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- Lives in the Central Valley of California. Spends way too much time prowling Craigslist for old cars. My greatest achievement is my hair.
![(first posted 1/20/2018) You, my friend, and I, are plinkers. Mere armchair quarterbacks in the game of cars and life. We putter about in our modern automobiles, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180105_221432.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1958 Ford F-100: Separating the Men From the Boys.")
![(first posted 9/21/2017) Back in the Spring, when, according to the Good Book, “kings go off to war”, I hauled the Esposita out to the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/20170430_112905-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 2003 VW Type 1 Beetle: Last of the Mohicans")
![Ah November, the season for overeating and overspending and general pleasure lovin’ hedonism, but in an acceptable, middle of the road, kinda way that your grandma is okey-dokey with; […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181117_152314.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Report- Actuals, Fistfights and Fish Bellies: Fresno’s Annual Car Show Delivers.")
![This originally ran in November, 2017. But it’s the only decent thing I’ve done wrote in the last 12 months so here it is again. Lucky […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20170913_1705582321.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car of a Lifetime: 2017 Dodge Challenger: La Esposita Buys a Car")
![“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s” -Ezra Taft Benson Are you a waxer? I suppose […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180629_082719.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: Do You Still Wax Your Car?")
![Herewhileback, as my Arkie father-in-law used to say, I was luxuriating in the waiting, uh, not really a room as it only has one wall, so, uh, spot, of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20160903_105649.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Humor: How’s Your Auto-Shop Waiting Room?")
![Ah, the Project Car™. The physical embodiment of Man’s Search For Meaning, primarily in the form of the quest for eternal youth. Gonna get the car I lusted over […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180210_102219.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1968 Chevy C/10 – Glory Days")
![(originally published on May 10, 2017) “Pity the sons of great men, forever in the shadows they dwell.” Pseudo-Lucretius, first century AD. This is the story of a motorcycle, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SCAN0008.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC’s Best of 2017: Motorcycle Of A Lifetime: 1972 Honda CB175 – All Our Yesterdays")
![Some things are Simply Irresistible. Things like chili, fresh socks, new wiper blades, and, of course, that thing nearest and dearest to a young man’s heart, that one thing […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SCAN0011-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1969 VW Baja Bug: “She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went.”")
![To understand what you are about to read, some of which, seen in the glaringly unforgiving and harsh light of early 2017, looks mildly horrifying, it would probably be […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lunchbox.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
![Aw the ’84 Rabbit, where do I begin? Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. After the failure of the 1951 Ford F-1 to live […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/20170112_213323.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1984 VW Rabbit Diesel: Volkswagen (and Heath) Does It Again!")
![(Heath McClure is back with another highly entertaining installment of his COAL. Don’t miss it. PN) If ya recall, we skipped ahead on our heroes Life Well Lived™ and bypassed the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rabbit1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1979 VW Rabbit Diesel: You Can’t Get There From Here")
![When we last left our hero he was young. Now, not so much. Indeed the years have not been kind, and the big 5-0 has come and gone. Middle Age. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/120805_083.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1972 Ford F-250: Middle Aged Spread")
![My young family (still) needed reliable transportation. When we last left our hero, he’d just traded up and gotten rid of the Ultimate MiniVan Driving Machine™ the lime green 77’ […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1951-F-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1951 Ford F1 Pickup -“Bonus Blunder”")
![(Welcome our newest COAL contributor Heath McClure. You’re going to love the ride! Click on the author’s name for the rest of his posts. PN) So, my young family […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1977VW1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Cars Of A Lifetime: 1977 VW Type 2 Westfalia – Concrete In The Console")
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