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Post Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:54 pm

After seeing some of the questions about European trips on here I thought I'd share my experience of taking the cabbie to Europe this summer.

The route was Fife - Dover - Dunkirk- Luxembourg - Metz - Bodensee - Garmisch - Munich -Berlin - Apeldoorn - Dunkirk -Dover - Fife, with a jaunt across the Polish border at Frankfurt/Slubice. 8 countries in all and roughly 3000 miles covered in 3 weeks.

After getting the arches sorted earlier it was a belt, water pump and oil change and new Good Years all round.

I didn't take any spares just European cover (free- courtesy of a Nationwide current account) and Autoglym Fast Glass to get the flies off the screen each night.

Highlight was going to the museum in Munich and getting a picture outside the factory. The old girl ran well the whole time the only problems being one of the front shocks went and I also discovered that in 30 degree heat at over 90 mph eBay bonnet badges start to de laminate as the glue melts. I also saw far fewer E30s than previous trips to Germany although a US spec 325 on Potsdam plates was a surprise.

Would I do it again - possibly but not such a circuitous route. You get used to modern cars and without a/c hammering down the autobahn in 30 - 35 degree heat is hard going.

Some pics below.

Up in the Bavarian Alps near Linderhof



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At the factory - Works 1 Gate 1

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E30 M3 Art Car

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3 series display in the museum - one of each but two E30s a cabbie and a Touring

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A local club was displaying this oddity outside the museum

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Whilst inside was this beauty, the only one made before they realised they couldn't make any money out of series production

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On the way to Berlin

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In Berlin

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Leaving Poland

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Post Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:53 pm

Brilliant! I intend to do something similar with my neon blue cab., when I finally get it all screwed back together!
Did the photo. shoot outside of the factory gates a few years ago, with the red touring in my sig.
Within twenty four hours it had been destroyed by a flying Porker on the A8, just up the road near Augsburg..
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Post Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:01 pm

recently did germany / nurburg had 140+ out of mine,
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Post Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:21 pm

Excellent! Love an excuse for a long drive. Have fond memory's of a weekend at the Nurburgring in 2010, we all promised to do it every year! Never did.
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Post Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:33 pm

thats what we all said as well, see if it pans out next year
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Post Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:35 pm

+1 then :D
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Post Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:55 pm

Awesome. I'd love to do this in my E30, but I'm not sure I could live without air con!

I did 5,000 miles around Europe earlier in the summer in my 330d (40c in Germany - imagine that without climate control and leather seats! 8O ), and went through Poland, over to Chernobyl, up to/through Russia, around Scandinavia (I want to move to Sweden - it's so cheap, and lovely, and the people are lovely, and everything seems much nicer than the UK on the surface), and back down via Amsterdam.

While a lot more expensive in petrol, I imagine it'd be much more of an occasion in an E30.