![In the Summer of 1979, I was zoom-zooming my Mazda RX-2 around, doing summer jobs while home from college. For whatever unexplained reason, my parents decided that they were done […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/C1CFD578-2D8B-4853-AB3B-D4EC7A9293EC.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 part 2, The View From the Driver’s Seat")
![A friend had waxed all of us at the midnight back country grudge races with his sister’s borrowed RX-2. In our little automotive world of highly abused four-cylinder engines working […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/rxccv.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1972 Mazda RX-2 — Paleolithic Zoom-Zoom")
![I was sixteen, I had been saving my money, I had my license, I had been driving the family’s Mercury wagon, I had been lusting for the family’s Mustang, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/63DAD420-4643-4A6F-B69B-53EB5CC33045.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1972 Toyota Celica- Starting in Cologne, Winding Up In Japan")
![Per my last COAL posting, I had fallen head-over-heels for the family’s Mustang Fastback, but it was now time to get my license and actually start driving cars for […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/D5B67876-47D6-4B2A-B016-4693169ADBDD.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1973 Mercury Colony Park – The Incredible Hulk")
![I include my birth year in my on-line name, because it can help to explain where I might be coming from in my comments, based on my age. For […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nmmh.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 – Glorious Misery From The Back Seat")
![There can be different definitions of one’s “first car”. It can be the first one you actually purchased, or maybe it was bought for you. It can be your first […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_0188.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: When Does The First COAL Count?")
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