1981 B7 turbo
Some little things and a big one, too
There haven’t been many updates on this blog lately. Most my car energy for many months has been in Sacramento working on my other...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Jan 4, 2021
- 6 min
Them the brakes
In the last past, I discuss how often projects on this car are presented here linearly but in real time occur over weeks, or even months,...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Sep 22, 2020
- 7 min
Alpina archaelogy
In telling the stories here the topics are usually presented linearly. But the reality is usually very different; projects often overlap,...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Aug 31, 2020
- 6 min
The Sublime Suspension
The fourth and (allegedly) final pandemic project was refreshing the suspension. The car rode on what I believe was the original...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
The Saga of the Seats
The B7, by the time it was in my hands, was not a garage queen. And I didn’t want one, either. I used to own a Golf Yellow 1972 3.0CSL. I...
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1981 B7 turbo
- May 30, 2020
- 6 min
Two down, two to go (pandemic progress)
The shelter-in-place, as described briefly in the last post, gave me time to tear into several projects on the B7. Since I was getting...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Apr 21, 2020
- 2 min
Corona Chaos (or The Pandemic Projects)
Just before California went to shelter-in-place, I started a suspension refresh project. Since the SIP orders came out I’ve torn –...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Oct 11, 2019
- 5 min
Getting it running right and hoping it will last....
Recall the B7 spent months and months in Sacramento, where it was tuned so it could pass smog and then was tuned so that it was running...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Aug 29, 2019
- 5 min
Just about a year ago.....
The first time I saw the Alpina B7 in the flesh (metal?) was a year ago. Less than a month later, I made this web site. Since then not...
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1981 B7 turbo
- Sep 14, 2018
- 3 min
Nature abhors a vacuum
There was an empty garage space. No project car to occupy my free time. And an opportunity staring me in my face. I had no choice. That's...
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