Official Sighting Thread

[Jdesign]

ChrisO said:

On Clairemont in Eau Claire today 

What plates are those?

[Rekpoint]

Jdesign said:

What plates are those?

Wisconsin "Choose Life" plates

I think it would be cool to get some BMW CCA plates for WI. 

We would need $15,500 with 500 physical signatures. 

With 500 people using them. 

Other states have them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[m42b32]

Rekpoint said:

Wisconsin "Choose Life" plates

I think it would be cool to get some BMW CCA plates for WI. 

We would need $15,500 with 500 physical signatures. 

With 500 people using them. 

Other states have them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's only $31 a person if you could get 500, but I bet it would be really tough to get 500 people interested

[Boris3]

Badger Bimmers has a membership list around 900 I think. Might be worth reaching out to see if there would be any interest in them floating the idea. Unlikely that there would be enough folks interested but you never know what people are willing to spend their money on be it vanity plates, appearance, go fast bits, and/or maintenance.

[Rekpoint]

I should probably start by getting a CCA membership myself LOL

[YoungCR]

I would rather have vanity collector plates like Minnesota

[HipMF]

Rekpoint said:

I should probably start by getting a CCA membership myself LOL

I joined this year, mostly because I thought getting a car-related periodical in the mail would be novel. My initial impression is that the clubs target audience tends to yuppies as opposed to hipsters like myself.

[Rekpoint]

HipMF said:

I joined this year, mostly because I thought getting a car-related periodical in the mail would be novel. My initial impression is that the clubs target audience tends to yuppies as opposed to hipsters like myself.

They probably dont want any yungins like myself in their club either LOL

[GB-335xiCoupe]

Get off my lawn, kids!

[Boris3]

The club magazine tries at times to be all things but does skew older with $$$$ = the demographic more likely to buy/lease a new BMW and that is more BMW "lifestyle" oriented. The bmwcca race coverage pages are a nod to another focus and a holdover from an earlier time. 

Occasionally there are aspects of the magazine that I find interesting typically the historical stuff and some of the columns (Farnsworth, Siegel, Jenny Morgan when she was still in, Mike Miller).  I'm in the club to support the Badger Bimmer track events that got me started and because of the people I've met over the years. 

As for car-related periodicals I find Grassroots Motorsports more to my liking. Coverage comes closer  to things I'm more likely to do to a car or things I'd purchase. Plus they always have cheap subscription deals that come with  tshirts and other swag.

[patsbimmer1]

Boris3 said:

The club magazine tries at times to be all things but does skew older with $$$$ = the demographic more likely to buy/lease a new BMW and that is more BMW "lifestyle" oriented. The bmwcca race coverage pages are a nod to another focus and a holdover from an earlier time. 

Occasionally there are aspects of the magazine that I find interesting typically the historical stuff and some of the columns (Farnsworth, Siegel, Jenny Morgan when she was still in, Mike Miller).  I'm in the club to support the Badger Bimmer track events that got me started and because of the people I've met over the years. 

As for car-related periodicals I find Grassroots Motorsports more to my liking. Coverage comes closer  to things I'm more likely to do to a car or things I'd purchase. Plus they always have cheap subscription deals that come with  tshirts and other swag. 

Grassroots is a great one!  I don't have a BMWCCA membership anymore because I never attended the events.  I really enjoyed the magazine but it got to a point where I just stopped reading them once I had my son.  I still have some in the wrapper!  I'd agree that it does skew towards the people who financially support BMW by purchasing/leasing new but I wouldn't say it's any worse than Motortrend, Car and Driver, etc. The classic coverage is good and racing coverage is nice because they will cover BMW Motorsport from a global perspective.  All in all I looked at it as an expensive magazine subscription.

[DrE]

 Somewhere in Milwaukee...

[SteelBlue]

Is this @Jdesign 5 series brother?

[Jdesign]

Interesting, I never saw that car before.

[wasnt m3]

I see that pile of shit in Oconomowoc all the time.

[SteelBlue]

I saw it on the east side of Appleton.

[P_Roloff]

Saw an Imola e46 ZHP sedan driving through downtown MKE the other day, plates were E46ZHP. Looked very clean, didn’t get a chance to snag a pic though.

[P_Roloff]

Saw another Alpina in the same spot as last time, this one was a black B7.

[SteelBlue]

@AsparagusMike were you driving past the Darboy club at like 6:45 this morning?

[rampelsauce]

So I've spotted a clean white E30 buzzing around Milwaukee. One of yous guys?

Also I was driving down 76th street on the south side and saw what appeared to be a really clean black E36 M3 with a big Wang and bronze/gold wheels.