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Last Minute Nashville CC Meet-Up Details
I’ve heard back from Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum, and we’re all squared away to get the royal treatment, meaning access to the basement as well as the locked Nissan Corporate Collection....
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Vintage Review and CC Outtakes: 1976 Honda Accord – The Anti-Mustang II
Rather than spend anymore time explaining why I was never fond of the Mustang II, or showing you how it could have looked a lot better, I’ll just focus on what I consider to have been a much better...
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CC Capsule: 1995 Volvo 850 T-5R – A Rare Yellow Bird With A Touch Of Porsche
(first posted 11/30/2012) I see some of you really go for purple-trimmed houses. That reminded me of another colorful car I shot in front of a purple house (also in the Whiteaker, of course) a...
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Curbside Classic: 1969 Rambler 440 Station Wagon – The Last Rambler
(first posted 10/29/2012) The Rambler brand had a compact lifespan: thirteen years exactly. The first modern Ramblers wore Nash and Hudson emblems before George Romney killed those storied but...
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CC Nashville Meet-Up Outtakes
I got back home late last night brimming with wonderful memories of our Meet-up in Nashville. It was almost overwhelming, given the sheer number and density of cars at the Lane Motor Museum, and all...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Mercedes 250SE Cabriolet (W111) – The Classiest...
(first posted 10/20/2012) Is there a classier postwar Mercedes? The W111 Cabriolet became an instant classic from the day it arrived in 1961, and its image and status only grew greater during its...
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Reader Sighting: 1977 Toronado XS – Why Didn’t They Just Call It “Starlight”?
(first posted 11/12/2012) CC reader Bantam sent in these shots of a rare Toronado XS (I’ve been wanting to find one for years): Spotted this rare ’77 Toronado XS edition a couple of weeks ago....
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Curbside Classic: Peugeot 404 Cabrio – My Heart Throb Spotted In Eugene
(first posted 7/13/2015) CC reader, neighbor, and occasional contributor Gordon Sayre sent me an email this morning with these pictures attached titled “Paul you will be excited about this car!...
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Vintage Road & Track Comparison: Mustang II V8 vs Monza 2+2 V8 – Battle Of...
Neither of these Shetland pony cars were originally designed or intended to have V8 engine. The Mustang II, an evolution of the Pinto platform, was designed for its four and the compact 2.8 L Cologne...
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QOTD: Do We Remember Our Old Cars With Rose Colored Glasses?
One of the most recurring issues with pretty much all of us at CC is our tendency to…ah…live in the past. Well, that’s largely why we’re here, right? And our memories of how our cars performed, ran,...
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The World’s Greatest Wagons: Peugeot 203, 403, 404, 504, 505 – An Illustrated...
(first posted 6/20/2011) To understand Peugeot wagons, and the superlatives about to be heaped on them here, one needs to start with the basics: unlike almost every other post-war wagon, they were...
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From The Photo Files: These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things
(first posted 10/29/2012) I’ve never seen a better shot to illustrate how closely related the Porsche 356 and Volkswagen are. Duh; since the 356 started out essentially as a re-bodied VW, that’s a...
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On The Go Outtake: Vintage Toyota Pickup Hauling Somewhat Less-Vintage TV
The number of these gen2 Toyota HiLux pickups on the road is fading, albeit ever so slowly, although they’re far from an uncommon sight here. Well, they are forty-some years old, but they’re Toyotas,...
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Vintage R&T History Article: “The Unlucky Prophet” J.W. Christie and the...
After the lively discussion here about the first mass-produced front wheel drive cars the other day, I felt a powerful urge to write about J.W. Christie’s highly-innovative but ultimately ill-fated...
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Peugeotphilia: Enzo Ferrari Loved His Peugeots – According To His Personal...
(first posted 3/26/2013) Dawid Botha forwarded me this article from the Spring 2013 edition of the Italian Peugeot Club. It includes a short interview with Ferrari’s personal driver/rider (even...
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Trackside Classic: 1955 Union Pacific EMD E9 – The Last Of The Classic Diesel...
(click on all images for full-sized viewing pleasure) (first posted 7/16/2012) It’s been a long, hot day, and I need to cool off – time to take a bike ride down to the river. And what do I see,...
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Cohort Sighting: Peugeot 404 Coupe — Franco-Italian Elegance
(first posted 1/21/2013) You’ll have to indulge my Peugeot 404 mania one more time, as this is the first Coupe sighting posted at the CC Cohort, by BiTurbo228. We’ve looked at the Cabriolet, and...
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Curbside Classic: 1976 Peugeot 504 – One Continent’s French Mercedes and COTY...
(first posted 1/4/2013; revised 7/19/2016) Putting the Peugeot 504 into proper perspective presents a particular challenge. It’s a vehicle with (at least) three distinct personalities or reputations....
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