Paul Niedermeyer Presents Curbsideclassic.com

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

Almost exactly three years and one week ago, my dad, Paul Niedermeyer called me up and told me there was an opening for a freelancer at TTAC’s then-new news blog. Little did I know at the time that just a few years later, so much would have changed. In fact, if someone had told me at the time that in three years I would be editing TTAC and that my dad would have moved onto his own site, I might not have taken the job. After all, if it weren’t for him I might not even be interested in cars, and I certainly wouldn’t be writing about them professionally.

Needless to say, there have been some twists and turns along the way… but sharing a profession with your dad is too deeply rewarding a privilege to simply come easily. His decision to leave TTAC was a tough for me to accept at first, until I realized that TTAC’s loss was the internet’s gain. We may have lost a valued contributor, but the autoblogosphere gained a new destination: curbsideclassic.com.

For legal reasons, you can still find an archive of Paul’s TTAC-era Curbside Classics here, but be sure to surf over to his new site for his latest additions to a body of work that is, without a doubt, one of the best sources of automotive history and nostalgia on the web.


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  • Budda-Boom Budda-Boom on Feb 26, 2011

    I'm so glad to see Paul back in cyberspace, CC was always a treat here at TTAC and the new site has a lot to offer. Keep up the great work!

  • Marcelo de Vasconcellos Marcelo de Vasconcellos on Feb 26, 2011

    Always loved CC. Another addres into favorites

  • David C. Holzman David C. Holzman on Feb 26, 2011

    Oh, shoot, Ed, surely you're protesting too much. You were destined for cars.

    Like Zackman, I am going to have to split my time betw the two sites. But that's a high class problem.

  • Vent-L-8 Vent-L-8 on Feb 26, 2011

    one more site to add to my daily haunts (TTAC.com, facebook.com, jalponik.com, doonesbury.com/dailydose, news.bbc.co.uk)

    • Zackman Zackman on Feb 27, 2011

      I look at Jalopnik on occasion, but find little of interest and difficult to navigate, although some time ago they had a great article on the Lockheed Super Constellation. I find it a not-very-classy website, unlike TTAC & CC. Too much profanity for no reason. Hopefully this website and CC will remain as the examples for others to emulate as to what a class act the internet should be.

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