- Description
- Art Center grad with automotive product planning, development, and research experience over 34 years with Volvo and Ford. Former Petersen Museum vault docent and freelancer for Bring a Trailer. Monthly EV sales reports and curated alternative powertrain news reports for Motor Intelligence. Still playing with cars after all these years, from a Sunbeam Tiger to a stick-shift Mazda5 van...
![When our family moved to northern NJ, Mom needed a car of her own for the first time in her life, as she had commuted to her previous NYC […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-11-04-23.58.57.jpg "COAL #3: Mother’s First Car – The Bow-Tie Bel Air")
![As the 1958 Plymouth Suburban has been well-covered at CC by Kevin Martin here in 2020 and by Steve Crutchfield here more recently, I won’t try to duplicate their fine […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Dad-and-me-with-Plymouth-wagon.jpg "COAL #2: The ’58 Plymouth Suburban 2-Door Wagon")
![The first family car I remember was our ’51 DeSoto. As far as I can tell, the ’51 hasn’t yet had its day in the CC sun, perhaps not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1951_DeSoto_4050550054.jpg "COAL #1: The ’51 DeSoto")
![(Please welcome our newest Sunday COALer) According to my parents, my first spoken word was “Buick”, in spite of the fact that my family never owned that make of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Captura-de-pantalla-2023-10-13-00.49.56.jpg "COAL Intro: First Nuggets Of COAL")
