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Curbside Classics: Plymouth Horizon And Dodge Omni – Detroit Finally Builds A...

Is time slowing down? Just fifteen years separate this 1960 Imperial and the Horizon’s birth. Or was it just that Detroit was terribly slow to embrace the inevitability of modern European design?...

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Travco Motorhome: The Granddaddy Of The Motorhome Name And Genre

Identifying the origin of species can be a precarious business, as Darwin found out. When it comes to motor homes, it’s easy: one Ray Frank built himself a crude one in 1958, and called it “motor...

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Ralf K Photo Gallery: Shots From My Travels

Here’s another gallery by CC’s Ralf K (Don Kincl) titled “Alternative Shots From My Travels”.  This surreal shot caught my eye; it’s of a Citroen DS in Grantsville, UT. Ford and Chevrolet near Booker,...

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A 25 Minute Walk Yields 50 Curbside Finds

I had an appointment downtown and decided to walk on this drizzly morning. It wasn’t until I headed home again that it occurred to me to shoot some of the more interesting old iron on the streets. But...

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1977 Datsun F-10: It Got An F In Beauty School

The driver of this Datsun F-10 bought it new in 1977, and she’s still in love with her beautiful baby. Which raises the question: Is ugliness in the eye of the beholder? There has to be some truth to...

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1964 Dodge Dart 270 – The Valiant Brougham

What really separates the hardcore car freaks from the semi-pros is in what mental image they conjure up when you say “early Dodge Dart”. Even those of us who were around in the first Dart...

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1960 Imperial Crown Southampton – The Frankenstein Of Cars

Calling a car from this period a monster is not exactly uncommon or uncalled for. But what if its own daddy called it that? Virgil Exner, the father of the definitive automotive fins created a...

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Curbside Classic: 1973–1979 Honda Civic – The Second Little Revolutionary

How often does a truly revolutionary car appear? Let’s disqualify uranium powered flying cars on the cover of Popular Science and other quirky eccentrics from consideration, but focus on mass...

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Kerbside Classic: Austin FX4 London Taxi – 6th And Charnelton In Eugene,...

(Updated 10/7/2025)   After yesterday’s Checker post, it seems only fitting to take a look at the legendary London Taxi, the ultimate living dinosaur. The Austin FX4/Fairway design was built from 1958...

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1966 Dodge Dart GT and Dart 270 Hardtop Coupes – The Last Exner-mobiles

(posted at the Cohort by Curtis Perry) Jim Cavanaugh’s CC on a 1964 Dodge Custom 880 pointed out that the 880 was the last relic of Chrysler Design Chief Virgil Exner’s “Forward Look”. By 1965,...

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1981 Brazilian VW Gol – A Shortened Audi 80 With An Aircooled Beetle Engine...

(Updated 10/6/2025)  Brazil is to VW what Australia is to the Big Three: an alternate universe where things look both familiar and yet quite surreal. Take this 1981 Volkswagen Gol, for example; it’s...

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Curbside Find: Very Rare 1972 Buick Skylark Sun Coupe – Let The Sunshine In

CC reader John Kelley spotted this Skylark Sun Coupe and sent me the photos with this comment “A rare sighting in Downtown Plymouth Massachusetts“. That’s for sure; these Sun Coupes were only offered...

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Curbside Find: 1976 Ford Club Wagon 4×4 High-Roof – Ready For Anything

When I was younger, I decided the ultimate vehicle was a 4×4 turbo-diesel camper van. The desire to be as free and self-sufficient as possible, and able to go wherever the spirit called was powerful....

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Ford Landau: The 1966 Ford’s Long And Curious Second Life In Brazil

Quite a few obsolete American cars (and engines) found their way to South and Latin America, for a second chance at life, and to be appreciated in ways that they were not in their first lives. We’ll...

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1940s Studebaker M15 One-Ton Pickup – Tough, Handsome And Slow

(updated 9/23/2025)     You already know why I’m drawn to this Studebaker M15 posted at the Cohort by safe as milk/wooriegi. And a full one-tonner, no less. Based on my overloading formula, I could...

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Curbside Classic: 1960 Comet – Orphan Looking For A Home

(updated 9/22/2025)     If this goofy-assed little car showed up at your premium brand’s doorstep and told you it was an unwanted orphan, would you let it in? And keep it as a foster child, or adopt...

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Autobianchi Bianchina Panoramica – Hey! Look At Me and Not That BMW E9!

Yes, it’s hard to keep ones eyes from a BMW E0 coupe, especially such a fine example as this one. But there’s something much more exotic across the street, that NickyD spotted, shot and posted at the...

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A New Gallery Of Vintage Car And Truck Photos By Simon White

Simon White is back with a new gallery of his superb shots of vintage cars and trucks on the go. I particularly love this one of a 1959 Oldsmobile as it reminds me of some of the best of Van Kaufman...

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The Only Two-Door Hardtop Wagons Ever: The Unique 1957-1959 Mercury Commuter...

The late fifties were peak automotive excess with over-the-top styling, fins, jet and rocket-inspired details and gimmicks of all sorts. One of the more outlandish ones were hardtop station wagons; we...

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Curbside Classic: 1982 Eagle SX/4 – The Trickster

No doubt the Eagle SX/4 is a joke; the only question being whether it’s a good one or a bad one, or whether the joke is on us. Did I have to ask? In mythology, the trickster appears in many forms, a...

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