Restoration Wednesday

  I scrub with tooth brushes, use plastic polish to shine up lens and file contacts and sockets after breaking corroded bulbs free. The damage was so bad to the passenger turn signal that I rebuilt the back of it … Continued

Last week it was brake fluid up my nose. This week, here’s to mud in your eye. Which actually happens a lot when I’m working under a jacked up dirty car. I always wear glasses but my prescription doesn’t work … Continued

They say you taste with your nose and I can confirm that brake fluid doesn’t “taste” very good when it drips straight up your nostril. I had been putting off the inevitable by working on the lights before tackling the … Continued

  This driveway-art doesn’t drive down the road but in the spirit of “getting-ahead-of-myself,” I’ve been playing with the lights. When I first trailer-ed home this Bavaria and hooked up a battery, one light worked. Scratch that two, the trunk … Continued

Glass can be hard to find for an old BMW. When I went searching on Craigslist I almost ended up with an entire car. What am I going to do trying to save two Bavarias? I’ve only got so much … Continued

It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, wire up toggle switches and a starter button. Maybe three toggles, not just the two pictured, that need to be tripped in proper-secret-order to get the engine to drink the Kool-Aid so nobody … Continued

  Who rescued who is the question. My first car was a 1974 BMW 2002. As such, I’ll always have a soft spot for BMWs. But my last experience trying to reincarnate my love for the marque left me relenting … Continued