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![(Updated 8/23/2026) “You want to take it for a drive?” This was my neighbor, Mike, walking down his front lawn toward me as I admired his […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/67Tempest1.jpg "1967 Pontiac Tempest Custom Convertible – Taking It Out for a Spin")
![It had been a long, crappy day at the office, and I was headed home to a long night of leaning on the youngest boy to make up more missing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/79PontiacGP2jg.jpg "Curbside Find: 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix – A Broughamified GM Deadly Sin")
![(Updated 3/10/2026) I wanted to put Classic in quotes in the title, because really, it’s just a dustbuster minivan. But it’s a clean example in that classic late-80s/early-90s Chevrolet […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/91ChevyLuminaAPV1jg.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1991 Chevrolet Lumina APV – Go Home GM, You’re Drunk")
![In 2023, after it hit about 110,000 miles, my Passat started making repeated visits to the shop. It was never anything major, but the steady drip sure was annoying. My […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2024-GLI-2-115x115.jpg "2024 Volkswagen Jetta GLI, 40th Anniversary Edition: Pure, Uncomplicated Joy")
![It’s a great deal harder to launch into independent adulthood now than when I did it in the late 1980s. Even with a university degree, entry-level jobs are harder to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2010-Ford-Focus-2-115x115.jpg "The Cars We Bought for Our Kids: Driving Toward Independence")
![The years I drove this base 2013 VW Passat were marked by repeated profound loss. But the car itself — solid, reliable, quietly competent — was a reassuring constant through […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2013-Passat-6-115x115.jpg "My 2013 Volkswagen Passat: A Dependable Car for Difficult Roads")
![This 2006 Ford Focus turned out to play an important role in my relationship with my father. I’ve written before about how my dad always needed to be in control […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/05-Focus-10-115x115.jpg "My 2006 Ford Focus: Serving Three Generations of Greys")
![I always thought the Dodge Magnum was one badass looking wagon. I test-drove several wagons and hatches to replace my little lost red Toyota Matrix, because so many of our […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2003-Matrix-XRs-1-115x115.jpg "My 2003 Toyota Matrix XRS: Steady Miles")
![(Updated 1/9/2026) I’m on a quest to find a first-year example of each of the FWD GM A bodies. I haven’t found one yet, but every time I spy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/87BuickCentury1jg.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988 Buick Century – Direct from the Waning Years of the Great Brougham Epoch")
![The story of this 1989 Toyota Corolla happened in 2002, during the worst years of my first marriage. We were two years away from separating. This car didn’t shape my […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1991-Toyota-Corolla-a-115x115.jpg "My Oldest’s 1989 Toyota Corolla: First-Car Folly")
![“Just buy a Toyota,” my wife urged. We needed to trade in our troublesome Mercury Sable wagon, but we still needed room for three kids. My wife had a point: […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1998-Sienna-1-115x115.jpg "My 1998 Toyota Sienna: Built to Endure")
![In late 1998 or early 1999, I traded my Chevy Beretta for a 1996 Mercury Sable wagon in Pacific Green Metallic. Because I was fully busy with my young family, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1996-Mercury-Sable-1-115x115.jpg "My 1996 Mercury Sable Wagon: A Bad Bet")
![When I graduated from engineering school, I was still driving the Renault I’d borrowed from my dad. I knew he’d soon want his car back, so I bought this Chevy […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1989-Beretta-3-115x115.jpg "My 1989 Chevrolet Beretta: Ten Years, Two Road Trips, One Growing Man")
![While my dad owned the Renault, a little Ford Pinto was my daily driver for a short time. I’ve always been an anxious driver. I’m a little embarrassed to admit […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1975-Pinto-3-115x115.jpg "My 1975 Ford Pinto: Driving Into Confidence")
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