- Description
- I'm a lifelong lover of cars - from collecting Matchbox cars in my youth, to getting my first magazine subscription when I was 14, I've always been fascinated with them. I'm now a work from home employee for a software company and daddy to two mini dachshunds.
![After moving to Colorado for a fresh start, both personally and professionally, I figured that should also include a new car. Why? Well, why not? Not that there was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Honda_Accord_1993_Finland.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1993 Honda Accord DX – What Was I Thinking?")
![Same color, though this is the coveted SE-R. Mine had no fog lights and the smaller alloy wheels. In the summer of 1991, gasoline was selling for $1.50/gallon in California […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1994.nissan.sentra.8194-e.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1991 Nissan Sentra SE – Transitions")
![Marriage and family – turns out those life decisions drive a lot of car purchase decisions for many people. While there was nothing wrong with the Accord and the P’up […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1988-isuzu-trooper-gasoline-engine-134089-miles-2-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1988 Isuzu Trooper – Family Guy!")
![I graduated college in October 1985, and moved back to California for my first “real” job. As the Skylark I owned was sold on graduation day in Phoenix, I arrived […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Accord-pix-2e.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1985 Honda Accord LX – My First Grown Up Car")
![GM is dead; long live GM! In our last chapter, the Sunbird had been resigned to the crusher, due to an accident while taking it to the mechanic, and suffering […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1978-Buick-Skylark1-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1978 Buick Skylark – Short Term Ownership")
![Ed. Note: We have a new COALman! Please welcome michaell to the crew. Pictures (except for the last one) are representative examples from the web. In the spring of 1982, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1979SunbirdAd.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1979 Pontiac Sunbird – A Beige Car In A Beige Land")
