It’s been a strange winter up here in Boston. We had a blast of snow in early December that...
As I’ve written, although I’m blessed to have an attached garage into which I can easily fit three cars,...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece describing how Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 I bought in September,...
The final book I wrote while I worked at Bentley Publishers was Mechanical Ignition Handbook: The Hack Mechanic Guide...
My wife Maire Anne and I are remarkably compatible. We love one another. and throughout our 41-year relationship and...
Two weeks ago, in The Return Of The Electric Slide, I wrote about shoehorning four cars into my garage....
There’s an episode of the animated TV show Archer where Sterling Archer is stranded in a freight-train boxcar with...
When my garage was built fourteen years ago, it was an exercise in what was possible. The City of...
Once Bluto the 2004 X5 and I warmed to each other, I was faced with the age-old winter wheel-and-tire...
There’s a rhythm that occurs when you consider switching up your ride and buying a new used car. You...
Last week I did something quite unexpected: I bought a 2004 X5 equipped with a six-speed manual gearbox, the...
If you’re like me (and, if you are, my condolences) you find that there’s something about the impending arrival...
After the mania of the past month—which included buying Hampton the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 and towing it back from...
I began last week’s piece with the following: “I write this from BMW CCA Oktoberfest in Greenville, South Carolina....
I write this from BMW CCA Oktoberfest in Greenville, South Carolina. I came down in my ’72 2002tii, Kugel,...
My last three pieces were about purchasing and towing home a 48,000-mile original-owner 1973 2002 that had been sitting...
Last week, I described driving down to Bridgehampton with a truck and trailer to look at an original-owner ’73...
Last week I talked about having an inside line on a 48,000-mile original-owner ’73 2002 in Bridgehampton that had...
As car nuts, we all want to be where lightning strikes—to have the intel no one else has, giving...
Last week I described going on a most uncharacteristic cleaning binge with Kugel, my 2002tii—well, one of them—scrubbing off...
With the faux tii off to a new home, I’ve had the chance to turn my sights to other...
This will probably be the final piece in this series describing my foster parenthood of “The Faux Tii,” the...
Last week, I finally got the faux tii’s fuel system buttoned up using a less than spotless but adequately...
Last week, I resolved to get the free faux tii running so I could evaluate the condition of its...
(With apologies to Ernest Hemingway and Francis Macomber) A few months ago, I wrote about being offered and accepting...
In my former life as a software engineer, I’d sometimes experience the following: You’d have a bug in a...
Our story thus far: I’d installed air-conditioning into my 1973 E9 3.0CSi twenty years ago. It worked adequately, though...
Last week, I decided that, with the evaporator assembly out of my 1973 3.0CSi, I should evaluate the blower...
When we last saw my E9’s air conditioning, I had removed the evaporator assembly from under the dash to...
Over the years I’ve devoted a fair amount of ink in Roundel—and electrons here online—to my first and second...
