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Curbside Classics Archives
Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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![This 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20201020-WA0101.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2001 Toyota Hilux Surf (4Runner) – Truck Of A Lifetime, The Second")
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 […] -
![I 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1953-austin-countryman-panel-van-wagon-british-suburban-a40-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: The Ghost Cars")
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. -
![The 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1998001_1979_Celica_Liftback-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL – 1978 Toyota Celica GT Liftback. Who Could ask for Anything More?")
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 […] -
![As 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot_20211211-221745_Facebook.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2015 Mazda Roadster – Miata is Always The Answer")
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 […] -
![A 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1985-oldsmobile-ninety-eight-regency-brougham-americanlisted_28297331.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1985 Oldsmobile Regency 98: Chopped Liver")
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 […] -
![(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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Scan-24.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1968 Falcon Club Coupe – Ford Has a Better Idea")
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 […] -
![This 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211205_082812_2.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2016 Mazda 2 – Five Years of Stress Free Motoring.")
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. -
![At 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/23231492_10155848286286060_1608810803920427772_n.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1998 Jaguar XK8 – Meeting Your Heroes.")
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 […] -
![The 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1075604_10151774486481885_1955095101_o.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL : 1993 Toyota Hilux – The Truck of My Lifetime")
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 […] -
![Yes, it’s a two-tone ’91, but mine had a blue ground effects and the wheels were right. (Welcome our new Saturday COAL series writer) We begin in the Penis. All […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1991-dodge-daytona-6-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 1990 Dodge Daytona ES – The Penis Car")
COAL: 1990 Dodge Daytona ES – The Penis Car
Posted on November 20, 2021 | 48 CommentsYes, it’s a two-tone ’91, but mine had a blue ground effects and the wheels were right. (Welcome our new Saturday COAL series writer) We begin in the Penis. All […] -
![(first posted 11/18/2015) When you’re telling a story, they say you should begin at the beginning, go on till you reach the end, then stop. But where is the beginning, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/yggg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Car Of A Lifetime: 1974 Ford Cortina – Living Beyond the Design Brief")
Car Of A Lifetime: 1974 Ford Cortina – Living Beyond the Design Brief
Posted on November 18, 2021 | 93 Comments(first posted 11/18/2015) When you’re telling a story, they say you should begin at the beginning, go on till you reach the end, then stop. But where is the beginning, […] -
![My father has always been a fan of Citroen cars – his first car was a 5CV, his last car a ZX. With a couple of Traction Avant, IDs […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/renault12_1stGen_catalogue.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: The Cars Of My Father – His Renault Period (R12, R18)")
COAL: The Cars Of My Father – His Renault Period (R12, R18)
Posted on November 13, 2021 | 21 CommentsMy father has always been a fan of Citroen cars – his first car was a 5CV, his last car a ZX. With a couple of Traction Avant, IDs […] -
![Life has a way of taking you down unexpected rabbit holes. I was reading the NY Post one night, and they were talking about Kanye West’s trucks being auctioned. Seems […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/rtry.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "COAL: 2015 BMW X5 – Auction Find, But There’s A Catch")
COAL: 2015 BMW X5 – Auction Find, But There’s A Catch
Posted on November 12, 2021 | 31 CommentsLife has a way of taking you down unexpected rabbit holes. I was reading the NY Post one night, and they were talking about Kanye West’s trucks being auctioned. Seems […]
