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![(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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1967ChevyCaprceEstate01-crop.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1988-Accord01-feature.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1929-Model-A-05-small.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1961-Thunderbird-02-Small.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1966-Fury-III-10.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1957StudebakerCommander07-crop2.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1963-Ford-F100-01b.jpg "COAL: 1963 Ford F-100 – Chapter 9, A Post-Breakup Pick Me Up")
![The summer of 1985 was a time of transition for me. For the first time of my life, I was on the verge of real life – which included two […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1985-GTI-01a.jpg "COAL: 1985 Volkswagen GTI – Chapter 8, Fahrvergnugen!")
![Thus begins the strangest tale in my entire vehicle ownership experience. Which is saying something. This was a car that never should have come into my life, but that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1977-New-Yorker-01.jpg "COAL: 1977 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham – Chapter 7, The Beautiful (But Troubled) New Yorker")
![The Fever. The pattern had become quite apparent to me. Each spring and each fall I got the almost irresistible urge to buy a car. Six months was pretty perfect […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1971-Scamp-02b.jpg "COAL: 1971 Plymouth Valiant Scamp – Chapter 6, The Scamper")
![(first posted 8/17/2016) The reason that the childhood story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears resonates so deeply with many of us is that there are so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1961FordFalcon14a.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1961 Ford Falcon – Simply Original and Just Right")
![Though I didn’t realize it at the time, my life was perfect in October of 1979. I was a sophomore in college and I had an excellent specimen of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1959-Plymouth-Futy-04a.jpg "COAL: 1959 Plymouth Fury – Chapter 5, A Backwards Look At The Forward Look")
![When we left off I had just sold both my ’67 Galaxie convertible and my ’63 Cadillac Fleetwood to the same guy for not as much money as I should […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1968FordMustang2.jpg "COAL: 1968 Ford Mustang – Chapter 4, A Brief Opportunity To Be Normal")
![(first posted 11/23/2012) Today’s market offers no shortage of such “aspirational” cars as BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Lexus, among others. Each brand has a fairly broad fan base and products […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1962CadillacCoupedeVille12.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1962 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe – Coupe de la Creme")
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