Last week, I gushed over the fall foliage, posted photos of my Signal Red E9 and my Chamonix 2002...
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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...
Last week, I wrote that I drove Hampton (my survivor ’73 2002) down to The Vintage, rolling it over...
As I write this, I’m down at The Vintage in Asheville with both Hampton and the Bavaria. Wait, what?...
Sorry to have written a two-part cliffhanger a few weeks ago (part I, part II), then walked away from...
I’ve owned my 1999 M Coupe for 17 years, longer than any of my cars except for the E9....
Last week, I wrote about driving the clownshoe out to the warehouse in Monson on the MA/CT border to...
Five of my cars (the Lotus Europa, Louie the ’72 2002tii, Bertha the heavily-patina’d hot-rod ’75 2002, the Bavaria,...
I’m going to interrupt the story of the $115 Chinese-made Weber clone, as a) I still haven’t figured out...