![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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scan-Copy.jpeg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_3075.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OmegaPic1.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BSERIES1a.jpg "CC Capsule: 1998 Dodge B-Series – A Final Throwback From The Minivan Masters")
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