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CFlo's State of the Fleet Address

Here at the DT offices double-wide in the sky, it seems everyone has some sort of cool project car, wacky daily driver, or cheap performance machine. I think I might be the most deranged though, because at any given moment I need more than two full hands of fingers to count all the different project cars and needy old machinery sucking my time and attention. And I haven't lost any fingers...yet. Unfortunately I don't have the resources to write about everything I work on. This is where you come in!

Der Schmetterling becomes a Horrorod

Astute readers may remember the little Golf yellow '73 BMW 2002 we like to call der Schmetterling, which my wife picked up for a song last year. We haven't had any project car updates on it because, well...it's not really a project, yet. We've been driving it, enjoying it, and doing a minimum of tweaking and maintenance where needed. For Hallowe'en however, I thought it needed to get in on the party, and besides, DT needs its own Horrorod after all the posts we've shared over the years featuring other people's terrible creations.

Come Join DT This Weekend at Coffee & Cars with Pelican Parts

Nothing better to do this Saturday morning than gawk at other people's cars? Yeah, us neither. That's why we'll be heading down to the 2nd-ever Coffee & Cars with Pelican Parts, a low-stress gathering of SoCal's finest Euro Trash. Come join us, have a brew (of the hot caffeinated morning variety), let us gawk at your cars, and you can make fun of ours.

Project Cars are Overrated: Mrs. CFlo's 1973 BMW 2002 - The Schmetterling

Below is the story of a girl, a Golf yellow BMW 2002, and how they ended up together. Words by CFlo's wife Michele:

About three years into dating my husband I decided that I really wanted to have a project car. I had spent time “helping” my mom and grandfather work on cars as I was growing up and then I had seen how much enjoyment my husband got from working on cars. I thought – hmmm I should try that. I started telling my husband about the cars that some of high school kids I knew had and about my first car. From there I developed the list of “Cars I Wish I had in High School.”

Seller's CL pic taken in Topanga Canyon, CA. We don't know the full story of the "Pennsylvania Mormon" number plate.