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- Aaron on Garage Find: 1972 Ford Thunderbird – A Less Remembered ‘Bird?
- kiwibryce on Curbside Classic: 1977-83 BMW 320i (E21) – The Ur-Ultimate Driving Machine
- kiwibryce on Curbside Classic: 1977-83 BMW 320i (E21) – The Ur-Ultimate Driving Machine
- kiwibryce on Curbside Classic: 1977-83 BMW 320i (E21) – The Ur-Ultimate Driving Machine
- kiwibryce on Curbside Classic: 1977-83 BMW 320i (E21) – The Ur-Ultimate Driving Machine
- kiwibryce on Curbside Classic: 1977-83 BMW 320i (E21) – The Ur-Ultimate Driving Machine
- Jose Delgadillo on Garage Find: 1972 Ford Thunderbird – A Less Remembered ‘Bird?
- la673 on Curbside Classic: 1977 AMC Gremlin – Pay 8% More, Get 13% Less HP and 33% Fewer Cylinders
- XR7Matt on Driveway Find: 1967 Pontiac Firebird – Hot Street Machine
- XR7Matt on Driveway Find: 1967 Pontiac Firebird – Hot Street Machine
Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 2005 and 2007 Ford Five Hundred — Sometimes a Car is Just a Car
Posted on May 29, 2022 | 49 CommentsSigmund Freud may or may not have said “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. Given all the reasons, interpretations, and obsessions with owning or driving certain cars…well, in […] -
COAL: Moving On From The 240D
Posted on May 22, 2022 | 23 CommentsBy the summer of 2021, my enthusiasm for my 240D project was waning and I had became tired of putting money into it. Though I loved the car, learned […] -
COAL: 1970 Lenham Le Mans Coupe — “And Now For Something Completely Different”
Posted on May 22, 2022 | 28 CommentsThe old Monty Python quote seems appropriate here, because not only is this car British, but it is an oddball that has no good reason to exist. As readers of […] -
COAL: 2003 Mustang GT – Finale for the Fox Body
Posted on May 21, 2022 | 33 CommentsI’ve always found it easiest to learn by doing. Whether it’s studying verb conjugation for a foreign language, how to grill up a proper hamburger, or a humble oil change, […] -
COAL: 1966 SAAB 96 – AM MISHPOCHAH CHAI
Posted on May 17, 2022 | 27 CommentsMy mother’s first cousin Nathan R. died in Alon Shvut, near Efrat, Israel, a few days before Purim last March. He was the last member of my family to have […] -
COAL: 1961 Comet – Not Nearly As Bad As I Expected
Posted on May 15, 2022 | 65 Comments(first posted 5/15/2016) When we left off in the third edition of this COAL saga, it was March 1966, I was newly married, was about three months shy of getting […] -
COAL: 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser — Automotive Dress-Up
Posted on May 15, 2022 | 40 CommentsThe early 2000’s were an odd time to be alive. The first real sustained stock market drop and economic reversal since the 1980’s, the first real aging-out and retirement time […] -
COAL – 2017 Subaru Forester – Sube’s Small SUV
Posted on May 14, 2022 | 20 CommentsMy 2017 Subaru Forester is the closest to a new car that I’ve owned, and unlike many of the cars I’ve owned, it’s far from an unusual vehicle – there […] -
COAL: 1957 Oldsmobile 88 – Chrome, Reflections, Rockets, and Dog Leg Windshields
Posted on May 8, 2022 | 60 Comments(first posted 5/8/2016) I had been driving my first car, a 1953 yellow Chrysler convertible, starting in high school and then in college for more than four years and it […] -
COAL: 1976 Chevrolet Nova — Mechanical Destrier — One More Trip Back to the Racetrack
Posted on May 8, 2022 | 22 CommentsThis is one of those posts that is going to mess with your ordinary way of thinking. The car above doesn’t look much like a ‘70s Nova, does it? And […] -
COAL: 1953 Chrysler Windsor Convertible – Love At First Sight
Posted on May 1, 2022 | 48 Comments(first posted 5/1/2016) When I turned 16 1n 1960, my mother took that afternoon off from her real estate job and waited for me to come running home from the […] -
COAL: 2000 Honda Odyssey — Not-Quite-Magic School Bus
Posted on May 1, 2022 | 35 CommentsBack in the year 2000, an animated kids’ show was on constant rerun, called “The Magic School Bus”. The bus driver was named “Miss Frizzle”, voiced by Lily Tomlin, and […] -
COAL – 1995 Subaru Legacy (and Briefly a 1997)
Posted on April 30, 2022 | 16 CommentsAfter selling my 1993 GMC Vandura, I was back to using my Falcon as my only car. I was now engaged and a homeowner (or, at least, a condo-owner). Neither […] -
COAL: 1946 Jeep CJ-2A & 1953 CJ-3B — Mechanical Mules, and a Covid Project
Posted on April 24, 2022 | 11 CommentsThe first Jeeps were rolled out in 1941, as the result of a U.S. Government request for a light, go-almost-anywhere military vehicle. As such, the first Jeeps were hatched out […]