(First posted August 18, 2013) Having always had a thing for wagons, I decided that it would be a good time to own another one. Although we already had […]
(First posted August 11, 2013) Towards the fall of 1998, I’d started to realize that my switching jobs earlier in the year had been a very wise move. As a […]
(First posted August 4, 2013) As the weather in Northern California turned from the normal “good” to the almost as normal “great”, my thoughts once again turned to two-wheeled […]
(First posted July 28, 2013) Having had somewhat recently divested myself, for no particularly good financial reason, of a fairly new VW Jetta and a decently running motorcycle in […]
(First posted July 21, 2013, here with slight updates) When I recently wrote about the car that my girlfriend brought into the home that we had started to share, it […]
(First posted July 14, 2013) My brother called me one day with the news that the roommate of a good friend was selling a car and would I be interested? […]
(First posted July 7, 2013) After living in the city for a while (San Francisco in this case), often one starts to think that there must be better ways to […]
After Mr. Shafer so rudely pillaged my town’s crop of used cars the other day, I got to thinking…Imagine, if you will, that you had a spare $2000 and needed […]
(First posted 6/30/2013) In the spring of 1996, my girlfriend finally graduated from college and moved up to San Francisco to live with me. She arrived with a big […]
(First posted 6/23/2013) In early 1995 Volkswagen started running a very appealing lease special in my area: a new Jetta, for $199/month with nothing down. I’d never had a new […]
(First posted 6/16/2013) This car officially starts the period of my life where one car at a time just wasn’t enough…Like those who say they need a reliable commuter […]
Presented for your viewing pleasure is this one-owner 1993 Pontiac Sunbird in the twilight of its life, but still running (somewhat) strongly, merely in need of a clutch. Since nobody […]
(First posted 6/9/2013) After writing off my VW GTI and cycling through three different rental cars in as many weeks, the insurance check finally arrived and it was once […]
(First posted 6/2/2013) It was the beginning of 1992, and I had started my career and found myself with a regular income stream. Reality hit quickly, however, and I realized […]
(First Published 5/26/2013) At this point my car history so far may appear somewhat schizophrenic, so to continue the lack of any discernible pattern, I made as complete a change […]