(first posted 5/12/2014) My brother is one of those people who, in choosing his cars, has always stumbled upon vehicles with legendary drivetrains. Maybe it’s simply a matter of his […]
Early 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 […]
I 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 […]
You may remember from my last post that I inherited an instant family, so to speak, and with it came a perfectly sensible family car. A white Escort wagon with […]
Standing in my mechanic’s office in August of 2006, I laid down the sad story of Fred’s demise, my brother’s misfortune, and my need for a replacement. In his usual […]
As they say, it really is strange how things work out. Shortly before my sixteenth birthday, my dad bought a brand new 1993 Mazda 626 ES in glorious bright red […]
My buddy Xav and I have been friends since sophomore year of high school when we discovered that each of us were of the rare breed at a Catholic high […]
Fall of 1998 came and I’d had enough of the CRX, working three jobs, and was even starting to tire of the partying phase. When it came time for another […]
Now it’s time for another automotive admission of guilt: my favorite Thunderbird, bar none, was the tenth generation. I’m sure this is to cause nearly as much controversy as my […]
During my post-high-school years one of the several jobs I had was as a delivery driver. I started in my senior year of high school driving a 1987 Ford box […]
Sometimes what you read on paper and imagine in your mind doesn’t manifest itself in practice. Even with the low gas prices of the mid 1990’s it was pretty clear […]
If you polled the majority of my friends and other kids at the time, the first car of the Midwest teenager during the mid-nineties was anything but memorable. I […]
At about thirteen years old I realized something – the next “family car” was likely going to be the one that I would be driving when I turned sixteen. My […]