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Curbside Classic: 1974 Chevy Nova Spirit Of America – Red, White, Black and Blue
Posted on July 4, 2024 | 93 Comments(first posted 7/13/2013) I spotted this Nova while rolling down Catalina Avenue in Redondo Beach, California. While you don’t need to know I was in Redondo Beach, I did want to slide in […] -
Automotive History: General Motors 1949-50 – The Mystery Of The Missing B Body (Part 1)
Posted on May 16, 2024 | 37 Comments(first posted 5/16/2018) The General Motors B body provided the basis for some of the most popular cars the company ever built. Its long and proud history spans […] -
Curbside Lazarus: Chevrolet Citation – The Car That Launched 22 Million Camrys To Date
Posted on April 4, 2024 | 68 CommentsSome people claim they recently saw Bigfoot, some saw Elvis, but nobody ever seems to snap a clear picture. Yet the Lazarus effect is real wherein a random species commonly […] -
Curbside Creation: When You Have A Chevy Half-Ton And A Suzuki Sidekick. And Some Time.
Posted on February 21, 2024 | 32 CommentsAnd clearly, someone to hold your beer. Ah, America the Beautiful, Land of Bounteous and Unbridled Creativity and Wonder. Or something like that. Whenever I have occasion to head up […] -
COAL #3: Mother’s First Car – The Bow-Tie Bel Air
Posted on November 5, 2023 | 12 CommentsWhen our family moved to northern NJ, Mom needed a car of her own for the first time in her life, as she had commuted to her previous NYC […] -
Curbside Classic: 1968 Chevrolet Nova 4-Door – 6 Cyl. Pride
Posted on October 5, 2023 | 23 CommentsHere’s ‘just a car.’ Never did I imagine I would ever stop to take photos of a ’68-’72 Chevy Nova. So familiar a shape throughout my whole life, that to […] -
Curbside Nostalgia: 1972 – The Greatest New Car Year Of My Life
Posted on October 3, 2023 | 66 Comments(first posted 10/3/2017) As a kid, whenever someone got a new car it was a real event. Of course, a new car is always an event, but for a […] -
Curbside Forbidden Fruit Stand: 2020 Chevrolet Tornado RS – Why Does GM Hate The USA?
Posted on September 20, 2023 | 42 CommentsVirtually every red-blooded male American retiree or retiree-to-be either vocally or secretly has a deep-held desire for a genuinely small pickup truck to either potter around town with, use to […] -
Curbside Classic: 1961 Chevrolet Corvair 95 Rampside – It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Posted on June 24, 2023 | 106 Comments(first posted 8/17/2011) There have been very, very few vehicles produced in post WWII America that can be accurately described as unique. Not “sort of” unique, but unique in the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer – The Anti-Impala
Posted on June 23, 2023 | 133 Comments(first posted 6/23/2017) We live in a day and age of opposites. You may say black while I say white. We have red states and blue states, Fox News […] -
Curbside Classic: 1973 Chevrolet Corvette – A Car And An Author Come To Terms
Posted on June 12, 2023 | 63 CommentsI am a contrarian. This is, of course, well known hereabouts. Many things that are popular bore me. I, instead, seek out things that are unusual. When I was in […] -
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 5 1965-1969)
Posted on May 24, 2023 | 39 Comments(Originally published May 3, 2013) It is May in Indianapolis (again). Last year, we featured a retrospective look at some of the Official Pace Cars used at the annual Indianapolis […] -
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 3 1955-1959)
Posted on May 22, 2023 | 27 Comments(Originally published May 25, 2012) We are now entering what I consider to be the golden era of Indy Pace Cars. Although the power and performance of the American automobile […] -
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part I, 1946-49)
Posted on May 20, 2023 | 30 Comments(first posted May 15, 2012) The month of May means many things to many people. But if you are anywhere around Indianapolis, the month of May means only one thing: […] -
Curbside Recycling: 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier RS – Cut Short In Its…Prime?
Posted on May 19, 2023 | 75 CommentsAh, the Cavalier. Or Cadavalier. Or Crapalier. Or “Cockroach of the Road”. What other denigrating terms are/were there for these? Dozens I’m sure. But did they really suck so bad? […]