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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition: Nissan Pulsar – gen2 & gen1
How many show-car concepts over the decade have featured a “convertible” body, where the car could be transformed from one body style to another? In my memory, several; it’s an irresistible draw for...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition: 1960 Chevrolet Impala
This 1960 Impala needs no words of commentary; it’s one of those profoundly visual and self-explanatory cars. For a frame of reference and background, I direct you to its predecessor’s 1959 Chevy...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition: The Last Mitsubishi Cordia In The World?
As is all-too obvious, I have a particular soft spot for older Japanese cars, especially the more obscure varieties. So when I walked into this Cordia, I just had to stop, shoot and write. I haven’t...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition: Super-Rare 1971 Opel Manta
You never know what will wash ashore on the beaches of Half Moon Bay. Heading for the coffee/wifi cafe to send these dispatches, what do I find in the parking lot, but a pristine 1971 (or ’72) Manta....
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation – Highly Un-Los Gatos Edition: 1977 Datsun 810
We lived in Los Gatos from 1987 to 1993. It was already becoming a high-priced enclave for Silicon Valley high fliers then, and now it’s utterly transformed. The Ford, Chevy and even the Honda dealers...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition: Triple ’67 El Caminos and Reclusive ’56...
I have a growing cache of Eugene El Caminos, and was going to break them out soon enough. But taking a stroll around San Mateo, I ran into three ’67s within a few blocks of each other, so let’s...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Sunday’s Posts On Saturday Edition: 1981 Dodge...
On Sunday, we hit the road back home to Eugene. I’ve shot more cars than I’ve had time to post, and we’ll come back to some of them soon, like on a coming President’s birthday (hint). I’m going to...
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Curbside Classic CA Vacation Edition Final Post: 1966 Cadillac Coupe DeVille
Here’s my quickie farewell California post: an always popular Caddy Coupe DeVille, vintage 1966. Once again, I’m going to be sparse with my words, and let the pictures do most of the talking. And of...
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Curbside Classic Truck Saturday: How GMC Uglified One Of The Most Handsome...
Yesterday’s pursuit of ugliness is going to spill over a bit into today’s TTAT. I consider the late’55- ’56 Chevy’s face to be one of the finest ever in the history of trucks. It’s a terrific...
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Illegal Alien Van Nabbed: JDM Toyota 4×4 HiAce
Running into this Japanese Domestic Market Toyota Hi-Ace in Eugene was about as unusual as the cold weather that week. It was a frosty December morning after an overnight low in the single digits;...
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Curbside Classic: 1991 Alfa Romeo 164
(Curbside Classics paid a quick visit to TTAC Command Central in Portland on Saturday, and came away with a few goodies to share from that CC Elysian Fields this week) With the presumed return of Alfa...
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Curbside Classic: Potential ’66 F-100 Pickup Replacement Found – 1993 Toyota...
I’ve given it some thought over the years, and there’s only one truck that I’ve seriously considered as a replacement for my F-100, and this is it. In fact, it’s almost a perfect update on the Ford,...
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Curbside Classics We’d Like To Find: Vintage Ad Scans As Temporary Substitutes
My stash of old car magazines fell off the shelf in the craziness of re-arranging my office. It’s not very large, but time always stops when I open a C/D from 1963, 1967 or 1971. In just a few...
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Curbside Classic: 1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse
You try finding an intact gen1 Eclipse; it took me months. And forget about it being a Turbo; they’ve all been riced, diced, sliced and mashed into oblivion. Was there ever more of a young guy car...
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Bus Saturday Finale: Scenicruiser Design Inspiration Discovered
The Greyhound Scenicruiser was iconic, and set off a rash of imitators world-wide. Based on a design of Raymond Loewy supposedly inspired on an earlier patent by Roland E. Gegoux, it was hailed as a...
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Curbside Classic Outtake: 1968 Lincoln Continental
While I prepare the next full chapter of Lincoln’s (mostly downhill) roller-coaster ride, here’s a couple of shots of a 1968 Continental sedan. To my eye, the degradation of the original’s purity is...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Lincoln Town Car
Here it is, the last of the species autosaurus giganticus. Never again would beasts of this size roam our freeways and driveways with their EPA stickers (10/12) still freshly removed. It was the end...
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Curbside Classic: 1985 Lincoln Town Car
Thirty-two years is a long time. That’s how many years the Panther chassis-based Town Car will have been made when the last on rolls off the line in 2011. And to what can we credit this remarkable...
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Curbside Classic Outtake: 1986 Continental
Our cavalcade of vintage Lincolns draws to a close (whew!) and the Lincoln file is exhausted, save for the finale. We’ve obviously plumbed the depths of Lincoln’s long decline, probably best typified...
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Curbside Classic Canadian Visitor Edition: 1966 (Vauxhall) Envoy Epic
The Canadian car market has always been dominated by US makes. But the “special relationship” has also resulted in some curious efforts to maintain a sense of unique identity, or respond to the...
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