My first car

Going through some old CDs with no labels on them, I found this pic of my very first car, also pictured HERE. Back in those days (the mid 90s) this beautiful machine was worth less than 5 grand....Today, if I had held onto it, who knows...I can't say I miss that car, but it sure was a joy to own and drive (except in the snow!)

2002 on a Brooklyn Street

I have seen this car around the neighborhood before. Very nice clean driver.

Autumnal Orange

Seen in all its rust free, chrome-free glory in Brooklyn Heights.

Automobiliac at the Deutsche Classic!

Longtime readers know we love our Italian cars over here at Automobiliac, but vintage German machinery can also be ever so cool. There was plenty of it on display at this weekend's Deutsche Classic German car show in Fleetwood, PA.  The weather was fantastic and the drive out from the city was about 2 hours of rolling countryside.  The show was roughly evenly divided between classic BMW, Porsche, Mercedes and VW, with a smattering of Opel GTs and other unique vehicles for good measure.In addition to the beautiful cars on display, there was a small swap meet area with vendors selling all manner of replacement parts for German cars.  My personal highlights of the day were a pristine BMW 3.0 CS (The owner seemed less than interested when I told him his car was my favorite at the show...) and a really cool Porsche RSK.  There was also a gorgeous Mercedes 300SL gullwing in attendance, and Herbie the Love Bug also made an appearance. Click any of the photos to see my entire gallery of the swap meet and car show!

2002 Memories

During some house-cleaning today, I turned up this old photo of my beloved blue 1973 BMW 2002, which was my first car.  It was a real peach, with round tail lights, a single weber carb, very little rust, and a beautiful wooden Nardi wheel. Thought I'd put it up here to share. I have many fond memories of this car, which I learned to drive stick on.  Despite the car's diminuitive size, it still had the highest steering effort I have ever experienced when parallel parking!  I wonder who has the car now and why I didn't take more photos of it when I had it...

Any other '02 owners out there who want to share their stories?