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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: Daniel Stern
Posts by Daniel Stern
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![This shop was around for a long, long, long time in Northeast Seattle’s Roosevelt Way. The bottom of the shopfront windowframe surely must’ve started out as a straight line; I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Pauls_Auto_Upholstery_1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Scenes from an Old Car Upholstery Shop")
CC Outtake: Scenes from an Old Car Upholstery Shop
Posted on May 15, 2022 | 24 CommentsThis shop was around for a long, long, long time in Northeast Seattle’s Roosevelt Way. The bottom of the shopfront windowframe surely must’ve started out as a straight line; I […] -
![For many years, starting with the advent of the electric flashing turn signal, the front indicators emitted white light by means of a colourless incandescent bulb behind a colourless lens […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/61-2-3-4_LANRP.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Automotive History: When Front Turn Signals Changed Colour – Amber Waves of Pain")
Automotive History: When Front Turn Signals Changed Colour – Amber Waves of Pain
Posted on May 8, 2022 | 93 CommentsFor many years, starting with the advent of the electric flashing turn signal, the front indicators emitted white light by means of a colourless incandescent bulb behind a colourless lens […] -
Curbside Classic: 1958-1960 International Harvester Travelall – Workhorse With Grace and Style
Posted on May 7, 2022 | 39 CommentsWhen I was a little kid, looking out at traffic through the rear door windows, from time to time we’d draw even with a Travelall. Never one -
CC Capsule: 1964 Valiant Signet 200 – Don’t Say the P-Words
Posted on May 1, 2022 | 77 CommentsThis is not a Plymouth. Ceci n’est pas une Plymouth. If it were—if this were an American car—the callout on the front of the hood would say P L Y M O U T H. -
CC Capsule: 1968-’70 GMC Van – Under the Sakura Rain
Posted on April 30, 2022 | 29 CommentsThe cherry trees put on a spectacular show this year, making this old GMC van seem even battleship grey -
Curbside Classic: 1971(ish) Fargo B200 Tradesman MaxiVan Camper – Firsts and Lasts
Posted on April 18, 2022 | 41 CommentsThis big blue box is an interesting mix of firsts and lasts. It’s one of the -
![Ever since I was a little kid looking out at traffic from the back seat, I’ve detested the squinty look created by a beltline upsweep or upkick that raises the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Eagle_Prenoodle.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Auto Body Repair: I’m Not Dick Teague")
CC Auto Body Repair: I’m Not Dick Teague
Posted on April 14, 2022 | 69 CommentsEver since I was a little kid looking out at traffic from the back seat, I’ve detested the squinty look created by a beltline upsweep or upkick that raises the […] -
![(first posted 4/5/2016) How long since you saw a first-generation K-car? In one piece, I mean? The facelifted ’85-’89 versions are still seen every odd and then, but the ’81-’84 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/kkkkkk.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC For Sale: 1983 Dodge Aries In Like-New Condition – ‘K, Then!")
CC For Sale: 1983 Dodge Aries In Like-New Condition – ‘K, Then!
Posted on April 5, 2022 | 178 Comments(first posted 4/5/2016) How long since you saw a first-generation K-car? In one piece, I mean? The facelifted ’85-’89 versions are still seen every odd and then, but the ’81-’84 […] -
CC Design: Chrysler Studies Ergonomics in 1962, and Now Just Look!
Posted on April 3, 2022 | 128 CommentsErgonomics, also called human factors, is the science of design and arrangement to maximise the efficiency, ease, and safety of people’s interaction with things. It was a -
CC Cinema: How to Drive Strine (in the 1970s)
Posted on April 2, 2022 | 30 CommentsIn the early 1970s, Australia’s Department of Transport put out a series of safe-driving films. Strine, of course, is -
![I heard an exhaust note that sounded old, unusual, and unfamiliar before I came upon the source: this ol’ GMC pickup, running at a fast idle as the owner tinkered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GMC_Truck_LF34.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 1964-1966 GMC Truck – V6, Y’understand?")
CC Outtake: 1964-1966 GMC Truck – V6, Y’understand?
Posted on March 20, 2022 | 47 CommentsI heard an exhaust note that sounded old, unusual, and unfamiliar before I came upon the source: this ol’ GMC pickup, running at a fast idle as the owner tinkered […] -
![(first posted 3/10/2016) There haven’t been a whole lot of cars in the American market whereof the wagon variant seems as prominent in metal and mind as the betrunked models, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/bbbbv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Classic Wagon – Long-Roof Liftback")
Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Classic Wagon – Long-Roof Liftback
Posted on March 10, 2022 | 130 Comments(first posted 3/10/2016) There haven’t been a whole lot of cars in the American market whereof the wagon variant seems as prominent in metal and mind as the betrunked models, […] -
![(first posted 2/28/2016) I first encountered Colorado Auto and Parts at the age of 14 or so, when my folks let me buy a running-but-not-driveable ’64 Valiant to faff around […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cccgbv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Junk Yard Tales")
Junk Yard Tales
Posted on February 28, 2022 | 90 Comments(first posted 2/28/2016) I first encountered Colorado Auto and Parts at the age of 14 or so, when my folks let me buy a running-but-not-driveable ’64 Valiant to faff around […] -
Automotive History: Chrysler’s CAP, The First Effective Exhaust Emission Control (With ’63 Dodge and Dart Road Tests)
Posted on February 22, 2022 | 63 CommentsBy the late 1950s, it was grossly and painfully apparent that “traffic smog” was a real and really bad thing. Dutch-born -
CC For Sale: Armoured 1995 Chrysler LeBaron – Bulletproof Invisibility Cloak
Posted on February 21, 2022 | 25 CommentsI thought I’d seen it all, at least as far as AA-body Mopars go. I mean,
