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Curbside Classics Archives
Video Archive
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CC Video: In-Car Navigation System, Circa 1971 – “Tomorrow’s World”
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CC Video: A Battered Old Mercedes L-Series Truck Conquers the Most Brutal “Road” In Africa
Posted on December 8, 2018 | 25 CommentsJohannes Dutch left this in the comments at today’s L-series post. I watched and was mesmerized. This is one of the more remarkable automotive feats on video. It’s almost unbelievable […] -
Vintage Video: Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1958
Posted on December 4, 2018 | 27 CommentsThis video sort of fell into my lap, as it was posted to the Facebook page of a local old car club. -
![It’s entirely made of inorganic materials, yet it sounds like a living creature that is up to no good. It roars, growls, hammers and hisses like nothing else on Europe’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/v8.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Video: Riding The Södertälje Bear")
CC Video: Riding The Södertälje Bear
Posted on December 2, 2018 | 10 CommentsIt’s entirely made of inorganic materials, yet it sounds like a living creature that is up to no good. It roars, growls, hammers and hisses like nothing else on Europe’s […] -
![In the last hour or so before I retire, while Stephanie takes her lengthy bath, I often surf YouTube. One of my favorite subjects are very old films. This one, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Calthorpe-merlin_145797789_08102b3e-dc5c-40b6-9d99-4f0d8f75fad6-jumbo.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Street Cars in New York From Around 1900 – Do They Suggest a Good Use For Autonomous Vehicles? An Urban Designer Seems To Thinks So")
Street Cars in New York From Around 1900 – Do They Suggest a Good Use For Autonomous Vehicles? An Urban Designer Seems To Thinks So
Posted on November 28, 2018 | 32 CommentsIn the last hour or so before I retire, while Stephanie takes her lengthy bath, I often surf YouTube. One of my favorite subjects are very old films. This one, […] -
![Copies of this 25-minute film, imaginatively entitled Love Thy Customer, were presumably sent to Ford dealerships across America around the summer of 1966. It worth watching, if only is a ’60s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The_Doors_1966.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Video: 1966 Ford Sales Training Film — With Interesting Music")
CC Video: 1966 Ford Sales Training Film — With Interesting Music
Posted on August 15, 2018 | 30 CommentsCopies of this 25-minute film, imaginatively entitled Love Thy Customer, were presumably sent to Ford dealerships across America around the summer of 1966. It worth watching, if only is a ’60s […] -
![With the 20th anniversary of the Daimler-Chrysler hook-up from hell being celebrated these days, I’ve had Chrysler on the brain, and stumbled into these the other night. They’re a bit […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Market-share-US-Big-3-1961-2016.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Marriage From Hell With Two Documentaries: “Chrysler Minivan History” and “Reinventing Chrysler 1992”")
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Marriage From Hell With Two Documentaries: “Chrysler Minivan History” and “Reinventing Chrysler 1992”
Posted on May 8, 2018 | 25 CommentsWith the 20th anniversary of the Daimler-Chrysler hook-up from hell being celebrated these days, I’ve had Chrysler on the brain, and stumbled into these the other night. They’re a bit […] -
![While hard to believe, it’s now been over one and a half years since I took delivery of my 2016 BMW 228i xDrive. I’m happy to report that it has […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/thumb_IMG_6223_1024.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL Update/Video Review: 2016 BMW 228i xDrive – BMW Does Still Make Good Cars Indeed")
COAL Update/Video Review: 2016 BMW 228i xDrive – BMW Does Still Make Good Cars Indeed
Posted on February 28, 2018 | 29 CommentsWhile hard to believe, it’s now been over one and a half years since I took delivery of my 2016 BMW 228i xDrive. I’m happy to report that it has […] -
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 Video Review: “Will The Corvair Kill You?” It All Depends
Posted on November 26, 2017 | 126 CommentsMy Youtube channel thought I might be interested in this new video on a very old and beaten-to-death topic. The title was not encouraging. Very few “journalists” have been able […] -
CC Video: The Road Ahead
Posted on August 3, 2017 | 46 CommentsJune 29, 1956, was a big day in the United States. It was on this day President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. This video, narrated […] -
CC Video: How Cars Are Made Today – Ride Down The Assembly Line In One of Ford’s Most Automated Plants in China
Posted on May 15, 2017 | 16 CommentsI ran across this today, and it’s a nice contrast to some of the 1930s vintage automobile factory videos we’ve looked at here today. The spread of automation is relentless, […] -
CC Video: Peugeot 404 Pickup Going Strong, Or At Least Going; and Another One “Drifting”
Posted on March 27, 2017 | 13 CommentsSomehow I stumbled into this last night. If you’re not familiar with the legendary indestructibility of the 404 wagons and pickups in Africa, then head here. And after this video […] -
CC Vintage Film: Autobiography of a Jeep (1943)
Posted on February 20, 2017 | 4 Comments -
CC Video: Resurrection – 1955 VW Panel Van Abandoned 40 Years in the Woods Is Found, Fixed and Driven Back Down the Mountain
Posted on January 8, 2017 | 23 CommentsCC reader Dave just sent me this video, which I found very worthwhile watching. Working from a tip given him by a mushroom hunter, a young man searched for and […]
