I’ve owned my daily-driver 2003 E39 530i for eight years now. It only had one key when I bought...
If you’ve ever had to remove the heater box in a 2002 to replace the blower fan, leaky heater...
I drove the winter beater 1600 home from work 40 years ago this winter after swapping the winter wheels...
There are only two cars I’ve owned twice—sold and then bought back. The first is Bertha, the 1975 2002...
In August, I received an email from a longtime Boston CCA member named Rick, whom I’d met at several...
Having owned over 70 BMWs and currently possessing nine, I don’t think I need to prove my blue-and-white cred...
I’m pretty handy with a multimeter. I should be. After all, I spent 15 months working at Bentley Publishers,...
Last week, I gushed over the fall foliage, posted photos of my Signal Red E9 and my Chamonix 2002...
My March 2016 column for Roundel magazine was titled “Car Obsession and Imelda Marcos’ Shoes.” In it, I described how...
As I wrote last week, Maire Anne and I had a great weekend in Vermont with Sharkie, the ’79...
My wife Maire Anne and I have a history of going up to Vermont on Indigenous People’s Weekend and...
Last week, I was insufferably pleased with myself when, at zero cost, I fixed the FrankenThirty’s non-sealed non-functional sunroof...
Last week I wrote about un-seizing the bushing in the FrankenThirty’s passenger-side window motor so I could maximize the...
As I said last week, having the FrankenThirty reach the point where it’s legal and putting out a fun...
Last week, I took the FrankenThirty to get inspected, and came back instead with The Scarlet R(ejection) Of Shame...
When last we saw my FrankenThirty, the odd salvage-titled 325is whose back section appears to be post-facelift but whose...
I’m going to take a break from the FrankenThirty this week because, well, I’m taking a break from...
The story thus far: I jumped at the opportunity to buy a running essentially rust-free 1988 E30 325is near...
After the elation of buying the essentially rust-free running 1988 325is, followed by the crushing disappointment of finding that...
When I bought the rust-free rebuilt-salvage-titled 1988 325is last week and titled the piece “The Surprising E30,” I was...
Last week, I wrote about going to Santa Fe to visit our middle boy and entertaining dreams of snagging...
My wife Maire Anne and I are about to go see our middle son, Kyle, in Santa Fe. He’s...
A dear old friend of mine recently retired and was returning to our old stomping ground of Amherst Massachusetts....
I responded to two questions this week. One was about voltage regulator failure in a 2002. The person said...
As I wrote about back in April, when I went out to the warehouse in Monson MA where I...
Having convinced myself that I’d solved the mysterious brake fluid loss problem in Louie the ’72 2002tii, I began...
I have a cousin who lives in Nahant, Massachusetts, an island just north of Boston connected by a causeway...
Up until yesterday, I owned 13 vehicles. I count them as the nine cars on my Hagerty policy (the...
As I wrote about back in April, when I went out to my rented warehouse space in Monson for...
After the trip to and from The Vintage and its multiple rest-stop repairs helping my new friend Mike keep...
