1982 BMW/ALPINA C1 2.3

The last post was largely bereft of Alpina content and instead focused on a personal story about my car hobby. This is was mainly because the car had been on the West Coast for the better part of a year so I had nothing to write about the Alpina. Well, the car arrived just around the time that last blog post went live and in time to get it ready for two local car events: the Lime Rock Park show at the end of August and The Vintage at Saratoga, an early Fall BMW show in Sarat

August 4, 2025 From the title of this post you might think the Alpina has run into a problem. If you did, you’d be wrong. The Alpina,...

I try, sometimes successfully, to have a theme for every post here. The last post, When good enough isn’t good enough , was about...

July, 2024 For a change, a fair amount has happened since the last post about making it to Monterey last August for the Alpina corral at...

August 19, 2023 Six months ago in our last episode of this (seemingly) never-ending restoration, an important and emotionally pleasing...

February 22, 2023 The fatigue of this project—and my 1972 Inka touring restomod project—have weighed on me. So much so that the slow but...

April 12, 2022 When I left you, dear reader, on New Years Eve 2021 the sunroof was being put together and I ticked off a list of things...

December 31, 2021 The title for this post was going to be A New Year, given that I sat down to write this on the morning of New Years...

May 3, 2021 A lot has happened since the last post in early December. At the same time, it feels like the project bounced around with...

December 20, 2020 A little over a month ago there was the first progress update in two years. Because of the pandemic I had the time to...