(first posted 10/22/2012) Nineteen eighty-five. The year of Back to the Future and The Goonies. The year of songs like “Born in the USA” and “Take on Me”. What better […]
Thus far in the COJL series I’ve profiled a selection of mostly ‘fun cars’ which my spouse John had for the time we were together. However, during that time he […]
During the time that John was having his Mercedes-Benz 380 SL restored, we also had the occasion to drive a couple of cars that the body shop doing the […]
For much of his driving career, John had coveted a Mercedes-Benz SL roadster. He told me that he remembered the very first SL when it debuted in the mid […]
In summer of 2002, John decided to purchase a Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.6. Having driven BMWs (among other cars) for much of his driving life, he thought that moving up to […]
In 2001 I met John Southin, a car aficionado of the highest order. A retired Biologist and Geneticist who was a professor at McGill University for 28 years before he […]
I still think it cuts a handsome profile. Mine was also Bronze Dust Mist in colour, and almost never looked really dirty. After the nightmare that was my 1993 Saab […]
So after selling the Sidekick, I assumed the ownership of my partner John’s Saab 900. It was the last year of the long-lived original 900 platform, having originated in 1969 […]
After a black-ice related accident totalled my 1999 Suzuki Swift, I was in a somewhat precarious position. I didn’t have much money for a car and I was also scared […]
1999 was a watershed year in my household. I was back from my first year from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario as a journalism major, and my one-year-older sister was […]