The Blog

I try, sometimes successfully, to have a theme for every post here. The last post, When good enough isn’t good enough, was about...

July, 2024 For a change, a fair amount has happened since the last post about making it to Monterey last August for the Alpina corral...

August 19, 2023 Six months ago in our last episode of this (seemingly) never-ending restoration, an important and emotionally pleasing...

The fatigue of this project—and my 1972 Inka touring restomod project—have weighed on me. So much so that the slow but steady progress...

When I left you, dear reader, on New Years Eve 2021 the sunroof was being put together and I ticked off a list of things that still...

The title for this post was going to be A New Year, given that I sat down to write this on the morning of New Years Eve, 2021. But that...

May 3, 2021 A lot has happened since the last post in early December. At the same time, it feels like the project bounced around with...

A little over a month ago there was the first progress update in two years. Because of the pandemic I had the time to go up to...

It’s been over two years since my last blog update and four years to the day (November 1) since I proudly posted on FaceBook that I...

As described in the last post, the motor build is mostly completed. There are a few weird odds-and-ends yet to be done, like a drill...

The last post – Death by a thousand delays – ended with more parts missing and some health issues for me, causing another delay. But,...

It’s been the far side of two-and-half months since the last post and the motor still hasn’t been completed and the body shell hasn’t...

With the crank in the block and the pistons and rods assembled, next was putting them into the cylinders. First, rods needed to be...

Avid readers will remember that the body work was chugging along, accomplishments each week to keep the momentum going, but the...

According to Stu, it’s best for the project to keep momentum. So, while there was certainly time to finish the body and paint work...

Almost a month ago, progress was slow but hopeful. The car had been taken to Sacramento and the shell stripped down. Motor parts were...

Around a month ago the engine-less shell was loaded on a trailer and taken to the body shop. About the same time I started delivering...

The motor is out. The rebuild decisions have been made, the path mapped out (mostly, more on that later). It’s time to focus on the...

So, I have an authentic Alpina engine, complete with the stamped-in numbers on both head and block. That engine probably has a blown...

Although the car was authenticated by Alpina, I assumed the worst – that the engine was not an actual Alpina lump. Yeah, the shell was...