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...
A few weeks ago, as I was closing in on getting the Lama (the worse-than-expected 535i I’d bought sight-unseen...
As I write this, it’s the day after we hosted Thanksgiving for 30 people and it’s 15 degrees out....
After I submitted last week’s piece describing reassembling and reinstalling the Lama’s head, I thought that I might have the...
Last week I began addressing the broken rocker arm in the Lama, my 1987 E28 535i. I had really, really wanted...
Last week, I discussed the broken rocker arm in the Lama, the 1987 E28 535i that I bought because...
Yes, I did a “Decapitating Bertha” piece just a few short months ago. But it’s a good title. And...
Looking at this lengthy series on Bertha, and comparing it with the ongoing articles on my recent purchase of...
For the 28 years that my friend Alex owned Bertha, the 1975 2002 that I sold him in 1990...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about my sight-unseen purchase of the Lama, a 1987 E28 535i that had appeared...
As I wait for the logistics on the Lama (the E28 I just bought sight-unseen in Tampa) to settle,...
I expected to be writing this week’s piece on the brief road trip I took last weekend in Bertha,...
In last week’s piece, The End Game, I went full left-brain on you, detailing Bertha’s four separate driveline noise-and-vibration...
That’s a silly title, really: There is no end, and thus no end game, to vintage-car ownership. If I...
Surely you don’t think I’d go to all this work, buying back and resurrecting Bertha, the 1975 2002 I...
One of my steps in preparing Bertha for drives longer than around the block was dealing with the charging...
Last week I discussed how, in order to continue drive Bertha, I needed to make her completely legal, which...
Two weeks ago, I described sorting Bertha, my reclaimed 2002, to the point where around-the-block runs were sufficiently uneventful...
It seems like back in the day, I replaced a lot of starters in 2002s and other vintage BMWs....
Two weeks ago, I described the work I did on Bertha during the feverish weekend just before Oktoberfest. I’d...
