Alpina Meeting/Rally - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

NRL BITURBO · 27th September 2000, 21:03

Hello all you Alpina owners out there.
Although my location shows UK, I am currently working in Germany (near Moenchengladbach) and so the rest of my post really applies to Germany-based owners, or European owners at least (unless you Stateside guys are interested, of course).

This is just an idea and I am floating it to see what sort of interest there may be:

What do people think of arranging a meet/rally for Alpina owners (that is, of all variants of Alpinas) - somewhere reasonably central where we can all meet, talk Alpinas (if necessary) and drive etc?

We need to gauge interest before plunging into making any commitments - but I would appreciate your feedback.

What do you think?

Regards,

Neil

Dirim · 30th September 2000, 00:23

I would be interested in principle, subject to location and time.

I live in Western Holland (near The Hague) and could make it to easily around Benelux or Western Germany (Nurburgring?).

Ufuk Dirim

NRL BITURBO · 7th October 2000, 23:30

Ufuk,

Well that makes two of us interested. There must be some others out there!!!

Neil

CarlT · 12th December 2000, 19:45

Hi NRL

Check out the German Alpina Club at http://www.i-bs.de/Buchloer-Autos/en/start.html.

They have regular meets and are growing.

Regards
Carl

NRL BITURBO · 12th December 2000, 20:03

Carl,

Many thanks.

Neil

DAVID NEWTON · 13th December 2000, 16:40

Neil
good day, i am living just outside geneva and would be interested in an alpina meeting. any idea when.
regards
david

NRL BITURBO · 13th December 2000, 21:07

David,

Thanks for your reply/interest.

In terms of timing, well it depends upon when people are available. However, there doesn't seem to be much interest at present - but that doesn't mean the 3 or so who have posted here can't get together of course!

With winter setting in, spring would seem a good time, especially if we wanted a drive around a track too (eg Nurburgring).

Regards,

Neil

DAVID NEWTON · 15th December 2000, 10:52

Neil,
sounds okay to me, lets keep in touch and arrange something for the springtime.
Regards,
David

Dirim · 15th December 2000, 17:04

Spring sounds good to me as well.

Ufuk

Danish · 16th December 2000, 16:22

Hi All,

This years meeting of the Alpina-Gemeinschaft (www.alpina-gemeinschaft.de) will probably be held in Mönchengladbach. Check out our website frequently for more details. The exact date is not yet planned, but will be in the summer.

Hope to see you all there!

Michael
1997 B8 4.6 Touring
1995 B8 4.6 Coupe

NRL BITURBO · 16th December 2000, 17:21

Michael,

Thanks for your info.

Neil

Danish · 16th December 2000, 17:48

I forgot to mention that everyone is invited, member or not. We are currently trying to plan a track event (Nürburgring?) into the program. Usually we have around 70 Alpinas at our annual meeting. The member cars represents the entire range of Alpinas - from 2002, 3.0 CSL to B8 4.6, B10 Biturbo, B12 5.7 and B12 6.0.

I would also be interested in more informal meets with other enthusiasts, since this official meeting is only once a year. Any ideas welcome. Southern Europe wouldn't be bad... :-)

Michael

NRL BITURBO · 16th December 2000, 17:54

Michael,

I sent an email to Rene' earlier today. He emailed me back and said I should speak to you (this is about his B8).

Can you send me your email address to neillewis@freenet.co.uk and we can discuss off-forum.

Many thanks,

Neil