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There haven’t been many updates on this blog lately. Most my car energy for many months has been in Sacramento working on my other...

1981 B7 turbo

Aug 6, 20214 min read

In the last past, I discuss how often projects on this car are presented here linearly but in real time occur over weeks, or even months,...

1981 B7 turbo

Jan 4, 20216 min read

In telling the stories here the topics are usually presented linearly. But the reality is usually very different; projects often overlap,...

1981 B7 turbo

Sep 22, 20207 min read

The fourth and (allegedly) final pandemic project was refreshing the suspension. The car rode on what I believe was the original...

1981 B7 turbo

Aug 31, 20206 min read

The B7, by the time it was in my hands, was not a garage queen. And I didn’t want one, either. I used to own a Golf Yellow 1972 3.0CSL. I...

1981 B7 turbo

Jun 1, 20202 min read

The shelter-in-place, as described briefly in the last post, gave me time to tear into several projects on the B7. Since I was getting...

1981 B7 turbo

May 30, 20206 min read

Just before California went to shelter-in-place, I started a suspension refresh project. Since the SIP orders came out I’ve torn –...

1981 B7 turbo

Apr 21, 20202 min read

Recall the B7 spent months and months in Sacramento, where it was tuned so it could pass smog and then was tuned so that it was running...

1981 B7 turbo

Oct 11, 20195 min read

The first time I saw the Alpina B7 in the flesh (metal?) was a year ago. Less than a month later, I made this web site. Since then not...

1981 B7 turbo

Aug 29, 20195 min read

There was an empty garage space. No project car to occupy my free time. And an opportunity staring me in my face. I had no choice. That's...

1981 B7 turbo

Sep 14, 20183 min read