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- What do you mean I'm an old man? How did that happen? Last thing I remember I was 16, had just gotten my NYS learner's permit, and was eying used Oldsmobile ads in the local newspaper. And now I've been put out to pasture. That sure went fast.
![(first posted 5/15/2016) When we left off in the third edition of this COAL saga, it was March 1966, I was newly married, was about three months shy of getting […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1961CometBlue2-e1461776195790.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1961 Comet – Not Nearly As Bad As I Expected")
![(first posted 5/8/2016) I had been driving my first car, a 1953 yellow Chrysler convertible, starting in high school and then in college for more than four years and it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/8888.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1957 Oldsmobile 88 – Chrome, Reflections, Rockets, and Dog Leg Windshields")
![(first posted 5/1/2016) When I turned 16 1n 1960, my mother took that afternoon off from her real estate job and waited for me to come running home from the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1953ChryslerSide-e1460470039102.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1953 Chrysler Windsor Convertible – Love At First Sight")
![(first posted 4/24/2016. We don’t usually rerun COAL series, but this one deserves a second run) When Paul put out the call for COAL submissions, CCer CJC replied that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/uuuh.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: From Dynaflow to Presto-Matic")
![Recently, Debbie and I celebrated the twelfth anniversary of our first date by having dinner at a local restaurant overlooking a golf club (fancier trappings than our usual haunt, but […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cobra-R34-e1502376012989.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: A Convertible Is A Convertible")
![(Note: All of the COAL Series authors are invited to create a post with links to all of the articles in their series. These various posts will be accessible from […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1950BuickRiveria-e1460211277378.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Series by RLPLAUT")
