Here’s Daniel Stern’s COAL Series, with links to each post:
Pre-COAL:
1 · Junk Yard Tales
2 · Lawnmowers and Small Engines • The Mow You Know
COAL:
1 · 1970 Dodge Dart and Associates • Earliest Influences
2 · 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic • Movin’ Upward-Westward
3 · 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass • Weren’t They All That Colour?
4 · Colorado Boulevard and Smelly Old Chev Vans
5 · Laurie’s Cars: ’63 Volvo, ’71 VW, ’71 Wagoneer, ’78 Caprice
6 · 1984 Chev Caprice—Second Verse, Same(?) as the First
7 · 1980 Lincoln Town Car • The Stinkoln Clown Car
8 · 1990 VW Jetta • Fahrverschmerzen
9 · 1964 Plymouth Valiant • Some Disassembly Required
10 · Large Chauffeured Vehicles
11 · 1962 Dodge Lancer, Part I • A Start
12 · 1961 Plymouth Valiant • Not My Precedent!
13 · 1962 Dodge Lancer, Part II • Go West!
14 · 1965 Valiant, Part I • Verschlimmbesserung
15 · 1992 Chrysler LeBaron • Don’t Say “Grey”!
16 · 1962 Valiant, 1964 & 1970 Dodge Darts • Hot Dogs and Mustard
17 · “English Racers” • Raleigh-oop!
18 · 1965 Valiant, Part II • The Oregon Trail
19 · 1965 Valiant, Part III • Making Friends and Bucking Entropy
20 · A VW Bus That Was, One That Wasn’t, and an Isuzu I-Mark
21 · 1965 Valiant, Part IV • Self-Own Service and Naming Names
22 · 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T, Part I • The AAA-Body
23 · 1990 (+’91) Chrysler Saratoga • An American in Westphalia
24 · 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T, Part II • Oh, Grow Up!
25 · 1999 UM Maize Blaze • Everybody Makes Mistakes
26 · 1963 Valiant (+ the Spirit R/T Goes Away) • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
27 · 1971 Volvo 164 • Dreams Deferred Indefinitely
28 · 1985 Volvo 245 Turbo the First • Rustic Charm and Squash Soup
29 · 1991 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 • The Crapiece
30 · 1985 Volvo 245 Turbo the Second • Oops, I Did It Again
31 · 1989 Dodge D-100 • What The Truck?
32 · 2000 and 2016 Subaru Outbacks • The Tail Wagon the Dog
33 · 1992 Dodge Spirit ESRT • The Nine-Year Lesson
34 · 1971 Dodge Dart • Chase, Chase, Chase, POUNCE!
35 · 1964 Dodge Dart • Greasing the Grief
36 · 1973 Dodge Dart • Border? I Almost Lost ‘er!
37 · 1996 Toyota Camry Wagon • Glass Onion
38 · 1991 Dodge Spirit ES • Let’s Try That Again…!
39 · 2007 Honda Accord • Jenna’s Orange Doid
40 · 1962 Dodge Lancer, Part III • Nothing Is Permanent
41 · 1962 Dodge Lancer, Part IV • A Stop
42 · The Rest of the Stories + Afterword
Post-COAL:
Daniel, thank you, it’s really good to have this list.
I loved reading through your posts, and plan to reread a number of them.
Please do write some more!
Thank you Daniel for putting this together. And yes, I did bookmark this page for future readings!
Quite an impressive list of cars to own.
When you put them all in one place, it looks like enough to make a book!
Thanks for being you, Daniel. Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate!
Not just best of 2021, one of the best of all time.
Thanks again for all the work and mental effort to produce the series, and happy holidays to you and yours.
Indeed! What Chris said.
Agreed, Daniel’s articles (and COALs especially) were a highlight for me.
Daniel, encore, please! Dump that vanilla Honda, buy a series of offbeat cars, have strange associated adventures, and write it all up. Please incorporate additional tales of an unusual childhood, and many deliberate malapropisms. 😁
Watch this space!
THE ROLES ARE REVERSED – or THE OLD GUY LEARNS FROM THE YOUNGER.
This long, long list of titles is most impressive and Daniel certainly has a way with words!
Daniel has now convinced me to “Give it a shot”! My COAL will appear in the near future, with some tutoring by the ‘Master’
It feels a lot like it was ‘back in the day’ when the black GOODWRENCH Chevrolet #3 appeared in the rear view mirror of Darrell Waltrip, or any other driver, INTIMIDATING !
I have known Daniel since I was involved with the Slant 6 Club of America and from his days with his D’Valiant.
See you all in the funnies…..