Readers of this column will be relieved to learn that I’ve snapped out of my morose, self-indulgent “I’ve got...
The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote about “punctuated equilibrium,” the tendency for biological systems to stay the same...
Thanks, everyone, for your concern over my recent head wound. I’m fine. The sutures were removed last Monday. The...
We’ve all been there. The sudden slip of the wrench. The moving of the thing you didn’t expect to...
In those wonderful carefree pre-pandemic days, whenever Maire Anne and I would visit friends in western Massachusetts or southern...
A few years ago, I was driving my 2003 E39 530i stick sport, ostensibly my daily driver (if I...
Last week I sussed out the path forward for fixing the a/c in Zelda, my 1999 Z3 2.3i whose...
Last week, after dealing with a no-start condition caused by a pinched wire, I got the clutch replacement completed...
Last week, when I practically collapsed from exhaustion at 5:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. I had led Zelda’s transmission...
Last week the reinstallation of the transmission in Zelda, my 1999 Z3 2.5i, was train-wrecked by shipping delays for...
Last week, using a Rube Goldberg-like contraption that involved my mid-rise lift, a scissors lift table, a transmission jack,...
Last week, I bought back Zelda, my old 1999 Z3 2.3i, after my friend Kim’s son had crashed it...
If I had unlimited garage and property space, I’d be one of those people with a hundred cars—you know,...
My 1979 Euro 635CSi hasn’t gotten a lot of ink, electrons, or action in months. The big coupe’s forte...
When we last left poor Zelda, the 1999 Z3 2.3i I’d owned for six years—she was the center of...
I’ve written many times about the slightly ratty Boston Green 1999 Z3 2.3 that I bought eight years ago...
It’s usually said that if you do any front-end work on a car, the car is going to need...
About six years ago, after my first book was published, I was giving a talk to the local chapter...
The older we get, the more things run together. I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling like the major...
Two weeks ago I found that Bertha’s fuel-pressure regulator—the aftermarket device taking the feed from the trunk-mounted electric fuel...
It was five years ago this week that the episode of the Great White Six-Speed Shark occurred. E31 prices...
Since I own eleven vehicles, it’s not my imagination that one of them always needs an inspection sticker. Statistically,...
With COVID-19 having cancelled virtually every large automotive event (indeed, it just officially drove a stake into the heart...
When I bought back and resurrected Bertha—the ’75 2002 I’d moved here from Austin in 1984, turned into a...
Last week I wrote about putting Hampton, the 48,000-mile ’73 2002, back in storage for a bit, and swapping it...
Congratulations to this week’s Garage Goals winner, Allan Sargony, a member of both the Everglades and M Chapters! Sargony...
As I wrote two weeks ago, I readied Hampton, my 48,000-mile survivor ’73 2002, for sale—but then, for a...
Congratulations to this week’s Garage Goals winner, Badger Bimmers Chapter member Dan Riley! Riley has won $25 gift cards...
I haven’t driven my 1973 3.0CSi much during the past few years. It hasn’t seen a multi-day, multi-state road...
I’m usually a pretty decisive guy regarding cars: I sell one, I buy another. I rarely fret over or...
