16,000km - The Roadtrip Machine - finally did it

[IceWhite]

Amazing, that is a lot of mileage. If you did this trip alone, who was taking the pics of you?

Great pics BTW!!

[plmichal]

Awesome road trip and experience! A little bit of inspiration.

[ttrousdell]

Excellent trip. Im really looking forward to doing this trip in a 2002 someday. Youre right the wheels look very good.

[MikeK]

that's f*ckin' epic, congrats

[2mAn]

It's my daily, driven every day - snowy Ontario winters included! Thanks for the kind words!
Highway 1 was incredible, but to be honest I enjoyed the Oregon section more in terms of driving - less people and less "Cruise America" RVs!

What path did you drive through Oregon because I've done the I5 part and some of the 101 and neither was that impressive

[TSI]

Good to hear you're not thinking of selling it! You should post a link to your blog with the pics.

Also, that swap was a blast. Winter's coming, up for another?

[325ix]

That looks like a great roadtrip. I'd love to do it but, I don't think my car would make it.

[Sea Aych]

You shouldve gotten an in&out sticker while enjoying the overrated burgers of the California chain. I hate using the word epic, but this really was an epic road trip. Ive wanted to do something similar and have random spots across the country Id like to see. Glad to see a run of the mill E30 with a $300 24v motor is up for the challenge.

How'd you like Highway 1?

It's my daily, driven every day - snowy Ontario winters included! Thanks for the kind words!
Highway 1 was incredible, but to be honest I enjoyed the Oregon section more in terms of driving - less people and less "Cruise America" RVs!

[Fsnow]

Is there anything else you would like to add that would make all of us more jealous?:)

[2mAn]

You shouldve gotten an in&out sticker while enjoying the overrated burgers of the California chain. I hate using the word epic, but this really was an epic road trip. Ive wanted to do something similar and have random spots across the country Id like to see. Glad to see a run of the mill E30 with a $300 24v motor is up for the challenge.

How'd you like Highway 1?

[Sea Aych]

So awesome! Glad you and your car made it in one piece

Wow man! This thread is colossally underrated. I can't imagine doing a trip like that- would love to do something like it someday. Please post more pictures!

Great story and great thread. I wish there was more of this stuff on r3v.
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Thanks guys!

Couple other anecdotes:

When I left Big Sur, I was heading north and started seeing a bunch of gorgeous classics in the little gas station/coffee stop I was fueling myself at. I realized at that point that today was the day of the Concours at Pebble Beach!!!! So as I headed north towards Monterrey, every single driveable car was heading south towards Big Sur - I was passing Ferrari 250s, Lussos, ancient bugattis, a 550 spyder, and an actual BMW 507!! That was a nice day. I'm probably in some press photos lurking in the background in my dirt covered car


En route for Monterrey, before all the classics arrived! Car is fairly dusty from the dirt road I drove up the night before (see the big sur picture in my first post)


By the end, this was/is my rear quarter window!

[dishwab]

Awesome! Too bad about your time in the midwest, though. There are some absolutely beautiful campgrounds all over Michigan.

The PNW is my favorite part of the country - great driving out there too

[AllydNYC]

Great story and great thread. I wish there was more of this stuff on r3v.
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[Fsnow]

So awesome! Glad you and your car made it in one piece

[Spiff325iS]

Wow man! This thread is colossally underrated. I can't imagine doing a trip like that- would love to do something like it someday. Please post more pictures!