Eight weeks and two days after Bring a Trailer (BaT) accepted my friend Chris’ 1972 2002tii (her deceased husband’s...
Okay, I’ll admit that it’s been a slow week, repair-wise, because I somehow aggravated my fifteen-year-old back injury—either that...
I finally heard from Bring a Trailer (BaT) regarding the listing of “the Baby,” the original-owner ’72 2002tii that...
Last week, while describing how I fixed the window in my ’99 M coupe, I included the simple sentence,...
Ever since I bought my ’99 M coupe in early 2007, it’s had intermittent problems with the driver’s-side window...
One of the questions I get over and over–and not just in the BMW world–is, “My battery is dead....
Last week I described buttoning up the ’72 2002tii that I’m helping sell for the original owner’s widow. Once...
This week I finished buttoning up Chris’ 1972 2002tii. Her husband, longtime Boston CCA member Jim Zagnafna, was the...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about making my corner of the world a better place by...
Last week I talked about the mitzvah (good deed) I was doing for two women—helping both of them sell the...
Last week I wrote about the alternator in my E39 dying. Just to finish that up, replacing the voltage...
Sigh. Today’s piece was supposed to be about doing, in the language of my people, a mitzvah (a good deed)...
In late April, I received an email from a writer/filmmaker who read a piece I wrote about the...
When last we saw Carter, the inexpensive, surprisingly solid, drop-everything-and-buy-it ’76 2002, I’d just replaced the rod bearings and...
Last week, my precious 3.0CSi, Rene—my favorite car ever—and I arrived safely at The Vintage. Nothing broke on the...
I ended last week’s piece by saying. “If I still had the stones I had five years ago, I’d...
When last we saw Carter, my hastily-purchased bargain ’76 2002, I was in the “getting to know you ”...
Last week, I wrote about the preparation of Louie, my ’72 2002tii, and the two-day, 1,500-ish-mile drive southish to...
It’s been said that, as far as a balance between a low-stress trip and fodder for interesting articles, the...
Last week, a 1976 2002 I immediately christened Carter (due to the original campaign sticker on the rear bumper)...
I’ve long said that car-buying, at least for me, is best characterized as a crime of opportunity; I never...
I ended last week’s Decapitating Louie series installment by saying, “I have a few more weeks to put more...
It’s been a few weeks, but Louie is back, and the work spawned by his head repair is as...
It is done: The Great BMW Evacuation of Fitchburg is complete. It was less traumatic than I thought, and...
Well, the idea that I’d get the injectors for Louie (my ’72 2002tii whose head I just redid) back...
The diesel-injection shop that’s cleaning and testing the injectors for my ’72 2002tii is backed up with work, so...
I’m close to finishing the installation of the rejuvenated cylinder head in Louie, my ’72 2002tii. If I’d been...
Last week I had the crack repaired in the head of Louie, my ’72 2002tii, then took the head to...
I pulled the head off Louie, my ’72 2002tii, because it was cracked through one of the valve-cover bosses;...
Well, I did get the 2002tii’s head to Machine Shop No. 1 to have the crack repaired, but I then...
