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- Joseph Dennis on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Joseph Dennis on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Joseph Dennis on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Joseph Dennis on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Joseph Dennis on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Ralph L on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- Ralph L on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- AndyinMA on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- Jon Stephenson on Curbside Musings: 1975 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Convertible – Bigger Than Your Appetite
- -Nate on Our 1973 Ford LTD – A Special LTD And My Sister
1978 Archive
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Curbside Classic / Jason’s Family Chronicles: 1978 Chevrolet Scottsdale – Iris and Albert Go Fishing
Posted on August 16, 2022 | 82 Comments(Mildly revised since first posted August 22, 2012) You previously met Albert and Iris in a story about their trip to Houston, Texas, in their 1970 Chevrolet Caprice (here). Let’s […] -
COAL Datsun F10: Colors and the Perils of Being Number 2
Posted on January 5, 2022 | 34 CommentsColors, much like spices, are a personal choice, adding much needed variety to our lives. And just like spices, colors create a number of reactions not as unrelated as we […] -
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 […] -
Curbside Classic: 1978 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham – Here Come ol’ Flattop
Posted on October 16, 2021 | 109 Comments(first posted 10/16/2015) Speaking as someone who once traded a ’54 Buick for a ’68 Lincoln, I don’t have that much against big, ostentatious cars, but GM’s ’71-’78 E-bodies (Cadillac […] -
Curbside Classic: 1978 Toyota Cressida Wagon – I Love What You Do For Me, Mini-Cordoba Wagon
Posted on September 7, 2021 | 61 Comments(First posted March 18, 2013) Toyota was really coming into its own in the mid- to late-’70s. Despite starting out in the U.S. market with a frumpy, unpopular mini-1954 Plymouth […] -
Curbside Classic: 1977/78 Firebird – Jim Rockford’s Kissin’ Cousin?
Posted on August 1, 2021 | 45 Comments(first posted 5/22/2014) I think it’s time for a bit of seventies F-body love. In fact, I’m betting that between the California sun and those classic F-body curves in front […] -
Father’s Day Weekend Special – The Cars of My Father, Part 1
Posted on June 19, 2021 | 35 Comments(first posted 6/20/2015) Doesn’t time quickly slip by? Having had the realization I can remember my father as being significantly younger than I am now, it seemed wise to […] -
Curbside Classic Capsule: 1978 Ford LTD Coupe – The Last Of The Whoppers
Posted on February 2, 2021 | 136 Comments(first posted 1/11/2012) Henry Ford II was in many ways, a lot like his grandfather. They both were not big fans of change. The idea of smaller cars drove “Hank […] -
Curbside Classic: 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Car – Best Prom Car Ever
Posted on January 8, 2021 | 28 CommentsIf there is a car that came out in the 1970’s and retained its popularity as desirable daily transportation longer than these Lincolns of late in the decade, I don’t […] -
Curbside Classic: 1977 Ford Granada Ghia – LTD Lite
Posted on December 22, 2020 | 114 Comments(first posted 12/22/2014) Okay folks, it is now time to hop into the CC Wayback machine to the year of 1975, when, for some reason, a lot of new cars […] -
Curbside Recycling Update: 1978 Chevrolet Nova – Last Call
Posted on November 24, 2020 | 33 CommentsWe last saw (or first met) our protagonist almost two months ago and I happened to stumble across it (him, her, them?) again the other day. I immediately realized that […] -
Curbside Classic: 1977 Ford LTD II Brougham – The Thunderbird’s Less Successful Brother
Posted on October 19, 2020 | 171 Comments(first posted 05/23/2012) Here we have a rare bird, the Ford LTD II. You almost certainly remember its corporate sibling, the downsized 1977 Thunderbird. The LTD II was a victim […] -
Back Row Classic: 1980 Lincoln Versailles – Mixed Messages
Posted on October 13, 2020 | 135 Comments(first posted 10/13/2014) Pity the poor Lincoln Versailles. Built to a price by the powers-that-be in Dearborn, the resulting Seville-fighter (not really) was a well-made car, the first car with […] -
Curbside Classic: 1977 to 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille- Hitting The Ceiling
Posted on March 13, 2020 | 36 CommentsFor me, and likely others of my generation, the 1977 to 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille (and Sedan DeVille) is Definitive Cadillac. It is all things Cadillac, good and bad, encapsulated […]