Neubob, here's one of classy's posts on Bimmerfest. He had me cracking up over there.
"i post this here because i find it hard to talk to anyone else about this problem. i am married for 1 year and my wife and i do not have a sexual relashionship, not normally anyway. i have a problem that some men wish they did have, but do not in any way. i have an unusually large jenitiliya. it's not something to laugh or make fun of so please don't. it keeps me from having normal relashions with my wife with sex. i have seen my doctor and he reccomends plastique surgery. but admittedly having somebody cut on my goober is appealing. (sorry for bluntness)
my question to bmw community is do you know of anyone who's had surgery like this? what advice do you have?it's imbarrasing to me big time.
serious posts only please."
LOL Classy shares his history of the BMW insignia, after someone asks if it's a propeller-
"I've heard this one too. sadly though, that is just hollywood drama made for the big screen. bmw didn't manufacture many airplane engines in wwII. The blue/white round crest is an impeller blade on a water pump. The blue is the water. The white is the blade. Bmw built many irrigation pumps for use in holland during the war to dry out the land the germans were taking. that's where the hood crest came from. many died in the wool bmw men don't weant to hear this. this is from a reliable source though."
He even got a response!:D
"I think I must chime in here.
Hey classy act, who sent you ? Are you working for Daimler-Chrysler or what ?
Your 'vast' knowledge about BMW history is amazing. The Allach factory, which was producing airplane engines until 1960 , has even produced turbines for GE used in the F105 Starfighters engines.
In addition to this, by 1944 there were 20.000 workers in the Allach works. You are saying that BMW didn't manufacture many aircraft engines during WWII. What do you think 20.000 men did ? Played blackjack ? Backgammon ?
After the war, the Allies used the factory as a vehicle maintenance facility.
Quandt sold the factory in 1960 to MAN along with a Starfighter engine contract.
As for the roundel (hood crest in your terminology) it is a spinning propeller and nothing else.
So, now dig up your books and read the Beemer ( ) history again.
Oh, I would really like to know the name of that book about the water pumps and the related roundel history."
Alex 'Stealth' Baumann