I found myself tracing the brand new Kugelfischer injection lines as they hovered over the infamous red Alpina velocity stacks. Engines like these don't come around often; their parts are rare; their components, valuable. Each nut and bolt is torqued to specs chosen decades ago, proven correct by an era of winning races, and ensured by time. To encounter an engine like this is, in the simplest of terms, truly special to any BMW fanatic. Even those with nothing more than a cultured taste for the history of performance as a whole will find some sort of intrinsic value when met with such an instrument of racing.Yet my attention was only held for a moment. There I was, swimming in a sea of BMW history made up of cars I had never seen in person and engines I saved photos of every time I came across them on the internet... Which begs the question: where was I, and how did I find myself there?
As Cody drove my E9 down PCH on his way home from work late one evening, a silver ACS widebody 2002 passed going the other direction, only to pull a u-turn and pull up beside Cody at the next light. The driver asked Cody to pull over at the next gas station, and Cody obliged, both of them eager to admire each others' car.