Category: Group Updates

Tech Session:  Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7-9 PM

Location:  Slimmer’s Automotive, 901 Delaware St, Lawrence, KS 66044, (785) 843-5606

Contact:  strettel@tretteldesign.com, halboyles@2002sonly.com

Let’s Brake Our 2002s!

The brakes on a BMW 2002 (and most cars) are made up of several systems: Hydraulic, Boost, Apply, Warning, Balance and Wheel Brakes.  On a 2002 these systems are usually robust and very effective at their job of converting momentum (more correctly, kinetic energy) into heat and then dissipating that heat to slow or stop the vehicle.  The 2002’s brake systems don’t normally require much TLC but they definitely require periodic checkups and maintenance.

For this Tech Session, we will provide a quick overview of all the systems involved in braking, some tests of those systems that can be performed on the car, and a list of recommended maintenance.  For the finale, we will attempt to perform an adjustment of the rear brake shoes on live camera with no safety net!  If we survive, you’ll discover that this often-overlooked job yields great benefits including faster, straighter stopping and a parking brake that actually keeps the car parked where you left it!

The 2002 Forever Chapter is well established, but still tiny. We have about 200 members—but that only averages 4 per state! I figure we should be able to recruit 10x as many as we have, based on my knowledge of the local situation, and I think there are maybe 100x more cars out there. Please help build membership—many CCA members are waiting for renewal time which is understandable, but we appreciate those who have called the National Office to add our Chapter.

We have a Photo Contest underway! We have a bunch of entries in all contest categories—go to our website [www.2002forever.com] for detailed info and rules. Remember—there are PRIZES from 2002AD, Maximillian, Ireland Engineering, Bluntech, and La Jolla Independent! We have had Events around the country—both Tour events and Cars and Coffee events. Admittedly not many yet, but people are starting to carefully get out there while maintaining social distancing and wearing masks. Hopefully there will be events near you soon—talk to your friends about it. Contact me when you’re ready and I’ll help get insurance. We have made improvements to the website! We still have a way to go and it’s not yet polished, but we do have content now. We have 40 or more recommended shops around the country! We have the beginnings of an events list. Soon we’ll have a list of recommended parts suppliers and people who specialize in special STUFF for 2002s.

How did this happen, you ask? It happened because our members made recommendations! Send me more and I’ll list them and I’ll list you as the source! Member Duane Hong volunteered and created our Instagram account—@BMW2002forever. I don’t personally know what that means—I’m old—but it sounds like a good thing! We’re still working on artwork for stickers, shirts, and badges; still working on ‘cars and parts for sale’. Remember that this all started with your suggestions about what we needed to make this 2002 Forever Chapter valuable—don’t stop now. Tell me more.

Thanks, Terry

 

The BMWCCA 2002 Forever Chapter is pleased to announce the 2020 2002 Official Photo contest! Our 2002 enthusiast have always done a great job of recording our cars through the years.  Considering the current limited events, this is an opportunity for our 2002 community to share.We are looking to create a moment in time to capture our cars as they are today.  So, if you do not have anything recent, get out and create the moment.  Here are the rules:

1.    The photo contest is open to all BMWCCA 2002 Forever Chapter Members.

2.    Limit of 3 photographs per member.

3.    Photographs must have 2002 content (see categories).

4.    Photographs should be recent.  We want to generate some fresh content.

5.    Photographs submitted with the authorization to be utilized by the 2002 Forever Chapter as they see fit.

6.    Photographs must include the member name, 2002 year, BMWCCA member number, member contact information and the category for which you are submitting (see categories).

7.    Photographs should be the highest resolution possible and submitted in jpeg or RAW format.  Each photograph should be named with the member name and preferably the location.  Example: JohnDoe-GoldenGateBridge.jpg

8.    Photographs and  all information should be submitted to: bmwcca2002photocontest@gmail.com    Deadline for submission is December 1^st, 2020.

The following are the categories:

1.    2002s Outside – outdoor scenery, seasonal, fall colors, palm trees, ocean, snow covered tundra – let’s see the great outdoor scenery that we and our cars experience.

2.    2002s with Structures and Scenery – urban, buildings, bridges, structures, corn silos – give a structural background or subject that gives a unique compliment.

3.    2002s at the Track – amateur, professional, weekend thrill or full on.  Let’s see the elements of the track and the sport.

4.    2002s at rest – pose the car, present its best side, it’s about the stance. 

5.    2002s In motion – present a visual affect that the car is in motion.

6.    2002s that have been lost – junk yard, field, barn, project cars that have been reprioritized, etc.

7.    People and their ‘02s – the people make the cars.  This is an opportunity to show why we are such a great car community.  Be considerate of things that may be going on and shoot responsibly.

There will be a winner from each category and in addition, a photo will be selected for the Grand Prize.Ireland Engineering, Maximillian, La Jolla Independent and Bluntech and hopefully others are donating some GREAT prizes for the winners.Our cars make for great photographs.  They are sitting out there ready for you to capture their moments.  Considering the current social distancing awareness’s, get those shutters clicking and be safe. Good luck!

Our list of members is no longer growing, but we are still needing more of our petition signers to join our chapter in BMW CCA to get our chapter ready for the future! If you are already in the chapter, you can ignore this message. If you aren’t, please join immediately!
How to join the chapter? Read on-

If you ARE a current member of BMW CCA, you will need to call the National Office at 864-250-0022 and press #1 for “membership”. You may either add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter for $15.30/year or make it your primary chapter replacing your geographic chapter. You can also add “2002 Forever” at time of renewal.

– If you ARE NOT currently a member of BMW CCA you can either call in as above, or go to the club website (www.bmwcca.org) and select “JOIN”. By default your geographic chapter will be checked. You can either uncheck your geographic chapter and select “2002 Forever” or add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter.

As a non-geographical chapter, members will have access to a nationwide calendar of events as well as communication on our Facebook Group “2002 Forever-BMW CCA 2002 Chapter Group” or the Facebook Page “2002 Forever-BMW CCA 2002 Chapter“.

Sorry for yet another reminder, but we are still needing more of our petition signers to join our chapter in BMW CCA to get our chapter launched for the future!

If you ARE a current member of BMW CCA you will need to call the National Office at 864-250-0022 and press #1 for “membership”. You may either add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter for $15.30/year or make it your primary chapter replacing your geographic chapter. You can also add “2002 Forever” at time of renewal.

With so much going on in the news, it’s easy to get distracted~! We know you got our recent announcement, but only 100 members have come in to our chapter within BMW CCA since then!

If you ARE a current member of BMW CCA you will need to call the National Office at 864-250-0022 and press #1 for “membership”. You may either add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter for $15.30/year or make it your primary chapter replacing your geographic chapter. You can also add “2002 Forever” at time of renewal.

Hi ’02 guys and gals!

Well, here we are in April 2020, stuck in our houses, wishing we were out there celebrating the formation of the 2002 Forever Chapter of the BMW CCA. On any normal year we’d be getting ready to join Bo Black in Arkansas at the Mid-America 02 Fest. For me that event is the high point of the year and I’m deeply saddened to miss it. And we’re all missing other car shows everywhere around the country—what a loss. Of course, these are first world problems of little importance—we will continue to isolate ourselves for the common good as long as necessary.

Eventually life will return to some semblance of normal. We’ll be able to relax, travel, gather together, eat in restaurants, shake hands, hug our friends—and have 2002 events! Maybe by late spring or summer we’ll be there; certainly by fall. The rescheduled Mid-America 02 Fest is in August; hopefully we’ll be able to have that one. Then the BMW CCA Octoberfest happens in California in September.  Those regional/national Octoberfests will be good opportunities for us to have our own 2002 Forever Chapter conventions at the same time and place. Plan on that—every time there’s a regional Octoberfest, we’ll have a big 2002 Chapter gathering.

In the meantime, submit stuff to the 2002 Forever website—news, event plans, project progress, even feature articles about cars, people, and past events. Anything you find interesting, others will too. Especially in these times of confinement, we all need entertainment.

Terry Sayther
terndeb@saytherauto.com
Vintage Bimmers
Terry Sayther Automotive
512-442-1361

With so much going on in the news, it’s easy to get distracted~! We know you got our recent announcement, but only 23 members have come in to our chapter within BMW CCA since then!

If you ARE a current member of BMW CCA you will need to call the National Office at 864-250-0022 and press #1 for “membership”. You may either add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter for $15.30/year or make it your primary chapter replacing your geographic chapter. You can also add “2002 Forever” at time of renewal.

Its Official….!!!!

The 2002 Forever Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America is open for membership!! I’m certain you have questions as to how you can join.

– If you ARE a current member of BMW CCA you will need to call the National Office at 864-250-0022 and press #1 for “membership”. You may either add “2002 Forever” as an additional chapter for $15.30/year or make it your primary chapter replacing your geographic chapter. You can also add “2002 Forever” at time of renewal.

Congratulations! Formation of the 2002 Forever Chapter has been approved! Jeff Gomon took our petition before the National Board and they approved us with enthusiasm! Now I have a bit more homework to do—bylaws and mailing address—and then the National Office will get us a bank account and file for corporate status in SC. I’m glad we have them helping us!

more updates later–Terry

Hello fellow 2002 Forever members!

Terry Sayther here again welcoming all of you petition signers to what WILL become our new non-geographic CCA Chapter—-we ARE the chapter. There’s about 300 of us so far, so we have well surpassed the CCA requirement for 250 members on the application petition. That was a big hurdle and we passed it easily.

Next we need a cadre of temporary officers. I have volunteered to be a temporary President, Doug in Chicago has volunteered to be temp vice president, Bryan Eagle is our webmaster–but we need a few more officers on the masthead. All the usual ones have to be listed—sec, treas, event master, newsletter editor, any others? I am planning to recruit leaders of events around the country to be Regional Vice Presidents or Czars or some such. The national club will be taking care of the legal stuff for us and the bank account, so that’s good news.

I suspect the temporary officers will 1.) not have much to do since Bryan and I are doing most of the work at this stage, and 2)be lightly pressured to become elected officers. I sincerely encourage anyone with the time and inclination to volunteer.

By the way, Paul Wegweiser has volunteered to be our official “Bluto Blutarsky”, a very important office, and Scott Aaron wants to be”VP of Special Projects” so that “he needn’t do anything”. I vote we accept those volunteers by acclaim.

In another week or so there will be a National Board Meeting at which Jeff Gomon  will present our case for chapter formation—we expect it to be approved. Meanwhile, Bryan and I are working on the website. He’s good at artwork, so that’s pretty well under control. I want to publish a list of nationwide vintage and 2002 events, so I need help with that. Please send me info about any known relevant events, who are the principal organizers,  contact info, and websites.

OK, thanks everybody, we’re well on our way. Thanks again for stepping up. More soon—Terry