• Can-Am Retrospective • BB Club Events • Holiday Party Pics Perspective • Pat’s bimmer immer March/April 2010 www.badgerbimmers.org Calendar 2010 March 13 Board Meeting at Capitol Brewery in Board Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each Middleton, WI 10 am with lunch and tour. month starting at 7:00 p.m. These meetings are open to all members and benefit from additional attendance. Monthly March 27 Tire Tech at O’Reilly’s in downtown meetings convene at Brew City Grill, 10250 N. Cedarburg Milwaukee with the Milwaukee PCA group. Rd., Mequon, WI 53092 Phone: 262-238-2600 [To quote April 8 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill in the President, “...we have munchies!”] Mequon. May 1st MADISON AREA Spring Clean up - 10:00 Legal Stuff am at Zimbrick BMW 2400 Rimrock Rd bimmer immer is the publication of the Badger Bimmers chapter of the Madison, WI 53713 (608) 406-2227 BMW Car Club of America, Inc. Neither is connected in any way with BMW AG or with BMW North America. Opinions expressed herein are those of May 1st Milwaukee Area Spring Clean up - 10:00 am the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy or the opinions of the Chapter or the Club. Suggestions and recommendations set forth herein at O’Reilly’s in downtown Milwaukee. for modifications to BMWs or other vehicles are not authorized by the manufacturer unless expressly stated, and they may actually void new and May 7 -8 Milwaukee Region PCA DE at RA with Randy used car warranties. The Chapter and the Club assume no responsibil- Pobst and PCA Teen Driving Clinic on May 8th ity for any such modifications, or their subsequent results, attempted or completed by vehicle owners, their friends or enemies, their mechanics or May 13 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill people who think they’re mechanics until something goes wrong. Mequon. bimmer immer is published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Correspondence, articles, advertising, and comments should be addressed to: May 18 All German Car Show night at Brew City Grill Darcy Yench • [email protected] 6 - 9 pm June 10 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill in • Badger Bimmers Board of Directors • Mequon. President June TBD Annual Car Show Darice “Darcy” Yench • 414.352.3261 Vice-President June 4 Milwaukee Region PCA BHF Driving School Ron Pace June 19 Annual Golf Outing - Broadlands Golf Course Treasurer Clarence Behrend • 262.335.0454 July 8 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill in Secretary Mequon. David Swernoff • 414.916.1166 July 12 Milwaukee Region PCA BHF Driving School Board Members Paul Szedziewski • David Thuerk • Bill Nicoud August 3 Car Show at Brew City Grill 6 - 9 pm Driving Events Coordinator August 12 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill in Mike Clemens • [email protected] Mequon. Past President Jeff Joy August 20-22 ALMS Race at RA catered lunch at car corral Editor outside turn 14 on Saturday and Sunday. Jeff Schabowski • 414.803.3385 August 23-28 Oktoberfest 2010 - National event hosted by [email protected] • [email protected] the Badger Bimmers Membership Chairman Charles High September 9 Board Meeting 7:00 pm Brew City Grill in [email protected] Mequon. Co-chief Instructors Mary Medo and Charles High October 1-3 OktoberFAST - Driving School at RA Noncommercial advertising is free to Club members. BMW CAR CLU B OF AM ERI C A FOUNDATION SEEK S On the Cover EARLY bimmer immers The BMW CCA Foundation is trying to build a complete archive of newsletters from all chapters in 2000 CS coupe owned by the country. Does anyone out there have any issues from 1999 and before? If you do and are willing to Elliot Schnackenberger allow the Club to photocopy some, please contact Photo: MHTimage • J R Schabowski Darcy Yench at [email protected]. Page 2 bimmer immer From the PresidentBy Darcy Yench Welcome to another New Year in Badger Bim- March 27th starting at 10 AM. Plan to be there. Our mers land! Spring Clean Up will take place in Milwaukee and Madi- This year promises to be the biggest and best of my son on the same day - club members getting together time in the chapter with our Club’s hosting the national is where it’s at! Thanks to O’Reilly’s and Zimbrick for Octoberfest this upcoming August. We are looking for hosting them this year. volunteers to help, so if you have some time to give to We will again be hosting our car corrals during the your club, please email me at pres@badgerbimmers. Vintage race in July with the Club’s grills available for org. It always takes many volunteers to make our use and the ALMS race in August just before Oktober- events as successful as they are. fest. We are planning a catered lunch at the ALMS Congratulations to the new Board of 2010, wel- race. Keep up to date with details by checking out the come new face Ron Pace to the vice-presidency and Web site for up to date information: www.badgerbim- Bill Nicoud back to the Board, may we all serve our mers.org. membership well. Thank you goes out to Mustafa Emir It’s not only about the cars, it’s the people! I look and Cindy Ansay for their service to the board and the forward to meeting you at some event this year! club. We are fortunate to have a very talented, dedi- cated and devoted group of members who give year ‘Til next time… after year in one capacity or another. Please remem- ber this is YOUR Board and that we operate to serve the members. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and as always we are looking for new volunteers to help with the upcoming year’s events. Our members are like customers, both need good customer service. All of Darcy our Board meetings are open to the general member- ship and your attendance is encouraged. We are planning on holding the March Board meet- ing on Saturday, March 13th at the Capitol Brewery. Please make plans to attend. You can notify the Madison liaison, Larry O’Brien, at [email protected] so we can plan for our lunch. Hope to see a lot of the Madison area people at the meeting. We will have a tour after the meeting as well. Kirby Nelson, the brew- master and Club member, will be our host! Our Holiday Party continues to be the most well at- tended event of our year. Attendance was down a bit this year but lots of fun was had. Check out the recap inside this issue. Special thanks go to all who helped gather the many gifts for our giveaway. Our door prize sponsors were absolutely AWESOME this year. Many thanks to all of them. If you received a door prize, please send a note of thanks to the sponsor because they continue to be very generous with their offerings to us. We have some exciting new things lined up for you this year and some we are still working on. First up a Tire Tech Session with support from O’Reilly Motorcar at 324 West Cherry Street in Milwaukee on Saturday March/April 2010 Page 3 e Holiday Party! Photography by Jenny Morgan THANK YOU .... to all of our door prize donors: B.S. Levy Laurel BMW Badger Bimmers Concours Motors Zimbrick BMW Knauz BMW Bill Nicoud International Auto Urban Motorworx O'Reilly's Pat Kummrow Bavarian Autosport Jenny Morgan - Rank Amateur Studios Bimmerworld MacNeil Automotive Nancy Priem Page 4 bimmer immer March/April 2010 Page 5 Page 6 bimmer immer High performance insurance for your high performance BMW. As a BMW CCA Member, you know about high performance. 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With Brian Redman front and center and Ford as the presenting sponsor, 2010 promises to be another memorable year. To put a bit of icing on the cake this year will be a reunion of the Mark Donohue cars.