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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 1998 BMW 318/328i – Brief Bavarian Interlude
Posted on January 2, 2022 | 4 CommentsThis was not actually a car I ever had any intention of owning. I’ve always liked older BMWs, but the E36 generation 3 series somehow never really struck a chord. […] -
COAL: 1987 Alfa Romeo 33 – Project Car Hell, or How to Own a Car Without Driving it Even Once
Posted on December 26, 2021 | 31 CommentsAlfa Romeo. The name alone is enough to set a car nut’s heart aflutter. So much history, romance, myth and legend encapsulated within those two words. So much in fact, […] -
COAL: 1964 Chrysler New Yorker: A Classic Car Speed Run Purchase Falls Into A Purgatory State.
Posted on December 23, 2021 | 42 CommentsI had always wanted to own and drive a classic car since I was a young kid, and one that could be reliable and a daily driver. And after […] -
COAL- 1968 Plymouth Barracuda to Volvo 122 to Bass Guitar
Posted on December 22, 2021 | 19 CommentsI owned my 1968 Barracuda for less than a year, and it was somewhat by chance that I bought it, but it also led to me briefly owning a Volvo […] -
COAL: 2001 Toyota Hilux Surf (4Runner) – Truck Of A Lifetime, The Second
Posted on December 19, 2021 | 25 CommentsThis particular COAL is the result of the need for a large vehicle capable of family duty intersecting with my wife’s love of the high driving position that only SUV’s […] -
COAL: The Ghost Cars
Posted on December 18, 2021 | 31 CommentsI started out last week thinking that I would segue from my Oldsmobile to the second most recent and so far longest car ownership experience of my life, but then […] -
COAL: The Citroens Of My Father
Posted on December 17, 2021 | 14 CommentsMy father was a devoted Citroenist – starting from his first car, a Citroen 5CV he bought in the years following the end of WW2. -
COAL – 1978 Toyota Celica GT Liftback. Who Could ask for Anything More?
Posted on December 15, 2021 | 13 CommentsThe second car I owned was a 1978 Toyota Celica GT Liftback. After selling my 68 Falcon, I was mainly getting around on my motorcycle and sometimes borrowing my parent’s […] -
COAL: 2015 Mazda Roadster – Miata is Always The Answer
Posted on December 12, 2021 | 24 CommentsAs you read two weeks ago, by 2017 I had decided to move my XK8 on because although I enjoyed the wind in the hair driving aspect, the car itself […] -
COAL: 1985 Oldsmobile Regency 98: Chopped Liver
Posted on December 11, 2021 | 26 CommentsA 1985 Regency 98, not mine, because I have no pictures. The time has come to sing of Oldsmobiles. I remember, the year of my bar mitzvah, the GM advertising […] -
COAL: 1968 Falcon Club Coupe – Ford Has a Better Idea
Posted on December 8, 2021 | 31 Comments(Another new COALer begins his journey) I’ll begin my COAL with the first car that I actually held title to, and the first one I have much photographic documentation […] -
COAL: 2016 Mazda 2 – Five Years of Stress Free Motoring.
Posted on December 5, 2021 | 18 CommentsThis week was supposed to be about the replacement for the Jaaag, but since I’m trying to go chronologically the next car in the timeline is my current daily, which […] -
COAL: 1987 Pontiac Safari: What’s She Gonna Do, Crash It?
Posted on December 4, 2021 | 24 CommentsI have mixed feelings about the years I drove this car, between age seventeen and age twenty, and the stunted and backfiring progress of my life at that time. -
COAL: 1998 Jaguar XK8 – Meeting Your Heroes.
Posted on November 28, 2021 | 31 CommentsAt the end of my MR2 COAL , I told you that I received a call from R, my friendly neighborhood wheeler-dealer, asking to buy the white MR2 back and offering […] -
COAL : 1993 Toyota Hilux – The Truck of My Lifetime
Posted on November 21, 2021 | 25 CommentsThe story of this truck should actually have come right after the Beetle, as it became my daily driver in 2008, but it took me a while to get the […]