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Curbside Classics Archives
Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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![In 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1988-Accord01-feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1988 Honda Accord LX – Chapter 13, How I Married A Keeper Twice In One Day")
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. -
![Today’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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/44AA9CA3-EFF5-4156-BE8D-50943AB69FFA_1_201_a.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Old 99 – The Saab That Came In From the Cold")
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 […] -
![’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, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/COAL-pix-fixed-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1986 Mazda 323 DX Hatchback – My Great Little Car")
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, […] -
![One 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1929-Model-A-05-small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1929 Ford Model A Standard Coupe – Chapter 12, A Is For Awesome")
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 […] -
![In 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/van-6.webp?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2000 Ford E150 – As The World Turns")
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 […] -
![In 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/51A3F95F-83C8-4E2C-A27D-EE9DBE46D68B_4_5005_c.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1974 Ford (Mercury) Capri – Never Mind the Bumpers!")
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 […] -
![Introductory 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Hemi_Apartment-RedTrim.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL 1: First Transport – Coming to ‘Amerika’")
COAL 1: First Transport – Coming to ‘Amerika’
Posted on September 26, 2022 | 43 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 […] -
![Peugeot 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Peugeot-304-engine-bay.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL Twofer: ’71 and ’69 Peugeot 304 GL – Modern Cars")
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 […] -
![Before 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1961-Thunderbird-02-Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1961 Ford Thunderbird – Chapter 11, Wherein Realism Crushes Optimism")
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 […] -
![Everybody has their kindred automotive spirit. Of the various cars and pickups I have owned over the years, long ago I concluded this quad-toned Dodge pickup must have been mine. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dodge-1.webp?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1987 Dodge Ram 250 – The Bold and The Beautiful")
COAL: 1987 Dodge Ram 250 – The Bold and The Beautiful
Posted on September 24, 2022 | 54 CommentsEverybody has their kindred automotive spirit. Of the various cars and pickups I have owned over the years, long ago I concluded this quad-toned Dodge pickup must have been mine. […] -
![(Welcome our new mid-week COAL series and writer, Steven Vettura) This tale begins on the steps of My Old School (apologies to Steely Dan) in Montpelier, Idaho sometime in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/21327684-BB1B-4F0D-A71B-21D96DD5E7AF_1_201_a.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: Simca 1204 – Stranger in a Strange Land")
COAL: Simca 1204 – Stranger in a Strange Land
Posted on September 22, 2022 | 48 Comments(Welcome our new mid-week COAL series and writer, Steven Vettura) This tale begins on the steps of My Old School (apologies to Steely Dan) in Montpelier, Idaho sometime in the […] -
![This is the only good picture of my ’71 VW 1302. (first posted 8/6/2016) Another Beetle! But after totaling the Peugeot 304 I had no car at all and had […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/71-VW-1302-Utrecht.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1971 VW 1302 (Super Beetle) – Thinking With Your Dipstick")
COAL: 1971 VW 1302 (Super Beetle) – Thinking With Your Dipstick
Posted on September 18, 2022 | 25 CommentsThis is the only good picture of my ’71 VW 1302. (first posted 8/6/2016) Another Beetle! But after totaling the Peugeot 304 I had no car at all and had […] -
![There I was in the fall of 1987. I was six months into home-ownership and ready to jump from the frying pan of a new car with payments into the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1966-Fury-III-10.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1966 Plymouth Fury III – Chapter 10, Reverting To Type")
COAL: 1966 Plymouth Fury III – Chapter 10, Reverting To Type
Posted on September 18, 2022 | 62 CommentsThere I was in the fall of 1987. I was six months into home-ownership and ready to jump from the frying pan of a new car with payments into the […] -
![This Crown Victoria is only included by default. I’ve covered it before, in a piece that has a few medical related parallels. Given it received coverage over nine years ago, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/crown-vic-6.webp?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2001 Ford Crown Victoria – General Hospital")
COAL: 2001 Ford Crown Victoria – General Hospital
Posted on September 17, 2022 | 30 CommentsThis Crown Victoria is only included by default. I’ve covered it before, in a piece that has a few medical related parallels. Given it received coverage over nine years ago, […]
