Curbside Classics Central: Portal To All Of Them Here

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• 	educatordan March 10th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
  Thanks, Paul. I’ve loved every damn one. Nice cake, but the proportions are a little off. :) Oh and before someone makes the obvious “Pink Cadillac” reference let me stick up for the song “Reno Bound” by Southern Pacific. It’s probably the only reason I still have Cadillac dreams, even though I know the last few decades have been a bit “lost” for Caddy. “Rooling down the super-slab, pearl pink Cadillac, red head ridding shotgun, guitar in the back. I got the radio up. CADILLAC! Top rolled down. CADILLAC! Reno bound!.”
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  • 		Educator(of teachers)Dan October 14th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
    	Hey you removed the picture of the Cadillac cake!
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 10:37 am
    	Forget the Cadillac cake; my new Curbside Classic site is up and running: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/
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  • 		Educator(of teachers)Dan October 15th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
    	The original post way back when you opened the portal there was a pic of a Cadillac cake to celebrate the huge number of CCs that had been created.  http://www.abccakeshop.com/uploads/pink_cadillac_birthday_cake1%282%29.jpg
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
    	Dan; thanks for reminding me. It’s back, in the Cadillac section. I Think I’ll embellish each brand with a picture too.
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• 	Derek Howell March 10th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
  Great column Paul. I look forward to them. Your encyclopedic knowledge of cars is . . . prodigious. Thanks.
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• 	Uncle Mellow March 10th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
  Glad to hear you’re only going for a year – it means I haven’t missed too much by only finding you recently. Have just been rading about the 83 Starlet – “the most reliable car ever built “?? Here in Ireland we never found out how reliable they were.They had such serious rust problems that Toyota bought them all back in the late 80’s and crushed them ,to preserve their reputation.
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• 	geozinger March 10th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
  Hey, that’s a tasty Caddy on the top of the page…
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• 	PeriSoft March 10th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
  Awesome work on the links. I’ve been going around trying to read back CCs, but with no navigation have been left to type in random page numbers in the URL bar or search for random years hoping I’ll find something. Now you just need to do the same for the outtakes and other assorted non-reviews!
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer March 11th, 2010 at 12:07 am
    	It’s done! All Curbside Classics, long and short, and Outtakes too.
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  • 		khamsin January 31st, 2011 at 7:36 am
    	To all with CC withdrawal symptoms: Paul N. is back with a site of his own http://www.curbsideclassic.com, apparently going live on 8 February.
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• 	Bill Viverette September 30th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
  Awesome effort!  It’s great to see the range of styling that has flowed through the years.  Classics, indeed.
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• 	John Horner October 15th, 2010 at 1:15 am
  This would make a really awesome bound book. I think it would sell extremely well as a large format coffee table sized gift book.
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 10:44 am
    	I have had thoughts along the same lines…sounds like a big project…maybe next year.
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• 	jrosevear October 15th, 2010 at 8:04 am
  That ’50 Cadillac is still the cream of the crop. Love that car.
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• 	Stingray October 15th, 2010 at 8:11 am
  Mr. Niedermeyer, you have 2 GM greatest hits #3. Caprice and a Cadillac.   And you should make a CC on an Alfa Romeo 75 or Milano as I guess was called over there.   A ZJ Grand Cherokee wouldn’t hurt either. We need also a 73-87 and a 88-98 Chevy truck ones.
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 10:39 am
    	Stingray; Thanks for the heads up on DS #3. There’s so much more yet to come!
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• 	thebanana October 15th, 2010 at 9:24 am
  Several links not working this am. Mitsu ones especially.
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• 	YYYYguy October 15th, 2010 at 9:51 am
  Subie links are broken as well.  Just fyi. PS. Great to have them all together. Thanks!
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 10:40 am
    	I’m going to fix the rest this morning…
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• 	obbop October 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
  Poof………  perhaps inevitable but the fleeting thought of creating a “Dumpsters I have Dived and the people who have found their sustenance therein” blog enters my mind. Will doing so lead to fame? The fortune that has eluded me for so many decades? Will the effort be as futile as the previous effort to achieve fame/fortune via the “Females as Property Movement”? What is an aging increasingly physically/morally/mentally unfit Disgruntled Old Coot to do? No frontier remaining to grab 160 acres, build a little shanty made of sod and spread civilization amongst the buffalo herds….. even if the diminishing physical abilities are not conducive to such efforts. Perhaps a multi-level marketing scheme/scam will result in acquiring adequate wealth to fend off abject poverty in my oldest elder years. Sniff. Continuing search for the so-far proverbial rich widow lady continues. Or, perhaps, will find that low mileage hemi ‘Cuda convertible with a 4-speed in great shape parked in the barn for many years and bought for a pittance then sold at auction for an immense amount of money. Grocery prices locally continuously rising. And what is it with the cost of a basic nothing-special can of generic soup? Loan disapproved to buy a few cans of the stuff. And the ever-rising cost of veggies even makes home-made soup a budget breaker. Off to dig into a dumpster. If human remains found perhaps an episode of Crime Scene Investigation will be dedicated to the Disgruntled One resulting in payment and residuals allowing comestible acquisitions. Happy motoring.
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  • 		Zackman October 15th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
    	That’s my boy!
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• 	JMII October 15th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
  Excellent work, thank you!
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• 	sco October 15th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
  Great cars and great writing about cars.  i suspect that several of these articles motivated people to buy their own curbside classics (the 63 econoline pickup write-uo nearly got me).  A great list from Alpha Romeo to Panhard but then – where is it? Really Paul, no old Peugeots in Eugene? Impossible
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer October 15th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
    	Thanks. Only several 505s, which I will write up soon. I can’t even find a 504, never mind a 404.
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• 	porschespeed October 15th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
  So sorry the camera phone was in the work van….   Earlier this am:  It was low, it was pointy, it was screwably sexy,  it was yellow (with horridly highschool twin black racing stripes) and it was pulling in to the same bank lot I was.   A Lambo ESPADA?!? WTF? I haven’t seen one of those on the road for years especially after leaving the SF Bay…   But wait, obnoxious pushrod V8 rumble? And the proportions are not lining up with my last Espada ride/drive memory.   IT WAS AN EFFEN ISO RIVOLTA LELE.  1 of 295ish total, and god knows maybe, maybe, a hundred made it Stateside.   Sadly, restored and “updated” to a Michael-Bay-would-love-it yellow with horrid black stripes/trim/bumpers/Campys motif. But still. 1 of 295 of this car ever made. Makes Bristol sightings rather pedestrian. Even here in The Colonies.   This is why I don’t bother to buy lottery tickets.  Cars use up my luck.   Damn.
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• 	Steve65 December 6th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
  Link for Mazda RX-7 goes to Mazda 626 instead.
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  • 		Paul Niedermeyer December 11th, 2010 at 1:06 am
    	Fixed; thanks for the heads up.
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