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Late   Summer Sale While we all wait anxiously for the new website, let’s do a late summer sale. For the rest of September we will offer free shipping and a 10% discount on any purchases over $500. So now might be a good time to jump start your holiday shopping and earn the envy (if that’s the word) of all your friends. This includes everything on this page, on the site, as well as the items featured on previous blog and homepage offerings, as available. We also have an unprecedented stock of highly prized Pelikan 101Ns in lizard and in tortoise. Not all of them are on the site, but for the rest of the month they can be yours at a very generous 20% discount. Left to right RR4                     white trim            $1,800 PEXX     ...

I spent the weekend before the San Francisco Pen Show down at Monterey car week, an extravaganza of car related stuff that draws visitors from around the country and around the world. As many of you know I have an active interest in cars and in BMWs, specifically. So on Friday I attended the Legends of the Autobahn, a static car show and judging that features Audi, BMW, and Mercedes cars. And my 1M was part of the non-judged display, the only one of that model there as far as I could tell. On Saturday, the main event was the historic car races, and I brought my camera. Shooting cars at speed can be a challenge, especially if you do not use automatic settings. I took more than three hundred images to get these. (Worse odds than monkeys with typewriters, I daresay!) I wish I could identify the cars below for you, but in addition to not being a race photographer (or driver) I am not enough of an historian to be able to do that, for the most part. From Friday's LOTA a pre W...