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Pat Dewitt's Uber-Sweet Ti/sa At Quail

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Why yes it was Jim, and the # 995184 one I work on in Sacramento CA. It took a few weekends of cleaning and sorting to get it ready for the Monterey Car Week. Thank You Neil for those window crank handles! I finally got them polished up and installed. Steve Walker's awesomely restored #995193 was also there, though in a different group. In the late afternoon I got both cars together for a mini shoot. I'll post links to many more, but here's most of my pictures from the amazing Quail event...

Having trouble getting album links through my phone... Switching to desktop... :)

OK, here's my album. The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering 2013. The detail shots are all of Steve Walker's #193

http://s121.photobucket.com/user/tjones02_bucket/library/The%20Quail%20a%20Motorsports%20Gathering%202013

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Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 564k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 03 325iT, 12 328iT

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Thanks Tom.  Do you ever have issues with Pbucket (on desktop)?  I am frustrated with it and only at 38% capacity.... 

Yes, somtimes I have a hard time with it, like finding some organizational tools and such, but ALL my linked pictures out there in the web are through my P-bucket account, so I fear changing it.

Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 564k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 03 325iT, 12 328iT

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Explaining what these tall gangly BMW sedans are to the unknowning (even many normally well versed car people have a hard time with figuring out what an 1800Ti/SA is, let alone what a Neue Klasse is) is part of the fun of taking them to events like this. When they are walking by and stop to have a look inside or under the hood, we (Pat, Steve, Steve's wife and I) ask if they understand what they're looking at and if they have any questions. They usually ask what year it is and then we have em'.... I find the easiest way to start off is to ask them if they know what a Lotus Cortina is. If they know that, then it's SO much easier explaining what a TiSA is. If not, then I ask if they know BMW 2002, or M3, or.... Once they get the one of 200 Homologation racing specials that raced against the likes of LoCort's, Alfa Gulia Ti Supers, and even Porsche 911S's, they begin to understand that this is no ordinary BMW sedan and has as much right being there as any other car there. Sometimes I can get as far as explaining that a 2-Liter version of one of these was the first sedan to break the 10 minute barrier at Nurburgring at the hands of Hubert Hahne. The best are the ones that walk up with their jaws on the ground asking if it's a real TiSA. Those make our day!

 

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Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 564k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 03 325iT, 12 328iT

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Beautiful car for sure.  IMO a TisA is as pure a BmW racing machine that there is, every bit as much as a werks CSL or 32o (maybe moreso).   Not nitpicking, but wondering why the non original AlpinA horn button and wheels when everything else is so "correct" ....just askin.

 

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The horn button is mine. I lent it to her in place of the ///M one she had there, and as I understand it the wheels were given to her long ago by a friend at BMW. The Alpina wheels suit the car much more than the E30 steel ones she had on it. I don't believe Pat had a set of TiSA wheels with her car, and didn't know at the time what was correct. That's where I come in, and there is much to do... ;)

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Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 564k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 03 325iT, 12 328iT

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Nothing against the Minilite/Revolution/Ronal/ATS/BBS RA alloy wheels that the historic racers in Europe run on their NKs; because I'll likely use some like that on Dad's TiSA when we go racing with it, but these steel Alpina ones are certainly more period correct than them. :)

 

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Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 564k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 03 325iT, 12 328iT

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