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Curbside Classics Archives
About Author: RetroJerry
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![The Neon was pushing towards 130,000 miles and beginning to show its age. The head gasket and paint had been replaced mostly on Chrysler’s dime, but I was beginning to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/a-crol.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1992 Toyota Corolla – Clearly The Car of Choice For Clean Getaways (and Pizza Delivery)")
COAL: 1992 Toyota Corolla – Clearly The Car of Choice For Clean Getaways (and Pizza Delivery)
Posted on April 4, 2021 | 13 CommentsThe Neon was pushing towards 130,000 miles and beginning to show its age. The head gasket and paint had been replaced mostly on Chrysler’s dime, but I was beginning to […] -
![The last thing I needed in the fall of 1997 was the loss of reliable transportation, but sometimes life is like that, delivering exactly what you don’t need when it’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/3c07cf372a87fd67c09cf1e95de61840.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1996 Dodge Neon Sport – A Pretty Good Car At a Pretty Bad Time")
COAL: 1996 Dodge Neon Sport – A Pretty Good Car At a Pretty Bad Time
Posted on March 28, 2021 | 35 CommentsThe last thing I needed in the fall of 1997 was the loss of reliable transportation, but sometimes life is like that, delivering exactly what you don’t need when it’s […] -
![If I’ve learned anything in my sixty-plus trips around the sun, it’s that the only constant in life is change. And as I moved on from the early 80s into […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/listing_photo_131474586213459731.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Cars and Life In Transition")
COAL: Cars and Life In Transition
Posted on March 21, 2021 | 11 CommentsIf I’ve learned anything in my sixty-plus trips around the sun, it’s that the only constant in life is change. And as I moved on from the early 80s into […] -
COAL: 1987 Volkswagen Jetta GL – Nonsense and Sensibility
Posted on March 14, 2021 | 18 CommentsPart 2 – Sensibility. Becoming more of a grownup. -
COAL: 1962 Triumph TR3B – Nonsense and Sensibility
Posted on March 7, 2021 | 15 CommentsPart 1 – Nonsense. When logic makes a (full opposite lock) left turn. -
![While I have a reverence for the past, as I suspect most regular visitors to this site share, I’ve always focused on the present and future. “Straight ahead,” I often […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GTI.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1983 VW GTI – A Fit Like a Custom Made Glove")
COAL: 1983 VW GTI – A Fit Like a Custom Made Glove
Posted on February 28, 2021 | 30 CommentsWhile I have a reverence for the past, as I suspect most regular visitors to this site share, I’ve always focused on the present and future. “Straight ahead,” I often […] -
![From the prologue of Duke Ellington’s wonderful and whimsical sort of memoir, “Music is my Mistress.” “The first thing I did was to run out into the front yard, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/guinness-greatest-the-keeper-of-world-records-once-rate-joe-girard-as-picture-id502340591.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "A Brief Respite From the COAL Mine: Some of the People Behind the Cars")
A Brief Respite From the COAL Mine: Some of the People Behind the Cars
Posted on February 21, 2021 | 14 CommentsFrom the prologue of Duke Ellington’s wonderful and whimsical sort of memoir, “Music is my Mistress.” “The first thing I did was to run out into the front yard, and […] -
![I’ve always had a lot of interests, but likely the big three would be music, cars and film. Few people in the film business had a larger-than-life career (and life […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ca0811-112849_1%402x.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: My Karmann-Ghia Obsession, Part 2")
COAL: My Karmann-Ghia Obsession, Part 2
Posted on February 14, 2021 | 40 CommentsI’ve always had a lot of interests, but likely the big three would be music, cars and film. Few people in the film business had a larger-than-life career (and life […] -
![Let’s get on with the story. I had now been driving my trusty 1966 Type 1 (Beetle) for around two years. The mileage was climbing past 80,000 (remember, this was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ghia-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: My Karmann-Ghia Obsession, Part 1")
COAL: My Karmann-Ghia Obsession, Part 1
Posted on February 7, 2021 | 26 CommentsLet’s get on with the story. I had now been driving my trusty 1966 Type 1 (Beetle) for around two years. The mileage was climbing past 80,000 (remember, this was […] -
![“First things first, but not necessarily in that order. – Dr. Who Authors note: I kind of half thought about approaching my return to this series chronologically, like an old-time […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_7030_LI.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2004 PT Cruiser: 21st Century Answer to a Question No One Asked? or, Just Because You Can, Does It Mean You Should?")
COAL: 2004 PT Cruiser: 21st Century Answer to a Question No One Asked? or, Just Because You Can, Does It Mean You Should?
Posted on January 31, 2021 | 48 Comments“First things first, but not necessarily in that order. – Dr. Who Authors note: I kind of half thought about approaching my return to this series chronologically, like an old-time […] -
![“I don’t need time, I need a deadline.”– Duke Ellington I’ve been participating in various forms of creative endeavors for most of my life, across a span of categories that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/35mm077-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1966 VW, My First Car – Wasn’t It Almost Everyone’s?")
COAL: 1966 VW, My First Car – Wasn’t It Almost Everyone’s?
Posted on January 24, 2021 | 59 Comments“I don’t need time, I need a deadline.”– Duke Ellington I’ve been participating in various forms of creative endeavors for most of my life, across a span of categories that […] -
COAL: 1979 Mustang Turbo – The “Old” “All New” Mustang
Posted on February 19, 2014 | 92 CommentsThe announcement of the “all new” 2014 Mustang brought back my memories of another “all new” Mustang, which was my first new car purchase in late 1978.
