[BMWCSRegistry] Esoteric question & Favorite Car Story

[Art Wegweiser]

Steve,
I treat the wood with violin oil applied gently 
with fingers. Same stuff as Heifetz used on his 
Strad and that worked for a few hundred years.
Does a nice job - does not produce that awful 
phony looking shiny wood so many BMW's and other 
cars have. But try to shield wood from the Sun 
especially in CA .
Not to mention blasting of paint from wind blown 
sand and wildfire ash, and salt dust from that 
nearby thing called the Pacific.
Here in the NE salt gets our metal - there in the 
West, sun gets the wood, paint and every interior 
fabric.  Hence the myth of the "California Car" 
is not quite as advertised.  You cannot escape - 
just anticipate and stay ahead.

I use Zymöl on leather - a tad overpriced - as 
most of their other stuff is - but it's pretty 
good and some smell like a Piña Colada.  Unless 
one always drives like a really good citizen, you 
do not want slippery seats.  Mine are Velour 
anyway.
Art

At 10:56 PM -0400 7/17/07, Coupecs at aol.com wrote:
>I have already ordered underhood stickers from 
>karl, printed the advice about undercarriage 
>cleanup and now need some advice about how to 
>treat the precious wood on our dashboards.
>  And by the way, is it ok to use Lexol products 
>on my leather? I shudder in advance thinking 
>about what some of you may have to say about 
>that product.
>  Is there a consensus? We shall see. And if you 
>want I will release the results for all to savor.
>
>Thanks,
>  Steve ONeill
>
>74 CSi
>
>PS  I suggested a while back that we share our 
>number one favorite car story. The result, 
>resounding silence. I confess I have two number 
>one favorites and am probably just angling for a 
>way to get them out of my system.  Confession is 
>good for the soul

My favorite car story?  Numerous years ago, when 
I drove like all those new Ferrari owners that 
keep wrecking their cars because they have no 
clue how to drive them, my cousin loaned me his 
gorgeous Alfa coupe.
I entered a descending right turn on a two lane 
road a little too hot. Hit some gravel and did a 
360.
Ended up very, very slowly rolling into a ditch 
and hung upside down in the seat belts before 
realizing I was still alive and crawled out where 
the window was.  Several guys were playing Poker 
in a farm house down the road and we flipped the 
Alfa back on its wheels. I then drove it 5 miles 
to home without a single piece of glass intact. 
Cousin has finally forgiven me and last year 
allowed I drive his turbo Miata through the 
Sangre de Christo mountains of NM. Too bad BMW 
can't or won't make such a great driving car at 
near its price.
Art


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