by Auto-Lite Canada in Sarnia, Ontario), and […] -
CC Name Games: It’s a Different Kind of Wrangler, Charlie Brown
Posted on March 12, 2018 | 58 CommentsFor a number of years—I’m thinking someone more knowledgeable than I will be able to say exactly what number comprising which years—the Jeep Wrangler was not sold in Canada. -
CC TV: GM Toast the Midcentury Consumer Boom
Posted on December 25, 2017 | 17 Commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DYZHNL0Gw&t=0m36s Oh, wow! It’s “American Look”, General Motors’ 1958 paean to designers and stylists and, erm, planned obsolescence. There’s something for everyone here; if you love MidMod stuff, -
CC For Sale: The Truck (1977ish IH Loadstar Pumper)
Posted on December 23, 2017 | 38 CommentsThis is the truck. Erm…no, sorry, let’s try that again: this is the truck. H’mm…closer, but still not quite. -
![A carburetor walks into a bar, hops up on a stool, says “Gimme a beer and a shot of whiskey!”, and proceeds to put a shaft, a lever, a plate, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Holley_Visiflo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Standup: A Carburetor Walks Into a Bar…")
CC Standup: A Carburetor Walks Into a Bar…
Posted on November 20, 2017 | 102 CommentsA carburetor walks into a bar, hops up on a stool, says “Gimme a beer and a shot of whiskey!”, and proceeds to put a shaft, a lever, a plate, […]
