Mr and Mrs Accel Junky Dual F80 M3 European Delivery - Tons of Photos

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by Accel Junky

I just want you all to know my wife has been reading this thread and the comments may be getting to her head

You should ban... forbid her from coming in here.

[chmura]

Originally Posted by adc

I did, back in 2009 when he was almost 6. Had one more lap to go in an evening session so I told my wife it was a now or never moment. Both she and my son hopped in the car and away we went.

After about 10 corners she was a little pale and kept asking if we can get out now. And I was driving in guest mode, helpfully pointing out corners, castles, features and whatnot.

All this time my son was whooping in delight, and kept egging me on to go faster daddy on the racetrack. He was laughing with glee and generally having the time of his life.

That's my boy, brought a tear to my eye remembering all this.


But seriously just make sure the child seat is really secure and not moving around because the car most definitely will. And of course, keep your eyes peeled and be prudent.

Thank you for your response.

I think I will take the family on one lap when I do my euro delivery!

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by DocWeatherington

You should ban... forbid her from coming in here.

I need to get her set up with her own username!

[DocWeatherington]

Originally Posted by Accel Junky

I need to get her set up with her own username!

Ooops lol

[P1]

I forgive you for only staying one day in my hometown of Brugge.

[Ringer]

I like the fact that there are both manuals! Keep the spirit alive. Enjoy them in good health and have safe travels.

Congrats!

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by P1et

I forgive you for only staying one day in my hometown of Brugge.

That would be our travel ADHD

Originally Posted by Ringer

I like the fact that there are both manuals! Keep the spirit alive. Enjoy them in good health and have safe travels.

Congrats!

Thanks! Hopefully our 2 manuals offset an auto out there and then some. Though I doubt it. Reminds me of the "for every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three"

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by Imola.ZHP

Thanks for sharing! Keep preaching (and practicing) the manual gospel!

Absolutely! I have been thinking about teaching people to drive manuals with a beater. I think it would be cool to do something like that on a volunteer basis.

[Imola.ZHP]

Originally Posted by Accel Junky

Absolutely! I have been thinking about teaching people to drive manuals with a beater. I think it would be cool to do something like that on a volunteer basis.

That is a great idea! If you have the time you could possibly set up some type of website and a network of such people, we really do need to spread the manual fever before its too late and they are all gone!

Your shirts gave me the idea to get a friend (my best female friend that drives a highly modified and paid off Civic Si sedan) a "save the manuals" vinyl sticker as a gift. She has a few tasteful stickers on her car, heck even if she just put it on her toolbox in the garage she would still love it.

[budman]

Euro Delivery with a run on Nurburgring.. the best way to accept your new ///M's!!

Thanks for sharing over on GJ.

[bmoneystatus]

Hey Accel Junky,

I was thinking about doing this same trip, similar route this time next year. More specifically October 7-21.

I'm assuming you didn't need winter tires yet since I don't think you mentioned it.

Also, I've heard they start closing down palaces, tourist stops, roads in the third week of October. Did you find this to be the case?

Any tips or advice would be great!

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by budman

Euro Delivery with a run on Nurburgring.. the best way to accept your new ///M's!!

Thanks for sharing over on GJ.

An amazing experience we'll never forget! Thanks for reading

I hope I can fix up my garage to be worthy of these beautiful cars. I've been lurking hard on GJ for years dreaming of my own garage and then dreaming of a bigger garage and now dreaming of finishing this garage.

Originally Posted by bmoneystatus

Hey Accel Junky,

I was thinking about doing this same trip, similar route this time next year. More specifically October 7-21.

I'm assuming you didn't need winter tires yet since I don't think you mentioned it.

Also, I've heard they start closing down palaces, tourist stops, roads in the third week of October. Did you find this to be the case?

Any tips or advice would be great!

We didn't see a lick of snow near any roads we were on. The weather was actually very mild. I did not see it coming...thought for sure we would run into some trouble on the mountain passes. I have heard of closings of the nurburgring and many passes for the winter. I think some are late Oct and some are early Nov. You will definitely want to double check all of that. Also, some passes are closes at certain times of the day. For example, the Grossglockner High Alpine Road is a toll road and does not open until a certain time in the morning and closes maybe 6 or 7pm depending on the season. Fortunately that info is on the official website.

My biggest piece of advice is to plan everything carefully. I had a schedule for every day with addresses, times, etc... to shoot for so we could do it all. Of course, we were in quite a rush to pull off everything in this trip. Maybe a longer stay would be advisable. Make sure you get your international drivers license from AAA if you are going through Austria and you can buy the Austrian highway vignette for your windshield in advance online and take it with you which will save a trip and fumbling with translations to buy one.

[bmoneystatus]

Originally Posted by Accel Junky

An amazing experience we'll never forget! Thanks for reading

I hope I can fix up my garage to be worthy of these beautiful cars. I've been lurking hard on GJ for years dreaming of my own garage and then dreaming of a bigger garage and now dreaming of finishing this garage.



We didn't see a lick of snow near any roads we were on. The weather was actually very mild. I did not see it coming...thought for sure we would run into some trouble on the mountain passes. I have heard of closings of the nurburgring and many passes for the winter. I think some are late Oct and some are early Nov. You will definitely want to double check all of that. Also, some passes are closes at certain times of the day. For example, the Grossglockner High Alpine Road is a toll road and does not open until a certain time in the morning and closes maybe 6 or 7pm depending on the season. Fortunately that info is on the official website.

My biggest piece of advice is to plan everything carefully. I had a schedule for every day with addresses, times, etc... to shoot for so we could do it all. Of course, we were in quite a rush to pull off everything in this trip. Maybe a longer stay would be advisable. Make sure you get your international drivers license from AAA if you are going through Austria and you can buy the Austrian highway vignette for your windshield in advance online and take it with you which will save a trip and fumbling with translations to buy one.

Awesome, thanks for the all the advice. Last question: any resources/websites you suggest looking into while planning the trip? Thanks again!

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by bmoneystatus

Awesome, thanks for the all the advice. Last question: any resources/websites you suggest looking into while planning the trip? Thanks again!

No prob. As far as resources for ED...BimmerFest (I hope I don't get in trouble for mentioning other forums) has the best ED forum around. You will find a wealth of info there.

If you are going through Austria, save some time by buying the vignette in advance: http://www.tolltickets.com/country/a...spx?lang=en-GB

Took a couple of weeks for it to come to GA so plan ahead.

Also, look into sim cards or roaming and see what the cost will be so you can have your phone data available for emergencies (for looking up stuff or navigating). In Switzerland I just went to the Swisscom store in the ZRH airport and for 20 euro or so I had a data plan for the weekend. In Germany I used a Blau sim and paid for the 30 day data plan and I can tell you their service isn't that good.

You'll need to unlock your phone first (a GSM phone). If you are subsidizing the phone through your plan they may not unlock your phone. AT&T unlocked my phone via their unlock website because I paid cash for the phone but they would not unlock my wife's because it was her upgrade last year and that was still contract-locked.

I also planned all of my routes in advance using Google maps and created an itinerary chart with all of the info and addresses I needed per day. I printed the Google maps routes between each segment so I could have printed backups if the navs failed (helped me once when my nav kept boot looping and freezing).

A lot of the info I found in advance was just from Googling stuff. There are dedicated websites for the Grossglockner, Nurburgring and all that stuff that will give you opening times and seasons and whatnot.

The Nurburgring schedule I went by was this one: http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/calendar.php

Opening/closing times for Grossglockner high alpine road: http://www.grossglockner.at/en/service/

As far as accommodations, I researched heavily with TripAdvisor as well as the reviews on Booking.com. I booked through Booking as well as Expedia...just whatever was cheapest between the major booking sites.

[bmoneystatus]

Originally Posted by Accel Junky

No prob. As far as resources for ED...BimmerFest (I hope I don't get in trouble for mentioning other forums) has the best ED forum around. You will find a wealth of info there.

If you are going through Austria, save some time by buying the vignette in advance: http://www.tolltickets.com/country/a...spx?lang=en-GB

Took a couple of weeks for it to come to GA so plan ahead.

Also, look into sim cards or roaming and see what the cost will be so you can have your phone data available for emergencies (for looking up stuff or navigating). In Switzerland I just went to the Swisscom store in the ZRH airport and for 20 euro or so I had a data plan for the weekend. In Germany I used a Blau sim and paid for the 30 day data plan and I can tell you their service isn't that good.

You'll need to unlock your phone first (a GSM phone). If you are subsidizing the phone through your plan they may not unlock your phone. AT&T unlocked my phone via their unlock website because I paid cash for the phone but they would not unlock my wife's because it was her upgrade last year and that was still contract-locked.

I also planned all of my routes in advance using Google maps and created an itinerary chart with all of the info and addresses I needed per day. I printed the Google maps routes between each segment so I could have printed backups if the navs failed (helped me once when my nav kept boot looping and freezing).

A lot of the info I found in advance was just from Googling stuff. There are dedicated websites for the Grossglockner, Nurburgring and all that stuff that will give you opening times and seasons and whatnot.

The Nurburgring schedule I went by was this one: http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/calendar.php

Opening/closing times for Grossglockner high alpine road: http://www.grossglockner.at/en/service/

As far as accommodations, I researched heavily with TripAdvisor as well as the reviews on Booking.com. I booked through Booking as well as Expedia...just whatever was cheapest between the major booking sites.

Wow, thanks for the wealth of information. Seems like a lot of leg work, but I'm sure it'll all be worth it.

[Accel Junky]

Originally Posted by bmoneystatus

Wow, thanks for the wealth of information. Seems like a lot of leg work, but I'm sure it'll all be worth it.

Yes, done right you are going to spend dozens and dozens of hours planning and prepping. All depends on how you want your trip to go I suppose.

[Marckymarc305]

Last night in Atlanta, saw this M3 white/manual and a girl driving it. Had to stop and tell her a few word on how nice your car is, at the end finding out its her from this post, nice lady and couple getting two M3. Lucky I have a chance to read this post and have a chance to meet her.