road trip from CO to CA and 4.6is purchase

[c4racer]

I picked up a 2003 4.6is with 95K miles from a CCA member and M3 enthousiast I knew through an E36 M3 email list. The car is in fantastic condition and looks and drives like new. It also has had all relevant preventative maintanence and normal service done by BMW, and was a former CPO car. Only problem was the car was in IN and I live in CA. So I ended up working out a plan to have a buddy from CO fly out and drive it back to his place near Vail. Then a week or so later I flew out to CO, spent a few days hanging out around Vail and then spent 2 days driving it home. It was a great trip, and the car was in even better condition than I had expected. I was also amazed by how tight the car was - feels like a 20K mile car. BMW's are certainly built to last.

OK - time to throw in a few pics.
Here is the view from my buddy's house. I can only imagine how sweet this looks in the winter. Straight across the valley you can see the runs on Beaver Creek. I should mention his house is at 8200 feet!!


And here is the X as I first saw it:



We spent the good part of one day hitting some serious off-road trails in a lifted Toyota Tacoma pick-up. That was a serious blast.






I took 70 West through CO and went through some pretty neat areas. I stopped a lot to check things out along the way.