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Cars Of A Lifetime Archive
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COAL: 1971 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser – The Ultimate Wagon Of A Lifetime
Posted on April 26, 2015 | 37 CommentsSince it is station wagon week, I felt inspired to contribute my first article to Curbside Classic. Growing up in an Oldsmobile family, it was only natural for me to […] -
Wagons Of A Lifetime: The Way Back– My Family Wagons
Posted on April 20, 2015 | 32 CommentsUntil very recently, there was almost always a station wagon in my life. I remember my first encounter with a station wagon. It was 1976-77, I was between four […] -
COAL: 1969 Ford Cortina GT – Tuning by Lotus, Towing by Angelo
Posted on April 19, 2015 | 36 CommentsThis particular COAL came into my ownership in a somewhat strange story. My best friend’s mother was a very hard-working librarian who was raising three children pretty much on her […] -
COAL: An Exaltation of Larks
Posted on April 12, 2015 | 35 CommentsMy family had an attraction to automotive orphans. Detailing the strange array of my father’s cars, which included a supercharged Kaiser Manhattan (destroyed towing my grandmother’s piano), a Hudson Hornet, […] -
COAL: 1980 AMC Concord – Little Green Concord, You Don’t Know What I Got
Posted on April 10, 2015 | 30 CommentsThis little green 1980 Concord was a three-generation family car, owned by my grandfather, my aunt and myself. Like the title says, I didn’t know what I got: -
COAL: 1982 Datsun 210, 1986 Hyundai Excel, 1985 Nissan Sentra, 1993 Toyota Camry– Testaments to “My Sometimes Impulsive Behavior”
Posted on April 5, 2015 | 31 CommentsSo last week’s Mercury LN7 was gone and we still needed a second car with an automatic transmission. So we bought a red car with a black interior from a […] -
COAL: 1996 Dodge Horizon Class B Motorhome – Travels With Charley
Posted on April 4, 2015 | 34 CommentsIn Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck, at the age of 58, disillusioned by his fame and literary success, realized that he had not actually seen the country he had become […] -
Curbside Catharsis: Travels with Dad and Brigitte
Posted on March 29, 2015 | 51 CommentsAuthor’s note: Friday I sold my 1989 MBZ 300 SE after 16 years of ownership. As a tribute to a car that meant so much to me over the years, […] -
COAL: 1978 Datsun B210, 1983 Toyota Tercel, 1982 Mercury LN7-Fun with Small Cars
Posted on March 29, 2015 | 18 CommentsOkay, so I had to give up my dream car. What could be worse? Can you say “boredom?” -
COAL: 1999 Plymouth Grand Voyager – The Scourge of V’Ger
Posted on March 28, 2015 | 49 CommentsEarly in 2008, with a pregnant wife and two other kids, we decided we needed something that could easily haul three kids, one of them in a big car seat–in […] -
Cars Of A Lifetime: 1989 Cadillac Brougham – Hello, Old Friend
Posted on March 24, 2015 | 65 Comments(first posted 7/3/2011) Those of us who have owned several cars very seldom get to re-connect with an old one. Sure, we may see them around for awhile after we […] -
COAL: 1970 Pontiac Firebird Espirit – Out of the Frying Pan and into the Firebird
Posted on March 22, 2015 | 70 CommentsSo I finally got rid of my Opel Kadett. After that boondoggle, I figured that ANY other car would be better than what I had before. I was almost […] -
COAL: 2003 Dodge Dakota – Perfection?
Posted on March 21, 2015 | 53 CommentsI remember the first time I saw this truck. It was Thanksgiving Day 2008, and I was in my grandmother-in-law’s driveway putting new brake pads on my wife’s van, replacing […] -
COAL: 1968 Opel Kadett – Hot Fun in the Summertime
Posted on March 15, 2015 | 45 Commentsimage: Tom Klockau/CC It was a cold day in January 1975. My fellow classmates could not understand why I was taking my driver’s test in January. The fact of the […] -
COAL: 1993 Ford Taurus GL – Base Model Terrorist Taurus
Posted on March 14, 2015 | 30 Comments(side note – I took a few months off from writing as my busy life intervened. Previous posts can be found by going to my profile here) When I was […]