Blog | 1982 BMW/Alpina C1 2.3

Some more progress and, SPOILER ALERT, the motor is in!

Progress, finally...

Final Motor Specs

The Motor, completed. Sort of.

Death by a thousand delays

Slowly, the bottom end progresses

Tomorrow is today – or, more correctly, tomorrow was about a week ago

A New Year

Frustration and Progress

Two lanes, both slow….

Sleuthing the dash plaque (the mystery and allure of Alpinas)

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program

Decisions, decisions

Hands of God

What is an Alpina?

The current stable

The Back Story (a couple of A4s)

Sleuthing the car (how I found my Alpina)

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Some more progress and, SPOILER ALERT, the motor is in!

A little over a month ago there was the first progress update in two years. Because of the pandemic I had the time to go up to Sacramento...

Progress, finally...

It’s been over two years since my last blog update and four years to the day (November 1) since I proudly posted on FaceBook that I bough...

Final Motor Specs

As described in the last post, the motor build is mostly completed. There are a few weird odds-and-ends yet to be done, like a drill and...

The Motor, completed. Sort of.

The last post – Death by a thousand delays – ended with more parts missing and some health issues for me, causing another delay. But, it...

Death by a thousand delays

It’s been the far side of two-and-half months since the last post and the motor still hasn’t been completed and the body shell hasn’t rea...

Slowly, the bottom end progresses

With the crank in the block and the pistons and rods assembled, next was putting them into the cylinders. First, rods needed to be separa...

Tomorrow is today – or, more correctly, tomorrow was about a week ago

Avid readers will remember that the body work was chugging along, accomplishments each week to keep the momentum going, but the machinist...

A New Year

According to Stu, it’s best for the project to keep momentum. So, while there was certainly time to finish the body and paint work since...

Frustration and Progress

Almost a month ago, progress was slow but hopeful. The car had been taken to Sacramento and the shell stripped down. Motor parts were or...

Two lanes, both slow….

Around a month ago the engine-less shell was loaded on a trailer and taken to the body shop. About the same time I started delivering pa...

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