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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible – Chapter 1.5, Long Ago In A Galaxie Far, Far Away
Posted on July 17, 2022 | 61 CommentsWhen we left off, I had just bought my first-ever car – a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible in splendiforous (or maybe putrilicious) Lime Gold Metallic. My own car! If […] -
COAL: 1989 Ford Mustang LX – Search For Tomorrow
Posted on July 16, 2022 | 76 Comments(Author’s Note: Upon taking the dive to present a COAL series, it occurred to me life is a grand soap opera of sorts but with somewhat less melodrama and […] -
COAL: 1990 Mercury Sable Wagon – We Thought We Were Getting A Toyota Camry Wagon
Posted on July 10, 2022 | 78 Comments(first posted 7/10/2016) In late 1986, I had a Manhattan co-op near Union Square, an Irish princess wife, no car, no pool, no pets, and soon no job due to […] -
COAL: 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible – Chapter 1, In The Beginning
Posted on July 10, 2022 | 56 CommentsEver since getting my driver’s license in the summer of 1976, I had been pining for my very own car. Actually, I had been begging for my own car long […] -
COAL: 1982 Honda Accord Hatchback – A Simple Car For A Simpler Life
Posted on July 3, 2022 | 64 Comments(first posted 7/3/2016) In 1982 at the age of 38, just 10 short years since the Tempest/Duster dust up, I was fortunate enough to be able to sell my share […] -
COAL: Prologue – Variety Is The Spice Of Life (If You Like Oldsmobiles)
Posted on July 3, 2022 | 38 CommentsI have planned to write my COAL series for a long time. I have put it off because that is what I do. Actually that is not the reason. A […] -
COAL: 1978 Datsun 280Z – Baby Blue Rocket, Old School Driving.
Posted on July 2, 2022 | 43 Comments(first posted 6/26/2016) In early 1978 I was a regular customer of the local Avis in Manhattan and knew most of their fleet intimately. My partner Steve was still driving […] -
COAL: 1972 Impala Sedan – Brown-Over-Brown Behemoth
Posted on June 26, 2022 | 55 Comments(first posted 6/19/2016) I knew the 1967 OHC-6 Tempest wasn’t long for my world when she could barely make it up the east bound ramp of the Verrazano Bridge heading […] -
Curbside Classic / Cars of my Father: 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III – Lemon Yellow
Posted on June 19, 2022 | 27 CommentsI have wanted to write about a Continental Mark III since I began writing for CC over a decade ago. Not the gargantuan 1959 version, but the one from the […] -
COAL: 1967 Tempest, Take Two – It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
Posted on June 12, 2022 | 51 Comments(first posted 6/12/2016) Minutes after the impact, after I assured the neighbors who came out to investigate the crash that all was OK and there was no need to call […] -
COAL: 2017 Honda Accord and 2020 Honda CR-V — Complete Confidence in Commuting Competence
Posted on June 12, 2022 | 18 CommentsMy COAL threads split into two, along the way. One thread was hobby cars and race cars (and daily drivers that turned into hobby cars and race cars), and the […] -
COAL: 1971 Plymouth Duster Slant 6 – Bad News From Consumer Reports; Worse News From Home
Posted on June 5, 2022 | 104 Comments(first posted 6/5/2016) In 1971 life was diverging onto two paths: excitement and success on a professional level and confusion and despair on a personal level. Grumman was an exciting […] -
COAL: 1973 MG Midget — Squeezing a Litre Into a Pint Pot
Posted on June 5, 2022 | 18 CommentsI still had a 12-A Mazda rotary engine sitting on my shop floor. It had been an unused racing spare. It had gone into my red RX-7, but the […] -
COAL: 1967 Tempest OHC-6 – Nice Work, Pontiac!
Posted on May 30, 2022 | 91 Comments(first posted 5/29/2016) In 1967 Annie and I had the 1961 Comet and the 1964 VW Beetle that I shared with my father as a commuter car to the NYC […] -
COAL: 1964 VW Beetle – Baby, Beetle, and the F-14
Posted on May 29, 2022 | 49 Comments(first posted 5/22/2016. I forgot to rerun this last Sunday; my apologies) In early 1967 things were humming along better than ever. Shell Oil was a great place to […]