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  • lolcantturn
    R3V Elite
    • Oct 2010
    • 4588

    #1

    potentially really cool road trip.

    sup.
    my friend has a 1992 Audi 100S which was basically the fucking shit back in the days, $80,000 retail value or something like that.
    now a junkyard will be the top dollar buyer for it. mechanically its a fucking tank, for more than 15,000 city ONLY miles (he's a delivery driver) my friends put on it, it has never let him down and he's done literally no maintainence on it. it has a timing belt which god knows when it was changed. the interior is shit and crumbling apart (though a really comfy quiet ride) and the exterior is shit as well. but anyway we regard this car as completely fucking unstoppable with no hesitation to drive it anywhere, and while its valueless, it simply holds its own worth by being so unstoppable.

    that being said, we're planning a roadtrip to california from jersey in it. No extra maintaince done, no timing belt change, nothing, MAYBE an oil change. the plan is, if it makes it, that would be awesome. if it doesn't, whereever it dies we would simply leave it on the side of the road for a junkyard to buy it and take a plane back to jersey. money aint a problem and i've never left the east coast.
    discuss if this is relatively cool/undoubtedly stupid/ a cool story
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  • slammin.e28
    שמע ישראל
    • May 2010
    • 12054

    #2
    Video documentations must be had with this trip.

    That is all.
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    • 5Toes
      Banned
      • May 2010
      • 9836

      #3
      I would LOVE to do something like this

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      • absolutdog
        E30 Addict
        • Apr 2012
        • 449

        #4
        I have driven my old e30 across this country 3 times, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!

        Hit the National Parks, take old route 66 (better than freeways), and southern Utah is surprisingly beautiful

        Take Pics, I have over 22gig that I have yet to sort through
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        • Nairb
          E30 Fanatic
          • Apr 2010
          • 1207

          #5
          Vlog it, good luck.
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          • FunfGan
            R3V Elite
            • Jan 2011
            • 4958

            #6
            Do it.


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            • redsubdivisions
              E30 Mastermind
              • Feb 2011
              • 1762

              #7
              Originally posted by absolutdog
              I have driven my old e30 across this country 3 times, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!

              Hit the National Parks, take old route 66 (better than freeways), and southern Utah is surprisingly beautiful

              Take Pics, I have over 22gig that I have yet to sort through
              Not trying to thread jack, but I am thinking about doing this. Any problems on the way?
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              • imsotyerred
                R3VLimited
                • Oct 2005
                • 2529

                #8
                Personally it sounds like kind of a shit-show waiting to happen unless you do the basic maintenance stuff before going.

                but i guess that's kind of the point, huh? sounds interesting and a cross-country road-trip sounds great but I'd want to know that the car isn't going to crap out along the way
                BRUTE

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                • Holland
                  R3V OG
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 7176

                  #9
                  If you have a worse case plan back, then go for it.
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                  • slammin.e28
                    שמע ישראל
                    • May 2010
                    • 12054

                    #10
                    We should all take bets on how far they'll go. Map out the route, and we'll post markers where we think they'll break down. Closest marker gets a hug from me.
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                    • 5spoke
                      E30 Mastermind
                      • Sep 2007
                      • 1729

                      #11
                      What happens if it dies like 2 days in and your 2-3 week trip is ruined?
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                      • slammin.e28
                        שמע ישראל
                        • May 2010
                        • 12054

                        #12
                        Originally posted by 5spoke
                        What happens if it dies like 2 days in and your 2-3 week trip is ruined?
                        They've got the rest of the time off to walk back home.
                        1974.5 Jensen Healey : 2003 330i/5

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                        • Jeff2886
                          Member
                          • Nov 2011
                          • 52

                          #13
                          Cool idea!

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                          • redsubdivisions
                            E30 Mastermind
                            • Feb 2011
                            • 1762

                            #14
                            Originally posted by slammin.e28guy
                            They've got the rest of the time off to walk back home.
                            haha. So true.
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                            • nickflic3
                              No R3VLimiter
                              • Sep 2009
                              • 3564

                              #15
                              Do it.

                              If you make it to Riverside CA, I'll change the oil for you haha
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