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Curbside Classics Archives
vintage ads and brochures Archive
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![I never saw a Hudson police car, but then these were a bit before my time in the US. But I can see the appeal; with the Twin H-Power (dual […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/5400366326_2531592f99_o.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Ads: Hudson Wasp Police and Jet Police – With Road-hugging Safety!")
Vintage Ads: Hudson Wasp Police and Jet Police – With Road-hugging Safety!
Posted on April 22, 2020 | 51 CommentsI never saw a Hudson police car, but then these were a bit before my time in the US. But I can see the appeal; with the Twin H-Power (dual […] -
Vintage Ad: S&S FWD Cadillac DeVille Professional Limousine – Ready For the Flood
Posted on April 3, 2020 | 45 Comments -
![The performance market wasn’t the only one Studebaker was pursuing in 1963, as evidenced by this RHD “Rural Route” Lark. No R2 badge on its grille. More likely the 112 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/11006455043_d5f4c644d4_k.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad: 1963 Rural Route Lark – “The Only Car In The World Purpose-Built For Your Work”")
Vintage Ad: 1963 Rural Route Lark – “The Only Car In The World Purpose-Built For Your Work”
Posted on April 2, 2020 | 50 CommentsThe performance market wasn’t the only one Studebaker was pursuing in 1963, as evidenced by this RHD “Rural Route” Lark. No R2 badge on its grille. More likely the 112 […] -
Vintage Ad: The Ambassador Royal’e Limo – “Destined To Become America’s #1 Executive Limousine”
Posted on March 30, 2020 | 59 Comments -
![Fellow CC’er Daniel Stern sent me this today, saying he was trying to post something to the Cohort for the first time. The only thing that caught his eye was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/a-bumper-trailer.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad: 1962 El Caminchero Travel Trailer – It Attaches to the Car’s Rear Wheels – Revolutionary!")
Vintage Ad: 1962 El Caminchero Travel Trailer – It Attaches to the Car’s Rear Wheels – Revolutionary!
Posted on February 15, 2020 | 44 CommentsFellow CC’er Daniel Stern sent me this today, saying he was trying to post something to the Cohort for the first time. The only thing that caught his eye was […] -
![Introductory Note: If ever there was a vehicle we are unlikely to encounter at curbside and just as unlikely to find at a car show, it would be the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1958-Packard-Colors-Bluff-Gray-08-Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic Goes Shopping: For A 1958 Packard")
Curbside Classic Goes Shopping: For A 1958 Packard
Posted on August 7, 2019 | 86 CommentsIntroductory Note: If ever there was a vehicle we are unlikely to encounter at curbside and just as unlikely to find at a car show, it would be the […] -
![(first posted 3/14/2014) How’s this for something different? I have always liked Peugeots, partly due to the maroon 505 sedan by Corgi I got as a preschooler, and partly due […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/504-wagon-ad.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Peugeot Ads: Remember When You Could Buy A French Car In The United States?")
Vintage Peugeot Ads: Remember When You Could Buy A French Car In The United States?
Posted on February 25, 2019 | 73 Comments(first posted 3/14/2014) How’s this for something different? I have always liked Peugeots, partly due to the maroon 505 sedan by Corgi I got as a preschooler, and partly due […] -
![I want to thank everyone for the positive response to my recent Curbside Classic post featuring ads and content from the November 18th 1957 issue of Life magazine. In […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20190124_171148-1_resized.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Life Magazine Part 2: The Mopar Edition")
Life Magazine Part 2: The Mopar Edition
Posted on January 28, 2019 | 38 CommentsI want to thank everyone for the positive response to my recent Curbside Classic post featuring ads and content from the November 18th 1957 issue of Life magazine. In […] -
![My favorite bookstore is The Old Book Shop in Morristown N.J. Since junior high school I have shopped there many times to buy books and magazines on all kinds of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OMS02445-MZ1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Life Magazine, November 18th 1957: The Tipping Point Between Postwar Dreams and Harsh Reality")
Life Magazine, November 18th 1957: The Tipping Point Between Postwar Dreams and Harsh Reality
Posted on January 22, 2019 | 50 CommentsMy favorite bookstore is The Old Book Shop in Morristown N.J. Since junior high school I have shopped there many times to buy books and magazines on all kinds of […] -
Vintage Ad: Holden Super Chicken! Was This For Real Or a Joke?
Posted on November 22, 2018 | 22 CommentsI’ll leave it to our Aussie friends to answer that, but I don’t think this would have flown in the US. But then maybe it didn’t down under either. -
Vintage Ad: 1993 Chrysler Concorde – Using Rodents To Advertise Cars?
Posted on October 31, 2018 | 28 Comments -
![My mother grew up in the European part of Shanghai, China, in the 1930’s until her family emigrated to the US before World War II. I have a copy of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ford-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Yearbook Outtake: Ads of Few Words, Shanghai 1937")
Yearbook Outtake: Ads of Few Words, Shanghai 1937
Posted on October 10, 2018 | 23 CommentsMy mother grew up in the European part of Shanghai, China, in the 1930’s until her family emigrated to the US before World War II. I have a copy of […] -
![(first posted 10/3/2012. Expanded and revised 7/22/2018) In the fall of 1963, when I was 10, I’d had enough of grade school and decided to pursue an independent study course […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Buick-1964-Full-Line-Prestige-38-39.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Book Of New Buicks – 1964 Edition: Quite Possibly My Favorite Textbook Ever (Updated Now With All 63 Pages)")
The Book Of New Buicks – 1964 Edition: Quite Possibly My Favorite Textbook Ever (Updated Now With All 63 Pages)
Posted on July 23, 2018 | 81 Comments(first posted 10/3/2012. Expanded and revised 7/22/2018) In the fall of 1963, when I was 10, I’d had enough of grade school and decided to pursue an independent study course […] -
![The Hondamatic is an interesting design, as Honda went a quite different route in designing it to avoid paying any license fees. As a result, it does not have planetary […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Chrysler-1961-concpet0009.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Ad: 1976 Honda 750 Automatic – The Two Speed Hondamatic on Two Wheels")
Vintage Ad: 1976 Honda 750 Automatic – The Two Speed Hondamatic on Two Wheels
Posted on July 18, 2018 | 31 CommentsThe Hondamatic is an interesting design, as Honda went a quite different route in designing it to avoid paying any license fees. As a result, it does not have planetary […] -
Ad Watch Classic: Damsel in Distress, Or?
Posted on June 26, 2018 | 49 CommentsStephen Pellegrino posted this ’59 Chevy ad at the Cohort along with some commentary:
