The time has come to get Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 I bought last September, out of the garage...
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It’s said that if you sell a car to a friend, you’ve never really rid yourself of it, and...
My friend Andrew Wilson reports getting six inches of heavy wet snow last night in coastal Maine, the power...
From the last few posts, you can tell that I have several garage projects proceeding in parallel. These include...
A few weeks ago, I talked about putting some time and some scratch into my 2003 E39 530i stick...
Like you, I’m astonished at the speed with which our lives have changed in response to the coronavirus. It...
I’d hoped to launch into Part II of last week’s “Giving The E39 Some Love,” but the parts I’ve...
It was mid-November, almost four months ago, when I saw the ad for the triple-unicorn 2004 X5 (six-speed, sport...
I’ve been down or hobbled (well, first down, then hobbled) with the flu for two weeks, barely able to...
First, let’s get the context of this straight: I’ve had “flu lite” (body aches, chills, but no fever) for...
Things are on hold with Hampton, the 48,ooo-mile ’73 2002, while I wait for the original water pump to...
A few weeks ago, I described my efforts to remove the old Ziebart rustproofing that looked like it was...
When I first inspected Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002 I bought last September, it was in the barn in...
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...