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Curbside Classics Archives
Curbside Classics – American Brands Archive
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![(first posted 11/11/2015) In the August 1971 issue of Road Test Magazine, the editors chose two American full size cars to review. On Monday, we took a look at the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/djgb.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Vintage Review: 1971 AMC Ambassador SST – Road Test Magazine Evaluates AMC’s Biggest Sedan")
Vintage Review: 1971 AMC Ambassador SST – Road Test Magazine Evaluates AMC’s Biggest Sedan
Posted on November 11, 2021 | 88 Comments(first posted 11/11/2015) In the August 1971 issue of Road Test Magazine, the editors chose two American full size cars to review. On Monday, we took a look at the […] -
![This article started out rather differently than how it turned out. Finding GM Deadly Sins during the eighties is like shooting fish in a barrel; they’re everywhere; it’s much harder […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CC-434-151.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1987 Cadillac Allante – GM Deadly Sin #37 – Capitulation")
Curbside Classic: 1987 Cadillac Allante – GM Deadly Sin #37 – Capitulation
Posted on November 11, 2021 | 59 CommentsThis article started out rather differently than how it turned out. Finding GM Deadly Sins during the eighties is like shooting fish in a barrel; they’re everywhere; it’s much harder […] -
![(first posted 4/8/2013) From 1971 to 1976, General Motors had the market covered when it came to luxy, Broughamtastic land yachts. But at the same time, these offerings did not […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/aa-1-20-2013-019-1280x852-Copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1978 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency – All The Brougham You Want, In A Tidier Package")
Curbside Classic: 1978 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency – All The Brougham You Want, In A Tidier Package
Posted on November 10, 2021 | 108 Comments(first posted 4/8/2013) From 1971 to 1976, General Motors had the market covered when it came to luxy, Broughamtastic land yachts. But at the same time, these offerings did not […] -
![I’ve never received a message in a bottle, but I have now received a message in a car body. It’s not a message from a place, rather it’s a message […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/20210426_104547.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air – A Message From 1953, Part 1")
Curbside Classic: 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air – A Message From 1953, Part 1
Posted on November 10, 2021 | 73 CommentsI’ve never received a message in a bottle, but I have now received a message in a car body. It’s not a message from a place, rather it’s a message […] -
![(first posted 6/3/2012. Updated with info about this truck’s working history at bottom of article) After a long week of felling giant trees with axes and those new-fangled smoky chain […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/sjfdhg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1937 International Demi-Semi-Tractor – Loggers Need Them Some Entertainment Too")
Curbside Classic: 1937 International Demi-Semi-Tractor – Loggers Need Them Some Entertainment Too
Posted on November 9, 2021 | 47 Comments(first posted 6/3/2012. Updated with info about this truck’s working history at bottom of article) After a long week of felling giant trees with axes and those new-fangled smoky chain […] -
![(first posted 11/9/2015) It is a true statement to say that full-size sedan sales are slipping, as they have been for some years now. Once about as common in every […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_1286.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1972 Pontiac Bonneville – And Who Said The Full-Size Sedan Is Dead?")
Curbside Classic: 1972 Pontiac Bonneville – And Who Said The Full-Size Sedan Is Dead?
Posted on November 9, 2021 | 82 Comments(first posted 11/9/2015) It is a true statement to say that full-size sedan sales are slipping, as they have been for some years now. Once about as common in every […] -
![(first posted 10/10/2012) I became really interested in AMC in the late ’90s, due in large part to my purchase of Pat Foster’s American Motors: The Last Independent. I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/fkjl.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1965 Rambler Ambassador 880 – Kenosha Cadillac?")
Curbside Classic: 1965 Rambler Ambassador 880 – Kenosha Cadillac?
Posted on November 7, 2021 | 88 Comments(first posted 10/10/2012) I became really interested in AMC in the late ’90s, due in large part to my purchase of Pat Foster’s American Motors: The Last Independent. I […] -
![(first posted 11/6/2015) By 1977, America’s long-running love affair with strippers was starting to peter out. The economy was strong during the last years of that decade, and the eighties […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CC-267-007-1200.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1977 Oldsmobile Omega F-85 – The Fully Clothed Stripper")
Curbside Classic: 1977 Oldsmobile Omega F-85 – The Fully Clothed Stripper
Posted on November 6, 2021 | 89 Comments(first posted 11/6/2015) By 1977, America’s long-running love affair with strippers was starting to peter out. The economy was strong during the last years of that decade, and the eighties […] -
![(first posted 6/17/2013) We all have cars in our lives that are fondly recalled. Sometimes it’s one of our parent’s cars, or an uncle’s, or maybe just the neighbor’s next […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/5-24-2013-031-800x533-e1370799439754.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1986 Lincoln Continental – The Rose Quartz-Colored Linchpin Of My Formative Years")
Curbside Classic: 1986 Lincoln Continental – The Rose Quartz-Colored Linchpin Of My Formative Years
Posted on November 5, 2021 | 91 Comments(first posted 6/17/2013) We all have cars in our lives that are fondly recalled. Sometimes it’s one of our parent’s cars, or an uncle’s, or maybe just the neighbor’s next […] -
![(first posted in 2009) What are the odds of still being married to your first sweetheart from high school? And of still owning your other first sweetheart, the car you […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/pjj.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1950 Hot Rod Ford – A True Love Story")
Curbside Classic: 1950 Hot Rod Ford – A True Love Story
Posted on November 4, 2021 | 31 Comments(first posted in 2009) What are the odds of still being married to your first sweetheart from high school? And of still owning your other first sweetheart, the car you […] -
![The horrors Detroit inflicted upon the world in the long decade spawning 1973-85, also known as the Malaise Era, were many and affected all makers. Vega. Mustang II. Volare. Diesel […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_20210911_125134-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1976 AMC Pacer – The Alien Awaits")
CC Capsule: 1976 AMC Pacer – The Alien Awaits
Posted on November 4, 2021 | 48 CommentsThe horrors Detroit inflicted upon the world in the long decade spawning 1973-85, also known as the Malaise Era, were many and affected all makers. Vega. Mustang II. Volare. Diesel […] -
![(first posted 11/3/2015) What’s the most significant car of 1959? The giant finned Cadillac? It’s pure excess embodied in steel,glass and chrome, the apogee (or nadir) of a trend that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1959 Studebaker Lark VIII Regal Hardtop Coupe – Studebaker’s Last Hurrah")
Curbside Classic: 1959 Studebaker Lark VIII Regal Hardtop Coupe – Studebaker’s Last Hurrah
Posted on November 3, 2021 | 116 Comments(first posted 11/3/2015) What’s the most significant car of 1959? The giant finned Cadillac? It’s pure excess embodied in steel,glass and chrome, the apogee (or nadir) of a trend that […] -
![(first posted 11/2/2015) Regardless of profitability and quality of its vehicles in the long-term, there’s no denying the feeling of hope and optimism surrounding the Chrysler Corporation in the mid-1990s. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_1258.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1997 Plymouth Neon – Brightening Up The Compact Class")
Curbside Classic: 1997 Plymouth Neon – Brightening Up The Compact Class
Posted on November 2, 2021 | 77 Comments(first posted 11/2/2015) Regardless of profitability and quality of its vehicles in the long-term, there’s no denying the feeling of hope and optimism surrounding the Chrysler Corporation in the mid-1990s. […] -
![(first posted 9/23/2011) When I was growing up, there were more Oldsmobiles in my extended family than anything else. But if we go to second place, it would have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/1968PontiacCatalina09-crop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1968 Pontiac Catalina – Let’s Go Wide-Tracking")
Curbside Classic: 1968 Pontiac Catalina – Let’s Go Wide-Tracking
Posted on November 1, 2021 | 108 Comments(first posted 9/23/2011) When I was growing up, there were more Oldsmobiles in my extended family than anything else. But if we go to second place, it would have […] -
![I never thought I’d say those words in the title. When I was a kid, Edsels were the perpetual butt of jokes; for some inexplicable reason, we called them “Edsel […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_7828.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic (For Sale): 1959 Edsel Ranger Six 4-Door Sedan – For $950 OBO You Can Own The Most Advanced Styled American 1959 Car")
Curbside Classic (For Sale): 1959 Edsel Ranger Six 4-Door Sedan – For $950 OBO You Can Own The Most Advanced Styled American 1959 Car
Posted on October 27, 2021 | 53 CommentsI never thought I’d say those words in the title. When I was a kid, Edsels were the perpetual butt of jokes; for some inexplicable reason, we called them “Edsel […]
