Curbstoning, to an established auto dealer, is the practice of unlicensed car dealers selling cars from streetside, where the cars may be parked along the curb. With a pretense of being an individual selling a car on his or her own, and with no fixed location, such dealers avoid the fixed costs and regulations that burden regular used car dealers, and, in the eyes of the dealers, constitute unfair competition. Hence the numerous web sites touting the honesty and fair deals you get from your neighborhood used car dealer, and warning you against the allure of curbstoners.
To a statistician, curbstoning means something completely different - it is the practice of fabricating