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Become a Curbside Member and Get a Premium Ad-Free Version
As promised earlier, we have created an ad-free premium version of Curbside Classic…for a small price. Our new ad network is a bit more intrusive, but the income is significantly improved and...
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Curbside Outtake: Chevrolet Astrovan AWD – The Budget AWD Overlander Van
The huge popularity of vanning and overlanding has really given the Astro van a whole new lease on life. It’s hot, as there’s very little else in the category for folks looking for a fairly cheap and...
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Vintage Snapshots: Howard Johnson’s – Let’s Stop at HoJo’s!
Here’s a food-thematic assemblage of vintage color snapshots from Dave Gelinas’ collection. Howard Johnson’s were everywhere once upon a time, especially along highways, where it came to symbolize...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: What If Peugeot Had Hooked Up With AMC?
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Curtis Perry Outtake: 1965 Rambler Marlin – Dead Fish
I’m revisiting long-time Cohort poster Curtis Perry’s older uploads, and there’s a whole lot of excellent shots I’ll be sharing with you. This one is of a Rambler Marlin, one of the most abysmal flops...
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QOTD: Why Don’t Cheap New Cars Sell? Would You Buy a New Mitsubishi Mirage...
The median price of a new car just keeps going up; it was some $35k in 2019. Yet one can buy a perfectly functional new Mitsubishi Mirage for under $10k. Yeah, it’s not the most sophisticated car on...
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Everybody Is Bitching About the Rapidly Increasing Price of Cars But They All...
The media is bursting with stories about how rapidly car prices are exploding. Up 29% since 2009! Meanwhile median household income has only increased by 6% in the same time period. What’s a poor car...
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Curbside Classic Capsule: 1973 Gillig 40′ Bus – Big Red
This is a very welcome recent addition to my neighborhood: a bright red classic Gillig bus. And of course like so many other Oregonians, it hails from California. Most recently, Marysville, where the...
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Curbside Newsstand: Tesla Market Cap Tops $100 Billion; Second Highest After...
As of yesterday, Tesla (TSLA) surpassed VW to become the second highest valued automaker by market cap. As of the time of this writing, it’s worth some $105 billion. How is this possible? Unless you...
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QOTD: What Exact Color Is This Simca Coupe Bertone? Ivan Wants To Paint His...
Dear All, On the Curbside Classics page (Simca 1000 CC) I saw the attached photo of the Simca Coupe Bertone. Since you know the history of this car, I thought that you might also know the color of...
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Curbside “Cybertruck”: 1979 Cadillac Battle Cruiser – Dad Built a...
(first posted 9/26/2012) When I first encountered the Battle Cruiser in a lot in Eugene containing some other odd cars, I thought it might have been a prop for a dystopian sci-fi movie. But thanks...
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Automotive History: The Two Door Sedan (1920-2010) – Its History and the Last...
1920 Essex Coach and 2010 Ford Focus There are two once-common automotive body styles that have become extinct: the two door sedan and the two door station wagon. We covered the history of the two door...
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Driveway Outtake: The Prius Has Given Way To Something Newer- What Will...
A few blocks away was a very typical Eugene driveway, with a Prius and Previa. Now the Prius is gone, replaced by its obvious successor. This is happening quite rampantly all over town. What will...
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Automotive Bad Taste History: The Milan And Other Deadly-Glamorous Seville...
(first posted 1/13/2014) When I ran across this shot of a genuine curbside Seville Milan posted at the Cohort by whatnext2010, it reminded of some shots of other Seville conversions from the web I...
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Reader’s Ride: The Noville Coupe – And Who Still Thinks The Seville Wasn’t...
(first posted 1/13/2014. One of my favorite (and most effective) trolling posts) Talk about instant gratification. At today’s Seville conversions post, nlpnt left this comment: I would’ve liked to...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Nova Concours – Proof That Sizzle Trumps Steak
In 1975, a somewhat curious convergence happened: all of the Big Three came out with broughamized luxury variants of their compact cars. Ford and Chevrolet had new compacts on tap that year; the...
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CC Global: The Near-Immortal Ford Falcon of Argentina
(first posted 1/16/2014) There a number of living fossils in the automotive world, some of which have had even longer lifespans than the Argentine Ford Falcon, which was built for thirty years...
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Curbside Newsstand: GM Envisions Its Cruise Origin Autonomous Shuttle as the...
There’s few things that make me more suspicious than hearing the Model T invoked, as in predictions of its second coming. There’s never, ever going to be a second Model T, just like there’s never...
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Curbside Classics: AMC Eagle Wagon And Sedan –“What The Hell Is This?”
(first posted 1/24/2014) The Pacer and Matador Coupe were AMC’s Hail Mary passes. We all know how those turned out. So now what? AMC’s passenger car business was kaput, the company was essentially...
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