![As you may have noticed CC ran a second look at the DougD series of COAL articles, so it’s time for an update and some self reflection. I first encountered […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/TR4-1987.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The DougD Reruns: Updates and Reflections")
![(first posted 2/9/2016) It seems our family keeps vehicles until they are about 15 years old. Our 88 Ranger and our 96 Windstar both departed at 15, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Canoes.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 2001 Ford Focus – A Daily Dose Of Joy")
![(first posted 1/22/2014) Back in 1972 my father, JackD, went on a quest to buy his first new car. His primary criteria were that it carry his family of five […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AMC-Matador-DD1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1972 AMC Matador – I Saved It, And It Saved Me")
![(first posted 3/24/2015) Dad gave me this photo he’d scanned from a slide. It epitomizes my childhood; mop of blonde hair, patched knees on pants, messing […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/56_Fargo_Orange_Julep.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Childhood Classic: Following Cliff Around")
![(first posted 5/18/2019) When the future Mrs DougD left University in 1995, she exited the world of bicycles and buses, and needed a car to get to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Topaz2-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1989 Mercury Topaz – “I Can’t Go, I’m Too Nervous”")
![(first posted 7/11/2015) a·nom·a·ly: something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. I had a Windstar. I drove it for almost 10 years without major problems. It still […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Freestar.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1996 Ford Windstar – Anomaly")
![(first posted 11/22/2014) This was the shortest term of ownership I ever had a car for, about a year and a half but this brief flame burns […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_5141.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My 1985 Mazda RX-7 – Reality Steps In")
![(first posted 3/8/2014) I shot this snow covered pair of 450 Hondas on my way to work. They are my daily reminder of my own introduction […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Pair-of-450s.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "My Honda 450 Nighthawk – The Best First Bike")
![(first posted 4/10/2015) This little green 1980 Concord was a three-generation family car, owned by my grandfather, my aunt and myself. Like the title says, I […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/C-Corner.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1980 AMC Concord – Little Green Concord, You Don’t Know What I Got")
![(first posted 10/26/2014) Here at CC we normally have a high regard for the GM B-bodies that appeared in 1977, but my own B-body tale is a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1981-Specs.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1981 Chevrolet Impala – B is for Broom Handle")
![(first posted 4/24/2014) Here’s something I didn’t expect to see outside a grocery store in Utah. The badging says Austin Healey, but the flares, louvers and faux wire wheels all […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/photo-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: Classic Roadsters Sebring MX – Austin Healey 3000 Wannabe")
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