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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: Your Humble Author Reflects on a (Near) Decade of Driving: The 1989 Ford Taurus GL Wagon – As Owned by My 16-Year-Old Self
Posted on December 9, 2012 | 33 CommentsBack in the era when one could purchase a disposable camera, I decided to buy one, just for the hell of it. The idea was to take pictures of things […] -
COAL: Cornbinders Of A Lifetime, Part Three: 1972 Scout II Traveltop
Posted on December 9, 2012 | 38 CommentsWhen we last left Cornbinders Of A Lifetime, my brother had split the transmission in my 1973 Cab Top from end to end, and my search for a replacement transmission […] -
COAL: 1978 Chevrolet Van – The Iron Maiden
Posted on December 8, 2012 | 29 CommentsWe had been comfortably cruising around in the coolest car Dad ever owned – a 1974 AMC Matador Oleg Cassini coupe – when he decided to go into business for […] -
COAL: Cornbinders Of A Lifetime, Part Two: 1973 Scout II Cab Top
Posted on December 2, 2012 | 25 CommentsMy F1-all, seen here, had been gone for quite some time when a friend asked me if I wanted to buy a Scout. That got my attention, but when […] -
COAL: 1974 AMC Matador Oleg Cassini – Copper and Rust
Posted on December 1, 2012 | 71 Comments(ED: Welcome Jim Grey, who is starting a new Saturday COAL series today) During my 1970s kidhood, lots of dads on my block had two-door cars. Moms, on the other […] -
COAL: Cornbinders Of A Lifetime, Part One: 1950 Ford F1 4×4 – Yes; It’s A Cornbinder At Heart
Posted on November 25, 2012 | 21 CommentsCornbinders! Now that’s what you’ve most likely been expecting from me. So just why is the lead picture of an old Ford pickup? Let me explain… -
COAL: Mazdas Of A Lifetime, Part Two: 626: I’ve Seen The Light–Twice
Posted on November 18, 2012 | 34 CommentsThe wife came home from work one day and told me that her co-worker’s car–an 1987 626LX with all the goodies, an excellent exterior and pretty low miles–had been […] -
COAL: Mazdas Of A Lifetime, Part One – 323 And 626
Posted on November 11, 2012 | 21 CommentsMost of you know me primarily as a die-hard Ford, Panther and IH fan (yet with a heartfelt soft spot for Buicks). Over the years, a few other vehicles have […] -
Cars Of My Wives – All Four Of Them
Posted on November 4, 2012 | 16 CommentsYes, I said wives. And no, I’m not a polygamist. I’ve been married four times; my last marriage, which lasted 11 years, was recently ended by the death of my […] -
COAL: The Nickmobiles – Extra-Carricular Activities
Posted on November 4, 2012 | 12 CommentsIn 1963 my parents and I amicably separated. They went to San Juan, PR, and I went to Subiaco Academy in northwest Arkansas for my sophomore year of high […] -
COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part Three: Suddenly It’s The Sixties!
Posted on October 21, 2012 | 12 CommentsOur 1956 Olds was a solid and trouble-free car, which explains why my Dad kept it for more than a year. I remember him looking at new ’57 Oldsmobiles […] -
COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part Two: The (Heart)Pace Quickens, Considerably
Posted on October 14, 2012 | 25 CommentsIt was a rainy, chilly April 1954 day in Lowell, MA. I was in my kindergarten class, doing some mind-numbing exercise, when all of a sudden my dad walked […] -
COAL: My Parents’ Cars, Part 1
Posted on October 7, 2012 | 8 CommentsMy mother and her older sister would begin high school in 1931. The family farm, in Hamlet, IL, was about 10 miles from the closest high school, in Aledo, […] -
COAL: The Brougham Antidote, Part Four – Run, Rabbit, Run
Posted on September 30, 2012 | 6 CommentsI really liked my Rabbit and was interested in exploring its higher-performance aspects. (This was well before the arrival of the first American GTI, in 1984.) I was back in […] -
COAL: The Brougham Antidotes, Part 2 – Honoring Diversity
Posted on September 16, 2012 | 10 CommentsI already had a replacement for the 1960 Fury: a 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 XL convertible that had been my father’s company car. He traded it to me for […]