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Curbside Classic: 1981 Mazda GLC/323 Truly The Greatest Little Car Of Its Time?
(first posted 2/25/2011) It may now seem in the far distant past, but there really was a time when Japan’s reputation was for imitation, of the most sincere variety. Cameras, toys, radios, all kinds...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser – The Kiddie Wagon
(first posted 4/20/2015) The Vista Cruiser had “GM” written all over it. Nobody but General Motors had the kinds of huge engineering and development budgets that spawned cars like the Corvair, the...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 Ford Econoline Pickup – Keep The Sand Bags Handy
(first posted 4/14/2013) History does tend to repeat itself, especially in the car business. Detroit’s more recent efforts to compete with import compact trucks was once a serious undertaking, but...
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All The Curbside Classics of Harrington, WA – A Complete Survey Of One Small...
My van sojourns in the West take me through many small towns and hamlets invariably populated by a very high percentage of curbside classics. I’ve shot and shown many examples here over the years, but...
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Cohort Capsule: Fiat 125 “Samantha” Coupe – One of 100 Built
(first posted 5/3/2018) It’s a real treat to run into a car that I’d utterly forgotten about. When I was scrolling down at the Cohort, and this orange coupe appeared, I did a double take: Wait a...
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Curbside Classic: 1958 International Metro – The Original And Greatest Step Van
(first posted 4/5/2013) All hail the mighty Metro! The finest step van ever made; the icon of the whole genre. I’ve been hoping to find one for years, and here this one was right under my nose:...
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CC Capsule: Cube Squared, and Squares Cubed – A Look at the Near-Forgotten...
(first posted 5/1/2018) CC reader Franco P. sent me this shot of two Nissan Cubes side-by-side. A while back, this might not have been so unusual, but the Cube is quickly slipping into obscurity,...
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Curbside Classic: 1970 Mercury Marauder X-100 – Bootylicious
(first posted 3/28/2013) Memorable (def): 1. worth remembering 2. easily remembered Maurauder (def): one who raids for booty In my 1967-1968 Cougar CC, I claimed there were only three Mercuries truly...
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Curbside Classic: 1985 Ford LTD – The Father of the Brougham Era Becomes the...
(First posted 5/10/2018) (how is it that in almost ten years we’ve never covered this car?) In 1965, the Ford LTD launched The Great Brougham Epoch. And those iconic three letters—whose true origins...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Dodge Monaco 500 – A First Love Song In C Major
(first posted 8/1/2013) Eighteen years ago, when John Gallo was all of fifteen and only had a learner’s permit, he saw this ’66 Monaco 500 hardtop with a For Sale sign sitting on the street near...
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Cohort Outtake: 1965 Mercury M-100 Pickup – I Should Rebadge My F-100 Into a...
(first posted 5/11/2018) CC reader Peter N. sent me these shots of a Canadian Mercury pickup, which would be a ’65 if its grille is consistent with the US Ford version. I need to convert my ’66...
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Auto-Biography: Lost Vintage Snapshots of Niedermeyer-Mobiles Found (1965-1982)
taking my brothers for a drive, age 12 I visited my youngest brother Franz in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and asked him about old family photos. He dug out a box of prints from the Towson era...
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Vintage R&T Road Test: 1976 Renault 5 GTL –“The Kind of Comfort Detroit...
(first posted 5/14/2018) Renault had high hopes for its R5 in the US. After struggling to get back its footing after the rise and fall of the Dauphine in the 50s and early 60s, Renault soldiered...
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Ate Up With Motor Is In Dire Need Of Financial Support – Please Consider...
Aaron Severson has been writing extremely high quality in-depth automotive histories at his site Ate Up With Motor for some 15 years or so. AUWM was an inspiration to me when I started writing...
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Bus Stop Classic: Gräf und Stift 120 OGL Austrian Post Bus – Where’s the...
(first posted 5/18/2018) When I ran across these shots of this Gräf und Stift Austrian Post bus from the 1950s at the Cohort (posted by T Minor), I had to stop and savor the flood of memories it...
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Vintage M/T Road Test: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe – 289 V8, Four...
The 1964 Fairlane is widely considered to be the most attractive of the first generation (1962-1965). That’s undoubtedly in part due to its losing its rear finlets, which were getting sorely out of...
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Vintage Photo: The Ultimate Mystery Car? Or Have We Wandered Into The Answer?
We’ve had a number of folks send us photos of unidentified mystery cars over the years, and we’ve managed to solve them all. But then my younger brother Franz sent me this photo, which he and his wife...
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Vintage R&T Road Test: 1976 Chevrolet Chevette Rally 1.6 – Not Quite Rally-Ready
(first posted 5/21/2018) Since we got the full story about the Chevette’s first appearance in Brazil yesterday, how about a look at the Americanized version, via Road and Track. They tested the...
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CC Outtake: 1970 Lincoln Mark III – Hauling the Saturday Shopping
(first posted 5/22/2018) I finally found a genuine CC Mark III, at the Bi-Mart parking lot, no less. The last one I found, which led to a proper CC write-up, was five years ago on a trailer...
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Vintage Snapshot: Could These Folks Really Afford A New Buick? Of Course!...
This snapshot posted recently of a 1959 Buick in the driveway of a fairly commonly-sized newish house of the times provoked some interesting comments about the growth of new houses as well as a...
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