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![(first posted 11/16/2016) As a car-crazed kid growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I was always envious of other people who came from “car towns”. Detroit was, of course, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1976InternationalScout05.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1976 International Scout Terra – The Hometown Truck")
![I had married a 1988 Honda Accord (and the girl it brought with it). That Honda had been rock solid in its role as Car No. 1 for our […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1968Newport02.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1968 Chrysler Newport Custom – Chapter 19, One More Drink From The Well")
![Because each chapter has been published in the order the cars came into my life, it may have been difficult to keep track of their comings and goings, so let’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1994-Club-Wagon-02.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1994 Ford Club Wagon Chateau – Chapter 18, Let’s Go Clubbing")
![In the summer of 1993, my car life was in fine shape: We had the stalwart ’88 Accord sedan and the ’86 Marquis Wagon (the smaller one, like a Fairmont) […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1985-Crown-Victoria-02-Feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria – Chapter 17, Heavy The Head That Wears The Crown")
![In a short 18 months or so, I had gone from piloting a land yacht (’66 Fury III) to having a blast in a go kart (’83 Colt) to needing […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1986-Marquis-Wagon-01-Feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1986 Mercury Marquis Wagon – Chapter 16, No Not That Marquis, The Smaller One. Like A Fairmont")
![I had just spent four years in automotive daily-driver-almost-nirvana with my 1966 Plymouth Fury III. Those years, 1987-91 were four of my most satisfying years of automotive ownership. But you […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1983-Colt-feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1983 Plymouth Colt – Chapter 15, Keep It In The Family")
![(first posted 6/11/2012) Paul Niedermeyer and I have occasionally described ourselves as yin and yang when it comes to Curbside Classics. So, when Paul the Yin brought us a 1967 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1966PontiacGTO3-crop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1966 Pontiac GTO – A Goat or a Mule?")
![(first posted 7/23/2012) I have always been fascinated by the Chevrolet-Ford rivalry. As Henry Ford’s bare-bones Model T hit its stride, the Ford Motor Company had a kind of market […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1967ChevyCaprceEstate01-crop.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1967 Chevrolet Caprice Estate – Nice, But Not Nice Enough")
![In December of 1988 I got a call from a law school classmate. Karl and his wife wanted to have me over for dinner one evening. “Oh, would it be […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1988-Accord01-feature.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1988 Honda Accord LX – Chapter 13, How I Married A Keeper Twice In One Day")
![One of the not-car things that kept me occupied during my later single years was flying. I learned to fly, got my private pilot’s license, and thought about the next […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1929-Model-A-05-small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1929 Ford Model A Standard Coupe – Chapter 12, A Is For Awesome")
![Before I got married, and for awhile after that milestone event, my “gotta get another car” pangs continued to strike every spring and every fall. In the fall of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1961-Thunderbird-02-Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1961 Ford Thunderbird – Chapter 11, Wherein Realism Crushes Optimism")
![There I was in the fall of 1987. I was six months into home-ownership and ready to jump from the frying pan of a new car with payments into the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1966-Fury-III-10.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1966 Plymouth Fury III – Chapter 10, Reverting To Type")
![(first posted 9/16/2016) Is there a car that you learned about way after you should have? Is there a car that you have never seen in real life even though […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1957StudebakerCommander07-crop2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1957 Studebaker Commander – Eureka!")
![In the early fall of 1986 I was living the life I thought I wanted. I was a young lawyer in a small law firm, I had a nearly-new […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1963-Ford-F100-01b.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1963 Ford F-100 – Chapter 9, A Post-Breakup Pick Me Up")
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