This will probably be the final piece in this series describing my foster parenthood of “The Faux Tii,” the...
Resto & Mod
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Boston Chapter member Jeff Jones (IG @dialedin978), who won a $50...
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...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Everglades Chapter member George Fuentes (IG @jet_e30), who won a $50...
(With apologies to Ernest Hemingway and Francis Macomber) A few months ago, I wrote about being offered and accepting...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Heart Of Dixie Chapter member Eric Hunter (IG @evh11), who won...
In my former life as a software engineer, I’d sometimes experience the following: You’d have a bug in a...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Connecticut Valley Chapter member Evan Laudon (IG @indevijooel), who won 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...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Connecticut Valley Chapter member Matthew Blume (IG @m3_obsession), who won a...
When we last saw my E9’s air conditioning, I had removed the evaporator assembly from under the dash to...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, San Diego Chapter member Ryan Schaffer (IG @ryans_e36_m3), who won a...
Over the years I’ve devoted a fair amount of ink in Roundel—and electrons here online—to my first and second...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, LA Chapter member Robert Voorhees (IG @coyotebobu), who won a $50...
We own our cars for a number of reasons. Those might be passion, performance, status, comfort, fuel economy, cargo...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, LA Chapter member Jayson Chan (IG @emdeucee), who won a $50...
For a number of reasons, the a/c repair in my E9 coupe is stalled, but while I have the...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Peachtree Chapter member Don Bower (IG @dbower52), who won a $50...
Last week I told you about ripping apart the air-conditioning in my precious ’73 3.0CSi, including removing and dismantling...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Kansas City Chapter member Chuck Vossler (IG @chuckvossler)—a Roundel writer, among...
The piece I wrote last week in which I compared and contrasted the tii, the Bavaria, and the 3.0CSi...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner Puget Sound Chapter member, Samantha Turner (IG @allwheeldrivebimmer), who won a...
Now that I’m back from the Vintage and the 2,000-mile chapter on my hijinks with Bertha is closed, I’m...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, LA Chapter member Hakeem Holloway (IG @bassibimmers), who won a $50...
In last week’s piece, Bertha—my rust-blistered resurrected 2002—and I had successfully knocked off the 900 miles from Boston down...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Puget Sound Chapter member Eldon Guerrero (IG @eldizzle), who won a...
I ended last weeks’ piece with the cliffhanger that everything was going swimmingly prepping Bertha for the 2000-mile round...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Tarheel Chapter member Rooz Rafie (IG @rrtunning), who won a $50...