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COAL: Project Subaru Update And The Pitfalls Of Hooptie Life : A Dire CC Community Prediction Comes True
Posted on May 28, 2022 | 37 CommentsTo recap from an article last August, I purchased a 2002 Subaru Forester with the intention of it ultimately being my new driver 17 year old sons car. I recounted […] -
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 […] -
Dock and Curbside Classics: Four Amphicars in One Place!
Posted on July 15, 2021 | 17 CommentsWith thousands of miles of shoreline plus hundreds of natural and man-made inland lakes and rivers and canals, boating is a big deal in Michigan. Although I do enjoy a […] -
Post-Covid Road Trip: Springfield, Ohio Antique Market -The Haulers
Posted on July 2, 2021 | 14 CommentsDue to Covid 19, I haven’t been out of the state of Michigan since February 2020, when I flew to New York for a quick business trip. Its a fair […] -
Dockside Classic: 1953 Navy Surplus Landing Craft – Still A Working Ferry For the State of Michigan
Posted on September 27, 2020 | 12 CommentsMrs. Carlsberg66 and I had a chance to steal away to northern Michigan for a few days this month. One of the stops was arguably Michigan’s crown jewel, Mackinac Island, […] -
COAL UPDATES: 2012 Chevrolet Equinox and 2008 Saturn Astra – The Family Grinders
Posted on April 6, 2020 | 31 CommentsI have not posted in a while so thought I’d update two COALs which I still have. First, the 2012 Equinox which was profiled in January of 2019 here. At […] -
Curbside Outtake: The Cleanest First Generation Chevy S-10?
Posted on December 28, 2019 | 22 CommentsMy Astra was so filthy yesterday I could no longer stand it, so with my 89 year old Mother and son in tow, ran the car through the coin wash. […] -
Curbside Outtake: Ford Ikon – A Surprise Mexican Vistitor To Michigan
Posted on December 18, 2019 | 24 CommentsYesterday I was stopping by my mechanic to checking on a minor issue with my 2014 Regal GS, and then remembered the venerable folks at A&A are closed the first […] -
COAL: 2017 Chevrolet Corvette LT1 – Stupid Is As Stupid Does?
Posted on December 14, 2019 | 40 CommentsOn July 24th, my 2016 Camaro SS was totaled. It took a while for the dust to settle but I received a much larger insurance settlement than expected. And I […] -
COAL Update, 2016 Camaro SS2: So Long Friend, I Hardly Knew Ya!
Posted on August 13, 2019 | 35 CommentsI’ve had my 2016 Camaro not quite two years and is the subject of a COAL I wrote about earlier this year. Making a long story short, I’ve owned my […] -
Poland Trip June 2019: In Search of Polish Curbside Classics
Posted on July 21, 2019 | 63 CommentsFirst Polish CC, outside Pope John Paul II airport. Anyone? Anyone? A trip to Poland is one I’ve always wanted to make. All four of my grandparents emigrated from Poland […] -
CC’s Under My Nose: Neighborhood Walkabout
Posted on May 23, 2019 | 25 CommentsPaul and other contributors in various parts of the country with more car-friendly climates have no shortage of great CCs that end up here. I was in northern California […] -
2019 Toronto Trip: (No) Planes, Trains and (No) Automobiles
Posted on April 20, 2019 | 35 CommentsI have two sons involved in high school band, and it’s turned out to be a pretty good gig for them. The band takes a major (fly somewhere) and a […] -
CC Outtake: Buick Verano With Rear Wheel Steering
Posted on February 15, 2019 | 34 CommentsI happened to be in downtown Flint , MI today and walked past this late model Buick Verano with the rear passenger wheel snapped off on Saginaw Street. A kindly […] -
COAL: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS2- The Angry Car
Posted on February 3, 2019 | 26 CommentsWith the Miata now departed in the summer of 2017, I had a green light from the Mrs. to replace it. The world was my oyster, within reason. A C-6 […]