[BMWCSRegistry] 2007 Calendar and Car searching

[Art Wegweiser]

Peter,

Yes, October appears to be a CSL - at least that's what is says on the side.
Maybe next calendar we might have a full bore race version with all 
the Bat appendages affixed.

And on this list, silliness is quite acceptable. On some other lists 
any form of frivolity is strictly verboten lest it damage the purity 
of the mission or corrupt the members.   :-)

Drive safe and keep warm,
Art

At 7:48 PM -0500 1/22/07, Peter Louton wrote:
>Hi Art,
>
>I didn't include any pictures of my own, maybe next year.  I thought I saw
>that one of the fall months was a CSL, I'm thinking October without going
>back and looking.  I was just being a little silly. 
>
>Coupe is all covered and waiting for spring.
>
>Peter
>Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:41 PM
>To: Peter Louton; CS Coupe List
>Subject: 2007 Calendar and Car searching
>
>At 9:12 PM -0500 1/19/07, Peter Louton wrote:
>>What about the bias against the lowly 4 cylinder variety.
>
>Peter -
>We do and always have endeavored to not exclude our ancestral 2000 CS
>- aka Model 120.
>But in the bright light of reality, it does differ from the E9's by
>quite a bit - and I am making no reference to aesthetics.  Eye of the
>Beholder as Rod Serling once wrote.
>
>Did you submit a photo for the calendar? No CSL was included either
>or even my own gorgeous Ilse was not there and I'm sure she is pissed.
>Total calendar production from start to finish was in the hands of he
>who volunteered to do it and not enough time was available to
>consider all the aspects.
>
>Loren's effort is much appreciated - maybe some omissions can be
>corrected for the 2008 calendar - as well as a bigger run if the
>interest is there.
>
>The number of 2000 CS's is severely reduced as is availability of
>parts especially because they do not interchange very much with their
>slightly later and substantially far more abundant E9 descendants.
>Thus people with expertise or even familiarity are quite limited, too.
>
>I have written before about the "local/questionable" dealership
>situation. you mention.
>Too bad so many of you are not near Erie (yes Erie) PA where my BMW
>tech and parts guys are savvy about old BMW's.
>In fact some of them are not too fond of the overly complex design
>and excessively engineered new multi mega buck BMW's or their much
>more abundant customers with the much newer BMW''s.
>I wonder why.
>
>Drive Safe & Keep Warm
>Art
>
>>Oh well, in BMW news, I'm slowly looking for another vehicle.  I've
>>currently got a 93 525it and I'm looking for another one or the next body
>>style touring, even the 3 series.  I've got close to 200k on mine and I
>>commute 120 miles each way to my job in Indy every Saturday and Sunday and
>>during the week I run a mobile bike shop out of the touring, so I need a
>>touring, for the space and driveability aspect, and I like the decent, but
>>not quite so great gas mileage from the touring.  So anyway, I test drove a
>>94 touring with 107k on it from a local/questionable dealership and noticed
>>a few things, but it was raining and dark out.  So I asked for another test
>>drive this am and took it to Vorderman Motor Werks for an inspection, to
>run
>>the codes and get better opinion.  Well, once inside the shop, was able to
>>determine the car had been in an accident and not always the end of the
>>world if repaired correctly, but not in this case.  The left rear door
>floor
>>jamb was definitely buckled with a 1/2 inch hump across it.  Then trying to
>>find a place to raise the car on the lift was trying, since the rust on
>that
>>side was so bad it made a coupe rust bucket look good.  The underside was
>>really bad.  Sad really.  Oh well, I'll keep on looking.  On another note,
>>was able to fill up my gas tank for the touring with premium 93 octane fuel
>>for $1.989 per gallon this am and by this afternoon it was $2.189.
>>
>>Peter
>
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