![When I wrote my last COAL post in January 2022, let’s just say I had no idea of the sort of year that was in store for my country as […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-23-at-5.07.19-PM.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL Update: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes, LOTS of them!")
![Last week’s post generated some healthy discussion and each of the six contenders had plenty of things in their favour and supporters in their corner, but in the end my […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Lead.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1990 BMW 316i – Sensible German Shoes, But Still Pretty Good Fun.")
![As you read in the previous installment, once I sold the E36 the plan really was to be sensible, stick with the everyday cars and cut back spending, since we […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-07-at-2.35.20-PM.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: My Search for the Next One – Meet the Contenders")
![This was not actually a car I ever had any intention of owning. I’ve always liked older BMWs, but the E36 generation 3 series somehow never really struck a chord. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20201222_170523.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1998 BMW 318/328i – Brief Bavarian Interlude")
![Alfa Romeo. The name alone is enough to set a car nut’s heart aflutter. So much history, romance, myth and legend encapsulated within those two words. So much in fact, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20180616-WA0004.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1987 Alfa Romeo 33 – Project Car Hell, or How to Own a Car Without Driving it Even Once")
![The classic enthusiast community in Sri Lanka is pretty vibrant, with an active club and events dotted across the year. One of the more regular ones is an informal Sunday […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211128_093144.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: CCs Out For a Sunday Drive and Show")
![This particular COAL is the result of the need for a large vehicle capable of family duty intersecting with my wife’s love of the high driving position that only SUV’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-20201020-WA0101.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2001 Toyota Hilux Surf (4Runner) – Truck Of A Lifetime, The Second")
![As you read two weeks ago, by 2017 I had decided to move my XK8 on because although I enjoyed the wind in the hair driving aspect, the car itself […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot_20211211-221745_Facebook.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2015 Mazda Roadster – Miata is Always The Answer")
![This week was supposed to be about the replacement for the Jaaag, but since I’m trying to go chronologically the next car in the timeline is my current daily, which […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/20211205_082812_2.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2016 Mazda 2 – Five Years of Stress Free Motoring.")
![At the end of my MR2 COAL , I told you that I received a call from R, my friendly neighborhood wheeler-dealer, asking to buy the white MR2 back and offering […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/23231492_10155848286286060_1608810803920427772_n.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1998 Jaguar XK8 – Meeting Your Heroes.")
![The story of this truck should actually have come right after the Beetle, as it became my daily driver in 2008, but it took me a while to get the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1075604_10151774486481885_1955095101_o.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL : 1993 Toyota Hilux – The Truck of My Lifetime")
![The first generation Toyota MR2 doesn’t really need an introduction on these pages – it’s pretty well known for being a great combination of mid-engined driving dynamics, 80’s-tastic styling, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1544300_10152210748891060_1944972980_n.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1985 Toyota MR2 AW11 and 1987 Toyota MR2 AW10 – Some Things Work Better in Pairs, Right?")
![British roadsters have always been quite popular over here in Sri Lanka. They were brought in by the dozens when new, both by Brits based here (supervising our tea plantations […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SANY2564.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL : 1969 Triumph Spitfire Mk3 – Lean, Green, Sporting Machine")
![It’s a nice coincidence that Roger Carr’s excellent history on the first two generations of Ford Escort went up recently, as I happen to have owned one of them. This […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lead.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1967 Ford Escort 1300 GT – Here’s To You, Mrs Robinson")
![(RichP’s final COAL is postponed to next Sunday, due to a death in his family, so we’ll give his replacement, SajivW a head start. He’s from Sri Lanka, and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1969 Volkswagen Beetle – First Car Blues or, How Not to buy a Volkswagen: a Manual of Step by Step Mistakes for the Compleat Idiot")
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