![The Ranger needs a head gasket. The author needs a way to get to work and the parts store/machine shop while the truck is apart. What’s the best car $200 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "COAL: 1969 Ford Custom – Cheap By The Pound")
![[Not mine. This is the fancy XLT with two-tone paint] Sometimes we buy cars with our heads, and sometimes we buy cars with our hearts. Every time I have let […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/interior.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1984 Ford Ranger – We All Fall In Love, But We Disregard The Ranger")
![[photos by Paul N.] Having learned the ugly lesson of depreciation on the Dodge Omni, I was determined not to lose my butt on my next car. What’s the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Chevrolet_Sprint_Plus_5dr.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1986 Chevrolet Sprint Plus – The Least Pretentious Car Ever?")
![[Not my van, but mine was likewise red. All photos courtesy of the Internet] The year is 2002. I had owned nothing but Volvos for the previous 5 years, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_4123.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1992 Plymouth Voyager – They Made Those With Manual Transmissions?")
![[All photos by the author. Luckily, the internet saved them for me.] By 2002, I was a Certified Volvo 240 Nut™. As people often do when they become enamored with […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Volvo_1800ES_73_3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1973 Volvo 1800ES – A Brief Fling with a Shooting Brake")
![Ask any 10 automobile enthusiasts, and you’re likely to get 12 opinions. Yet for some reason, enthusiasts seem to be in complete agreement on the desire for one car: a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/redrock.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1984 Volvo 245 Diesel – The RWD Diesel Stick-Shift Brown Station Wagon Mythical Beast of the Internet")
![Sometimes, being “the car guy” has unintended consequences. Last Fall (2015), an Internet friend of mine from Seattle lamented to me that she needed to get a new car, because […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Acura_RR.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1990 Integra – The Unintentional Acura")
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