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...
There were two automotive events of substance last week here at Chez Hack. The first was that I finally...
A while ago, I wrote about a handling issue on Rene, my ’73 3.0CSi, that manifested itself primarily in...
We’re going to take a break from the “Decapitating Louie” series, since I haven’t managed to get the head...
Years ago, I was pulling the head off Kugel, my dear departed Chamonix ’72 2002tii, in order to prophylactically...
The year was 2012. The place was the parking lot of the Hawthorne Inn in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the...
As we cross into 2022, the good news is that my E39 has not misbehaved any further. But other...
Near the end of the summer, I wrote about giving my daily-driver 2003 E39 530i stick sport some long-delayed...
The big sweep of my automotive storage situation has been: 1984–1992: Occupying both bays in the two-car garage of...
My tii is rusting. Over the years, I’ve written a number of pieces addressing the issue of driving our highly...
A few weeks ago I described coming to my senses regarding Hampton, the remarkably original 49,000-mile survivor 2002 that...
On a Thursday morning two weeks before Thanksgiving, I saw the kind of ad that normally makes me drop...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a longstanding steering issue in Rene, my ’73 3.0CSi, that manifests itself...
Back in January, I wrote about looking for a car-centric home—you know, your basic dream of moving out of...
I had thought that I’d be writing Part Two of “Steering Rene Right” (correcting the steering issue in my...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about taking Rene, my 1973 E9 3.0CSi, on a mini road trip to...
A few weeks ago, I talked about how Zelda, my ’99 Z3, mildewed while sitting under a cover at...
Last week I committed to taking Rene, my treasured and babied ’73 3.0CSi, on a 400-mile two-day mini road...
The Vintage at Saratoga event hosted by BMW CCA’s Patroon Chapter has the dual-pronged advantage of being a wonderful...
It’s no surprise that in the summer, I tend to favor cars that are air-conditioned. As a result, the...
