This Day in BMW History

[Don Adolfo]

All,

I have a thing about dates. They get stuck in my head, some significant, some not; birthdays, anniversaries, the first time I saw a BMW, etc. I thought I’d start a thread where you could post your BMW-related comments on what happened (to you) on that date.

28 July 2002, 15 years ago today, the last M-Roadster was produced. I am not sure why I remember this or why it matters, but it's in my head.

[slater]

love it. keep it going!

[Fenrir]

On August 1st, 1993:

Established in 1972, BMW Motorsport GmbH officialy changed it's name to BMW M GmbH Gessellschaft fur individuelle Automobile (BMW M GmbH: For individualists).

[Don Adolfo]

Tuesday, 28 August 1973. I was in the 8th grade and living in Puerto Rico. Around 5 PM, walking home from school, I saw my first BMW, a 1973 Atlantik Blau 2002...love at first sight. I remember the exact place. In 2009, I visited the lady who had owned it. She told me that she had only recently sold it. When I found the 1974 Atlantik Blau in Atlanta last May, after all the years of searching, I knew it was meant to be.


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[johnrando]

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[cakM3]

[Prestovie]

Tuesday, 28 August 1973. I was in the 8th grade and living in Puerto Rico. Around 5 PM, walking home from school, I saw my first BMW, a 1973 Atlantik Blau 2002...love at first sight. I remember the exact place. In 2009, I visited the lady who had owned it. She told me that she had only recently sold it. When I found the 1974 Atlantik Blau in Atlanta last May, after all the years of searching, I knew it was meant to be.


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Do you have pictures? Sounds gorgeous

[John in VA]

Do you have pictures? Sounds gorgeous

http://www.zhpmafia.com/forums/showt...128#post532128

[Don Adolfo]

Thanks John.

[Don Adolfo]

Monday, 6 September 1982. I was a 22-year-old 2LT at Fort Huachuca, AZ. I spent the holiday weekend with friends in Phoenix and tubing the Salt River in Mesa. On the way back, on I-10 just south of Tucson, my friend Charlie’s Ford Maverick jalopy broke down. Within a few minutes, a BMW 320i, owned by a CPT who’d already done a tour in Germany, pulled over to assist. He offered us a ride back to Ft. Huachuca…my first ride in a BMW.