We own our cars for a number of reasons. Those might be passion, performance, status, comfort, fuel economy, cargo...
For a number of reasons, the a/c repair in my E9 coupe is stalled, but while I have the...
Last week I told you about ripping apart the air-conditioning in my precious ’73 3.0CSi, including removing and dismantling...
The piece I wrote last week in which I compared and contrasted the tii, the Bavaria, and the 3.0CSi...
Now that I’m back from the Vintage and the 2,000-mile chapter on my hijinks with Bertha is closed, I’m...
In last week’s piece, Bertha—my rust-blistered resurrected 2002—and I had successfully knocked off the 900 miles from Boston down...
I ended last weeks’ piece with the cliffhanger that everything was going swimmingly prepping Bertha for the 2000-mile round...
For most of the first four months of 2019, my head was living in Lotusland as I worked like...
Last week, I was offered (and accepted) a free faux (fake) 1973 2002tii. I’d looked at the car last...
I’m a big believer in pay-it-forward. Oh, to be sure, when I have a car or a part that’s...
I tend to go full-on in all things. For a glorious week 27 months ago, I was full-on resurrecting...
A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles about the Turkey, a rusty, long-dead 1973 2002 that...
It was back in the late 1980s. Maire Anne and I were still living at my mother’s house in...
In my first book, I have a chapter titled “The Rhythm Of Repair.” It describes how those of us...
Yes, the neglected stepchild in the corner of the garage, the usurper of space, money, and attention needed by...
I’ve long said that I am not a car-collector; that word conjures up images of straw hats, silk suits,...
There’s a chapter in my first book that details a number of techniques for removing stuck fasteners. Near the...
Last month I reported selling the Lama (my resurrected 1987 E28 535i) to sight-unseen buyers Jim and Susan Strickland...
You may already have read the sad news: Bob Merhrman, BMW CCA Member #1, passed away on February 17...
I didn’t plan that last week I would look at two very different niche German wagons and have the...
Last week I made the surprise announcement that, to ease my cash flow and simplify my life a bit,...
I gave a talk in Huntsville Alabama last weekend at the Heart of Dixie chapter’s annual kick-off party. In...
Last week, after driving down to Greer with my friend Andrew Wilson to attend the closing ceremony of the...
Louie, the sort-of-survivor 1972 2002tii that I bought sight-unseen in Louisville almost exactly two years ago, has spent the...
A few weeks ago, a ’74 Bavaria out in Agawam, Massachusetts, showed up in a Craigslist search. The ad...
The day began like many others: I went out to the garage and backed the Lama, the 5 Series,...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how the combination of my steadily-increasing number of cars and the uncertainty regarding...
In the summer of 2015, I wrote a series of articles (“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To...
Although I spent the summer and fall cheerfully dealing with Bertha and the Lama, there’s been a cloud hanging...
Last week, I described driving the insured but unregistered Lama a bit farther than the around-the-block sort-out runs I’d been...
