The mighty Kugelfischer—a mechanical fuel injection pump that was factory-installed on a variety of performance-oriented vehicles of the late...
The distributor in the photo below looks normal, but don’t let it fool you. It is evil. It is...
My four-hour drive last weekend to pick up the orange spectrum Recaro office chair and the replacement front bumper...
Thanks for all the comments about the needy six-speed X3, and for not egging me on to do something...
Last week, I left you with a cliffhanger: Was I really going to pull the trigger on a thousand-dollar...
Last week I wrote about wondering whether I could thread the needle and buy an inexpensive project before the snow...
T.S. Eliot famously said that April, with its expectation of rebirth and renewal, is the cruelest month. There’s something...
Last week I wrote about the surprise of finding that the catalytic converter in my truck—the formerly mouse-infested 2008...
I’ll admit it: I’m obsessed with my new project car, the 244,000-mile 1998 five-speed manual M3 sedan that I’m...
My post-Thanksgiving week began with the rude discovery that some schmuck had cut the catalytic converter out of my...
Greetings, all. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Two weeks ago, I chastised people who automatically answer “It’s...
I’ve had my new-to-me 1998 M3 sedan with five-speed-manual, which I’m calling Project Concord, for a little over a...
Last week, I wrote about the tendency some 2002-advice-dispensing folks have to reply to every thunk, clunk, and rattle-related...
One of the things in life that bothers me is a lack of precision in description. After years of...
Last week I described patching the muffler on my ’73 3.0CSi, “Rene”, and preparing to drive it to the...
Last week I wrote about taking Hampton, my survivor ’73 2002, on a road trip to Vermont, but only...
Last week I wrote about Hampton, the 49,000-mile ’73 2002 I’d largely squirreled away eighteen months ago after it...
Last week I said that after finally getting Hampton, my low-mileage ’73 2002, running smoothly, I wanted to get...
The saga of the Baby, the 1972 2002tii that I helped the original owner’s widow sell on Bring a...
With the “mitzvah” 2002tii finally sold on Bring a Trailer, I didn’t think that the car would be here...
The story of “the mitzvah” (good deed)—my helping sell two 2002s for two local women who inherited them from...
My friend Chris’ 1972 2002tii (aka the Baby), a car which her deceased husband, Boston Chapter member Jim Zanfagna,...
Ever take your car on a just-for-fun drive only to have a long list of minor annoyances significantly detract...
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....
You may recall seeing an Inka Orange ‘73 2002 making its way around the internet a couple of weeks...
