![I’m not ashamed to admit that I was a big fan of NASCAR. It was an important bonding activity with my parents and me – it was one thing we […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_2753.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Vintage Instamatic Snapshot Classic: 1955 Flxible Visicoach – Starting Young")
![After the Michigan road trip, I officially became unemployed. My job was grant-funded, and when the grant ended so did my employment. I expected this but didn’t really have any […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_0670.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2012 Ford Focus – World Car IV (Part 2)")
![I woke up on the morning of July 3rd with great anticipation, along with a hangover and dehydration from the altitude. I wandered around the vicinity of my campsite and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_8298.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 2)")
![A new car was a monumental occasion in my family. The fiscal conservativeness of my parents had done them well in their lives, but driving second-hand cars can only go […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WatchHill-11.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL: 2001 Ford Focus – Focusing on the Future")
![In honor of the recent end of production of the Beetle, I’m going to take a break from my COAL and regale you with the road trip story of driving […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_7045.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Road Trip: VW Beetle, Coast to Coast (Part 1)")
![By 1997 my Escort was an 11-year-old car that had lived it’s entire life in road-salt country – Upstate New York – and it showed. My father had valiantly tried […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scan-Copy.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL – 1988 Buick Century – My First Wagon")
![It was winter of 1995-96 and I was well into my first year at Corning Community College. I was deeply unhappy at my post-high school choices (or lack thereof). Most […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_3075.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "COAL – 1986 Ford Escort Pony – First Car Four Speed Fun (Part 2)")
![(first posted 10/16/2012) As if Oldsmobile wasn’t already selling enough Cutlasses in the ’70’s, someone at GM must have felt that the brand needed a smaller car that would bolster […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OmegaPic1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1973 Oldsmobile Omega – “The Compact Olds”")
![Like others at CC, I’m fascinated by platform longevity. Not so only in terms of mechanical genealogy as demonstrated by, say, the ’90s Caprice sharing bits with the ’70s A-body […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BSERIES1a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Capsule: 1998 Dodge B-Series – A Final Throwback From The Minivan Masters")
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