![I volunteer at The Akron History Center, and one of the perks of those volunteer duties is coming across unusual cars in the deck where we park. One of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-03-parkinggarageclassics-4-e1778277263114-115x115.jpeg "Found: 1996 Corvette Collector Edition – A Dusty Jewel In Sebring Silver")
![I volunteer at The Akron History Center, and it’s fascinating what surprises one can find in the parking deck where volunteers park. Among the best finds this past winter was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-03-wildcat-back-1-115x115.jpeg "Found: 1970 Buick Wildcat Convertible – Last Year Of Buick’s Luxury Performance Feline, In Rare Open Air Body")
![There is no mistaking that it is a Mazda. My bride drove her 2011 Camry happily until about eight months after she retired. We started to look at a new […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2021-mazda-front-end-arty-115x115.jpg "Our 2021 Mazda CX-5: What Comes Around…")
![A 2017 RAV4 LE, first four wheel drive vehicle in our garage I’ve been known to be impulsive — for good or bad. After a ride in a family member’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2017-RAV4-in-driveway-115x115.jpg "Our 2017 RAV4: Living With Our First SUV")
![2012 Toyota Prius models, the C, the V, and the originals. Toyota of Canada PR photo. As I said in my last installment, our family had become a Toyota-owning one, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2013-Prius-Pictures-03-115x115.jpg "Our 2013 Toyota Prius C: Adapting To Hybrid Ownership")
![2011 Toyota Camry LE after ten years on the road. We had bought our third Avalon in the summer of 2013, a good family hauler. Elsewhere in our fleet, miles […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2021-2011-camry-driving-into-garage-115x115.jpg "Our 2011 Toyota Camry: Fifteen Years Later, Our Third Camry Is Still A Good Car")
![April 2013 we were really empty nesters — our son had been married for two years — our daughter was working in Cleveland. One marker of success as a parent […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2008-Avalon-IR-115x115.jpg "Our 2008 Toyota Avalon: Our Final Family Cruiser")
![Our Grand Voyager was good while we had it. But 2004 was a transition year for us, our son was going off to Akron U, so we had college tuition […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2000-Avalon-XL-arty-shot-115x115.jpg "Our 2000 Toyota Avalon XL: A Car Being Happy Acting My Midlife Age – No Crisis, Just Comfort")
![In 2004, we still had our Grand Voyager, but we’d passed the Avalon on to our son, so we needed another car. We ended up with a used 2001 Toyota […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2001-toyota-camry-LE-115x115.jpg "My 2001 Toyota Camry: Life With a Trusty Family Hauler")
![As I explained in my previous installment, my family now had a full-size Toyota Avalon, and we no longer needed a Previa for road trips. I had always wanted a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1994-1996-example-corolla-wagon-115x115.jpg "My Four 1990s Toyota Corollas (And A Related Geo) – Reliable Haulers With Some Unlucky Ends")
![Avalon was Toyota’s very successful project to create a full-sized American car, much like the ones that Boomers grew up with — like the 1977 Impala that I had. When […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1995-gt-car-lot-avalon-photo-115x115.jpg "My 1995 Toyota Avalon: Toyota’s First Full-Size Car Was Bigger, But Not TOO Big")
![We had a US-built Toyota Camry that was serving us well, but with two growing kids, having more space sounded like a good plan. In 1995, we decided to get […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1991-previa-probably-115x115.jpg "1991 Toyota Previa: This Low-Drama Mid-Engine Toyota Became My First Minivan")
![In almost two decades of car ownership, I had owned three American cars and five “rice burners” (although we didn’t call them that until the 1980s). Then, in 1985, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1989-camry-with-cara-115x115.jpg "My 1989 Toyota Camry DX: First Of Three US-Built Camrys In Our Family")
![Those who follow this series know that by the 1980s, I had plenty of experience owning Moparbishis: captive imports from Mitsubishi, sold by Chrysler divisions. As the 1980s advanced, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nova-saloon.jpg "My 1985 Chevrolet Nova: Trading A Celica For A Toyonova")
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