![I mentioned last week we might make a stop on the way to the next car, proper, and here we are—before I get too old in this rough chronicle to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IH_Superior.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL – Large Chauffeured Vehicles")
![I was 13 or so, maybe early 14. Kinda the age where it was starting to be okeh for my folks to leave me alone in the house for the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DrainGrate.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "QOTD: Anyone Else Ever Almost Blow Up Your Folks’ House?")
![In the summer of 1990, my folks set out to buy my sister a car, in effect. Nominally it would be theirs, but practically speaking it was my sister’s, at […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DJS-DAS-Jetta-School_s.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1990 VW Jetta – Fahrverschmerzen")
![I mentioned Gomer Pyle in yesterday’s COAL, so now habbout I pour us some good, stiff shots of Televisionland to wash that fetid Town Car taste out from our mouths, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gomer_Pyle-Hitcar.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC TV Two-Fer: Gomer, Wally, Eddie, and Many Mopars")
![It was 1987, and conspicuous consumption was in. That’s how come mother toyed with the idea of getting a Mercedes, and I guess it’s how come dad came to be […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/80-Towncar-VFD-Dash.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1980 Lincoln Town Car – The Stinkoln Clown Car")
![“I want one of those cars that fixes itself!” So declared my mother—I guess after misunderstanding a news item about computerised engine control or something of the like. I was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1984-chevy-caprice-classic-white-low-miles-near-mint-amazing-vin-2g1an69h8e-4.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 1984 Chev Caprice – Second Verse, Same(?) as the First")
![In 1984 my mother got her law degree and set out to have a go at being a lawyer. With both parents downtown at work every day—dad’s own law degree […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1971-jeep-wagoneer-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: Laurie’s Cars – ’63 Volvo, ’71 VW, ’71 Wagoneer, ’78 Caprice")
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