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Curbside Classic: 1964 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon – Love Transcends All
(first posted 1/6/2012) Why was and is the ’64 Chevy so commonly loved? Well, it’s not because of its willowy X-frame (update: it actually wasn’t willowy), crappy drum brakes, Powerglide,...
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Vintage Review: 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne 283 V8 With Three Speed Manual – An...
Who was still buying lowest-trim “stripper” full-size two-door sedans in the ever-more affluent 1960s? There were a few who ordered a Biscayne like this with the 425 hp solid lifter 409 V8 and a four...
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Curbside Classic: 1959 Edsel Daily Driver With Turbo 2.3 L Four – 100% Better...
Want a daily driver Edsel, but not its 1950’s 10 mpg fuel-gulping ways? And at least as good or better performance than the original V8? The solution is just a junkyard engine away; in this case, a...
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Cohort Outtake: 1969 AMC Rebel SST – Rebel With Rather Little Cause
William Rubano found something a bit out of the ordinary here: a ’69 Rebel SST. This is the last year for this body style that first arrived in 1967, and was generally considered to be one of AMC’s...
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1966 220 HP 283 Chevrolet V8 – A One Year Oddity That Proves The Power Of...
In a spring day in 1966 a brand new Chevrolet Impala sedan showed up in our neighbor’s driveway. I went to check it out, and the first thing I noticed as I approached it from the passenger side rear...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Buick Skylark Gran Sport – There’s Nails In This...
The 1964 Pontiac GTO unleashed a tiger, sales wise as well as performance wise. Everyone wanted in on the action, even the relatively staid Buick division. It got a bit of a slow start, with its...
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Cohort Outtake: Jeepster Commando – Somewhere Folks Are Driving Top-Down With...
(first posted 2/11/2019) These pictures posted by William Oliver are dated December 2018. It’s nice to know that in sunny Southern California folks were still driving with their tops down. But...
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1967 Corvette 427 Tri-Power With Powerglide – 90 Mph In Low; 140+ Mph In Second
Chevrolet’s two-speed Powerglide automatic had a long and somewhat curious relationship with the Corvette—both the first and last Corvettes to use PG came with triple carburation. The first Corvette...
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Curbside Classic: 1971 Chevrolet Biscayne With 250 Six and PG –“Frugal”–...
Here’s a truly rare bird; a car that wasn’t even listed or shown in the 1971 Chevrolet brochure. For that matter, the Biscayne was already missing from the 1970 brochure; its last appearance in those...
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Curbside Classic: 1983 Nissan Pulsar Five Door – So Rare I Forgot It Existed
(first posted 5/21/2014) This one had me stumped for, a while. I just didn’t remember this car being sold in the US; I thought the Pulsar moniker was used strictly for the coupe, like this one. I...
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Curbside Classic Capsule: 1962 Chevy C10 Pickup – Saint Patina of Goodwill
(first posted 2/18/2019) Yes, I’m a fan of patina, if it’s been come by honestly. And this old Chevy truck has earned it more honestly than any other possibly could. If it were possible for a...
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1967 Pontiac LeMans Sprint OHC Six: Road Tested In Europe – Pontiac Tries And...
John DeLorean’s hubris had him convinced he had the 200% solution: Pontiac would not only build the best American-style muscle cars, but also the best European-style sporty cars. The GTO, 2+2 and...
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Curbside Newsstand: Why The Japanese Invasion of Europe Never Happened –...
(first posted 2/21/2019. Updated 2/18/2025 at the end about an even greater threat to the European auto industry from Chinese manufacturers) For today’s CN, we’re going to tackle a big issue that I...
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AI-Generated “Classic Car Guide”– Polluting The Web With Garbage
By now we’re all-too familiar with AI-generated images of cars, among other things. Some of them are quite artistic, and we’ve had our fun with them here in the past (links below) to create What-If...
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One Year Oddity: 1961 Chevrolet Impala 2-Door Sedan – And A Fake Super Sport...
This is the rarest Impala body style ever. For some inexplicable reason, in 1961 Chevrolet decided to offer its top-tier Impala in the staid 2-door body style, normally reserved for the low-trim Bel...
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Curbside Find: 1967 Sunbeam Alpine – Let’s Try To Remember Summer
(first posted 2/24/2019) I know, complaining about winter is boring. And it’s not really cold here, just perpetually rainy and cloudy. It’s dumping as I write this. So let’s remind ourselves...
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Found: Two Supercharged Rarities – 1958 Packard Hawk And 1957 Studebaker...
original photos shot and posted at the CC Cohort by Christian Els You’re looking at the only two American cars ever built in the 20th century with standard factory-equipped supercharged V8 engines...
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Curbside Classic: 1964 Impala Sport Coupe – Six Cylinder, Three-On-The-Tree,...
Whoever special-ordered this Impala Sport Coupe placed a lot more importance on outward appearances than inner qualities. They not only picked a top-tier model, but also splurged on the full wheel...
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An Illustrated History Of Automotive Aerodynamics – Part 1 (1899 – 1939)
(first posted 1/26/2012) That air presented the greatest obstacle to automotive speed and economy was understood at least intuitively, if not fully scientifically since before dawn of the...
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The Fastest Stock Pushrod Inline Sixes Of The ’60s &’70s – Faster Than Many V8s
In the sixties and early seventies, that golden era of V8 muscle cars, the lowly six cylinder engine was typically looked down on as a slug, often for good reason. We were steeped in the stereotype of...
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