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Shell Fill-Up Friday Winner: Joey Nielsen!
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Tejas Chapter member Joey Nielsen (IG @ugosplodes), who won a $50 Shell fuel card thanks to this rad picture of his E30. “The photo was taken on the drive into RADwood Austin, which was an incredible event,” says Joey. “I’m not...
BMW Offering Exclusive Ticket Package For Nürburgring 24 Hours
If you’ve ever dreamed of attending the Nürburgring 24 Hours race, this may be the year! We’ve just received word from our friends at BMW M Motorsport that they are offering club members the chance to purchase an exclusive ticket package. See below for full details. Date: June 21–23,...
Future Of BMW V12 Engine Uncertain Beyond 2023
A few weeks ago, in the wake of Mercedes-AMG announcing the S65 Final Edition as a sendoff for the company’s V12 engine in a four-door range-topper, automotive news media outlets proceeded to report on a story broken by Top Gear about BMW keeping theirs around until at least 2023....
MotorsportReg Acquired By Hagerty
MotorsportReg.com, a registration platform for automotive gatherings and driving events that many BMW CCA members are intimately familiar with, was recently acquired by Hagerty, the classic car insurer that is currently in the midst of transforming itself into an automotive lifestyle brand—which also happens to be a BMW CCA...
BMW NA Sales Expand During March
BMW North America saw brand sales grow during March by 2.9% from 31,311 deliveries last year, to 32,228 last month. If you’ve been following along with our previous sales reports, you can probably guess the top-selling models, which included the X3, X5, and X7. A new entrant this time,...
Membership Drive: Shell Gift Card Winners Announced!
During the month of March, members had the chance to earn a $50 Shell gift card by making the top-five list of referring members for the month. And that’s on top of the already amazing list of rewards and prizes available to referring members! We actually had four members...
BMW’s 2019 Ultimate Driving Experience To Visit Sixteen U.S. Cities
Last week in Washington, DC, BMW celebrated the return of its popular Ultimate Driving Experience (UDE). For those drivers fortunate enough to be near one of the sixteen cities on the 2019 Ultimate Driving Experience tour, BMW has prepared something for almost everyone. This year’s BMW Ultimate Driving Experience...
Team RLL M8 GTEs Seventh, Eighth At Long Beach
Tom Blomqvist and Connor De Phillippi drove the #25 BMW Team RLL M8 GTE to a seventh-place finish in the GTLM class in the 100-minute IMSA WeatherTech Series race in Long Beach on April 13. Their teammates, John Edwards and Jesse Krohn, finished eighth in car #24. The cars...
Félix da Costa Ninth In Rome FE Race
António Félix da Costa in the BMW i Andretti Motorsport #28 BMW iFE.18 finished ninth in the ABB Formula E race in Rome on April 13. His teammate Alexander Sims finished seventeenth. Once again Formula E’s qualifying rules put Félix da Costa at a disadvantage: Because he went into...
Making Contact Is A Good Thing
A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles about the Turkey, a rusty, long-dead 1973 2002 that followed me home. Rust had eaten away not only the rockers, but also the mounting point for the right rear subframe bushing, so, absent a major bodywork commitment that the...
Monterey Weekend Registration Opens April 17
BMW CCA Monterey Weekend registration—including Legends Of The Autobahn and the Festorics Turn Five Corral and Hospitality Area—will open Wednesday, April 17, at 11 am EDT. The registration process will be the same as previous years—with just a few tweaks to make it even easier! In preparation for registration,...
Legends Of The Autobahn And RADwood Join Forces For Monterey Car Week
This year, the premier German-marque concours will join forces with the premier automotive lifestyle event for a can’t-miss show on Friday, August 16, at The Club at Pasadera, during Monterey Car Week. Hosted annually by the BMW Car Club of America, the Mercedes-Benz Club of America, and the Audi...
ZF Signs Largest-Ever Deal With BMW
Last month, industry sources reported that BMW was looking to formulate an agreement for future transmission supplies. Many familiar with BMW’s current platforms and models defaulted to thinking of ZF, who manufactures the 8HP eight-speed torque converter automatic, which can be found in cars and trucks from the likes...
Touring That Never Was: E61 545iT Listed On BMW CCA Classifieds
No, this is not a belated April Fools prank. A Colorado-based BMW shop has taken it upon themselves to build what is perhaps the ultimate 5 Series Touring that BMW themselves never made: an Alpine White E61 Touring, with an N62 V8 and accompanying 6-speed manual transmission—And boy, is...
When Will the E36 Officially Become the New E30?
Anyone who’s been into the BMW game long enough knows that E30s were once seen very differently not only byBMW enthusiasts, but also by automotive enthusiasts as a whole. They were cheap fun, a great car for the money. The secret’s been out for a while. Thanks to equal...
National Campus News: Thank You To Our Amazing Volunteers!
During the past weekend’s board meeting and annual meeting weekend in Greer, SC, we had several days dedicated to making repairs and improvements to the new national campus. Crews were composed of volunteers, Board members, and national staff working together to prepare the campus for upcoming member events—and, of...
An Interesting Vintage BMW Race Car Heads to Auction
It started life as just another 328, but not much time passed before an attempted RS conversion by Veritas stalled, and left it unfinished after the coach builder failed. Since the postwar period, it’s passed through the hands of a number of collectors, one of whom commissioned a restoration during...
BMW CCA Membership Drive 2018 Winners Announced
This week, we made the short drive over to the BMW Performance Driving School in Spartanburg, SC to draw the winners of the 2018 Membership Drive Contest. The 2018 contest was composed of three different drawings. The first—the Recruiter’s Competition Drawing—included everyone who made a successful referral in 2018....
Should BMW Build A Pickup Truck?
Over the years, BMW fans have created several custom pickup trucks using BMW cars as their basis. With the automaker seemingly dead set on competing in every possible segment of the automotive marketplace these days, it’s almost surprising that they haven’t built a pickup truck of their own yet....
Spring Cleaning The Engine Bay With Griot’s Garage
When it comes to the shade tree car washer, the type of guys who use the two-bucket method to bathe their pride and joy in the driveway, the engine bay, more often than not, can find itself neglected. Of the various BMWs that have passed through my ownership, there...
ECS Tuning Steps Up to Maintain Bavarian Autosport’s Legacy
The news of Bavarian Autosport closing its doors hit the enthusiast community pretty hard. It was a sudden announcement, and it left many surprised. There’s not a lot of good news for fans of the BMW parts house, but they can rest assured that the brand’s legacy, at least...
1934 BMW KR6 Found, Restored
As enthusiasts, we often jokingly refer to dull, soulless commuter cars as appliances. Surprisingly, nowhere is that moniker more appropriate than in reference to race cars. Race cars are tools, and as soon as they wear out or become outclassed, they’re replaced by newer, faster machinery. While a manufacturer...
Monterey And O’Fest Registration Opening Soon!
We have been working behind the scenes preparing for this year’s national events—including the BMW CCA Monterey Weekend and the 50th Annual BMW CCA Oktoberfest, both presented by Michelin! We will soon be releasing the official schedules and fees, and then announcing the dates on which registration will open....
“50 Years Of The BMW CCA”: Submit Your Photos And Videos!
After 50 amazing years, thousands of events, and decades of fun, there is a great story to tell. We often say that the cars are what bring us here, but it’s the people who make the BMW Car Club of America everything that it is. As we embark on...
Bavarian Autosport: Remembering An Old Friend
The saying goes that companies aren’t our friends—but Bavarian Autosport always felt like one. The Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based retailer of BMW parts, upgrades, and accessories announced abruptly last week that it would be closing its doors after a run of more than four decades, and as enthusiasts, we wanted...
Making Contact Is A Good Thing
A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles about the Turkey, a rusty, long-dead 1973 2002 that followed me home. Rust had eaten away not only the rockers, but also the mounting point for the right rear subframe bushing, so, absent a major bodywork commitment that the...
The 2800CS That Was Towed And Crushed (Ouch, Right?)
It was back in the late 1980s. Maire Anne and I were still living at my mother’s house in Brighton. I had the run of her two-car garage because, well, she loves me, and I have a lifelong habit of occupying all available horizontal space. I’d just had my...
The Rhythm Of Repair, Revisited
In my first book, I have a chapter titled “The Rhythm Of Repair.” It describes how those of us who work on our own cars fit repair into our lives. If you don’t work on your own car, that’s fine, no value judgment here. But if that’s not the case, unless...
The Lotus Is Back On The Front Burner, And The Heat Is On High
Yes, the neglected stepchild in the corner of the garage, the usurper of space, money, and attention needed by BMWs I like more, is finally coming back to life. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the dead 1974 Lotus Europa Twin-Cam Special I bought in a weak...
The Cost Of Doing Business
I’ve long said that I am not a car-collector; that word conjures up images of straw hats, silk suits, deep pockets, and mint cars stored and displayed in pristine spaces. I will admit that I do own one silk Armani sport coat, but I paid eight bucks for it...
Another Trick In The Stuckness Toolbox
There’s a chapter in my first book that details a number of techniques for removing stuck fasteners. Near the end of the chapter, I refer to welding a nut onto the end of a snapped-off stud. I didn’t give a lot of detail, because not owning a welder, I’d...
