other Marc's Picnic In Bethesda

[BillWilliams]

John, your car is pretty - but that bra.

 

I understand Clay, the handsome lad at the head of the table, ground the beef for the burgers. What a man! He is to burgers what BLUNT is to coffee.

The well traveled battery

 

Run Clay run!!!!

Cuddy, go get a beer and come fix my car.

There are plenty of good parts here for all of us.

 

 

Someone should have called the cops. There was nothing left of this poor car! Check the "FOR SALE" section.

 

Edited October 28, 2013 by BillWilliams

[THE1ST3]

Great host and hostess along with a LOT of great guys with great cars! This made for a great day! Thanks, Marc!

[jgerock]

Excellent day for a cook out.  Many thanks to Marc and Stephanie for hosting. Nice to meet even more new BMW owners.

 

Street-side pics

 

[BillWilliams]

The cars were parked so random in that older historic neighborhood, new cars almost looked out of place. Nice shots Jim!

[M3M3M3]

think the count was around 13 2002's, 4 e30's, 2 E21's

 

one 2002 hood latch fixed and a spring/damper/swaybar bushing/strut bearing replacement on an E30.

 

copious quantities of beer, brats, burgers, brownies, pretzel and yummy bacon/cheese/onion appetizers were consumed!

Edited October 27, 2013 by mlytle

[THE1ST3]

There was one Miata there, too. Interloper!

[jgerock]

I failed to get a picture of Mina (Grice's wife) together with her E21 parked around the corner.  Hope she found a gas station nearby.

 

Nice seeing Randy Bryant again - I think he got the long distance award driving his E21.

 

Lou's Ceylon Roundie got the most attention - by us and all Marc's neighbors.

 

 

[adawil2002]

Looks like it was a great time.

[bugtustlebub]

Thank you, Marc, for being such a gracious host!  I enjoyed the trip up from the Shenandoah Valley to the metro-area.  My first time to Bethesda.

It was great to reunite and visit with other vintage Bimmer owners.  I was happy to see old friends and to make some new friends, too.  I am back on Bill Williams' "A-list", for a while, finally.  Getting to hang with my brother, Cuttie, was great, even though he was styling a Miata.  It was awe inspiring to see Jim and Marshall make quick and efficient work on Marc's E30 suspension upgrade. 

What a great day!

 

Regards, 

Randy Bryant

(360,000 mile E21 driver)

[M3M3M3]

" It was awe inspiring to see Jim and Marshall make quick and efficient work on Marc's E30 suspension upgrade."

 

LOL!  "entertaining" was more the descriptor i was thinking of vice "quick and efficient"!

 

it just ain't an ISRCG gathering unless something gets fixed!

 

Bill W -  i love the captions you added to your pics in the first post!

[M3M3M3]

late, but some of my pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andy74tii]

Looks like a great gathering --- quick question, who has the green 74 tii, and what is the rear speaker setup there?

Andy74tii

[BillWilliams]

That Amazongrum car has been owned by the present owner since new. I asked about the speakers and he said the speakers were Blaupukts (sp?) like that when he bought if from the dealer. So when he restored it, he found, in his words, "some cheap speakers" that looked like the ones that were in it originally.

 

In the fourth photo from the top, the owner is the gentleman in the sort of red coat standing by guarding it from Jim G. and Matthew C. oblivious to that monster chasing Clay.

 

The car is beautiful!

Edited October 28, 2013 by BillWilliams

[John_in_VA]

Mike DiAndrea, a regular at the Deutsche Marque Concours in Vienna, VA on the first Sunday in May.

Doh! I should have pulled the bra off (the car) once I got to Marc's!

[Lou Perez]

Marc, Thank you for the hospitality, that sauerkraut was amazing.

And I want to thank everyone else there who hepled me with my hood problem.  As the rookie, you guys showed me how tight nit this community really is. I appreciate the warmth you all showed. 

 

And the best part is there weren't that many left over parts.