Legends of the Autobahn at Monterey Car week, August 14, 2025

[Arde]

Thanks for sharing the pictures! So the #2 is a recent build by SFDon? Or the same as last year's green E9?
I could not join as I was at work during the week and went to Concorso yesterday. Got a bit of the car week flavor there.

If they combined Legends with Concorso I could cover my German and Italian car interest in one place!
It would be called Legends of the Marshall Plan!


Some pictures I like...

 

[Norm!]

Who's BMW is that with what looks like Talbot mirrors on the fender? Killer wheels too, looks really nice.

I don’t remember his full name but I believe his first name is Dieter. He is rightfully really proud of the Talbot mirror he found and added. The car is all original inside and has the original unrestored engine. A great survivor.

 

[sfdon]

Master of BMW vintage Pete G…
With the Alpina family and Wes from Tasmania.

 

[Nachtycoupe]

Peter G. in the house! Or the lawn? Nice! How did the Alpina do? Was it judged or display?

I got the garage space all ready to go for you here after Pebble when you are ready to drop it off!

 

[rblongboarder]

I had a fantastic time camping at Laguna Seca for several days...

Fortunately schedules overlapped and I was able to say hello in person to an awesome group of people:
@HB Chris, @Wes, @JMinPDX, @sfdon, @lafngrvy and Lloyd Watts.

Great conversation near the corkscrew about life, cars and current / future projects. Wes - I'm really sorry I ran out of cold beers. Steve - thanks for the history of the M10, M14 and M12 engines in the paddocks. Leo was happy to see Luigi again.

Near the F1 exhibit I had a serendipitous moment and crossed paths with Magnus Walker (he gave me a sticker). I'm a big fan of his "The Next Big Thing" show on the Hagerty Channel; he always has interesting cars & stories. Similar thumbs up to Larry Chen's "Capturing Car Culture" and Tom Cotter's "Barn Find Hunter" programs. Larry tends to focus on JDM vehicles and Cotter generally covers American vehicles from the 20's to the 70's.

I'll start uploading photos soon.. but this year, I took a lot of non-BMW shots. Hope that doesn't bother anyone.. maybe my photos should go in the off-topic area?

 

[HB Chris]

JP, You can share them here.

Chris

 

[JMinPDX]

Well said @rblongboarder. It was a fun week and a great day at Laguna Seca on Friday. Walking the paddock speaking with owners/mechanics who are just so dedicated to vintage racing is inspiring and will never get old. Caped off by great time at the cork screw.

 

[Wes]

I had a fantastic time camping at Laguna Seca for several days...

Fortunately schedules overlapped and I was able to say hello in person to an awesome group of people:
@HB Chris, @Wes, @JMinPDX, @sfdon, @lafngrvy and Lloyd Watts.

Great conversation near the corkscrew about life, cars and current / future projects. Wes - I'm really sorry I ran out of cold beers. Steve - thanks for the history of the M10, M14 and M12 engines in the paddocks. Leo was happy to see Luigi again.

Near the F1 exhibit I had a serendipitous moment and crossed paths with Magnus Walker (he gave me a sticker). I'm a big fan of his "The Next Big Thing" show on the Hagerty Channel; he always has interesting cars & stories. Similar thumbs up to Larry Chen's "Capturing Car Culture" and Tom Cotter's "Barn Find Hunter" programs. Larry tends to focus on JDM vehicles and Cotter generally covers American vehicles from the 20's to the 70's.

I'll start uploading photos soon.. but this year, I took a lot of non-BMW shots. Hope that doesn't bother anyone.. maybe my photos should go in the off-topic area?

I'm also very sorry you ran out of cold beers. SF Don on the other hand had no complaints

 

[mkekiddoc]

My friends and I were parked in a turn-out on 17-Mile Drive to see the Pebble Beach Cars roll by for Tour d'Elegance. I never thought I would ever see a D-type Jaguar in my lifetime....but two of them in stopped at our turn-out - one was a scout car for the run, the other (the red #63 that is in JMin's pictures) overheated and stayed parked there for almost an hour. Just fresh out of restoration, the driver was a true gentleman and talked to us the whole time about his piece of auto history - despite the disappointment of not being able to join the Tour.