  Behold Our Car...
Meet our lowly 1991 BMW 318is, Erwin. He's named after one of the father's of uncertainty, Erwin Schrödinger. Other than a questionable differential (and 2.93 gears), paint like brushed aluminum, 300000 miles on the original engine, an oil leak or two, and assorted emission issues, he's not such a bad little car. He's also just about due for a profile gasket. Thanks to a brilliant design by BMW, the engine in this fine automobile is susceptible to catastrophic failure at 50000 mile intervals...making the M42 powered 318's truly LeMon's worthy. To sweeten the deal a bit, it was purchased with added features like 3 unpaid parking tickets in the glove box and a sack of gravel in the back seat. Actually, it runs and drives pretty well...like 10000000000000000X better than other sub $500 death traps we've driven. The interior is pretty decent too...and will be sold to offset the cost of a few repairs. The cage is on order too!! I still kind of wish the woman would have called us back about the Merkur XR4Ti...
Please check out the Erwin Blog for all updates on our progress
Most Recent Mayhem
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Aftermath/Post Mortem/Epilogue/We're All Pooped Out
LeMons came & went. It was great. Everybody had fun, everybody drove and/or worked on the car, nobody got hurt, & Erwin survived.
Better yet, we rookies came in 13th place ...
Posted Sep 2, 2009 8:29 PM by Jason Bardis
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Erwin's New Look
8/9/09, Pimp My ErwinToday's Extreme Makeover turned Erwin the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.
Vanilla Erwin gets ready to say "goodbye" to his silver outfit ...
Posted Aug 10, 2009 11:39 AM by Jason Bardis
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Erwin Coming Together!
The last few weeks have been busy. Cage, diff, brakes, exhaust, and various other tasks are done! Now we just need to finish off our safety gear and get our ...
Posted Jul 17, 2009 3:47 PM by garrett@wolfkatz.com
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6/24/09, Further roll cage welding & taking apart the drivetrain
6/24/09, Further roll cage welding & taking apart the drivetrain
Half the boys worked on top of the car tonight.
Michael fits up the driver's side roll cage ...
Posted Jun 26, 2009 9:25 AM by Jason Bardis
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That's how we roll........cage....
Bad joke--too tired to think of a wittier "roll" joke
6/17/09, commencing roll cage installation
Erwin has been transported from Garrett's mega garage to Todd's ...
Posted Jun 18, 2009 6:23 PM by Jason Bardis
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