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BMW Car Club of America Sonora Chapter Year 2016 ISSUE 1 First Quarter 2016 dieZündkerzeBMW Car Club of America Sonora Chapter Melanie and Kai Yu take delivery of her beautiful 228 MSport in Munchen, Germany. Melanie wrote the story about their travels for this issue, and we have her complete story along with the photos taken, linked on our website. If you’re seriously thinking about vacationing in Italy, you will want to read her plans and prepara- tions for the 2014 vacation, incidental to picking up her BMW at the Munich Headquarters. The unplanned, car related part of the vacation’s story is printed within this newsletter: Kai Yu is really a lucky guy! Story on page 5 Also, the Monterey Historics weekend and Oktoberfest 2016 registration is open. More than a few Sonora Chapter BMW CCA members are planning to be there. Details are on page 9 WHAT’S NEW CONTENT 4 President’s Page by Charles Davis Interactive format 5 European Delivery Part 2 7 Upcoming Events & business cards newsletter: it’s all about WWW.DESIGNFREEBIES.ORG VISIT FREEBIES: DESIGN GRAPHIC MORE FOR 8 European Delivery Part 2 continued you!!!!! 9 Monterey Historics & Oktoberfest 2016 10 European Delivery Part 2 conclusion 12 Sonora Chapter 2015 Financial review 13 Board of Directors & Membership Info BMW Car Club 14 Want Ads & Chapter Toolbox Sonora Chapter 15 Computer 42 by Quentin Peterson Tucson, Arizona US 16 Back Page & disclaimer We Editor: Quentin Peterson invite Webmistress: Julia Olsen-Peterson you to forward this newsletter to The FINE PRINT: Information is correct at press time anyone who you think might be interested in BMW’s in general, and our BMW CCA Sonora Chapter activity in BMW Roadside Assistance, now currently ranked #1 by JD Power & Associates, is particular. available to all BMW CCA members for an upgrade fee to membership - and it has Your contributions to the newsletter are invited lots of extras to make it worthwhile! For and are welcome. Contact Quentin Peterson @ membership benefits see [email protected] to get published http://www.bmwcca.org/index You can take advantage of the interactive Your BMW CCA membership entitles you to format by clicking on any page number/title in discounts with car rentals with Avis & Hertz AVIS 800-831-2847 Code: AWD#L358190 the “content’ section to the right. In-text links HERTZ 800-654-3131 are in red, and clicking linked advertisements code: CPD-ID#289425 will take you to their business website. If you would like to get email reminders FOR MORE GRAPHIC DESIGN FREEBIES: VISIT WWW.DESIGNFREEBIES.ORG VISIT FREEBIES: DESIGN GRAPHIC MORE FOR of chapter activities, please notify us by Join us on MEETUP for the latest! sending a message to: http://www.meetup.com/BMW-Car-Club-of- [email protected] America-Sonora-Chapter/ Don’t forget to LIKE our Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/SonoraBMWCCA 2 3 President’s Page by Charles Davis European Delivery 2014. by Melanie Yu The big news for Betty and me is the birth of our new grandson, GriffinAlexander Black. Griffin showed up So, ED Year 2. My husband had an amazing trip in 2013-picking up his M3 and driving it 1700 miles in the middle of Washington DCs huge Winter snowstorm at the end of January. Naturally, we had to negotiate through Europe, with the highlight being a day at the Nurburgring. In 2014, my husband planned for us to thousands of flight cancellations to get to DC, but the good news was that there were lots of hotel rooms available. pick up my new Mineral White 228 MSport. I, however, was less interested in driving my new car around Europe, and more interested in having a romantic vacation with the Hubby seeing the amazing sights in WWW.DESIGNFREEBIES.ORG VISIT FREEBIES: DESIGN GRAPHIC MORE FOR What does this have to do with BMW, the Club or anything related? Well, it forced me to think of my Northern Italy and getting the car back to the U.S. as quickly as possible. I spent weeks planning a detailed automotive legacy. This consists of three parts: how to transfer my passion for piloting BMWs to the new itinerary, balancing famous tourist sites and escaping crowds to enjoy some amazing scenery. I was much generation; a generation which may not even be able to self-drive an automobile (think….BMW, The Ultimate more excited about exploring cities we had never been before. If you are a car enthusiast/aficionado, you will Being-Driven Machine). I had succeeded in this regard with Griffin’s Mother. Secondly, automotive repair and not be disappointed with this write up, as we experienced several amazing car events, none of them having maintenance knowledge; another skill that may have limited value in decades to come. Griffin’s Mom was lightly been planned. I told my husband the car gods must love him, because somehow Mille Miglia, Lamborghini, initiated into this world with her now departed E46. And lastly, how long can I keep my E24 and E38 M-Sport in Ferrari--just to name a few, sprinkled their way into what I planned to be a vacation of wine, art, culture, order to pass them on to Griffin Alexander Black. Although his parents drive an X3, they have not shown any history, and romance. [Editor’s note: Melanie’s full-on tour is blogged on our website: bmwccasonora. interest in taking the aforementioned three inheritances into the coming years. org and a good resource. We are just printing the car-related parts of her story here.] Some of you may recall that, last year, I came dangerously close to trading the E24 to a California Mille Miglia So here we were in beautiful Italy, several days into the romantic vacation I had planned carpetbagger for a medium-size pile of Benjamins. I avoided this when it became apparent the SoCal buyer didn’t and then...it happened: amazingly fast, gorgeous, loud cars showed up and my husband could not stop have the requisite appreciation for the special needs of the “shark”. The E38 is the short-bodied M-Sport version watching and photographing them vrooming into Lake Garda. Despite all the research and planning I that was interesting for 2001, but now seems special only to a few of us. I don’t think I’ve seen another one at a had done for our trip, Sonora Chapter event. (If you have one, please let me know, I’d like to compare notes). I didn’t realize that we happened to be in Italy during the same time as I’d like to pass on both of these to little Griffin, but it seems a Quixotic gesture.After all, one of these the annual Mille Miglia, Bimmers will be almost a half-century old by the time it could be legally driven by him and the other will have been a famous classic cars on the road about a third of a century. As we all know, keeping these seasoned vehicles is not a task without cost, rally. My husband was in so my goal will require funding an annuity in order to succeed. No, I’m not using this column to solicit donations. heaven and as much as I Merely putting my goal into words on paper creates a more vivid sense of reality and forces me into action. pretended to be annoyed by the presence of the loud beasts, I was elated to see his excitement. The Mille Miglia had left from Brescia and Sirmione Lake I now have arranged a pot of money and a schedule for driving/exercising each vehicle which creates the Garda was the first stop. For the next few days of our trip, we would consistently run into the Mille Miglia cars possibility that Griffin will actually have the opportunity to receive these ultimate driving machines that have meant and other car aficionados who were following the race. I had tried so hard to make the trip about art, culture so much to me. As for the newer cars in our stable, the F32 and F30, they will eventually need to find another and history, (as our last ED trip was mostly about cars, racing, and driving through as many switch backs sponsor if they are to survive beyond their lease terms. as possible) but in the end, it was fate--my husband would once again get to do ED intertwined with several car events. Lesson learned: If there is a God, he loves my husband. We ended up running into the Mille Miglia several more times on the drive back to Verona. We found out later that evening that the Mille Miglia Some of us just can’t seem to part with the past and insist on dragging our newest relatives along for the had a “check-in” point inside Verona, close to the famous Arena. Al Pompiere Once we got back to Verona, ride. I’d like to think that Griffin Alexander Black will extend the legacy. we had dinner at Al Pompiere, a family owned restaurant close by to our hotel. The food was simple, but delicious and the restaurant felt very cozy; it almost feels like you are eating in an Italian kitchen. We really did enjoy our meal here. However, the place is pretty busy and we were lucky to get a table without a Charles Davis . .Sonora Chapter President page 4 reservation as it was quite late by the time we were ready to eat dinner. (story continued on the page 6) 5 European Delivery 2014 continued... UPCOMING EVENTS Verona After dinner, we walked around Verona and April 6: Board Meeting 6pm at Fronimo’s Greek the Arena is amazing.
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