It’s now 2021. Our 2017 Mercedes E300 has given us more-or-less good service over the past four years. But, as experience had taught me with Mercedes, things like preventive maintenance, […]
We’re now up to January, 2017. We’d been in Seattle for six months, and we were loving life. We had a beautiful home across the street from Lake Washington, in […]
Back in the aughts (the 2000s, for our younger readers) there was a joke going around: Q: What is the difference between a BMW and a porcupine? A: The porcupine […]
We’re up to the fall of 1975. It was time for a big, big change in my life. I’d graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Economics […]
In 1967, dad and mom had finally had enough of that unreliable 1958 Plymouth. They felt we needed a new family station wagon, so we returned to the Buick family […]
In my last post I talked about how the family had just returned to Seattle from fifteen months in East Africa. We had sold our 1953 Buick Special before we’d […]
Greeting Curbophiles! My name is Steve Crutchfield, and I’m starting a new Cars of a Lifetime series. By way of introduction, I’m a 70 year old retiree living in Seattle. […]