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ON THE COVER:

This month, we’d like to give a warm Tarheel wel-come to 52 new and returning members and as-sociate members. This brings our total chapter membership to 2,816! Our membership is the life-blood of the Club. Without your participation, there would be no Club. We offer a wide variety of activi-

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ties, and welcome the opportunity to get to know you better at some of these events. We encourage you to contact your Area Coordinator to fi nd out about local dinner meetings and other ways to get involved in YOUR club. Come join us, you’ll have a great time!

Throwing Clay in Seagrove on NC’s Fabled “Pottery Highway”: To say that our trip to the North Carolina pottery center and the surrounding area in Seagrove was a terrifi c event would seriously tax my ability at under-statement. It is always a special time when a plan comes together, given all the variable that can conspire to make things go sideways. For the Raleigh (and Charlotte) ar-eas in the Tar Heal Chapter, however, the event on July 15 was an example of everything coming together better than one could have hoped. Even the weather cooper-ated. For the most part.

Months in the making, this was an event that was co-ordinated from three different starting points, with groups from Raleigh, Charlotte and Mebane all

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PAUL HOECKE Notes from the roadBavarian Tales

Sometimes, a funny thing happens when you’re in a group, just chatting about this and that, with no particular goal in mind other than sharing some quality time with friends. But then, some kind of process – call it serendipity or free-association – kicks in, and you and your buddies fi nd yourselves dredging up all sorts of long-forgotten stuff from your past. Well, it’s what happened the other day, as four of us car guys, current and past club members, sat down for our weekly breakfast get together.

What started us down memory lane, or track as the case may be, was a car I’d spotted in the July ROUNDEL classifi eds. Listed under Competi-tion Cars for Sale, it was the white-green No.64 ‘Alpina’ 320i raced with varying success by Nick Craw in IMSA and SCCA events under the Miller & Norburn banner in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.

The ad reminded us that this was actually one of two such projects built by M&N; but it was the No.64 car that was the most familiar sight for many racing fans in the club at the time, including three of us at the breakfast table: Mark Borkowski, Phil Williamson and Yours Truly. (Back then, our fourth tablemate, Paul Mele, still lived, worked and played with cars out of state.) Naturally, this had us wax eloquent about the car, particularly Phil, who’d hung around Team Highball, one of M&N’s competitors, at the time.

Well, one thing led to another. Pretty soon, talking about good ol’ No.64 reminded us of an-other M&N project. (See what I mean about free association?) A close cousin of the Craw car, this was another E21, bright red and also duded up Alpina-style, except it was street-legal. Keep in mind that the E21 was the very fi rst 3-Series to (offi cially) hit our beaches, hence special even in its garden variety versions. For us though, the car was memorable for one reason: The M&N guy

who usually drove it, Dennis Cloud, was one of our driver school instructors and always joined the Triangle gang when we convoyed to one of our schools at the Charlotte Speedway. And having him along solved an annoying problem.

You see, the route we’d take to the track in-cluded NC 49, a two-lane notorious for its lack of good passing zones. It used to give us connip-tions as we tried to stay together while battling weekend traffi c – that is, until Dennis came along with the red E21. The car was super fast, so much so that Dennis once remarked how passing a long string of Sunday drivers on that two-lane never, ever made him wonder “will I make it or not.” So we put Dennis on point, where he could scoot ahead and give the rest of us a shout on the CB that the road was clear. We never failed to stay to-gether on that road after that.

Ah yes; those were fond memories indeed. So it’s no wonder they took our breakfast session off on yet another tangent. Namely, bringing up those driver schools reminded us of what all of us were driving at the time: Bavarias! Okay, so Paul Mele wasn’t a Tarheel member at the time; and Mark didn’t indulge in HPDE’s. What mattered was that all of us had caught the E3 bug at about the same time. Back then, with much of the club membership still driving 2002’s, this made us kinda special, like a club-within-the-club.

The very mention of BMW’s post-war Big Six kicked off a round table which lasted the rest of the morning. Who could forget its glorious M30 motor; or its temperamental Zenith-Stromberg carbs which just about everyone soon swapped for Webers; or its marginal cooling system, which luckily could be upgraded by replacing the radia-tor with a four-row version; or the many ways its suspension could be modifi ed. Of course, rehash-ing everything about the E3 also gave us a perfect

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The Editor’s Desk...Since I have really been trying to resist the

temptation to buy more cars (in fact, I need to sell cars) I have not really been even scanning the for sale ads. I had not noticed just how low the e46 M3 prices have dropped, with many nice examples priced in the mid-teens currently.

While your opinion may certainly vary, the e46 body style is right up there with the all time best looking 3-series cars in my book. And, in M3 trim it is hard to resist the 3.2 liter inline-six, cranking out 333hp and the excellent handling. Drop a few more bucks and add in a short-shift kit and stiffer/lower suspension and it’s hard to beat for the money.

The other up-side is that the e46 M3 has just enough high-tech gizmos for a “modern” car, but lacks some of the latest tech which is bound to be problematic as these cars age.

The extent of the technology being crammed into cars these days really has concerned me - what will these cars be like to own when they are say, 20 plus years old? I shutter to think... -ed.

excuse to reminisce about how we became Bavar-ia fans and maybe brag a little about our exploits with the cars. It was revealing.

Turns out, only Mark had owned a BMW – a 2002 – before he traded it for his Bavaria. He loved the E3 for its size and speed; did some serious wrenching (novice that he was) when he swapped its automatic transmission for a four-speed; and even became one of the founders (with Yours Truly) of the original Senior Six Regis-try. But he drove the car for only a few years, until he quit the club and traded the Bavaria for, of all things, a Mercedes! However, we three others in our little group had started out messing with all sorts of non-BMW marques, so those E3’s were our fi rst Bimmers. In each case, they were also the start of a long love affair.

Paul (Mele, not me) had cut his automotive teeth playing with Corvairs, Monzas actually; but discovering the E3 made him a Bavarista for the better part of a decade (until the E30s came along). He owned as many as three E3’s at a time (including a 2800); rebuilt several from the ground

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ON THE COVER:vectoring in on the pottery capital of North Caro-lina for food, tire kicking and shopping. Three of the best things in life, of course. The group from Raleigh started, as we frequently do, in the show room of Leith BMW. The dealership always takes extraordinary care of us and today was no excep-tion. A full spread of breakfast sandwiches from Panera, Danishes, coffee, soda and orange juice was available for the assembled masses. The new-ly renovated show room is also the perfect place for us to have a club meeting, surrounded by new Bimmers, an over the top Latte machine and a lone Rolls Royce. The acoustics are good … and one suspects that even the extra participants who were customers waiting in the service department enjoyed the interchange.

We needed every bit of the available meet-ing space today! The weather was perfect; typical, North Carolina summer morning. It was bright and sunny, with the temperatures and humid-ity both approaching 90. The air conditioning felt good and it was clearly the kind of day when the Bimmer faithful would want to be out carv-ing apexes and experiencing spectacular country roads. By the time the group was fully formed we

had 18 cars and 34 people in Raleigh! Transla-tion? It turned into a self-infl icted traffi c jam in the dealer parking lot as we tried to organize a departure.

Fortunately, there was little of apparent con-sequence going on in the adjacent Lincoln dealer-ship, so we could line the cars up in their lot and stage a gracefully choreographed exit around a shopping center and onto the appropriate Inter-state ramp. It work remarkably well and we lost exactly no cars in the transition to public motor-ways.

With Seagrove representing a nearly two-hour drive under the best of circumstances, we made the strategic decision to take advantage of a brief jaunt on the super-slab to get us away from the urban tentacles of Raleigh. This turned out to be an extremely good call since it sped us onto the bucolic roads and the rolling countryside near Jordan Lake surprisingly quickly. Somehow we managed to keep an entire squadron of 18 cars together for the entire run down the highway in parade formation. This is, in reality, a bigger lo-gistical challenge than one might imagine.

After we crossed over Jordan Lake the roads

up; and turned one into something of a barn burner. You may recall it as the late ‘Cowvaria’ raced by Al ‘the Rev’ Taylor.

For Phil, who started out as a Mustang guy, his Agave Bavaria was also the beginning of a re-lationship that lasted close to ten years. Although he never modifi ed it, at least not extensively as I recall, he squeezed every bit of performance out of it, autocrossing it successfully in club events and capturing the Overall Best award at O’fest ’76. (This says a lot about what that four-door sedan could do.) He only gave it up, though grudgingly, when the E28s came along.

As for Yours Truly, I’d been a BMW admirer (and occasional borrower) for years, but I’d never actually owned one until the ’72 Atlantik Blau caught my eye. My trade-in was (I’ll assume you’re

sitting down) a Rambler Rogue two-door! The Ba-varia (aka the Blue Max) became my daily driver for some twenty years. It also took me to a dozen Oktoberfests and many more driver schools. I fi -nally took it off the road because it needed a great deal of R & R; although, to be completely hon-est, it was also because of my insatiable greed, making me add more Bimmers to my stable. Yet, unlike my buddies’ E3s, I still have mine. It’s un-dergoing a steady but slow restoration process, which has caused friends to label it my Hundred-Year Project. At that rate, it just may make it to The Vintage next year – or the year after.

If there’s a point to this rambling tale, it’s this: You may not see many (if any) E3s at club events today; but if you’ve ever owned one, odds are it’s like your fi rst love. You never forget it.

got even better as the countryside opened up and the promise of twisty “two-laners” beckoned. We executed a perfect peel off old US-64 toward downtown Pittsboro and looped around the center square traffi c circle that circumnavigates that iconic Chatham County Courthouse / Mu-seum which dates to the time of The Revolution. Swinging the Bimmers around the circle in coor-dinated fashion was no small feat, and it must have represented quite the show to bystanders, but we did it. One more turn a mile out of town and we ripped through a time machine which took us back to a quieter time focused on agriculture and the beauty of The Old North State’s rolling central region. This area is close to the foothills for the Uwharrie Mountains, the ancient volcanic mountains which run the central part of the state below Asheboro. The roads out there are a seem-ingly endless set of sweepers and switchbacks which are perfect for letting a bit of the Inner Ba-varian out. There are constant altitude changes on these roads … but they seemed to have been designed by someone who clearly had drivers in mind. Not a single off-camber turn I can remem-ber from the adventure.

Rolling through little towns and past old farms you got the sense that this was a week’s worth of traffi c rolled into a 90 second fl ash of brilliance. We surprised several folks who are no doubt used to getting to the end of their drive-ways (lanes in country-speak) and doing a rolling stop since there’s never anything to worry about. Today was different for a lucky few.

The driving was a bit of a workout … but our quest was worth the effort. The Westmoore Family Restaurant south of Seagrove is the most implausible of places. It is a well-appointed full-service restaurant with a great menu that is, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded small pottery establishments where artisans prac-tice their craft, it doesn’t seem to have a natural economic base to support it … and yet it is clear-ly thriving. Have to love it.

Speaking of loving it, the service was terrifi c. We called ahead and warned them that we were bring 40-50 hungry folks by for a bite to eat. No

worries, they said. So we did.Wait. That math doesn’t seem right, you say?

Correct.In addition to the 34 folks from the Raleigh

area, a second wave of Bimmers swept into view from the Charlotte area! Pretty cool to be sitting in the dining room when they came into view and landed in the parking lot. That included 17 more people and 10 more cars. Everything looked bet-ter than everything else of course, but it seems that there’s a penchant for E46 M3’s down in the Queen City … which is just fi ne with me, given the weak spot I have for a certain 2004 ragtop.

After the groups met and mingled, and had some pictures taken, we fi nished the serious busi-ness of eating … then rallied back to the cars in waves so that we could sortie north and into the heart of the pottery world at the NC Pottery Cen-ter. This is a magical museum to the potter’s craft with artifacts going back to Native American work that is 4,000 years old. Amazing … simply amaz-ing. And beautiful to see. They also had a resi-dent potter on staff, ready to pitch clay and show all how to really get it done. Spectacular event.

From there, the group broke up into smaller gaggles to take in classes … or visit the local or-chid farm … or check on specifi c pottery shops around the region. It is an impressively target rich environment to experience and everywhere we went the folks we met were terrifi c … knowl-edgeable and helpful!

As we were nearing the end of our tour, the clouds began to close in and a late afternoon NC thunderstorm began to make its presence felt … which led to a mad scramble to put convertible tops in the upright and locked position. And that was it … the only “problem” of the day was some random dampness.

The ride home was another opportunity to revel in some of NC’s fi nest scenic byways. A perfect end to a perfect day of comradery, sight-seeing, shopping and fi ne dining. A fantastic time was had by all and we’ll now look forward to “playing it all again” in the very near future. Bim-mers and Byways: what could possibly be better than that?!?! -Robert McIsaac

Hello, fellow club racing fans; and welcome to what’s left on the 2017 BMW CCA Club Rac-ing (CR) calendar. It isn’t much, particularly if we adhere to our practice of including only events in which members of the Tarheel Chapter’s racing crowd are likely to take part. In fact, by our count, there are just four events like that left between now and the end of the year.

As you read this, Peachtree Chapter is stag-ing a race at Road Atlanta. It’s a big fi eld, but so far we’ve seen only two local hot shoes, Spec E36 pilots Phil Antoine and Bert Howerton, on the entrants’ list. After that, there’s a race at CMP in mid-month, followed in October by a race at the National Corvette Museum’s raceway hosted by the Bluegrass Bimmers folks. And then, of course, there’s the season fi nale at Roebling Road in December. As usual, our chapter will be co-spon-soring that event with the VDCA, and the weekend will also feature a racing school under the aus-pices of BimmerWorld. That’s it.

In other words, if any local racers are still looking to rack up points toward a class champi-onship this season, they’d better get cracking.

Meanwhile, the last couple of months have seen two CR races in which our chapter was repre-sented. One of them, a three-sprint event, ran in late July at Summit Point; and although two local drivers we’d expected to show up – Sean McKay (IP) and Todd Newcomer (DM) – didn’t, fi ve oth-ers did, including IP racers Jerry Kaufman, Dennis

Pippy and Rich Zulman, plus perennial Spec E36 contenders Antoine and Jack Wilkins.

The IP contingent did, generally speaking, pretty well, despite the broiling heat and a fi eld of 40-plus cars on that short, two-mile track. Kaufman posted the best results, fi nishing second in class (4th overall) in the fi rst race and winning IP in the third (feature) race. Pippy chalked up a couple of third-place fi nishes; but Zulman ended up in mid-pack three times. Our two Spec E36 racers, however, didn’t do nearly as well. Antoine did post two third-place class fi nishes in the fi rst two sprints but DNF’ed in the feature race. And Wilkins didn’t even fi nish in the fi rst race and never started in the other two.

The other recent race, at CMP in mid-August, listed only one ‘local’ driver, McKay among the entrants, but due to the late date, results were not available at press time. (In case you ask why we include McKay as one of our guys, despite him being from Maryland, it’s because of his twofold link to our chapter: his dual membership and the fact that he co-drives with Ray Korman, who is defi nitely one of our guys.)

On the pro racing front, the news of late has been pretty upbeat for BimmerWorld Racing (BWR) in the IMSA Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge series. They did pretty well at Mosport, despite fi elding only one car. (As it turns out, the No.81 328i of Ari Balogh and Greg Liefooghe didn’t race because of damage during practice

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Kaufman Wins at Summit Point;BWR Takes Podium at Lime Rock;

Confusion Reigns at Road America

which couldn’t be fi xed in time.) And Round Six in the series, at Lime Rock in late July, rewarded the team and BWR owner/racer James Clay with a spot on the podium.

Evidently, BWR’s drivers and cars were really primed for that 1.5-mile course. Clay not only qualifi ed the No.84 car fourth in ST but stayed near the front throughout his stint, allowing co-driver Tyler Cooke to weather the battles toward the fi nish and take the checker in third place. But in our opinion, the heroics award belongs to the No.81 duo of Balogh and Liefooghe. Despite hav-ing started way back in 16th place, they managed to come in a close sixth at the fi nish.

Early last month, the team also got off to a great start at the next round at Road America, but the fi nish was about as clear as mud. Unlike Lime Rock, this track is 4 miles long and fast, which the BWR guys like. Clay in the No.84 car qualifi ed on the pole and with one brief exception led the ST pack during his one-hour-plus stint. Meanwhile, Liefooghe and then Balogh kept the No.81 car in

the running at about mid-pack. But then, with just under 50 minutes left in the race, weather inter-vened. It had been drizzling, off and on, through much of the race, but now it was monsoon-time, with lightning to boot. At fi rst, the track went to a full course yellow, which allowed Cooke to take over from Clay when the pits were opened for the ST cars. But 47 minutes short of the end, offi cials red-fl agged the race.

In the ensuing confusion, while the pace car was trying to gather up the fi eld and lead it into the pits, a couple of Mazdas fl oundered into what appeared to be the lead in ST. And that’s how the race was scored when it was called, after a dismal 25-minute wait on pit lane. Maybe those results will stand. But as we see it, those Mazda guys didn’t deserve getting fi rst and second. Heck, they hadn’t pitted or switched drivers! Anyway, maybe Clay will still get the win; but if he doesn’t, we think he’ll be fully justifi ed to give voice to that ancient baseball war cry: We Wuz Robbed! So stay tuned.

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Sep 9 *Cars and Coffee Renolda Village Winston-Salem www.facebook.com/CarsCoffeeReynoldaVillage/Sep 9 * European Classic Car Show Hickory, NC www.theautolawn.comSep 16-17 Tour to Tanglewood Bike Ride Winston-Salem, NC Tom Tice Scott Meyer [email protected] [email protected] main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/MPower_CyclistsSep 23 * Touring Joara - Morganton, NC Craig Root [email protected] exploringjoara.orgSep 23-24 Corral at Fall Charlotte Auto Fair CMS Charlotte, NC Chris Webber 704-906-8876 [email protected] 29-Oct 1 Tarheel & Toe Driver’s School VIR Full Course Phil Antoine 919-818-6036 [email protected] 7 Drive to Richard Petty Museum - Randleman, NC Robert McIsaac 919-880-8012 [email protected] 13-15 *E30CCA Oktoberfest 2017, Concord Speedway [email protected] www.e30cca.comOct 14 *BimmerWorld 20th Anniversary Celebration - Dublin, VA James Clay www.BimmerWorld.comOct 14 Southern Grace Distilleries-Mt. Pleasant, NC Bob Atkinson 704-906-4315 [email protected] 28 Drive to Spartanburg ///MDay Spartanburg, SC Robert McIsaac 919-880-8012 [email protected] 28-29 ///M Day at Performance Center Spartanburg, SC Registration on MotorsportRegDec 1 Drive to Holiday Charity Laps VIR Alton, Va Robert McIsaac 919-880-8012 [email protected] 31-Nov 4 *48th Annual Oktoberfest - New Orleans, LA Registration on bmwcca.orgDec 2-3 * ChumpCar Double 8-VIR North Course www.chumpcar.comDec 7-8 Club Race School Roebling Road, GA Mike Hinkley [email protected] 8-10 BMW CCA Club Race Roebling Road, GA Mike Hinkley [email protected]


If he was in a Bimmer in Raleigh on Tuesday, June 20th, there’s a pretty good chance he (or she) was on the way to the Triangle Town Center for our monthly dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen! The weather was “surprisingly damp” throughout the entire day, which tends to de-press the participation in these events … since a major component of it, beyond the great food, is the comradery and engagement that comes from “networking in the parking lot”. The tire kicking and story telling that takes place on a pleasant evening are alone worth the price of admission. That becomes a little more challenging when the weather requires the use of golf umbrellas to keep dry.

Amazingly, shortly before it was time to saddle up and roll out from home, the skies cleared, the roads dried, the sun poked through and a pleasant early sum-mer evening emerged. The blitz across country byways to get to the rally point became a highly engaging jaunt across the rural countryside east of the capital which has the corn and tobacco fi elds exploding with cash crops reaching for the skies. Apparently the warm temps and ample rain are pretty agreeable for all that is happening out on the farm! Thankfully we weren’t the only ones to appreciate the great change in the weather … by the time we fi nished the tire kicking part of the festivities, we had a fantastic turnout that in-cluded 21 Bimmers and 33 hungry CCA members. That meant, of course, that there was plenty of eye candy in the parking lot to choose from. An M4, an M3, an M235 and a minor collection of E39 M5’s graced the group, surrounded by a range of E90’s in various form … along with a group of F30’s and at least one X3. Great fun seeing all the different equipment on display.

Perhaps the most special story was Mark Lee’s arrival in his recently acquired M5 … which apparently was the culmination of a lengthy na-tional search which landed him just the right car. As cool as the Fiver is, however, the reaction of his 4 year old daughter, Julia, was just priceless. Daddy’s new car is “the fastest car ever”! She is clearly enjoying her position with the new ride and was happy to help Mark show off all the car’s features. This reminded me of the joy I got years ago with my own Dad and his 2002 … and later the E30 that is still in my garage … so teaching ‘em to appreciate the fi ner things in life can have a very long tail, indeed.

I pondered that a bit more when I realized that this was the last dinner in NC that our E90 will be making. In a few weeks our son and I are driving it across country so that it can begin its new life in the Bay Area. Looking forward to cruising down Route 66 on the way to NorCal … and checking to

see what we can fi nd on a certain corner in Win-slow, Arizona. Something very satisfying about watching a new generation of Bimmer owners ris-ing to appreciate what a great experience being around them can be.

Once inside, the festive nature of the evening continued as we explored both new adventures that we have planned for later in the year … as well as some of the highlights of trips we’ve taken recently. Several folks shared experiences (and a few videos) from traversing the Tail of the Dragon … while others talked about how to get maxi-mum advantage from a day at an ///M Club School event at the BMW Performance Center. Speaking of that, there remain a few seats available for the events coming up in July and October … but they are going fast!

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It was a bittersweet moment, at the end of the dinner, when we had to say a fi nal “good night” to the CPK staff member who has been our “host” for the last several years. Bradley has been a good friend to the club and has taken great care of us. Now that his studies in Raleigh are done, however, it is time for him to move on to his next venture: law school at George Washington Uni-versity in DC! We passed the hat in the parking lot before dinner to take up a collection for him … and had a chance to wish him well as he heads north in a few weeks. Of course, at every dinner, it is an opportunity for us to sing Happy Birthday to someone … and this time it was Bradley’s turn! A great sendoff to a terrifi c friend of the club.

All too soon it was time to saddle up again and head for home. As we rolled out of the park-ing lot and headed for the Interstate, an odd thing happened … the heavens opened with yet an-other heavy rainstorm! Sometimes, it is better to be lucky than good. And we had a very good time this month, indeed.. -Robert McIsaac

ASHEVILLE AREA DINNERDate: Last Tuesday each monthTime: 6:30 pm

Where: Carrabba’s Itallian Grill (Airport Road Location) www.carrabbas.com 332 Rockwood Road Arden, NC 28704

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All BMW marques are welcome (cars, motorcycles, Mini, Rolls, etc.).

Contact Chris Joyner at [email protected] for more information.

CAPE FEAR AREADate: 3rd Wednesday each monthTime: 6:30 pm

Where: Gusto Grille 2013 Olde Regent Way Leland, NC

Area Coordinator position is open in the Cape Fear Area - Please contact Brenday Dunlevy at [email protected] if you are interested in fi lling this roll.

CHARLOTTE AREA I DINNERDate: 3rd Thursday each monthTime: 7 p.m.Where: WaldhornRestaurant 12101Lancaster Hwy (Old Hwy 521) Pineville,NC (Locatednear Carolina Place Mall) (704) 540-7047

We’re still hanging out at the Waldhorn Restau-rant on the third Thursday of each month. Con-tact Chris Webber at H:(704) 523-9118 C: 704-906-8876 or e-mail at [email protected] to RSVP. Please join us (great German food and beer). See you there!

CHARLOTTE AREA IIDate: 4th Thursday each monthTime: 7 p.m.Where: Union Street Bistro

48 Union Street S Concord, NC 28025

Please email Bob Atkinson for more information at [email protected] or call (704) 906-4315.

DOWNEAST AREA (Greenville, Wilson Rocky Mt) Position OpenNo information available at this time.

HURRICANE REGION AREA (New Bern, Jackson-ville, Morehead City)No information available at this time.

NORTHERN MOUNTAIN AREA DINNERContact Abby Jane Carpenter for more informa-tion. [email protected]

ROANOKE AREA Date: 2nd Tuesday each monthTime: 7:00 p.m.Where: Pizza Pasta Pit 1713 Riverview Dr. Salem, VA 24153

Near corner of Electric Road and Apperson Drive.

Contact JoElla John [email protected] or Scott Donaldson [email protected] for mor infor-mation.

SANDHILLS AREADate: (4th Wednesday each month)Time: 6:30 p.m.Where: Luigi’s Restaurant (www.luigisnc.com) 528 North McPherson Church Road Fayetteville, NC 28303

Please come out and join us. Please contact Thomas Hart for more information at [email protected]

TRIAD AREA WEST DINNER (Winston-Salem)Date: 2nd Tuesday each monthTime: 6:00 p.m. Drinks, 7:00 p.m. DinnerWhere: Cities Grill and Bar – (336)765-9027 2438 S.Stratford Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27103

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TRIANGLE AREA DINNER (RALEIGH)Date: 3rd Tuesday each monthTime: 6:30 pmWhere: California Pizza Kitchen Triangle Town Center 5959 Triangle Town Road, #2121 Raleigh, NC 27616 Main Entrance, by Barnes & Noble (919) 792-0333 Directions: Triangle Town Center on the north side of Raleigh, at the intersection of I-540 and US-1

Please contact Robert McIsaac for more information at [email protected]

TRIANGLE AREA DINNER (CHAPEL HILL)Date: 1st Wednesday each monthTime: 6:00-6:45pm People arrive on the top fl oor of the parking garage for car viewing and stories 6:45pm Walk to the restaurant for dinnerWhere: Hickory Tavern (next to the Hampton Inn www.thehickorytavern.com 300 East Main Street, Carrboro 27510

Please contact Jeff Krukin for more information at [email protected]

Tarheel BMW Corral at “Cars N’ Coffee” Char-lotte. (Look for Tarheel BMW CCA fl ag) Date: First Saturday each month Time: 8 am – 11:00am Place: Parking lot near Matthews, just SE of the corner of Monroe Rd. and Sardis Rd. North. (Behind the Bojangles).

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BMW CARS FOR SALE:

1987 M6 Coupe black with Lotus white interior. Car has 107k miles and is in very good shape. It is #559 of only 568 units imported by BMW NA in 1987.It has new tires new ss exhaust new battery two new shocks. This car has two fl aws. It has a small rear main leak and my BMW mechanic told me to wait until it needed a clutch to address. I have a quote from him in writing for $1550 for new clutch install and repair leak. The aircon-ditioner stopped working but it has worked before. I believe judging from what these cars are going for on Auto Trader and such that I have this priced very well at $27500. It has a clean Carfax and Vin Check. The car was delivered in Texas and spent most of its life in the south. I live in Tega Cay SC (just over stateline from Charlotte) and I have owned the car for 8 years this month. The average asking price is around 56k and the ones priced near mine have many more miles on them. You can contact me at [email protected] or call or text 704 400 2750 (JB Reeves). Thankyou for looking

1997 540 312,000 miles, runs great, changed trans fl uid/fi lter, kept up

with all maintenance since I owned it (5+years). Drive back and forth to work, average 20 mpg. Own four cars need to sell.Asking [email protected] Brooks

2004 BMW M3 convertible. Great care, well maintained. New tires, 85,000 miles SMG transmission. Silver with grey interior. Cold weath-er package.$14,200. [email protected] or 828-734-1535

2015 M3 6spd Original owner, mid-dle age professional. Title in hand since purchase. Always garaged at home and offi ce, minimal wear. EX-ECUTIVE PACKAGE: Head up dis-play (HUD); heated steering wheel; Comfort Access keyless entry; rear-view camera; Park Distance Control; XM radio; CD player --- ADAPTIVE M SUSPENSION (3 settings) --- POWER REAR SHADE and manual side shades --- HEATED SEATS front and rear --- NAVIGATION --- Bluetooth hands free --- MANUAL transmission --- ALPINE WHITE ex-terior -- Sahkir Orange (red) leather interior -- Carbon fi ber roof -- Rear tires are NEW; front tires at 50% -- BMW all weather mats and also original carpet mats -- Factory war-ranty and free dealer maintenance through 8/2018 -- No apologies car in excellent condition. Bone stock. Never tracked or abused or even accelerated hard before warmed up. -- This is my 4th M car, best yet.

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E36 M3 Coupe Race Car Bundle (kit) Body sandblasted, seam weld-ed, reinforced, primed and painted gray on underside and interior. Sun-roof removed and panel welded in to

replace it.Full welded cage from front shock towers to rear shock towers.Fenders, hood and trunk lid de-tached but included. Coil over suspension with ProTrac double adjustable, remote reservoir shocks that have been factory re-certifi ed. Ground control adjustable camber plates and dual rate springs.Aluminum racing radiator with water/oil cooler separate.Multiple booster/master cylinder/ABS pump combosNew in box StopTech 332mm big brake kit for all 4 corners, Red ST-40 calipers, Slotted rotorsEuro big differential completely re-built with Quaife installedSubframe for Euro diff included with solid bushings installed.Rebuilt rear axles.Rear wing and lightweight trunk lid available as well.All parts are used but serviceable unless otherwise noted.Fasteners, dash, taillights, wipers, many spares and duplicates avail-able.Everything you need for a great racecar except glass, exhaust, en-gine, transmission and labor. Photos available! Reasonable offers only, please.

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MISCELLANEOUS:

Preserving the CCA history The Club Archive is looking for Okto-berfest or Chapter events trophies, shirts, pins, posters, wine glasses, dash plaques, grill badges, pro-grams, or anything else. Anything from the club’s past for the Archive/Museum. Do you have extra items you would consider donating? Mi-chael: (864)250-0022; [email protected]. (SC)

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Tarheel Chapter BMW CCA Email List Join us online: The “list” pro-vides a casual, online forum for chapter members to discuss BMW’s and BMW CCA events and related topics of interest to local members. Basically it’s a sort of electronic discussion board, almost anything is free game, as long as it has some connection to BMW’s (no matter how remote the connection might be).To join the list surf on out to: http://

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THE 02 GROUP A special interest group for 2002 owners in NC. For more information about the group

and how to join, check out our web-site: www.the02group.org

The Z-Series Car Club of America (ZSCCA) is a national special inter-est group of BMWCCA dedicated to the enjoyment of all Z-Series BMW’s. Several local groups are active in VA and NC. Find us on Facebook, or at zscca.org

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Tour to TanglewoodCalling all BMW Club Cyclists

Join us for a fun Bike ride this fall to benefit a great charity, theNational MS Society.

Date(s): September 16 - 17, 2017 Age Minimum: 12Cost: Adult Cyclist $45 Minor Cyclist: $20 (12-17)

The Tarheel Chapter is sponsoring a cycling team for the Tour To Tanglewood, an epic two-day fundraising bike ride an incredible experience that is changing the lives of people affected by MS. The ride will be on Saturday and Sunday September 16th and 17th. The Tarheel Chapter will be supplying a cool BMW Club oriented cycling jersey for each cyclist. We guarantee you will have a great time with some BMW friends and will also feel great helping out a very worthy cause. We’d love to have you join our team. Ride with us as we put power to our pedals – every mile we ride brings us closer to the goal – a world free of MS. Use the following link to join the Tarheel Club: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/MPower_Cyclists2017Support our Riders: If you cannot ride, volunteer or make a donation or both, use to above link to donate.For more info contact: Tom Tice [email protected] or Scott Meyer [email protected].

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Wow, what a turn-out for the Seagrove trip - 51 people and 28 Bimmers!


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Riding With The King! An Early Fall Cruise to the Richard Petty Museum

• What: A spirited, family friendly, adventure to Central NC’s storied town of Randleman to see The King of stock car racing’s museum. An epic tour of NC and NASCAR history, followed by an amazing lunch in Asheboro. The museum is located at 309 Branson Mill Rd, Randleman, NC

• When: Depart on Saturday, October 7thth at 10:00am. Come early for coffee at 9:00am! • Where: Departure from Panera Bread in Apex (1001 Beaver Creek Commons Dr, Apex,

NC 27502).• Objective: A fun and enjoyable family outing that promises terrific roads … and some

iconic Carolina eats. Lunch will be at Mike’s Chicago Dog: A bit of Chicagoland in the Piedmont. Mike’s is at 103 N Fayetteville St, Asheboro, NC.

• Duration: Figure 5-6 hours including driving. • Contact Information: For details, connect with Rob McIsaac at

[email protected] or 919-880-8012 or Howard Wasserman at [email protected]

Fall 2017 M Club Day Turning Money into Noise @ BMW Performance Center

• What: An early Fall cruise to the BMW Performance Center in Greer, SC. • When: Depart on Friday, October 27th at 2pm. Return on Sunday, October 29th in the afternoon. • Where: Departure from the Starbucks parking lot at the White Oak Shopping Center in Garner. Feel free to

come any time after 1:30pm. Address for Starbucks is 180 Cabela Drive Garner, NC 27529. Note that we will head south to avoid the Charlotte rush hour “experience”!

• Objective: This will be an overnight adventure that will take us to participate in a driving school at the BMW Performance Center … driving their M-Cars. Registration for the event is now open at msreg.com/Fall2017MClubDay.

• Objective Alternative: An alternative agenda (site-seeing / shopping) will be arranged for non-driving spouses. Greenville is a great place to tour!

• Dinner: Macaroni Grill, 105 E Beacon Dr, Greenville, SC 29615 (Target 7pm)• Suggested Hotel: Marriott Courtyard (GSP), 115 The Parkway, Greenville, SC, USA 29615 (AAA Rates).

There is also a close Hampton Inn option.• Duration: Figure 4.5 hours of driving each way (each day). • Contact Information: For details, connect with Rob McIsaac at [email protected] or

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