The largest Porsche swap meet in the country takes place each April in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April is a fickle month in this area, and I […]
Short Shift Sayonara
For a year or five, I had vowed to remove the ill-behaved short shift kit in the Targa and put it back to stock. However, […]
Season Opener
In this neck of the woods, winter cannot leave soon enough. It has a habit in many years of throwing some kind of last gasp […]
The Unwanted Discovery
I was just damn lucky. Fortunate. Blessed even. With everything looking ok, I took the Dakar out for a ride to the Norton Gathering (see […]
Classic Vehicle Math: Calculating Shipping
It is not unusual in the realm of vintage iron for the best deal, the killer deal, to be far away from wherever you are. […]
Discovery and Disclosure
This is the scary part. You finally get enough time to perform a thorough examination and see whether you missed some important negative (or positive) […]
Motor Movement
Behind the scenes, the motor has been liberated from the car and the block has been checked. The cylinder bores are right on target at […]
The 20 Year Itch
20 years ago, I saw a red and white R100GS Paris Dakar on a state road in Florida. At the time, I was not fully […]
Birth of the Bavarian Sports Sedan
Depending on who you believe, the BMW 1500 was simultaneously the father of the performance sedan, the father of the New Classe cars, the father […]
The Belated Battery
The thing about having a blog, is that it will cause your laziness to be chronicled 😉 The battery woes of late last fall should […]
Of Silver Dolphins and Blue Whales
wikimediaIn the early 1950s, a number of German marques were battling it out both in the showroom, and on the racetrack. The one brand that […]