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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 1964 Imperial Crown Coupe – Chapter 14, The Royal We
Posted on October 16, 2022 | 115 CommentsOld cars are funny things in the way they affect people. Like how a relative’s unhappy experience in selling one old car led to my happy experience in finding another. -
COAL: 2007 Ford F-150 – Dark Shadows
Posted on October 15, 2022 | 51 CommentsWelcome to this week’s episode called Dark Shadows. As last week’s episode was titled The Edge Of Night, you might see which direction this relocation is going. To recap from […] -
COAL: Lancia Beta Berlina • Rust Never Sleeps
Posted on October 12, 2022 | 56 CommentsStop me if you’ve heard this story: protagonist in stable relationship becomes deeply distracted by seductive if unstable newcomer, ignoring strong forebodings and whispered admonitions. Trouble and strife ensue. Long […] -
COAL Update: Wolfie at Four
Posted on October 10, 2022 | 14 CommentsMy dear departed mother used to tell me, “Time goes fast when you get old.” Well, I will turn 58 this month and I can confirm mom’s saying. It has […] -
COAL: 1994 Ford Aerostar XLT – Lots of Space
Posted on October 9, 2022 | 74 Comments1994 Ford Aerostar XLT, the soccer mobile. (first posted 8/20/2016) Mrs. W, proud mom of two boys, wanted a minivan; only a minivan would do. Mr. W did not want […] -
COAL: 1988 Honda Accord LX – Chapter 13, How I Married A Keeper Twice In One Day
Posted on October 9, 2022 | 52 CommentsIn December of 1988 I got a call from a law school classmate. Karl and his wife wanted to have me over for dinner one evening. “Oh, would it be […] -
COAL: 1993 Buick Century – The Edge of Night
Posted on October 8, 2022 | 38 CommentsEver make an impulsive automotive purchase that filled an emergent need? That’s how this Buick came to be. Let’s start about six months prior, back in mid-2011. -
COAL: Old 99 – The Saab That Came In From the Cold
Posted on October 5, 2022 | 36 CommentsToday’s question is how did a kid raised on a ranch in southern Idaho come to acquire such an odd lot of funny foreign cars? After a Simca 1204 and […] -
COAL: 1986 Mazda 323 DX Hatchback – My Great Little Car
Posted on October 2, 2022 | 68 Comments’86 Mazda 323 DX 1.6 in front of 50’s ranch house. (first posted 8/13/2016) In August 1986 I packed my stuff including my race bike and flew to Des Moines, […] -
COAL: 1929 Ford Model A Standard Coupe – Chapter 12, A Is For Awesome
Posted on October 2, 2022 | 35 CommentsOne of the not-car things that kept me occupied during my later single years was flying. I learned to fly, got my private pilot’s license, and thought about the next […] -
COAL: 2000 Ford E150 – As The World Turns
Posted on October 1, 2022 | 51 CommentsIn my introduction to this series, an open ended question I posed was whether or not to write about my Ford van – yet again. At the time of that […] -
COAL: 1974 Ford (Mercury) Capri – Never Mind the Bumpers!
Posted on September 28, 2022 | 51 CommentsIn our last episode I had bid adieu to my Simca 1204 and headed for an extended stay in ‘Yurrop’, as the thrice great Henry Manney of R&T fame […] -
COAL 1: First Transport – Coming to ‘Amerika’
Posted on September 26, 2022 | 42 CommentsIntroductory note by Daniel Stern: My old friend Hemi Andersen has been closely and interestingly involved with automobiles since forever. I ate up his stories in the old Slant-6 Club […] -
COAL Twofer: ’71 and ’69 Peugeot 304 GL – Modern Cars
Posted on September 25, 2022 | 36 CommentsPeugeot 304, metallic silver like my ’71 model. Unfortunately I have no pictures of my two Peugeot 304s (first posted 7/30/2016) In Fall of 1979 the car dealers in the […] -
COAL: 1961 Ford Thunderbird – Chapter 11, Wherein Realism Crushes Optimism
Posted on September 25, 2022 | 49 CommentsBefore I got married, and for awhile after that milestone event, my “gotta get another car” pangs continued to strike every spring and every fall. In the fall of […]