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Curbside Classic: 1975 Subaru 4WD Wagon (Leone) – The Revolutionary Four...
(first posted 7/3/2013) Honda CRV, Toyota Rav4, Audi Quattro, VW Syncro, and the whole host of all-wheel drive cars, crossovers and CUVs: they all trace their roots back to this skinny and ugly...
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Chartside Classics: US Market Share by Manufacturer – 1961-2016
(first posted 4/10/2018) Unless one subscribes to a data service, getting US historical auto sales statistics is not so easy; Wikipedia only lists US manufacturers. But I stumbled into this...
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Curbside Classic: 1967 Jeep Gladiator J3000 – The Truck Of The Future
(first posted 5/30/2013) In the early sixties, the vast majority of pickups were wimpy, low-riding, six cylinder-powered things; downright effeminate, one might almost say (with a bit of tongue...
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Port Orford Outtake: 1973 Ford F600 Tow Truck – Rustic
We’ve been in Port Orford this week and I decided to actually pull out my phone and shoot a few more of the natives. As in any small (tiny) PNW town, the place is crawling with CCs; if you only drive...
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Quarryside Classics: Mack R-Series – Rock Solid Since 1966
(first posted 4/7/2013) I recently rented a little three-yard dump truck and used it to pay several visits to one of the local quarries–partly to haul gravel, but also as an excuse to pay homage to...
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Vintage Editorial: “Reflections from an English Country Inn” (Brock Yates,...
(first posted 5/23/2013, as a follow-up to yesterday’s Grosse Pointe Myopians) This is the kind of stuff I inhaled as a fifteen year-old: Brock Yates analyzing the British Car industry, and...
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CC Capsule: 1954 Allard K2 – Proto-Cobra With World’s Most Contorted Shift Lever
(first posted 3/31/2013. Updated 4/15/2018) Passing by the Sports Car Shop always requires a brief stop to see what’s currently on display. I’d seen this splendid Allard K2 through the garage...
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Curbside Classic: 1988 Renault Medallion (R21) – These Two Guys Are...
(first posted 5/23/2013. I have no idea what happened to this Medallion, but I’d like to think it’s still running) Is this the very last running 1988 Renault Medallion? I can’t really say for sure,...
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The Birth Of The GM/EMD Two-Stroke Diesel Engine: “Very Well (Ket) – We Are...
(first posted 5/23/2013) My fascination with trains has a particular focus on the birth and early years of what became the utterly dominant GM EMD two-stroke diesel-electric locomotives. My story...
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Vintage R&T Review: 1974 Toyota Corona SR Coupe –“Solid, Safe, and Sporty,...
(first posted 4/21/2018) The Corona was growing steadily since its start as a rather small little thing. But it was also becoming much more comfortable, and ever-more suited to American drivers...
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Beachside Outtake: The Sun Sets On A Splendid Jeep Gladiator
CC reader John Kelley sent me these shots of this immaculate Jeep Gladiator parked at Duxbury Beach in Massachusetts just as the sun was slipping away. Not surprisingly, this Glad recently found its...
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“The Downsizing Decision” (May 5, 1980) – A Deep Dive Into the Turmoil and...
(first posted 4/9/2018) I ran into this article in the New Yorker last November, and found it to be an excellent look at the forces re-shaping the auto industry in the mid-late 70s, which were of...
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Curbside Outtake: Ford Festiva – The Festival Is Still Going
I’ve been shooting and posting Festivas since the earliest days of CC, when they had clearly established themselves as the shitbox of choice hereabouts. They were all over the place, like little baby...
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Kurbside Classic: 1983 Grumman KubVan – Tiny, FWD, VW Diesel Powered, And...
(first posted 5/4/2013. One of my better finds) The early eighties was the most revolutionary and unique time in the American automobile industry ever. Thanks to exploding oil and fuel prices, and...
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Automotive History: Ford’s Déjà Vu Moment – How Donald Petersen Saved Ford In...
(Former Ford CEO Donald Petersen passed away this April 24th. We’re running this profile covering his crucial period at Ford’s helm. Originally posted 12/29/11) Oil prices have just hit record highs,...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Lincoln Versailles – Pig In A Poke
(first posted 4/17/2013) Deception–and self deception–is a very significant factor in the automobile business, maybe the biggest. Unless we buy a stripper Corolla (so conveniently parked here) or...
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Vintage Mechanix Illustrated Review: Tom McCahill Tests the 1953 Studillac –...
(first posted 4/28/2018) The early 50s were a very fertile time for automotive creativity, and engine swapping was as rampant as wife swapping (supposedly) was in certain parts of the country a...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 – The Best $3,000 Big Sedan In...
(first posted 3/19/2015) If you were a typical white-skin, white-collar middle-class Pop with a wife and 2.3 kids, and were looking to spend three grand on a nice-ish white sedan in 1966, you could...
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Alleyside Outtake: 1985 Winnebago LeSharo Turbo Diesel –“Caution, I’m Slow”
It pays to walk down a different alley once in a while…in this case, the payoff was a nothing less than a LeSharo, which has become exceedingly rare. It has the FWD cab and drive train form a Renault...
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Vintage R&T Review: Jaguar XJ-S – The Brougham-Era Replacement for the E-Type
(first posted 5/1/2018) The XJ-S was something of a shock for those Jaguar fans expecting a more direct successor to the legendary XK-E. Instead, the XJ-S was a plush coupe built on the XJ...
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