![The French psychotherapist and homeopath Rene Allendy said that the number sixty is deeply embedded in our world and in our psyches.In his 1921 book “Number Symbolisms: Essays on […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20201111_1337392.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Momento Mori: 1960 Ford Thunderbird – Sex and Death")
![I continue to improvise on a theme of jalopy. There’s a short street near my apartment building, just a block long, on which this particular 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_6974.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Time-Lapse: 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 – Crudful Extreme")
![In 2020, we fled Queens for the shore after two months of lockdown in our two-bedroom apartment, and my mornings were consumed with entertaining walks with my two-and-a-half year […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_20200617_1013512.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: 1972 Mustang: The Glue Factory Beckons")
![My mother’s first cousin Nathan R. died in Alon Shvut, near Efrat, Israel, a few days before Purim last March. He was the last member of my family to have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gggaax.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1966 SAAB 96 – AM MISHPOCHAH CHAI")
![Give me a long kiss goodnightAnd everything’ll be alrightTell me that I won’t feel a thingSo get me Novacaine. — “Get Me Novacaine”, American Idiot, Green Day (2004) (Because Billy […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_20220118_094058.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: 1962 Chevy II 300 Station Wagon – Give Me Novacaine")
![One of the treasured delicacies of my childhood was kosher German cold cuts – aufschnit. When I was a baby, there were several skilled butchers/charcutiers in Washington Heights left of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_20151023_180950.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2016 Subaru Outback – Aufschnit und Wurst")
![[This installment has been delayed by first, me taking my family out of New York during the blooming of the Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic, and then, me coming […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/artyblackandwhite2013car.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2003 Subaru Legacy L Wagon: The Dowager Queen")
![On Saturday, I brought the family home from COVID isolation – two weeks at the shore in a mostly fully-equipped and winterized beach house, but with extra-added fevers, coughing, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_20220109_121920.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Outtake: Forest Hills 1977 Ford LTD")
![I started out last week thinking that I would segue from my Oldsmobile to the second most recent and so far longest car ownership experience of my life, but then […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1953-austin-countryman-panel-van-wagon-british-suburban-a40-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: The Ghost Cars")
![I spotted this rare specimen as I was dropping my toddler at nursery school, and came back hoping for a nearby parking spot close to the express subway. Completely, utterly […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/m1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Out-take: 1971 Ford Maverick – Fifty One Year Old Yearling")
![A 1985 Regency 98, not mine, because I have no pictures. The time has come to sing of Oldsmobiles. I remember, the year of my bar mitzvah, the GM advertising […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1985-oldsmobile-ninety-eight-regency-brougham-americanlisted_28297331.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1985 Oldsmobile Regency 98: Chopped Liver")
![Yes, it’s a two-tone ’91, but mine had a blue ground effects and the wheels were right. (Welcome our new Saturday COAL series writer) We begin in the Penis. All […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1991-dodge-daytona-6-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1990 Dodge Daytona ES – The Penis Car")
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