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Curbside Newsstand: Cadillac’s Transition To 100% EV’s May Be The End Of Some...
In case you’ve been asleep behind the wheel of your Autopilot-equipped Tesla, Cadillac plans to be a 100% EV brand. Smaller and rural Cadillac dealers are already shocked to find out that unless they...
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Vintage R&T Analysis (1972): Citroen GS –“‘Remarkable’ Would Be An...
I’ve started scanning another box of the vintage R&T’s sent to me by CC reader Lee J., these going back further to 1972. I still have a loooong way to go on the more recent ones, but maybe I’ll...
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Reader Outtake: One Of These Is Not Like The Others
shot in Norway by Vegard O Vegard reminded me that we’ve never done a proper CC on this generation Grand Marquis. Is that possible? Who’s going to take it on?
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Curbside Classic: 1962 Chevrolet C80 Dump Truck With GM’s Deadly Sin...
It’s time to wrap up my recent obsession with GM’s ill-fated foray into IFS for big trucks. We covered the really big semi “crackerboxes” here, with their air-ride IFS, and the steel tilt-cab. But...
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Vintage R&T Review: 1972 Volvo 164E – Now Fuel Injected, Depending On Where...
We’ve had a lot of Volvos in our current Saturday COAL series, but how about a vintage review of the newly fuel injected 1972 164E? Like so many cars of the time, the addition of fuel injection didn’t...
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Vintage Truck of the Day: “Long-Nose” Chevrolet 90 Series
The “long-nose” or “Western Conventional” GMC and Chevrolet heavy duty (and upper-medium) trucks arrived in 1966 along with the more common short-nosed ones. Unlike in the past, this was essentially a...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1958 Cadillac Sixty Special in Prestwick Gray at...
posted by Stephen Pellegrino (Poindexter). It’s a promotional shot for last year’s EyesOn Design fundraiser.
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Vintage Truck of the Day: 1957 Chevrolet Truck With Fleet Grille Delete Option
You learn something every day (that’s the whole point of CC, of course). At the 1960 Rambler post the other day, Stumack left a comment with a picture of Chevrolet’s fleet option, which deleted the...
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Vintage Trucks of the Day: Corbitt Conventionals – One of the Last of the...
Let’s take a quick look at a few vintage snapshots of a truck brand that may not be familiar to some of you. Corbitt, based in Henderson, NC, was one of those classic small manufacturers of the kind...
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Drive By Shootings: Part 1
I did something yesterday that I haven’t done in quite a few years now: hopped in my car to see what I could find, meaning cars. It’s not like I don’t have hundreds, probably thousands of shots that...
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Vintage Trucks: Corbitt COE’s – The “Highboy” Has A Sleeper Compartment Right...
In addition to conventionals, Corbitt also built COE (Cab Over Engine) trucks. And one of those, the legendary 600 Series “high boy” had a sleeper compartment in front, over the engine and directly...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1958 Edsel Pacer
I know; Edsels are a bit overexposed. But this Pacer hardtop coupe shot by Curtis Perry is a bit too delicious to not share, especially in the context of what it’s sharing the street with. And we...
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Vintage R&T Review: The (Almost) New Jaguar XJ6 –“A strange and wondrous car”
We’ve never taken a closer look at the XJ6 Series 1 here. I did find an early XJ12 a block from my house, back in 2009 or so, and wrote it up here, but that was mostly about the iffy V12 engine and a...
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Drive By Shootings: Part 2
Let’s continue our drive by shootings with a real gem: a Winnebago LeSharo, which has a Renault Traffic FWD Van cab and its either 57hp 75 hp (non turbo/turbo) 2.1 L diesel drive train pulling...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: VW LT Towing VW T2
How’s this for a unique pairing, found and posted by Jon O’Grady? A VW 4×4 LT towing a VW T2² (Type 2, second generation). The LT, VW’s “big” truck/van at the time, was never sold in the US, but a...
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Curbside Classic: 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix – Who’s The Fairest Pontiac Of Them...
(first posted 8/3/2011) Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest Pontiac of them all? Pontiac’s golden decade, starting in 1963, has plenty of contenders. The ’63 full-size Pontiacs, headed...
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: The Mystery Car
Stephen Pellegrino (Poindexter) posted this at the Cohort with the following comment: “Mystery Car: I don’t know what this is”. Maybe some of you can help him out.
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Drive By Shootings: Part 3
A sweet little gen1 Integra; now that’s worth a stop and shoot. Here’s how it looked as I first approached it. Hard to believe it’s been 35 years since it graced us with its presence. Someone...
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Curbside Classic/Vintage Review: 1984 Honda CRX –“Mind-Boggling. Simply...
In the fall of 1983, Honda dropped a bombshell. The new generation of Civics were not only all-new and highly advanced, but there were four complete unique and distinct bodies. Nobody had ever done...
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