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![This isn’t a website that focuses very much on car shows. All the good stuff is still on the road. However, every once in a while I do enjoy attending […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_2047.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Car Show Photo Album: The April 2014 Jefferson City Car Show – Mopars and Manual Transmissions")
Car Show Photo Album: The April 2014 Jefferson City Car Show – Mopars and Manual Transmissions
Posted on May 1, 2014 | 141 CommentsThis isn’t a website that focuses very much on car shows. All the good stuff is still on the road. However, every once in a while I do enjoy attending […] -
![The elderly American cars prowling the Cuba’s streets are a justifiably famous showcase of ingenuity and living history. Even when saddled with Benz diesels, Lada transmissions, or other retrofitted componentry, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CubaFuselage.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Cohort Sighting: The Dark Side Of Cuban Classics")
Cohort Sighting: The Dark Side Of Cuban Classics
Posted on April 16, 2014 | 31 CommentsThe elderly American cars prowling the Cuba’s streets are a justifiably famous showcase of ingenuity and living history. Even when saddled with Benz diesels, Lada transmissions, or other retrofitted componentry, […] -
CC Outtake- Standing on a Corner in Winslow, Arizona
Posted on January 1, 2014 | 51 CommentsDriving from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, Interstate 40 passes just north of Winslow Arizona, which is mentioned in the Eagles song “Take it Easy:” -
![Like his Austrian forbear, Herr Doktor Niedermeyer has graced us with his personal interpretation of some wild dreams, specifically those of one Virgil Exner. As head designer of Chrysler in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1-55-NY-01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Lucid Dream I: 1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Convertible")
Lucid Dream I: 1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Convertible
Posted on August 3, 2013 | 17 CommentsLike his Austrian forbear, Herr Doktor Niedermeyer has graced us with his personal interpretation of some wild dreams, specifically those of one Virgil Exner. As head designer of Chrysler in […] -
![Sometime back around 2007 or 2008, the show Car Crazy featured a man who had amassed a voluminous collection of automobiles, all of them 1957 models. If memory serves, he’d […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/P3170261_01.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Blast From the Past: The ’57 Heaven Museum")
Blast From the Past: The ’57 Heaven Museum
Posted on August 3, 2013 | 17 CommentsSometime back around 2007 or 2008, the show Car Crazy featured a man who had amassed a voluminous collection of automobiles, all of them 1957 models. If memory serves, he’d […] -
![This weekend, I flew out to visit family in beautiful South Dakota, and on Sunday afternoon Dad and I attended the yearly Canton (SD) Car Show. Walking through the entrance, the patina on this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Chevy-Wgn-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic- A California Author Reports From Canton, South Dakota")
Car Show Classic- A California Author Reports From Canton, South Dakota
Posted on July 30, 2013 | 39 CommentsThis weekend, I flew out to visit family in beautiful South Dakota, and on Sunday afternoon Dad and I attended the yearly Canton (SD) Car Show. Walking through the entrance, the patina on this […] -
![A Chrysler New Yorker and a Plymouth were slumbering in the yard. Without current plates, they wouldn’t get far. They knew being hidden was not a factor, especially with the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/P9240049.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: Walter P. Would Be Proud")
CC Outtake: Walter P. Would Be Proud
Posted on September 29, 2012 | 7 CommentsA Chrysler New Yorker and a Plymouth were slumbering in the yard. Without current plates, they wouldn’t get far. They knew being hidden was not a factor, especially with the […] -
![photo by Curtis Gregory Perry [ED: a slightly late but fitting grand finale to “Beater Week”] In their 1989 hit Love Shack, Fred Schneider of the B-52’s sings about […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Chrysler-New-Yorker-1977.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "1977 Chrysler New Yorker: “I Once Had A Car, It Was As Big As A Whale”")
1977 Chrysler New Yorker: “I Once Had A Car, It Was As Big As A Whale”
Posted on July 16, 2012 | 33 Commentsphoto by Curtis Gregory Perry [ED: a slightly late but fitting grand finale to “Beater Week”] In their 1989 hit Love Shack, Fred Schneider of the B-52’s sings about […] -
![Let’s hold our nose and consider the decline and fall of the Chrysler New Yorker. Twenty years earlier, that name typified the grace, comfort, style and performance that New Yorkers […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CC-71-046-800.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1985 Chrysler New Yorker – ReinKarnation")
Curbside Classic: 1985 Chrysler New Yorker – ReinKarnation
Posted on June 12, 2012 | 57 CommentsLet’s hold our nose and consider the decline and fall of the Chrysler New Yorker. Twenty years earlier, that name typified the grace, comfort, style and performance that New Yorkers […] -
![This week, in honor of Memorial Day, let’s celebrate the last version of that most American-named car, the Chrysler New Yorker. The LH-based cab forward version was built only in […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-23-2012-001-e1337821526899.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Miniature Curbside Classic: 1994 Chrysler New Yorker by Brookfield Collectors Guild")
Miniature Curbside Classic: 1994 Chrysler New Yorker by Brookfield Collectors Guild
Posted on May 28, 2012 | 22 CommentsThis week, in honor of Memorial Day, let’s celebrate the last version of that most American-named car, the Chrysler New Yorker. The LH-based cab forward version was built only in […] -
Curbside Classic: 1979 New Yorker – Chrysler’s Deadly Sin #3 – The Rolling Coffin
Posted on April 7, 2011 | 80 CommentsNo car better epitomizes the death of Old-Old Chrysler than this car. It even looks like a coffin.
