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Curbside Classics Archives
Curbside Classics – American Brands Archive
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![In a lengthening list of things I’ve never done until recently, I had gone to Chicago City Hall a few weeks ago to obtain some documents. That stunning structure faces […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/011-1996-Chevrolet-Impala-SS-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "In-Motion Classic: 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS – Chicago On Wheels")
In-Motion Classic: 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS – Chicago On Wheels
Posted on June 6, 2023 | 46 CommentsIn a lengthening list of things I’ve never done until recently, I had gone to Chicago City Hall a few weeks ago to obtain some documents. That stunning structure faces […] -
![(first posted 6/5/2017) Some cars just have a way of making a connection with a guy. There are cars that have become iconic in film. There are cars […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1960LincolnMkV01a-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark V Convertible – A Long Way From Mount Rushmore")
Curbside Classic: 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark V Convertible – A Long Way From Mount Rushmore
Posted on June 5, 2023 | 106 Comments(first posted 6/5/2017) Some cars just have a way of making a connection with a guy. There are cars that have become iconic in film. There are cars […] -
![(first posted 7/12/2012) General Motors, as has been documented time and time again, was slow to respond to foreign competition. For years they seemed to think that if they […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/5-28-2012-001-800x529-e1340471389594.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1995 Chevrolet Lumina LS – I Fought The Taurus, And The Taurus Won")
Curbside Classic: 1995 Chevrolet Lumina LS – I Fought The Taurus, And The Taurus Won
Posted on June 3, 2023 | 114 Comments(first posted 7/12/2012) General Motors, as has been documented time and time again, was slow to respond to foreign competition. For years they seemed to think that if they […] -
![(first posted 8/10/2012) From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Ford showed a lot of new product moxie, upstaging GM with two iconic, trend-setting vehicles: the 1958 T-Bird, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Pictography-3-045.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1962½ Ford Falcon Sports Futura – Ford Sees The Future; At Chevrolet")
Curbside Classic: 1962½ Ford Falcon Sports Futura – Ford Sees The Future; At Chevrolet
Posted on June 2, 2023 | 55 Comments(first posted 8/10/2012) From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Ford showed a lot of new product moxie, upstaging GM with two iconic, trend-setting vehicles: the 1958 T-Bird, […] -
![(first posted 5/30/2017) Many CC followers will be aware that in the 50s and 60s, Chrysler sold many cars in Canada as Dodges, when in fact they were […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1956-dodge-custom-royal-IMG_0485.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1956 Dodge Custom Royal – Canadian, Eh?")
Curbside Classic: 1956 Dodge Custom Royal – Canadian, Eh?
Posted on May 30, 2023 | 40 Comments(first posted 5/30/2017) Many CC followers will be aware that in the 50s and 60s, Chrysler sold many cars in Canada as Dodges, when in fact they were […] -
![The ride had been going for a little while and we had already exhausted small pleasantries. It was now time to catch up on what each were actually doing with […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20230408_134017486.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1973 Chevrolet Caprice – Old Beater")
Curbside Classic: 1973 Chevrolet Caprice – Old Beater
Posted on May 27, 2023 | 19 CommentsThe ride had been going for a little while and we had already exhausted small pleasantries. It was now time to catch up on what each were actually doing with […] -
![hood not closed all the way from our ogling the engine (first posted 5/25/2017) What guy my age hasn’t wanted to take a 327/350 4-speed Corvette Sting Ray convertible […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Corvette-1967-engine-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic Driving Impressions: 1967 Corvette L79 327/350 Convertible – A 50 Year-Old Dream Fulfilled")
Curbside Classic Driving Impressions: 1967 Corvette L79 327/350 Convertible – A 50 Year-Old Dream Fulfilled
Posted on May 25, 2023 | 41 Commentshood not closed all the way from our ogling the engine (first posted 5/25/2017) What guy my age hasn’t wanted to take a 327/350 4-speed Corvette Sting Ray convertible […] -
![(first posted 5/23/2017) We (OK, mostly I) here at CC have given a lot of love to Studebakers over the years. But looking over our archives, it seems that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1963StudebakerLark07.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1963 Studebaker Lark Regal – A Left Brain Car For A Right Brain World")
Car Show Classic: 1963 Studebaker Lark Regal – A Left Brain Car For A Right Brain World
Posted on May 23, 2023 | 113 Comments(first posted 5/23/2017) We (OK, mostly I) here at CC have given a lot of love to Studebakers over the years. But looking over our archives, it seems that […] -
![(first posted 11/7/2012) The first-generation Taurus went on sale exactly three hundred and sixty-four days before I was born, so it’s not as though I can draw on my memory. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ford-taurus-1986-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable – At This Moment, You Mean Everything")
Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable – At This Moment, You Mean Everything
Posted on May 22, 2023 | 146 Comments(first posted 11/7/2012) The first-generation Taurus went on sale exactly three hundred and sixty-four days before I was born, so it’s not as though I can draw on my memory. […] -
![Pencils have erasers; cars have reverse gears. As a CContributor, then, it was perhaps in the very nature of the beast that a (long) pause would take place. But there’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_20220724_141811-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V Collector’s Series – Mark? My Word!")
CC Capsule: 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V Collector’s Series – Mark? My Word!
Posted on May 22, 2023 | 45 CommentsPencils have erasers; cars have reverse gears. As a CContributor, then, it was perhaps in the very nature of the beast that a (long) pause would take place. But there’s […] -
![(First posted 5/11/2011. Edited and updated 4/30/17) The 1959s were the last models of the most famous and infamous cars of Chrysler’s history. In the mid-’50s Chrysler was on a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CC-117-003-8001.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1959 Plymouth Fury – Love Transcends Reason")
Curbside Classic: 1959 Plymouth Fury – Love Transcends Reason
Posted on May 15, 2023 | 65 Comments(First posted 5/11/2011. Edited and updated 4/30/17) The 1959s were the last models of the most famous and infamous cars of Chrysler’s history. In the mid-’50s Chrysler was on a […] -
![(first posted 5/15/2017) I’ve been seeing this big, increasingly grungy Bonneville around town for years, but have never had a proper close encounter. I shot it once from some distance […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CC-324-023.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1967 Pontiac Bonneville Daily Driver – Long, Longer, Longest Tail")
Curbside Classic: 1967 Pontiac Bonneville Daily Driver – Long, Longer, Longest Tail
Posted on May 15, 2023 | 81 Comments(first posted 5/15/2017) I’ve been seeing this big, increasingly grungy Bonneville around town for years, but have never had a proper close encounter. I shot it once from some distance […] -
![I have been waiting a decade to find a genuine CC/driver-quality Studebaker Avanti. I have now checked another life-box after I stumbled across this one several weeks ago. My delight […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1963-Studbaker-Avanti-R1-07.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1963 Studebaker Avanti – Remembering A Mentor")
Curbside Classic: 1963 Studebaker Avanti – Remembering A Mentor
Posted on May 12, 2023 | 56 CommentsI have been waiting a decade to find a genuine CC/driver-quality Studebaker Avanti. I have now checked another life-box after I stumbled across this one several weeks ago. My delight […] -
![You’ve seen this scenario before, maybe in front of you in the grocery store line. Perhaps it was the young you who was the would-be recipient of a parent’s generosity […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/017-1964-Rambler-American-330-for-CC.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1964 Rambler American 330 – This Or Nothing")
Curbside Classic: 1964 Rambler American 330 – This Or Nothing
Posted on May 9, 2023 | 55 CommentsYou’ve seen this scenario before, maybe in front of you in the grocery store line. Perhaps it was the young you who was the would-be recipient of a parent’s generosity […] -
![(first posted 5/8/2017) Cadillac’s greatly downsized 1985 DeVille and Fleetwood have been extensively covered here before, but we’ve never featured a front-wheel drive C-body Fleetwood Seventy-Five limousine… and we still […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/thumb_IMG_3878_1024.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1985 Cadillac DeVille Limousine – No, It’s Not A Fleetwood Seventy-Five")
Curbside Classic: 1985 Cadillac DeVille Limousine – No, It’s Not A Fleetwood Seventy-Five
Posted on May 8, 2023 | 49 Comments(first posted 5/8/2017) Cadillac’s greatly downsized 1985 DeVille and Fleetwood have been extensively covered here before, but we’ve never featured a front-wheel drive C-body Fleetwood Seventy-Five limousine… and we still […]
