(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...
For most of the first four months of 2019, my head was living in Lotusland as I worked like...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Brandon Watson (IG @southpawww), who won a $50 Shell fuel card...
Last week, I was offered (and accepted) a free faux (fake) 1973 2002tii. I’d looked at the car last...
Congratulations to this week’s Shell Fill-Up Friday winner, Great Plains Chapter member Ben Zimmerman (IG @benbimmerman), who won a...
I’m a big believer in pay-it-forward. Oh, to be sure, when I have a car or a part that’s...
