Curbside Classic

[...] of information for this article. Automotive History: The Valiant in Australia – Part 1 Curbside Classic: Holden VB-VC Commodore [...]

[...] : How The 1960 Corvair Started A Global Design Revolution How Pontiac Tempest came to be: Curbside Classic: 1963 Pontiac Tempest LeMans – Pontiac Tries To Build A BMW Before BMW Built Theirs, And [...]

[...] would, but it would enjoy a loyal following over its twenty year run. Related Reading: Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford Taurus Curbside Classic: 1988 Toyota Camry Curbside Classic: Mitsubishi Express [...]

One of the things I have most admired about the recreational vehicle industry is its being populated with hard charging people of remarkable determina [...]

[...] future, extolling the virtues of the modern, front wheel drive luxury K-Cars.  This 1983 New Yorker commercial, in which he appears among the stars and proceeds to present the New Yorker from an [...]

[...] an Oldsmobile.  My Great Grandmother was one of the Chrysler faithful, dutifully trading in a New Yorker every 5-7 years (depending on durability) until 1987.  My mother still reminisces in disgust [...]

[...] Chryslers included the Newport, Newport Custom, Newport St. Regis, Newport Custom St. Regis, New Yorker, New Yorker Brougham, New Yorker Brougham St. Regis, Town & Country, and the Imperial, the [...]

[...] that the controls and driver ergonomics were very similar to my Plymouth Acclaim and Chrysler New Yorker.  I found out that besides being based on the venerable K car, the van also shared its [...]

[...] it to say, despite there being no sales figures available it was most assuredly a flop. Automotive history is full of curious oddities like this manual Taurus, cars that were rare in their day and [...]

[...]  pampered for most of its life – and you can’t say that about many J-cars. Related Reading: Automotive History: 1988 Oldsmobile Firenza Curbside Classic: 1986 Oldsmobile Firenza S coupe [...]

As a company, Chrysler doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to logical decisions. One of their more puzzling decisions was the 1993-199 [...]

(first posted in 2011)   The utter dominance of the Volkswagen made life very difficult for anyone else vaguely close to it in price and size, such [...]

Chrysler has gone back to the 300 well numerous times, but probably the least successful attempt was this one in 1979, which chasglyn found in San Fra [...]

canadiancatgreen has found a car I’ve been on the lookout for, but with no luck. And a Gran Sport version at that. This was an odd car for Buick to [...]

posted at the cohort by robadr1 Although some might object, I think this 1959 Buick has been rather suitably modified, except for one key missing det [...]

posted at the Cohort by monteverde3 If it weren’t for the motorcycle, this could so be Iowa in 1963. It reminds me how exciting it was to see—and [...]

[...] and read many times about the styling renaissance at Chrysler Corporation in the 1950s.  Virgil Exner brought about a sea change in the company’s stodgy image with the new 1955 line, and the [...]

[...] was the 1966 Toronado. I found it at osi20mts.com, about the origins of the Italian firm OSI. Virgil Exner Jr. left a comment there, as well as this picture of a 1/4 scale clay his dad made for a Fiat [...]

[...] and endlessly fascinating about the face of these Chryslers. I have a few theories on how Virgil Exner came up with this face. The more positive one is that he took the 1959 300F face and thought “ [...]

[...] de Gaulle Airport. Related Reading: Future Classic: Citroen C6 Curbside Classic: Peugeot 504 Curbside Capsule: Renault 25 [...]

In 1938, Buick unveiled the Y-Job, a one off Harley Earl custom, which foreshadowed Buick’s post war styling. The Y-Job was built on a stretched Bui [...]

The Opel Omega wasn’t the only car to be sliced down the middle and widened for Australian consumption. Three years prior, Mitsubishi introduced the [...]