As some of you long-time CCers may have noticed, we’ve gotten a lot of new readers over the past few months. As a result, I thought it might be interesting to mention some past Curbside Classics that CC newcomers may have missed. And in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, all the cars I’ve selected are green.
As your resident CC ’70s luxury-car maven (an office co-chaired with Richard Bennett), may I add: Erin Go Brougham.
1976 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Landau – Perhaps the coolest Colonnade Monte on the planet. Owned, appropriately enough, by regular CC reader Chris Green.
1963 Rambler Classic 660 – Aside from the 1967 models, the 1963 Classic and Ambassador were the last clean-sheet AMC family sedans, and Ed Anderson’s swan song.
1974 Datsun 710 wagon – Ugly when new, endearing (to me, at least) today. Those quirky ’70s Japanese cars just do it for me. A fine find by PN.
1961 Plymouth Fury – While iconic, George Barris needn’t have gone to the trouble of building the famous TV Batmobile. He could have just customized one of these!
1972 MGB-GT – One of my own early CC finds. Love that aquamarine paint! One of the few cars I’d rather have as a coupe than a convertible.
1967 Dodge A100 panel van – Another Midwestern find by jpcavanaugh. The kayak on the roof only adds to the coolness of this vintage van.
1966 Cadillac Sedan de Ville – What many consider to be the last of the “true” uncompromising Caddys. The cool vintage camera effect means this can only be a Laurence Jones find!
1992-94 Acura Vigor – These didn’t do much for me when new but I like them now, maybe because every new car has giant A- and B-pillars and correspondingly tiny windows.
1971 Plymouth GTX – Green is my favorite color, and I have always liked white interiors in old cars, so this ’71 B-body found by Jason Shafer pushes all my buttons. Let’s just replace those aftermarket alloys with some Magnum 500s!
1971 Ford Galaxie 500 – Finally, here’s a CC still earning its keep. The bane of Paul’s existence, he nevertheless wrote a very enjoyable post on the restyled ’71 full-size Ford.
Well if I may add my very unusual find (yesterday in fact) 1978 Plymouth Volare in green. Perhaps the lowest mileage Volare on the planet @ 6,591 original. A car probably worthy of its own CC write-up.
This car is barebones, I mean bare and the only major option I can tell that it has is an automatic transmission (which presumably only a small percentage of F-cars came without). This car even sports it original Bias Ply tires, which I did not realize were still standard on cars in 1978.
I actually saw a 1978 or ’79 Aspen wagon on Friday. It was basically stock, but was painted purple! I’ll have to go back and get some pics.
That’s a very basic Volare. Maybe a rejected government fleet order?
I have no idea the backstory on this car – I perused a warehouse yesterday with about 125 cars most of them where CC worthy. ALOT of 70s and 80s cars of very low mileage.
Based on my quick perusal of the 78 C-P brochure, this car had bias ply whitewall tires, full wheel covers, power steering, and automatic transmission as options. That is it. No radio, no power brakes. I can only imagine it was probably a fleet or company car situation as even bare bones consumer models came with radial tires, power brakes, and even an AM radio.
Wow, talk about a rare car! I’d love to see more from this place…
I will put them on the Flickr account later today.
looks so cool and like the slant six is under the hood. I am partial to slant sixes!
A close up of the slant six.
Wow, what’s the warehouse for? Are the cars there for sale? I do love that Volare, same color as my Dart.
St Paddys day was yesterday here but Ive got an Emerald Green Citroen to celebrate in guuna get some pics of my old job.
Even though blue and burgundy are my top two favorite colors, I am glad to see browns making a comeback, and I hope that greens are too. I stopped by the Chevy dealer today on my way home from church and they had sitting there a new Silverado in a lovely deep green with a heavy metallic, looked really good!
Gotta Have It Green, a very cool color. Sometimes it looks like GRABBER Green, but it’s metallic/iridescent/pearl, and changes……..a lot.
I’ve wanted a gold Mustang for a long time but this is really nice. Do you have any more photo showing the different shades of color?
There’s always Synergy Green:
Ivy Moondust!
Nice! My grandfather had several Lincolns in deep metallic green: a ’66 Continental sedan, ’68 Mark III and ’72 Mark IV. All had a matching top and interior. My dad said the Mark III had one of the plushest interiors he’d ever seen. To him, the ’70 and ’71 seats were not near as luxurious, despite the addition of real wood trim.
I’m surprised he’d say that. IMHO the 70-71 was much more luxurious, real wood (dash, steering wheel, door panels) thicker carpet, more insulation…..maybe the seat “bulls-eye” sew pattern was too “plain”?
One of the many cars I wish I never sold! But I had it for 15 years, now in Australia.
Sweet jesus that’s a beauty! Check the rocker panels on that baby…. might be hauling some extra freight. 😉
I love green cars I’ve had three here are two:
The 81 Accord LX is on Honda Pkwy in Marysville Ohio outside the Honda Assembly plant in 1989 and the BMW 318ti is parck in front of McMenamin’s Chapel Pub in PDX last fall.
I do need to scan more pictures of the Accord – had that car for 29 years!
I’ve always liked the 318ti, even had thoughts about trying to find a good one (though maybe not in green). Seems like a fun car.
Nice! I’m a big fan of both of those.
I’ve long fancied a Big Bad Green Javelin,my only green car was a 69 secretary’s special Javelin 6 cylinder which I sold to my brother after 2 years and he then sold to my sister.My parents would often try to get a bit shaved off the price of a new car buying a green,brown or beige one.
1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham – Green/Green – 26,000 original miles.
Interior
It’s a good thing I wasn’t at this auction, as this one might have followed me home, despite the fact that I have nowhere to put it. Lovely car!
Well you know I’m going to like it….I don’t go by supremebrougham for nothing!
13,000 Green/White Monte Carlo
1976 Cadillac Seville Green/Tan/Tan – mileage unknown – factory colors (based on data plate).
Well hello there.
That one is in the same color combo as the ’79 Seville in the Alex Cross novels!
Is that the same “Polo Green” color that was somewhat popular on Cadillacs and Corvettes in the 90s? I loved that color on the Allante and especially on the ’92+ Seville.
The original 1976 color was GREENBRIER FIREMIST. I wasn’t able to positively tell if the car was repainted, if it was it was that color originally. One of the problems that you have today when you repaint cars, especially going to base/clear is that the hue may differ ever so slightly from the original color.
You see the picture of the 77 Monte Carlo I posted above GM had a dark green metallic going for a few years in the 70s.
To compliment the 71 Ford Galaxie 500 above – a 1969 Mercury Marquis all original 46,300 mile. Could have been yours for $4,200 as the gavel dropped.
In case anyone who missed out still wants one of these bad enough:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1969-MERCURY-MARQUIS-MINT-GORGEOUS-ALL-ORIGINAL-PAINT-INTERIOR-/171005925909?_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&forcev4exp=true#ht_924wt_1071
Best…green…car…ever…
How true
My uncle has one almost identical to it sitting in his garage. He bought when it was three years old.
Amen.
A lot of now-rare colors, these! The Cadillac is especially eye-catching. Somehow the color fit the car very well, unusual as it is. Too bad today’s cars are not as diverse in term of colors as it was before. Even more so in Indonesia, because people are so concerned about resale value. Thus it’s the basic colors that sells, Black, white, silver… It’s rare to see cars in any other color. How cool the sea of cars would look if all of them are in all kinds of different hues…
BTW the minivan I currently lusted after is available in light green similar to that Dodge A100. Looks cool too! I will persuade my brother to get that color when he eventually upgrades to it.
Our ’71 Vega hatch parts car: “It’s not easy being green.”
Here’s a CC Capsule on a 1948 Nash 600 Business Coupe in green:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/curbside-capsue-1948-nash-600-business-coupe/
Gimme the 1966 Sedan De Ville, then if you need me you’ll find me crisscrossing the country on two lane highways just for the sheer joy of driving long distances in a car that was built to conquer the long straight roads that dominate flyover country.
I met and talked to these two guys last June who did just that in a 68 Cadillac when they retired…
http://www.rt66cadillacguys.com/
That’s alot of green.
I would have protested if Tom left out Chris Greencar’s Monte!
Funny that St. P’s is considered a night to go to Irish bars. If you live in Bostonland, it’s basically the one night you don’t want to get anywhere near those places. Amateur Hour is not pretty…
Hey, Chris’s Monte Cristo was the first one I thought of 🙂
I have a 1977 Cadillac Coupe DeVille as a daily driver. Over 245.000 miles on it. Tripple black. Leather, but I wish it had cloth interior.
My dad’s first luxury car was a brown ’77 Coupé deVille. That generation of pre-FWD Cadillacs, along with their B-body divisional counterparts, I think were the best-styled of the Yank Tank design idiom. He later got an ’80 Sedan, the last year they had decent engines.
How can anyone do a green car without mentioning the AMC Hornet Sportabout Gucci Edition…?!?!? Okay, it’s just a Sportabout with a factory “Gucci Package”, but it’s still a “Gucci”!!
The green car on the cover:
The interior:
Here’s a sort of companion to Chris Green’s car, a lime green ’76 Firebird Formula.
1976 GM Lime Green, was offered at all Divisions, even on Cadillacs and pickup trucks
For a second there I thought Tom found a way to cover another 80s Fleetwood Brougham but found something almost as good.
The 61 Plymouth Fury post was before my time at CC and today was first time to read it. This car always struck me as the angriest of all time and it feels good to know I’m not alone! Loved the comments about Stephen King and Virgil Exner’s name.
It’s hard to believe the 64 Mustang came just three years after the Fury. Talk about a breath of fresh air.
From 1957 until around 1978 Ford had the friendliest, most accessible designs (except for maybe the 58-60 and 64-65 Tbirds, they looked a little angry). For sure GM’s were the most glamourous. The green Monte Carlo isn’t much less over the top than the late 50s Chevys.
Wasn’t there a CC on a triple-jade green Continental Mark V a while back? I’d have gone with that instead of the Datsun, which looks blue to me.
Had a look to see what green cars I’ve posted to the Cohort – a Volvo Amazon wagon and a 1967 Holden HR Special sedan. Also shot a new bright green Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, but that’s not a CC!
This one’s sort of green .
Greenish?
Love TPB!
Is that a museum?
Where’s the Mopar muscle cars? A lime green A,B or E body shouts Detroit iron don’t mess with me loud n proud!
Green seems to have fallen out of favour on new cars, other than the bright shades on the Camaro, Mustang. Too bad, done right it looks very classy.
You want green? You GOT green!
Pictured is my 2nd car – my 1961 Chevy Bel-Air in October, 1969.
Yes, it’s painted in a very popular color back then – Chevy Camaro Rally Green!
Enjoy!
My buddy painted it for me – I wanted that color – while I was in air force basic training that fall.
Cool car Zackman,was she a cruiser or a bruiser?