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Curbside Classic: 1940 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet – Beauty for Beauty’s Sake
Posted on June 11, 2021 | 60 Comments(first posted 6/11/2015) What is the purpose of a convertible? Most would probably say that a convertible’s purpose is for the enjoyment of the beauty of outdoors – at […] -
Vintage Ads: 1960 Toyopet Crown Custom – Toyota’s False Start
Posted on June 11, 2021 | 22 CommentsToyota’s first exports to the US were with this Crown sedan in 1958, and it flopped. Too expensive, too heavy, too slow; it wasn’t what the US market was looking […] -
CC Capsule: 1980 Pontiac Firebird — Someone Decided This One Would Make It
Posted on June 8, 2021 | 38 CommentsI’m writing this on the morning my family will celebrate my youngest son’s graduation from college. He enters the real world with a degree in computer science, and is eager […] -
Classic Review – Bringing the Alfa Romeo 75 to London
Posted on May 31, 2021 | 12 CommentsYou may have seen the CC and appreciation of the Alfa Romeo 75 (or Milano) and preceding Alfetta Tipo 116 series of cars that came before and donated so much […] -
Curbside Classic: 2000 Ford Excursion – Big America, This SUV Was Made For You And Me; GTWTW part 4
Posted on May 18, 2021 | 33 CommentsIn the Give Them What They Want series, we’ve been looking at flagship SUVs from early in the era of SUV dominance. When talking big SUVs, the elephant […] -
Curbside Classics from Neukölln and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Berlin) Part 3: Audi and BMW
Posted on May 15, 2021 | 10 CommentsI gotta admit, it’s been challenging to pick a title photo from my selection of Audis and BMWs for today’s post. Something catchy like a mint condition E36 M3? Or […] -
Cohort Pic(k) of the Day/Update/Sob Story of the Decade: The Abandoned Toyota Crown (S60) Coupe
Posted on May 14, 2021 | 25 CommentsWilliam Oliver has scored. Finding an ultra-rare Toyota Crown (S60) hardtop coupe is by far the find of 2021 so far, maybe even the decade. The S60 Crown was a […] -
CC’s Best of 2021: BMW goes after Harley; Harley goes after BMW
Posted on May 8, 2021 | 42 CommentsTwo of the biggest new motorcycle releases of the past twelve months have been BMW’s new cruiser, the R18, and Harley’s new adventure bike, the Pan America. Although I know […] -
Oddity of the Day: The Street-Legal Bumper Car
Posted on May 3, 2021 | 14 CommentsOr was this a NHTSA-sponsored sports car safety concept from 1975? -
Trailside Outtakes: One’s a Mystery to Me, the Other Isn’t
Posted on April 30, 2021 | 37 Comments[I took these photo’s last Fall and wrote this up at the end of 2020, but didn’t get around to scheduling it until now, in case some of the seasonal […] -
Curbside Capsule: 2009-12 Suzuki Equator – Suzuki’s Last Frontier In Badge Engineering
Posted on April 20, 2021 | 17 Comments“Who put a Suzuki badge on a… wait… what is that truck?” OK, I admit that I’d completely forgotten that Suzuki once sold a pickup in the US, but that’s […] -
Vintage Photo: Ford’s Rouge River Plant Parking Lot, 1953 – Plenty Of Non-Fords
Posted on April 18, 2021 | 17 CommentsI’m going to leave it for someone else determine what percentage of these cars are Fords. But it’s a pretty healthy one, from a precursory glance. Here’s another: -
Glovebox Classic: A Cleansing Compilation Of Colorful Cadillacs
Posted on April 16, 2021 | 34 Comments(first posted 4/16/21) I was hitting auto salvage yards a couple months ago as I tried to sort out a few things on my car. Fortunately, winter is the best […] -
Curbside Classic: 2004 Cadillac Escalade – Assault With A Gilded Ladder, GTWTW pt. 3
Posted on April 15, 2021 | 19 CommentsExpansion teams rarely start out as contenders. It takes at least a few seasons for them to be able to make a run at the championship. In the 2002 championship […] -
Curbside Outtake: Diesel Rabbit “Trailhawk 4×4” – The Spiritual Antecedent To My xBox
Posted on April 13, 2021 | 20 CommentsI have been noticing lifted little FWD cars for some time now, and they undoubtedly were something of an inspiration to lifting my xBox. I ran into this bright blue […]