Family of E28s

[nik77356]

Alright, who is it?

http://youtu.be/8HzsJG0Sb_s

[kzolee]

I don't know, but this guy _lives_ my dreams.

[leadphut]

it that kid old enough to drive?

[Chimi-Changa]

I like the wire cupholder

[HealeyBN7]

Alright, who is it?

http://youtu.be/8HzsJG0Sb_s

Finally a video where I know all the actors. Yep, that's my wife and son.

Wish I would have had more then 100 miles on the new 3.8L engine when they shot the video... Could have really turned it up now that we finished up the Dan Miller Dyno WAR/MAF session.

So much on the cutting room floor... The wife and boy did good!

Dean

[nik77356]

Those are some gorgeous cars you and your family have.

[demetk]

Those are some gorgeous cars you and your family have.

Agreed.

[e28Sean]

Alright, who is it?

http://youtu.be/8HzsJG0Sb_s

Finally a video where I know all the actors. Yep, that's my wife and son.

Wish I would have had more then 100 miles on the new 3.8L engine when they shot the video... Could have really turned it up now that we finished up the Dan Miller Dyno WAR/MAF session.

So much on the cutting room floor... The wife and boy did good!

Dean

I just saw this on Autoblog and came here to post about it, wondering if you were a member. You've got a trio of absolutely beautiful cars there. I love the idea of having an entire family of E28s.

[WilNJ]

And a curious handle for someone so steeped in E28 awesomeness.

[HealeyBN7]

And a curious handle for someone so steeped in E28 awesomeness.

A story told to the cutting room floor. We have always had British sports cars of some kind. We still have our Healey 3000 and a couple other British cars. The BN7 is the model designation to denote it is a true two seater, vs a two plus two. Two plus two without limbs. Like the e28 is to the BMW. Known but not reflected in the sales literature. I am guessing you already know that:)

When I got a real job, where my boss required me to be at work daily, I bought an early 2002. The 2002 was replaced with an e28 and then another and then the M5 then the two additional for the family. Have to say German engineering does get you there on time, but with the English cars there is always a good story and a pint.

Dean

[trevmmeister]

Awesome, truly. I will follow in your steps and get my wife to drive an e28 one day.

[m-racer]

Nicely done!!

[waynet1]

, but with the English cars there is always a good story and a pint.

Dean

[vinceg101]

Met you guys and the cars this past October at SoCal Vintage. Nice rides all of them and real good folk to chat with.
Looking forward to the next time.

[austin_caccavo]

The red shiny one is me. Glad everyone enjoyed it. I am very blessed to have a feature.

[MicahO]

Truly an excellent story, and a great video! Beautiful cars, beautiful family - many congratulations to Dean, Austin and DonnaRae. I look forward to my oldest finally coming of age, and I'm happy to say that he's leaning heavily towards adding another e28 to the family. It's wonderful to see you all daily-driving these cars.

I do envy the climate. It would be wonderful to drive the M5 or the Touring on a more regular basis. I'm not moving, but winter in this part of the country is tough on a car enthusiast....

[tig]

I tried to convince my daughter to drive Maytag this week (she's home from college). She's petrified of the 5-speed. Sad-dad.

[Drew in NYC]

I'm not moving, but winter in this part of the country is tough on a car enthusiast....

Sounds like someone could use a cool AWD vehicle

[davintosh]

Great story; congrats to the Caccavos! I showed that video to my wife; she thought it was a cool idea, but she likes her e46 just fine. I'd have a tough time getting her into something older than that.

I'm not moving, but winter in this part of the country is tough on a car enthusiast....

Sounds like someone could use a cool AWD vehicle

I share Micah's sentiment, but AWD isn't the answer because just getting around isn't the issue; it's the deicer crap that gets dumped on the roads. I can get around just fine in either my e28 or e32 with snow tires, but I hate doing it because I know what it does to the cars. And keeping them clean in this climate... We got a bunch of fresh snow on Monday of this week; the city responded by throwing tons of deicer on the streets. The highest outside temp this week is about 10°F, and it's not supposed to get above freezing for a couple of weeks. Unless a guy has access to a heated space where a car can be washed & allowed to dry thoroughly, that crap is going to stick to it for way too long. It makes me sad to see all that crap on my car.

[tschultz]

Very cool video, glad you guys got that feature!

I was curious if your car was originally a black interior car-- I didn't see it on the black/black M5 thread.
EDIT: Nvm, saw on M registry that it has been replaced.

Either way, almost 300k on the engine is pretty great!

[Adam W in MN]

Great video, really enjoyed that.

Still have never owned an e28, but have had two e12's, two e34's, one e39, and one e60. What is wrong with me?

[e28Sean]

The red shiny one is me. Glad everyone enjoyed it. I am very blessed to have a feature.

I do like the red shiny one! I'm not normally one for gold wheels, to be honest, but you've managed to pull it off rather well, sir!

[austin_caccavo]

I do like the red shiny one! I'm not normally one for gold wheels, to be honest, but you've managed to pull it off rather well, sir!

Thank you! I feel it expresses the 80's in an accurate way

[trevmmeister]

Thinking of putting those wheels on my black 535is. tschultz did and it looks pretty damn good imo

[1st 5er]

Nice video and family and family of cars.

[tschultz]

Thinking of putting those wheels on my black 535is. tschultz did and it looks pretty damn good imo

Thanks Man! Hope to get some photos soon with the Euro conversion. Just not sure if I like the Pfeba front spoiler that I got (late model).


The red and gold is a great combo, my dad used to have it on his M6.

[Lord Stanley]

I hated the video.

I hated the because it damn well reminded me that I can only drive my e28 six months out of the year up here in Minnesota, and I am still probably as much as five months away from my favorite early Sunday morning drives.....

These Petrolucious videos are beautiful.

[uter]

The ArktisBlau E28 looks amazing with the Euro bumper and headlamp conversion. I'm really pleased to see it gets driven regularly and is so well-cared for.

I forwarded the Petrolicious video to the guy who bought the car new back in '84 and from whom I bought it.

Dean, if DonnaRae ever wants to sell the car back to me, let me know. -Andy

[HealeyBN7]

Thanks for all the kind comments.

We spend a full day, sun up to sunset, with the film crew. It was exhausting. We were all wiped by evening. The Petrolicious crew was so nice, and they had a long drive ahead, when we rounded up at dark, we headed back to the house and Donna cooked them a great dinner. Great guys.

For me, the timing was tight. They decided to film just a couple weeks after we fired up the M5 rebuild. With less the 200 miles on the the motor and the wrong chip, I was a little unsure if we would make it through the day without any issues. I was hearing a slight rattle which of course after securing all those S38 fasteners, I feared the top end was coming apart, but it was just an exhaust shield hitting the headers. Most of what I thought about saying before hand ended up on the cutting room floor. I trust the producer made the right calls.

Youtube comments are another thing all together. Ugh. Austin crossed his hands in a low speed turn..probably tired but sloppy no doubt. Donna crossed the yellow line. There were spotters, but still....she knows better. It is hard to be normal with a cameras hanging on the car and a camera man in the passenger seat. And no one likes my wheels -- me either. Priorities. And then there is the comment my son's friend pointed out that said I looked like an '80s porn star. And that' just opened a whole host of unanswerable concerns...

Hope you guys really did enjoy it. It was a great experience for us and made for a nice family keepsake.

Dean

[myfree528e]

When I got a real job, where my boss required me to be at work daily, I bought an early 2002. The 2002 was replaced with an e28 and then another and then the M5 then the two additional for the family. Have to say German engineering does get you there on time, but with the English cars there is always a good story and a pint.

Thanks for the video! I started working on cars in earnest when I was in middle school when one neighbor had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and gave his project 1979 MG Midget to another neighbor to complete. The story of getting that on the road is too long to post here... but it was entertaining and an excellent educational experience. I think troubleshooting the electrical system on that car is part of the reason I became an electrical engineer.

I can very much relate to the $10,000 rule. I've never had a car that I received running...

My first car was a 1985 Subaru GL Wagon, 5-speed manual. My parents bought it new in 1985 because they were living in south Florida, my mom was pregnant with me, and my her 1972 Datsun 510 didn't have A/C. My mom was in a bad accident in it 3-days before my 16th birthday, and I had to put it back together to have a form of transportation. I'd already maintained it for quite some time (mechanically and financially) so it was going to get "passed" to me. It got me through high school and the first half of college. It's finally on it's last legs and I'm sort of debating what to do with it. It was a great first car - very forgiving... and not quite as gutless as one may think... but not powerful at all though LOL

My e28 belonged to the wife of the neighbor that completed the MG Midget restoration. She had it since it was about a year old, and drove it for over 18 years. Within that period, she got an e34, and eventually replaced the e34 with an e39 - but kept using the e28 as her daily driver. Eventually they decided to sell it to (yet) another neighbor's son-in-law for $785. He received it and tore it to pieces. The final blow was he tried to install a radio and fried the ECU. I don't know exactly he managed to do so, but I had wires coming from under the hood, in through the driver's side door - it was like a cancer spread throughout the system. They agreed to part with it if I gave them a riding mower I'd gotten running (and I didn't want anyway) and $1 for the bill of sale (my handle is slightly inaccurate there). They even helped me push it from their driveway to mine. A $17 computer off ebay later (this was some years ago) and I got it running again. It needed a timing belt and a lot of other work... and it had 262k miles on it - but it'd been well maintained most of it's life. I'm up to 392k miles on it and it's still running strong (with regular maintenance). My biggest complaint is the previous owner polished it with rubbing compound... so my paint is horrible.

When my younger brother needed a car and (finally) started driving I found a rough but workable e28 (1988 528e) in a field for him. I nursed it home (leaking gas lines, broken engine mount, broken steering mount, leaking coolant....) and got it running fully. My original thought was I needed something that was reliable, tough, reasonably safe, I could work on easily, and that "when" he destroyed it... No tears would be shed on it. Neither my mom nor my brother could really afford a "decent" car at the time either.. so this was a more economically practical approach. I also wanted something inviting to drive as he had loathed the econoboxes he'd dealt with. For better or for worse he's become quite attached to that car... taken pretty good care of it and drives it ~60 miles roundtrip to work every day. Now I'm finding I need to make it a bit nicer and possibly refresh the engine. It's a nice problem to have though!

I actually showed the video to my mom and brother... with the comment to my mom that I need to find her one now... She's pretty familiar with them as I am always loaning her my car when her's is broken. The first time I did she came in squealing tires excited she'd hit 75 on a nearby public road where the limit is 45...

I wish I could find an e28 M5 for that kind of money nowadays! The last one I saw listed went for ~$15k and was not low miles (just under 200k).

Happy Motoring!
Matt