By Donovan Unks, Information Editor for BMW Automobile Membership Journal: Roundel version. BMW CCA members get pleasure from this and plenty of extra articles, columns, and options as a part of their membership. Study extra at bmwcca.org/jointoday.
For those who’re not conversant in the HFMSTRS, then take a hearken to Episode 10 of the BMW Group Basic podcast for an interview with three of its major members; we’ll wait. Briefly, the Europe-based group began out only some years in the past on WhatsApp to have fun automotive tradition with a concentrate on BMWs, however it rapidly expanded to in-person gatherings. For the reason that Hofmeister Kink is a signature BMW design component, but in addition discovered many non-BMWs, the title was a strategy to convey the group’s love of all automobiles, however particularly BMWs.
Nonetheless, whereas your stereotypical static Vehicles & Espresso get-together is extra of a Park & Preen occasion the place wealthy folks searching for acceptance present up in actually costly automobiles and sometimes ends with a Mustang driver crashing into a lightweight pole, the newest HFMSTRS occasion was extra geared towards a TikTok/GenZ viewers, giving it an Autos & Adderall vibe. Final October the group had their finish of 2023 occasion in Munich named “Thrash ’em—The Rhythm of Pace,” which celebrated the intersection of BMWs, automotive racing, and skateboarding tradition. Collaborating with the artistic group/automotive-themed clothes model Elevens Co., the HFMSTRS group appeared with over 200 automobiles.
Artwork by Elevens and Cyril Verbrugge for the Thrash ’Em occasion.
One of many stars of the present was introduced over by the BMW Museum: Frank Stella’s 1976 E9 BMW 3.0CSL Artwork Automobile, the second Artwork Automobile commissioned. In early planning phases of the occasion, the Elevens had considered the opportunity of leaping a skateboard over an Artwork Automobile, however clearly this was a no-go from BMW. As a substitute, the group determined to take an “unloved” BMW, the E36 316i Compact, and set it amongst skateboard ramps for skaters to indicate off their abilities at leaping over the automotive. A late addition to the 316i got here courtesy of a pal of the group who determined—at 1:00 a.m. earlier than the occasion—to weld on a grinding rail to the trunk lid of the automotive.
If you wish to see photographs from the distinctive occasion, head over to the Journal part of classicdriver.com and seek for HFMSTRS, or try the Instagram pages of the HFMSTRS (Instagram.com/hfmstrs) and Elevens (Instagram.com/elevens.co).
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