M5Kid

The morning started out rainy but the pace soon picked up as people arrived at the Chehalis Walmart, our meeting point. We started out on Highway 6 towards the coast, eventually heading south and then back up north into Long Beach. We had a nice little lunch along the main drag of the town, and stopped along the way for some photos. I didn't get a chance to take many photos, and the ones that I did capture came out blurry for the most part, good thing I have all the memories in my head.

One of the most memorable parts of the trip was the stretch of really curvy and aggressive road along the coast where everyone was right up on eachother, and the Mini S really shined!

I would like to thank all the great people coming out for the drive today, I am glad you made this happen. All the cars attending were amazing, and I really enjoyed watching them haul through the roads we traveled. I want to especially thank Derek for taking Sam and I along, I really had an awesome time and enjoyed our conversations!

Hopefully Jason and Sam captured some good images that they can share, I know there wasn't as much time to shoot as anticipated. And Jason, one of these days I will get a chance to ride in your car, I was just so caught up in the drive, then all of a sudden it was over!

Thank you all again,

Travis

m5am

Yeah the drive was a lot of fun and I can not wait till this summer when the weather is better. Here are a few pics i found worthy of posting. The S2 M3 was very nice.












Sorry about some of the blurry in car pictures but we were not on the smoothest roads.

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BmwNut

Looks like a blast, and thanks for the pics Sam. I never worry too much about driving in the rain; it just makes it easier to kick the tail out.

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m5am

And kick the tails out we did. Although if you were to ask Derek.... his foot just slipped.

M5Kid

It's hard to show how aggressive and great all the cars looked that were at the meet through pictures. I really had fun just watching Jason navigate his M5 through the curves and really get on the throttle, it really was an awesome site!

I can still hear the roar of B&B's being revved up in my head, Derek.

Travis

EBMCS03

WOW... M5 drives are getting rare now... glad there are still some going on. NICE JOB GUYS!

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atomic80

Don't have time to comment right now but I wanted to post the pictures first!

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m5am

here some more pictures I found.

Chuckc

Sounds like a great drive. How was the Dinan M3? Did anyone that posts on this board drive it or drive in it?

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Suretyagent

We had M5Kid, M5am, Capup, VanCooper, Atomic80 and myself. A great group indeed. We played leapfrog, kept up a lively dialog over 2-way-radios and ate up the miles for breakfast.

We blasted along the country roads on highway 6 going over and around a number of short mountain passes and through lush farm county. We came upon several locals whose custom seemed to be the one-signal-flash turn, usualy executed as one of us was passing them!

The group was well matched to the roads and each other. The Dinan M3 making it all look easy, the Cooper S not seeming to mind being a couple hundred horses down to the rest of us and Jason and me dicing in our M5's, taking turns passing each other for the sheer joy of hearing our exhaust notes and watching huge roostertails of water spray up from the road in the vortexes caused by tripple digit speeds.

We came upon a yellow Mustang being driven with purpose but dispatched with it like a cone on our westbound slalom course. The distinct notes each car poured from its mufflers were each unique and thrilling. Though wet and covered with road dirt our little convoy was a beautiful and thrilling sight with our intense headlights blazing in the ambient haze of the cloudy, rainy day.

We must have collectively burned $200 worth of premium fuel in the short time between starting out and lunch and by the time Long Beach loomed we had an easy comfortable friendship between us. Lunch passed too quickly and our goodbyes were fast but with a little melancholy, the kind that materializes when people have experienced something special together. A good day, a good group and very good memories.

Derek