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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 Friday, October 12, 2018. 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...
Shell Fill-Up Friday Winner: Chris Ross!
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Congratulations to San Diego Chapter member Chris Ross, our latest Shell Fill-Up Friday winner! Chris’ post featuring his 135i filling up at Shell in the gleaming California sun has won him a $25 Shell gift card! “This is my dream car,” says Chris. “I started with an E46 330ci,...
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...
Video: Michelin 12-Hour Flash Drawing Winner Announced
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On Monday, September 17, members had the chance to win a Michelin 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...
Video: Griot’s Garage 3X Flash Drawing Winners Announced!
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Last week, we added the sixth car to the raffle, so we celebrated again by launching another flash drawing! For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between 12:01 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 12, and 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 14, members were entered into a...
Video: O’Fest 2019 Comes To Greenville
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Next year’s BMW CCA O’Fest gathering will be a homecoming in Greenville, South Carolina, and will showcase BMW Group’s Plant Spartanburg, the Zentrum, and the BMW Performance Center, as well as the facilities of the BMW CCA, the BMW CCA Foundation, and Michelin of North America. It’s set to...
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....
Turkington Holds On To BTCC Points Lead After Silverstone
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Colin Turkington in the West Surrey Racing #2 BMW 125i M Sport scored points in all three British Touring Car races at Silverstone, holding on to his lead in the drivers’ championship going into the season finale at Brands Hatch on September 29-30. He fought his way up to...
Sims To Join Félix da Costa In Formula E Season 5
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BMW unveiled the livery for its 2018–2019 Formula E car, the BMW iFE.18, in a September 14 press event at BMW Welt in Munich, and announced that Alexander Sims will drive for the team along with António Félix da Costa. Sims, coming off two consecutive GTLM class wins in...
G20 3 Series Enters Final Stage Of Testing
Last month, we detailed the limit-pushing test procedures the 8 Series convertible was the subject of in Death Valley, California and other areas that surround the national park. Those that were paying close attention to our article may have noticed that another camouflaged test mule was also visible, out of...
I Can Drive For Miles And Miles
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Many sources use 12,000 miles as the average number of miles the average person drives a car yearly, with a bevy of variables affecting that one way or the other. So if we tell you that BMW CCA Los Angeles Chapter member Andrew McGowan drove his BMW 13,000 miles...
A Love Letter To BMW’s N52
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There’s an upsetting trend in automotive journalism that has grown like a cancer across the online automotive community: excessive negativity. A new generation of writers has come up, eager to show editors and readers alike what they’ve got, and prove themselves as deserving of their attention and respect. A...
The 10 Best Naturally Aspirated BMWs (Pre-1990)
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We’re back with another installment of our 10 Best series, this time focusing on criteria that’s sure to strike a chord among marque aficionados who are both fresh and new to the game, or seasoned with decades of experience. BMW made its name by producing practical and fun cars...
Pazifik Eskapade: The Ultimate BMW Performance Weekend
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The ultimate Coachella Valley BMW experience is just two weeks away! September 21–24, BMW CCA members will convene at the La Quinta Resort and the BMW Performance Center West for an extended weekend of performance driving and sight-seeing. The second-annual Pazifik Eskapade experience, organized by the Pacific Region Chapters of the...
Intelligent Personal Assistant Coming To Future BMWs
2019 will mark the debut of the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant in production cars, with models of the 8 Series, X5 and Z4 to be among the first to receive it as part of BMW iDrive Operating System 7.0 and the Live Cockpit Professional. Perhaps best envisioned as an...
A Touring Legend In Monterey
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They say “some’s good, more is better.” Golden Gate Chapter member Pedram Mehdiour realized that this year by adding the BMW CCA Festorics to his activity list during Monterey Car Week. “I have attended Legends Of The Autobahn for four years in a row,” Pedram explained. “This year was my first...
Monthly Membership Drive Winners Announced
Patroon Chapter member Robert Martin and Windy City Chapter member Barbara Adams have taken home the Monthly Membership Drive honors for July and August—and both receive a free year of membership! Robert successfully referred 8 members in July and Barbara referred a total of 7 members in August. Both...
Video: Car Of Your Dreams Special Drawing Winners Announced
This week we drew the winners for our third special drawing in the Car Of Your Dreams Raffle. For every raffle ticket purchased between 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, July 28, and 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 31, members were entered into a special drawing for a chance...
Classifieds Challenge: Ode To The V8
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Welcome back to Classifieds Challenge, where we pit two vehicles currently for sale on the BMW Car Club of America Classifieds head-to-head! This week, inspired by Alex Tock’s tribute to the current N63 V8 (and its M-developed S63 cousin), we’re comparing two well-optioned—but distinctly different—cars from BMW’s history with...
The Low-Class Yuppie Takes Flight
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If there’s two things I’m good at, it’s approaching—but never quite reaching—a measure of urbane sophistication (hence the name of this column), and getting in way over my head on a given project. To that end, I’ve made the strange decision to rent a hangar at a local airfield....
BimmerWorld’s #81 328i Fights Alzheimer’s, Unites Fans
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As some of you may have heard, current CTSC points leader BimmerWorld has been running a promotion for charity over the past several weeks. The effort is part of their Racing to End Alzheimer’s campaign, and up to the deadline of September 1, gave enthusiasts and race fans the opportunity...
Join The Peachtree Chapter Corral At Petit Le Mans
This October, IMSA returns to Road Atlanta Raceway for the 21st Annual Motul Petit Le Mans. The Peachtree Chapter will have a presence in the form of a reserved corral space located across from the entrance to the Vendor Village, along with much more. The event takes place October...
See What You Missed During Monterey Car Week
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Not able to make it out to Monterey this year? No worries: Our friends at Car Throttle and Michelin have you covered! They teamed up to live-stream a variety of events at Car Week this year, including our very own Legends Of The Autobahn, presented by Michelin. Check out...
The Case For Maintenance Before Mods
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When you’re dealing with a car with over 100,000 miles on the odometer (in this case over 200,000), it’s often the most basic maintenance operations that account for the most dramatic improvements. I will always stress maintenance over modifications to my dying breath, and the 318ti, which you’re no doubt...
Video: Car Of Your Dreams 3X Flash Drawing Winners Announced
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Last week, we added the fifth car to the raffle, so we celebrated by giving members the chance to win not one, not two, but three prizes in our 3X flash drawing! For every Car Of Your Dreams Raffle ticket purchased between 12:01 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, August 15,...
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...
Resurrecting Bertha: Making Her Cold Again
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Surely you don’t think I’d go to all this work, buying back and resurrecting Bertha, the 1975 2002 I owned in Austin—initially purchased 32 years ago partially because it had air-conditioning—and not get the a/c working? As Bugs Bunny said to Elmer Fudd, “You don’t know me very well,...
Resurrecting Bertha: Getting the Voltage Up
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One of my steps in preparing Bertha for drives longer than around the block was dealing with the charging system. This involved re-bushing the alternator so tightening the belt wouldn’t cock it toward the radiator, and measuring the voltage it produced to be certain it and the voltage regulator...
Resurrecting Bertha: Inspection Woes, Part II
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Last week I discussed how, in order to continue drive Bertha, I needed to make her completely legal, which meant getting her past a stringent Massachusetts state inspection. This required replacing her blatantly cracked windshield. I procured a used windshield and a new OEM gasket, removed the old windshield,...
Resurrecting Bertha: Inspection Woes, Part I
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Two weeks ago, I described sorting Bertha, my reclaimed 2002, to the point where around-the-block runs were sufficiently uneventful that I wanted to sail her farther from shore. I got the car registered, and had, as Jon Stewart used to say, my moment of Zen when I took her...
