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BMW Classic To Feature Owner-Submitted Photos During December
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Everyone’s favorite Instagram (aside from @bmwcca of course), the official account of BMW Group Classic, will be sharing submitted photos of owner’s vehicles from December 1 to December 24, 2018—and you can submit your photos for a chance to be featured! To help your chances of being featured, BMW...
Third Quarter, Monthly Membership-Drive Winners Announced
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We had a great battle in the third-quarter 2018 Membership Drive competition with plenty of members stepping up their referral game! Coming home in first place is Michiana Chapter member, Quenton Smith, with a total of 20 referrals for the quarter! Quenton is clearly on a hot streak this...
The Recapitation Of The Lama Continueth
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Last week I began addressing the broken rocker arm in the Lama, my 1987 E28 535i. I had really, really wanted to leave the head intact and conduct a precise surgical strike, simply replacing the broken rocker and dropping the still-assembled head back on, but by fits and starts, I instead...
M4 GT4 Named Race Car Of The Year
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The M4 GT4 was named Race Car of the Year by a panel of 20 motorsport and technology journalists at the Professional Motorsport World Expo Awards in Cologne, Germany. BMW Motorsport’s newest customer car, which made its debut in the 24-hout Dubai race in January, has gone on to...
Zanardi Tests Adapted M8 GTE In Advance Of Rolex 24
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Alex Zanardi has completed three days of testing on the Miramas circuit in France in a specially-equipped M8 GTE in preparation for his participation in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January. Zanardi, who lost both legs in an incident in a CART race in 2001 and returned to...
New BMW CCA Store And Website Updates Now Live!
We are pleased to announce scheduled updates to the club website are complete and logins have been turned back on. If you browse over to bmwcca.org, the first thing you’ll likely notice is the brand new BMW CCA store. The store has been completely overhauled, making it far easier...
Shell Fill-Up Friday Winner: Christopher Kohler!
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Congratulations to Roadrunner Chapter member Christopher Kohler (IG: @phyverindustries), this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner! Christopher’s Instagram shot of his amazing 1985 Euro-market M5 has won him a $25 Shell fuel card! Aside from preserving the fuel system with Shell V-Power NiTRO+, the E28 itself has an interesting story....
“Collection Of BMW Legends” Offered At $2,300,000
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What’s in your ultimate BMW garage? If the answers are anything like those that followed a feature asking a similar question earlier this year, then they’ll be as varied and diverse as any given BMW meet where we get to appreciate these cars in the flesh. Enthusiast Auto Group,...
Manual Z4 Coming, But Not To The U.S.
First drive reports of the new Z4 have been coming across the wires over the past week or so, and one rather interesting tidbit hidden within Car and Driver‘s own rundown that Road & Track happened to pick up on was the presence of a manual sub-model within the broader lineup. It’s only...
Road-Going M8 In Final Development Stage
The long awaited range-topping M8 will soon be arriving to unseat the already potent M850i xDrive coupe, and although broad specific details have yet to be revealed, BMW has teased a few select characteristics that are appropriately driving excitement. Chief among them is a base horsepower rating that is...
A Museum Without a BMW
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If you’re lucky, you live near a city with a car museum. Mine is the Crawford Auto & Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. I’ve been visiting since I was a young car geek, and just this year, I took on the role of event coordinator for the museum. Being...
One Day Only! BMW CCA Members Can Save 25% During Brooks Brothers Shopping Event!
Brooks Brothers is excited to announce their upcoming Corporate Shopping Event on Tuesday, November 13. BMW CCA members are eligible to receive a 25% savings on full-price purchases online, by phone, and in retail stores (not valid in factory stores). You must sign up for a free Corporate Membership...
SoCal Vintage BMW Meet Offers Something For All
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Braving Los Angeles traffic always seems worth it for a certain BMW-themed event that takes place every fall near Van Nuys. I’m referring to the SoCal Vintage BMW meet, of course, a perennial gathering that never seems to disappoint me. The 2018 edition was like any other, but with...
Paint It Yellow!
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Living near a national park has its perks. This past weekend, my girlfriend and I decided to enjoy the crisp fall air one last time before winter’s cold, icy grip turns Ohio’s landscape into a barren wasteland. Walking through the woods, I looked up and found myself beneath a...
Could This M5 Be A Preview Of An Upcoming CS?
The currently available sixth-generation BMW M5 sedan is incredibly fast. Although it uses an evolved and uprated version of the same S63 engine of the previous F10, the chassis and xDrive all-wheel-drive system of the F90 put it in another league of performance capability. The base variant delivers 600...
BMW CCA Member Benefit: Shipping Program, Managed By PartnerShip
BMW Car Club of America members can ship smarter and stay competitive through the BMW CCA Shipping Program, managed by PartnerShip®. It doesn’t matter how often you ship, or whether it’s a single envelope or a full truckload—PartnerShip can save you time and money through your free member benefit....
BMW CCA Car-Of-Your-Dreams 2018 Raffle Winners Announced
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It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: time to find out if you or someone from your chapter has won big in the Car Of Your Dreams Raffle 2018! This year, ten lucky BMW Car Club of America members have won nine cars, plus a partial prize of...
BimmerWorld Club Race School At Roebling Road, December 6-7
Ready to take your driving skills and experience to the next level? The BimmerWorld BMW CCA Club Race School is a highly-structured program conducted in a non-contact environment. Participants at the December 6-7 school, held at Roebling Road and hosted by the Tarheel Chapter, will receive instruction from pro-level...
A Volkswagen Makes The Heart Grow Fonder—For A BMW
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I have a confession to make, Yuppies: I’ve gone over to the dark side. I bought a Volkswagen. I have a good reason for it, though: I live in Ohio, a state notorious for its love affair with car-killing road salt. I needed a winter beater, and my sub-$1,000...
BMW Museum To Host “Night Of The White Gloves” 2018
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Munich, the BMW Welt, and the BMW Museum are bucket list item for any BMW fan, and if you’re going to be in Germany on November 23, 2018, you’re in for a special treat. The BMW Museum’s incredible rotating exhibits (which include famous concept vehicles, prototypes, race cars, one-off...
BMW CCA Helps Raise $126,500 For Pittsburgh Charities
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The 49th Annual BMW CCA Oktoberfest wasn’t just a success for attendees and vintage-racing fans. Because the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is a charity event (and has been so since its conception in 1983), the excellent attendance also gave PVGP a bump in donations—to the tune of more than...
Boston Chapter Member Wins Yokohama Tires!
Members who joined, extended, or reinstated their membership between Wednesday, October 17, and Friday, October 19, were entered into a special drawing for a chance to win a new set of Yokohama tires, getting one entry to win the tires for each year of membership they purchased. The official...
BMW CCA Finds A New Home Near BMW Plant Spartanburg
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We have a new home! The BMW Car Club of America has acquired a spacious business property, which will soon be the new home of the club and national office. The 20-acre site, with over 18,000-square-feet of existing office space, is just two miles east of BMW Plant Spartanburg...
Classifieds Challenge: Hartge Versus Alpina
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This week for Classifieds Challenge, we’ll look at two exquisite interpretations of modified BMW platforms—but which princely sum is the better value? As usual, Classifieds Challenge finds two cars in the BMW Car Club of America Classifieds and pits them head-to-head. On the last episode, we looked at two...
BMW CCA Member Profile: Alex Tock
San Diego is a peculiar town when it comes to BMWs. While there are pockets of neat cars throughout the United States, the southern California enclave was rife with enthusiast BMWs; on our way to film this member profile with San Diego Chapter member and BimmerLife contributor Alex Tock,...
The Recapitation Of The Lama Continueth
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Last week I began addressing the broken rocker arm in the Lama, my 1987 E28 535i. I had really, really wanted to leave the head intact and conduct a precise surgical strike, simply replacing the broken rocker and dropping the still-assembled head back on, but by fits and starts, I instead...
Decapitating The Lama, Part II
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Last week, I discussed the broken rocker arm in the Lama, the 1987 E28 535i that I bought because I thought I could make a little money on it. Before deciding to pull the head, I did some tests. The compression was 155-155-145-135-155-155, showing that the cylinder with the...
Decapitating The Lama (Part I)
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Yes, I did a “Decapitating Bertha” piece just a few short months ago. But it’s a good title. And with everything else on this car being harder than anticipated, at least the title should be easy. When I last wrote about the Lama—the 1987 E28 535i that I bought...
Resurrecting Bertha: Adding Up The Costs
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Looking at this lengthy series on Bertha, and comparing it with the ongoing articles on my recent purchase of the Lama (the worse-than-expected 1987 E28 535i), I feel like Sylvester Stallone in the 1980s, spinning a wheel to choose between making another Rocky or Rambo film. But since last...
Resurrecting Bertha: A Nip And A Tuck
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For the 28 years that my friend Alex owned Bertha, the 1975 2002 that I sold him in 1990 and bought back in June 2018, he talked about doing a bumper conversion—replacing her U.S.-spec bridge-abutment bumpers with the small, thin chrome bumpers it would’ve had if it were a...
The Lama Has Landed
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about my sight-unseen purchase of the Lama, a 1987 E28 535i that had appeared on Craigslist in Tampa. It had 135,000 miles on it, and a Lama-colored interior; it had been sitting for five years, but reportedly started, ran, drove, and stopped, although it...
