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Classic Automotive History: The Cars Of GM Designer Wayne Kady: Slantbacks...
Our early years are called “formative” for a good reason; certain impressions last a lifetime and become a recurring theme. That applies to creative types and designers as well as the rest of us;...
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Labor Day Outtake: Ford C-Series AWD – Not Laboring Today
This vintage Ford AWD C-Series boom truck is still at work for a tree company. But it’s getting a break on Labor Day, as I hope you are. Perry is off for the week, for a well earned vacation. And I’m...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1929 Ford Model A – The Best Ford Ever – Maybe Even...
Mechanical perfection. Design excellence. The two have never combined so fortuitously and timelessly as in the Ford Model A. Why? Because Henry Ford, who demanded mechanical perfection, and his son...
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Overloaded CCs In Africa: A Gallery of Use and Abuse
Picture: Facebook/Bruce David Kellock/Africa, this is why I live here Stephanie loves the photo galleries at the Telegraph.co.uk site. She forwards some of them to me, and this one needed to be...
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Cohort Sighting: Nash Metropolitan Wagon Conversion, with Trailer Too
After yesterday’s Cadillac station wagon conversions, it’s time to swing the pendulum from America’s largest wagons to what would have been its smallest, at least in its time (the Crosley was...
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What If…The 1956 Chevrolet Impala Personal Coupe Had Gone Into Production?
The 1958 Ford Thunderbird is considered a milestone, the first successful four-place “personal car”. It dramatically expanded a whole new niche in the market, one that was pioneered by the Studebaker...
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Cohort Capsule: 1955 Packard Clipper Hardtop Coupe – Hot Rod Packard
Finding a genuine curbside Packard is undoubtedly one of the highlights of any CC’er. I’ve managed to snag two, a ’51 200 and a ’46 Clipper Super, both in my neighborhood. But that’s been it, so I’m...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1974 Datsun 610 – Datsun Takes A Bold New...
The endless overuse of any given manufacturer’s styling “DNA” has finally subsided, but the reality is what it is: every maker tries to coddle and nurture an unmistakable design language for their...
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CC Wordless Outtake/QOTD: Cherokee, Old and New – A Worthy Successor?
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On The Go Outtake: “Built-In Value!”
It’s moving season, and one certainly wouldn’t leave one’s 1968 Valiant behind. This one, with California plates and followed closely by a more recent Volvo with a female driver, was being towed over...
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CC Capsule: 1979 Lincoln Continental With Six Inch Stretch – Anyone Interested?
CC reader Mike T. sent me some pictures and original documents of a rather unusual car that its owners are preparing for an estate sale. It’s a 1979 Lincoln Continental sedan that was stretched six...
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QOTD: What’s The Best Way To Sell A CC? A 1972 Hornet Gucci Sportabout, More...
I have folks e-mail me asking this question all-too often, and I have to brush them off, because it’s the area of old cars I’m least qualified to give advice on. I always disliked buying and selling,...
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Classic CC Capsule: 1981 El Oldsmopile
I’ve ragged on about GM’s badge-engineering Deadly Sins, but like all sins, one has to learn to take advantage of them. Tired of your Chevy El Camino’s dull and boring front end? A complete face...
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CCCCC Part 12: 1982 Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe – A Classic Death
Is the final version of the RWD Cutlass Coupe a Classic? Not exactly in the definition of the CCCA. More like CC, as in Coca Cola.When the same basic concept has been built continuously for...
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Classic Curbside Classic: 1968 Winnebago F 17 – The Model T Of Motorhomes
I know some of you are probably a bit weary with my obsession with RVs. But only once since the Model T revolutionized the car industry, has a similar revolution taken place in regard to non-passenger...
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CC Outtake: They Sell Custom Body Kits For Buick Roadmasters?
I suppose I might have known that, but this is so un-Eugene. Trying to look like an Infiniti? To each their own.
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Wanted: A New COALman (or woman)
CC’s COAL (Cars Of A Lifetime) Series has become a Sunday morning institution since quite early on. We’ve had a number of COALmen who shared with us all the cars they’ve ever owned; in the case of Jim...
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Curveside Classics: US Cars & Girls Calendar 2015
click images for full size In what’s becoming a CC tradition, this will be the third time we bring you the US Cars & Girls Calender, from German photographer Henry Hund and his son Robert. The 2012...
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Wal-Mart Concours d’elegance, 2014 Edition
I may not attend a lot of car shows, but who needs them when you live in Curbsidelandia? Every street and parking lot is a car show. I’ve made it a tradition to take a quick drive through the Wal-Mart...
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CC Outtake: Loadstar Breakdown
If one is still working a half-century old ruck, even an International, a possible breakdown has to be factored into the equation. This IH Loadstar is exactly like the dump truck one I drove in 1973...
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