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- Paul Niedermeyer on Vintage Review: 1961 Dodge Lancer With Three Slant Sixes: 170, 225 & 225 Hyper-Pak – Does It Live Up To The Hype?
- Chip on Curbside Classic: 1959 Dodge Royal–“A Genuine Police Car!”
- Peter Wilding on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- Peter Wilding on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- Peter Wilding on Curbside Classic: 1969-70 Holden Brougham – A Case Of GM Following The Market
- 3SpeedAutomatic on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- J P Cavanaugh on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- J P Cavanaugh on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
- Dave Buckley on Curbside Classic: 1959 Dodge Royal–“A Genuine Police Car!”
- Ralph L on Vintage Snapshots: The Cars In Our Neighborhoods In The ’50s-’60s – Part 3
Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 1992 Dodge Spirit ESRT – The Nine-Year Lesson
Posted on August 21, 2021 | 24 CommentsY’know the Doppler Effect: it causes the sound pitch of cars and horns and sirens and suchlike to seem lower as they pass and move away from you at speed. […] -
COAL: 1977 Peugeot 104 ZA – The “Choucroute”
Posted on August 18, 2021 | 18 Comments(Welcome our newest COAL series contributor) There will be cars sold in America in this series, even a car made in America. But I’m going to start where it started […] -
COAL: 2007 Mazda 3 Hatchback – Purple People Eater
Posted on August 15, 2021 | 20 CommentsEven as my Protege5 was disintegrating before my eyes, I found myself falling for another Mazda. -
COAL Briquette: 2000 and 2016 Subaru Outbacks – The Tail Wagon the Dog
Posted on August 14, 2021 | 44 Comments[I’m looking after a spouse suddenly sick amidst the severe heat and wildfire smoke that moved in today, so this week’s post is a shorty; the intended feature-length piece is […] -
COAL: Project Subaru Rescue 2021: Win, Lose or Draw?
Posted on August 12, 2021 | 56 Comments(ED: After this past Sunday’s COAL on a problematic 2003 Forester, the timing of this submission is a new version of the CC Effect™. Except this time the author is […] -
COAL: 2008 BMW 328i Sports Wagon — Coming Around Full Circle
Posted on August 11, 2021 | 21 CommentsOK, pan just a bit to the right from the scene at the end of my last COAL and there’s a fairly full glimpse of this week’s subject. Probably the […] -
COAL: 2016 Mercedes Benz SLK 300 – The Upgrade
Posted on August 10, 2021 | 20 CommentsA quick refresher is in order, as it’s been a few years since I COALed about this topic: I’ve always loved convertibles, and growing up my parents had a 1971 […] -
COAL: 2003 Subaru Forester – What Lies Beneath
Posted on August 8, 2021 | 39 CommentsWe’re going a little bit out of order with this week’s COAL, but it seems appropriate, given the circumstances. There was a death in the fleet and it seems fitting […] -
COAL: 1989 Dodge D-100 – What The Truck?
Posted on August 7, 2021 | 70 CommentsI’m not really sure why I bought a truck in August of 2002. I wasn’t a farmer or a contractor, and I wasn’t doing any big project or anything else […] -
COAL: 2002 MINI Cooper S — Just Don’t Call It “Driving”
Posted on August 4, 2021 | 51 CommentsFor once, the pendulum didn’t swing. If you’ve been following my car history these past months, you know that I have tended to veer between successive cars that had relatively […] -
COAL: 2002 Mazda Protege5 – Fool Me Again
Posted on August 1, 2021 | 20 CommentsI really wanted one of these in yellow, but I settled for a red one late in the 2002 model year. I always seem to buy my cars in […] -
COAL: 1985 Volvo 245 Turbo the Second – Oops, I Did It Again
Posted on July 31, 2021 | 40 CommentsOn 6 October 2002, I impulsively decided that, having done my time in a K (ish)-car, I was rehabilitated and ready to return to productive society. The -
COAL: 1993 Nissan Sentra SE-R — How Do You Define Daily Driver?
Posted on July 28, 2021 | 49 CommentsWhat’s your definition of “daily driver”? I don’t mean just the obvious such as “the car I drive every day”, but rather what characteristics do you require (or “demand” assuming […] -
COAL: 2004 Honda Element LX- We Drive Boxes
Posted on July 25, 2021 | 25 CommentsIt was time for a change. I had owned my Mazda 3 sedan for three years, almost four. The latter part of it’s time, it was used as my girlfriend’s […] -
COAL: 2001 Mazda MPV – Zoom Zoom To Rust Rust
Posted on July 25, 2021 | 36 CommentsThe second generation Mazda MPV, introduced in mid-1999, replaced the quirky, but beloved (by some) first generation MPV with it’s available 4WD and hinged rear doors. By waiting for the […]