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Blomqvist And Félix Da Costa Finish Second In WEC Fuji Race
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Tom Blomqvist and Antonio Félix da Costa scored the first podium finish for a Team MTEK M8 GTE with their second-place finish in the GTE Pro class in the six-hour World Endurance Championship race on the Fuji circuit in Japan. Their teammates Martin Tomczyk and Nick Catsburg finished eighth....
MINI’s Przygonski Clinches the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup Title
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Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski has clinched the 2018 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup title in the penultimate event of the season, the Rally of Morocco. Polish rally racer Przygonski and his co-driver Tom Colsoul of Belgium finished second in the six-day rally in an X-raid Mini John Cooper Works...
All Six BMWs Finish in the Points In The Final DTM Race of the Season
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Attend The Car Of Your Dreams Drawing: October 27
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BimmerWorld and MINI Find Success At Road Atlanta
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Legendary Determination
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“At about midnight the night before Legends, we had to pull the car apart.” Brandon Janssen might make folks from the postal service envious with his determination to get to Legends and Festorics. After traveling more than 9,000 miles in August alone in his topaz blue E39 Touring over...
Resurrecting Bertha: A Nip and a Tuck
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For the 28 years that my friend Alex owned Bertha, the 1975 2002 I sold him in 1990 and bought back this June, 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 was a Euro car....
Team RLL M8s Finish Third and Fourth at Petit Le Mans
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Not-A-Bimmer: The BMW-Powered VinFast Lux
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Where creative applications of BMW drivetrains are concerned, the contenders are as varied as the M21-powered Vixen diesel RV of the 1980s and the S54-powered Wiessmann MF3 roadster of the mid-2000s. But now a new player is on the field, using BMW’s B48 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and placing it...
Potential M2 CS Prototype Spied Testing
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Video: Final 3X Flash Drawing Winners Announced
For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between October 6 and October 9, members were entered into a final 3X Flash Drawing drawing for a chance to win one of three prizes —a Michelin Tire Certificate, a BMW Motorsport Garage Banner, or the Not-Yet-Released E30 Coffee Mug....
Video: Florida Suncoast Chapter Member Wins AMEX Special Drawing!
For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between September 22 and October 5, members were entered into a special drawing for a chance to win $1,000 AMEX Gift Card! Today, the official drawing was held at the club’s national office in Greenville, SC, and the winner was...
BMW CCA Website Update
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As part of our ongoing commitment to provide our members with the best services and benefits, the BMW CCA website will undergo an upgrade later this month. Here is a list of the services and features where you can expect changes. Store The BMW CCA Store will undergo an...
A Unique Legend At Legends
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If you’re staring at a BMW 2002ti, you’re either in Europe or you’ve found one of the few that has been imported into the United States. Or you’re Andy Maloy standing in your garage looking at your 1971 Colorado Orange example. Or you were between Andy’s Seattle home and...
How Will We Modify The i3 In 20 Years?
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Will The U.S. Get The New 3 Series Touring?
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Video: Tarheel Chapter Member Wins Dinan Flash Drawing!
Last week, our friends at Dinan gave members the chance to win a $1,000 Gift Certificate! For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between September 26-28, members were entered into a flash drawing for a chance to win $1,000 Dinan Gift Certificate! Today, the official drawing was...
Video: Windy City Chapter Member Wins Pirelli Tire Certificate!
On Monday, October 1, members had another chance to win a Pirelli Tire Certificate by purchasing Car of Your Dreams raffle tickets during a 12-hour window. Members received one entry into the flash drawing for every ticket they purchased between 12 noon and 11:59 p.m. Today, the drawing was...
How To Make The Best Of Rainy Events
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By Lockton Motorsports: Everything is ready to go for your event – You, your car and your team. But a look at the radar shows rain. Don’t let the forecast dampen your enthusiasm. Some HPDE events will continue despite rain, so be prepared. Follow these tips to stay safe...
What’s In Your Mental Toolbox?
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When you get your start working on cars, there is a long list of things you avoid doing. That’s totally understandable, as you have to get a good basis in the fundamentals before you can tackle more specialized projects. I’m sure that somewhere there is a long-forgotten sketchbook full...
Video: Pirelli 12-Hour Flash Drawing Winner Announced!
On Monday, September 24, members had the chance to win a Pirelli Tire Certificate by purchasing Car of Your Dreams raffle tickets during a 12-hour window. Members received one entry into the flash drawing for every ticket they purchased between 12 noon and 11:59 p.m. Today, the drawing was...
2002 Memories From Before Birth
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We couldn’t even count how many 2002s were on the lawn at Legends of the Autobahn and in the Festorics corral during the 2018 Monterey Car Week. But easier to count might have been how many owned-since-new 2002s were there. Tom Jones drove one such car to both Legends...
Video: Shell Special Drawing Winner Announced!
For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between September 1-21, members were entered into a special drawing for a chance to win $1,000 in Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Gift Cards! Today, the official drawing was held at the club’s national office in Greenville, SC, and the winner was...
Prank-Calling On Aftermarket Warranties
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On New Year’s Eve in 2016, my girlfriend and I closed on our first home. To get to that point, we had done a master’s thesis worth of research, and spoken to as many other homeowners and relatives as we could. There was one thing, however, that nobody warned...
A Legend In The Making
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“I’ve had the car for almost four years now. I’ll be nineteen on the 29th of September.” If you thought there was just one type of car owner on the lawn at Legends Of The Autobahn, meet Skyler Bizzare and one of his BMWs—his 1984 E30 325e. “I’ve been a member...
Resurrecting Bertha: A Nip and a Tuck
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For the 28 years that my friend Alex owned Bertha, the 1975 2002 I sold him in 1990 and bought back this June, 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 was a Euro car....
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...
Resurrecting Bertha: A Clutch Performance
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As I wait for the logistics on the Lama (the E28 I just bought sight-unseen in Tampa) to settle, I’ve turned my gaze and wrenches back to Bertha in a final push of fall fixes. A few weeks back, I wrote about “The End Game,” the list of repairs...
The September Surprise
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I expected to be writing this week’s piece on the brief road trip I took last weekend in Bertha, my retrieved-and-refurbished honeymoon 2002, and how almost nothing went wrong. But then something most surprising happened. Those of you who follow me on Facebook know that last week I went...
Resurrecting Bertha: I Win The End Game
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In last week’s piece, The End Game, I went full left-brain on you, detailing Bertha’s four separate driveline noise-and-vibration issues: Bad Getrag 245 5-speed transmission that munches fourth gear, whines when you get on the gas, and rumbles when you get off it. Out-of-alignment giubo with short projected life....
Resurrecting Bertha: The End Game
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That’s a silly title, really: There is no end, and thus no end game, to vintage-car ownership. If I were a golfer, perhaps I’d instead say, “The short game”—you know, the ball is on the green, you’re close, get it in the hole. But that’s not right, either. The...
