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Drive North – Wolfsgart 2017, Vermont’s best German car show

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Adam Goral

Winding out of the green and rocky mountains of Northern Vermont, the Winooski river has always played a vital role in fueling the nearby towns with mill power. Its rocky banks, steeped in history, provide a subtle backdrop to the town of Winooski. Founded before America by Ira Allen, brother of famous colonialist Ethan Allen, it’s obvious that the people in this town embrace their past. Yet, there’s a future here too. The town is lined with classy glass and metal apartment buildings, speckled in with converted mills, hip pubs, and most notably here, a variety of beautiful German cars that have been extensively customized to each individual owner’s personal taste. This was Wolfsgart 2017, where the attendees share the same respect for the classic past, while still always looking for the next new thing. Every year since 2010, Wolfsgart organizers have made the call for all German cars to

New Performance Exhaust Parts at eEuroparts!

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Adam Goral

Performance exhaust parts are the perfect upgrade for any vehicle, converting the mundane commuter to something that can be fun to drive. A little rasp and grumble lets you know “Hey! There’s an engine up here, give it a rev”, which can be just what you need to spice up the monotony. We know this all too well, and have been working hard to bring everything to our website’s inventory from subtle and tasteful sport cat-back systems to roaring 3in turbo back pipes. With a long history of selling piles of aftermarket and OEM exhaust parts to those that live with the unfortunate reality of road salt, we wanted to let our customers know that if you are looking for the next meaningful performance parts upgrade for your car, we have some polished stainless steel for you to check out. Of course, if you’re ever looking for serious power enhancements,

Climb To The Clouds 2017 – Apogee Motorsport Takes on Mt Washington

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Kelsey Stone

We have just returned from running in the oldest automotive race in the United States. Climb to the Clouds is a hill climb, similar in nature to Pikes Peak, but steeper, narrower, and more technical. It has attracted a number of big names in motorsport, including Carrol Shelby, who set the record on the hill in 1953 in his Ferrari 375. His time then was 10 minutes and 21 seconds on the all dirt road at the time. The most recent record holder during the last running in 2014 was David Higgins in his Subaru Rally Team USA STI, with co-driver Craig Drew. His time was 6 minutes and 6 seconds. This year, the record was on the minds of two drivers in particular; David Higgins and Travis Pastrana, both driving Subaru Rally Team USA rally cars with 600HP motors swapped in and stripped of over 500lb of weight, as

The AC Parts You Need For Ice Cold Air Conditioning

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Adam Goral

*Queue corny 1950’s instructional video music* Hello consumer, are you finding yourself sticking to your leather seats like an egg on a cast iron pan? Are your tired of wondering where the luxury went in your BMW, Mercedes, Audi, SAAB, Volvo, or other European car? Have you ever packed extra clothes on short trips, assuming you will sweat through your current garments? If you, like millions of others, have an automobile equipped with air conditioning that just isn’t pulling its weight, then you’ve landed in the right place. *Needlescratch*. Judging by recent A/C parts sales, many of you are working on the air conditioning of your European car lately. The air conditioning system is a complicated one, and successfully diagnosing bad AC parts can be an ongoing struggle without a good foundation in how they work. Consider this your A/C 101 basics course, hopefully after reading this you will be

E34 M5 Resto Part VI: Door Panels and Steering Wheel

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Jeff Einhorn

Mechanically, the E34 M5 is regarded as a thoroughly over engineered performance machine, typical of German craftsmanship of the era, and perhaps the last vehicle built by the marque that was created using a “cost is no object” philosophy when it came to design hours. The interior, on the other hand, has a few areas that are prone to failure as time wears on. The most frequent problem areas are the door panels, which in the U.S. version for the 1991 BMW M5 were covered in vinyl from the factory utilizing perhaps the least heat resistant glue available at the time. This results in the vinyl insert – basically a sub-door card – beginning to flap around and the vinyl and the rest of the door vinyl shrinking and detaching from its base. Another failure point are the trim panel clips and their attachment points. The clips themselves, which look like