other 2002"s attending Bimmerfest 2016 California

[theNomad]

Sort of like Denny's - it pays to be an old car?

[arminyack]

lol ya....plus, I arrived early, so there is that. I plan on getting there early again...I like my first beer by 8am anyway. =)

[chargin]

I'm in for Saturday morning

 

I can't do 2 days of BMW

 

except at Ledgends of the Autobahn, I've booked 4 days for that including family 

 

[theNomad]

I'll give it a thought on getting there early so I can maximize BS time. My car will serve as the "before" picture.

[Ilikebmxbikes]

New member here. ill be there displaying in the Dinan Booth with one of my other cars. My 02 gets delivered the following week. 

 

I would love to meet some of you and see your cars up close. Please say hi if you come by Dinan.

[KenH]

I was able to get out to Bimmerfest today.  During the time I was there I saw maybe 20-25 02s.  It was nice to meet people that I had only knew from their postings.  Even encourage a couple of people to join and start posting, you know who you are

 

I didn't take a ton of pictures this year but here are a few.

[arminyack]

Nice seeing all of you who attended today! I had a good time, and when I left I drove the 1600 all day!

[theNomad]

Nice to meet some folks like @KenH! Thanks to @arminyack for hooking me up with the rocker nuts I needed to get the car running. Maiden voyage was to Bimmerfest. Idle isn't so hot but it was nice and solid on the freeway... charged up to 80mph just once and it felt like it wanted more.

Track trial and autocross was cool to see along with the vintage corral and owners but I was reminded how little I care anymore for the rest of the Bimmerfest frat party.

 

I don't have any great photos because apparently I'm worse at that than I am at tuning carbs!

[arminyack]

53 minutes ago, theNomad said:

Nice to meet some folks like @KenH! Thanks to @arminyack for hooking me up with the rocker nuts I needed to get the car running. Maiden voyage was to Bimmerfest. Idle isn't so hot but it was nice and solid on the freeway... charged up to 80mph just once and it felt like it wanted more.

Track trial and autocross was cool to see along with the vintage corral and owners but I was reminded how little I care anymore for the rest of the Bimmerfest frat party.

 

I don't have any great photos because apparently I'm worse at that than I am at tuning carbs!

Yeah....the rest of the nonsense that goes on outside of the vintage area is kind of a joke, and does no speak well for modern car culture! Good seeing your 02 up and going!

[jrhone]

Glad there were lots of 02s there on saturday...I went today...saw just 1 02 there and as I was leaving saw 1 more pulling in...lots of modern BMWs and lots of parking lot burnouts...thought it was a Fast and Furious tryouts..lol...I'll stick to the Vintage events...I brought lots of cash hoping to score some nice parts...not ONE vintage BMW vendor.  It was nice to see Le Tran's Turbo again though!  NICE car!

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[chargin]

We have to remember this was a BMW Enthousist event. On Saturday it seemed every 4th car was an M4 with Wheels and an Exhaust.

so in other words $70k....most of these wheel tire packages were +$3k so you can see where the money is, not in vintage parts. I don't think any vintage parts dealer could have justified the expense for the 30-40 vintage attendees out if the 1000+ attendees.

 

as to the attitudes it was interesting to me because 12 years ago when I was driving a digital car I was all about the performance tuning, suspension and big brakes, today's crowd seemed to be all about the 20" wheel package. Dinan Ground Control and VF Engineering had almost empty booths. Big Wheels with tight dresses and Big Boobs were the stars on the vendor booths. I wonder what this means for the future SEMA's........

[jrhone]

36 minutes ago, chargin said:

We have to remember this was a BMW Enthousist event. On Saturday it seemed every 4th car was an M4 with Wheels and an Exhaust.

so in other words $70k....most of these wheel tire packages were +$3k so you can see where the money is, not in vintage parts. I don't think any vintage parts dealer could have justified the expense for the 30-40 vintage attendees out if the 1000+ attendees.

 

as to the attitudes it was interesting to me because 12 years ago when I was driving a digital car I was all about the performance tuning, suspension and big brakes, today's crowd seemed to be all about the 20" wheel package. Dinan Ground Control and VF Engineering had almost empty booths. Big Wheels with tight dresses and Big Boobs were the stars on the vendor booths. I wonder what this means for the future SEMA's........

 

 

I guess I was expecting it to be like SoCal Vintage with some new cars stuff as well.  When I went to Bimmerfest a few years back in Pasadena, there were several Vintage booths. Ireland, Aardvarc, and a few others as well.  Maybe they realized SoCal Vintage was worth it more.  Oh well!  It was still cool to see a bunch of BMWs.

[chargin]

A much different event from Pasadena Rose Bowl Bimmerfest for sure, more profitable for the promoter for sure

 

I also went to the Pasadena event and enjoyed it, Fontana not so much

 

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[jrhone]

Yup I agree...I know from the turnout at SoCal Vintage there is a following for classic Bimmer's.  I just hoped they would figure out how to add that group to the current Bimmerfest.  Thats all I was saying.  Yes I know there was big money vendors.  Guys with their F10 M5's and M4's buying high bling wheels.  Yup I get that.  I have a buddy with a new M5 and a 10K exhaust...I expected to see him there actually...lol.

 

[theNomad]

Glad I went Saturday and early. Too much douche-baggery. Walking my son through weed smoke wasn't cool. I knew it wouldn't be "for kids" but the IQ level dropped the warmer it got.