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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 2006 Ford Taurus SEL – One Last Ride
Posted on January 10, 2018 | 37 CommentsFrom 2001 to 2017, at least one Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable counted itself as a member of the Snitkoff fleet. Letting go of a car is generally a somewhat […] -
COAL: 1998 Ford Explorer XLT V8 – Rollin’ In My 5.0…
Posted on January 7, 2018 | 54 Comments(First posted August 11, 2013) Towards the fall of 1998, I’d started to realize that my switching jobs earlier in the year had been a very wise move. As a […] -
COAL: 2006 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited – All-Purpose
Posted on January 6, 2018 | 20 CommentsAlthough the Acura CL was a fun car to own and drive, I missed having a used car like the Taurus that I could use for taking stuff to the […] -
COAL: 1987 Yamaha FZ700 – The One-Year Tariff-Beater
Posted on December 31, 2017 | 27 Comments(First posted August 4, 2013) As the weather in Northern California turned from the normal “good” to the almost as normal “great”, my thoughts once again turned to two-wheeled […] -
CC’s Best of 2017: Curbside Expatriot: 2017 Chevrolet SS – “She’s the last of the (four door, RWD, manual) V8s!”*
Posted on December 30, 2017 | 87 Comments(First published May 6, 2017 – Updated) Sometime this past week (around the end of April, 2017), the final Chevrolet SS was expected to have rolled off Holden’s production line in Elizabeth, South […] -
CC’s Best of 2017: Motorcycle Of A Lifetime: 1972 Honda CB175 – All Our Yesterdays
Posted on December 30, 2017 | 68 Comments(originally published on May 10, 2017) “Pity the sons of great men, forever in the shadows they dwell.” Pseudo-Lucretius, first century AD. This is the story of a motorcycle, […] -
COAL: 2010 Lexus HS250h – You Really Bought That?
Posted on December 30, 2017 | 27 CommentsWhen I wrapped up the 2008 Lexus ES350 a couple of weeks ago, I alluded to replacing it with a Lexus that virtually no one wanted. Several commenters quickly zeroed […] -
COAL: 1993.5 Infiniti G20 – Ahead of Its Time?
Posted on December 24, 2017 | 45 Comments(First posted July 28, 2013) Having had somewhat recently divested myself, for no particularly good financial reason, of a fairly new VW Jetta and a decently running motorcycle in […] -
COAL: 2008 Lexus ES350 – Another One, Part 2
Posted on December 23, 2017 | 15 CommentsDoing the COAL series and looking back at the cars I have purchased over the past quarter century or so has given me an interesting perspective. Looking at the cars […] -
COAL: 1996 VW GTI Mk3 – How’d They Get Rid Of The Fahrvergnügen?
Posted on December 17, 2017 | 41 Comments(First posted July 21, 2013, here with slight updates) When I recently wrote about the car that my girlfriend brought into the home that we had started to share, it […] -
COAL Update: Summary, Updates, and an Introduction
Posted on December 17, 2017 | 11 CommentsOne year ago, I finished my COAL series documenting my vehicular history that started with a silver Dodge station wagon and ended with a silver Dodge station wagon. There were […] -
I Bought A 1971 Buick Riviera From Lou Glutz Motors and Barely Lived To Tell This Cautionary Tale
Posted on December 16, 2017 | 59 Comments(submitted by Kyle Murphy) On June 2nd, 2016, I drove by the Lou Glutz used car lot on Highway 99 around 4:30pm, as I had done every week day for […] -
COAL: 2007 Toyota Camry CE – Another One?
Posted on December 16, 2017 | 46 CommentsI have owned a lot of cars over my driving career, and some of them have been pretty interesting. Some others…not so much. This week, unfortunately, is one of the […] -
COAL: 2003 Acura 3.2 CL Type S – My First “Collector” Car
Posted on December 9, 2017 | 18 CommentsI found having a third car (the 2000 Taurus I profiled a couple of weeks ago) to be really handy for many reasons. A four-door sedan was a great extra […]