What's the longest trip you've ever done in your E34? Please add any good stories.

We drove from Toronto to Banff, Alberta one Christmas. Three days straight each way. The trip back was hell going through Sask and Minnesota with the snow and icy freeways.

Has anyone ever driven the Pan-American Highway?

my parents drove the sienna down to florida. and back.

i took a two week trip from california up to canada back through montana and back to california, but that was in our mazda tribute

What's the longest trip you've ever done in your E34? Please add any good stories.

We drove from Toronto to Banff, Alberta one Christmas. Three days straight each way. The trip back was hell going through Sask and Minnesota with the snow and icy freeways.

Has anyone ever driven the Pan-American Highway?

I did that cross-prairie trip years ago when I was a student (also in winter); definitely wears on the sanity after a while. That was in a beater though. We want to do a big west-coast loop this year in the E34 (Vancouver -> Oregon coast -> SF -> Las Vegas -> Lake Tahoe -> Vancouver).

Not sure about the Pan-American highway; I think Panama is as far as you'd be able to go in even moderate safety. I heard that near the Columbian border things get a bit scary. Also, I'm not sure it's paved that far, is it?

Last Summer I did 1300 miles each way from colorado springs to northern north dakota. Took one day both ways. I couldn't believe how nice the car was even after 1000 miles. It just eats the miles. Best part was that I got to run some 95 octane at sealevel:redspot. Felt like I added a turbo....ever since then my car feels slow..:( I drove up to my grandpas funeral. Topped my car out a couple times before the chip was in, my dad was actually the first to top it out since he jumped in the drivers seat when I got there:shifty. But yea the e34 rocks on the highway no matter how many miles you have infront of you.

I've driven accross Canada about 12 times in both the summer and the winter. Single longest was from Red Deer, AB, to Halifax, NS. Took five days! :eek:

I did that cross-prairie trip years ago when I was a student (also in winter); definitely wears on the sanity after a while. That was in a beater though. We want to do a big west-coast loop this year in the E34 (Vancouver -> Oregon coast -> SF -> Las Vegas -> Lake Tahoe -> Vancouver).

Not sure about the Pan-American highway; I think Panama is as far as you'd be able to go in even moderate safety. I heard that near the Columbian border things get a bit scary. Also, I'm not sure it's paved that far, is it?

There is one section where the highway stops and you have to ferry your car around. I believe it is though the columbian rain forest. My former bmw mechanics did the trip in the 60's and said it was pretty wild. I don't think they were driving bmw's back then. I would love to do that but I don't think I would use my e34 on that trip.

yea, i would use like a hummer or something, lol

There is one section where the highway stops and you have to ferry your car around. I believe it is though the columbian rain forest...

Yea, here's a wiki article about that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_Gap

That would definitely be a lifetime experience - even to go just as far as Panama. I wonder if you could do that trip just one way and send the car back in a shipping container or something? Some friends of mine do the Baja on motorcycles just about every year and I believe once they sent their bikes to/from San Diego and Vancouver that way.

Went here to vicksburg in one shot, with only a couple stops for fuel.

total mileage that trip was 3,000 miles by the time I got home.

Southeast Florida to San Francisco, all solo. Including a couple of hours in El Paso (hey, AE), a night in Tuscon, and a few days in Vegas, took 8 days. Witnessing this 18-year old heap do consecutive 12-hour days through the desert at autobahn speeds, hauling me and all my possessions in comfort, was proof enough that these are no ordinary cars. US93 from Kingman to the Hoover Dam was particularly fun.

Some summer, I want to drive up to Prudhoe Bay, see the ocean. I don't know if the E34 is the right car for that, though. Anyone done this or a similar trip?

Some summer, I want to drive up to Prudhoe Bay, see the ocean. I don't know if the E34 is the right car for that, though. Anyone done this or a similar trip?

I hear it is completely paved now (15+ years ago when I was a teen I drove it, and it wasn't paved all the way). Supposedly people take motor homes up there, so why not? Amazing highway! Take lots of bug splat cleaner though.

i've driven I-80 from coast to coast, but not all in one stretch. the longest stretch was san fran to michigan, in 4 days, in a 1971 alfa spider. unfortunately it was november so the top was up from nevada to michigan.

the worst part was getting passed by a trooper in nevada when i thought i was doing 80. i timed the next few miles and found out that when my speedo said 80 i was only going 65! doh! good thing i figured it out early in the trip.

i flew back and repeated the trip in a 74 alfa berlina (4 door) which was a bit more comfortable.

ah to be young and broke again... oh wait, never mind! :evil2

Me and 3 other guys took my car from San Diego to the California/Oregon border for a white water rafting trip. We did make a stop half way in Sacramento, threw a tarp on the ground, put our sleeping bags on it, and open-air camped it over night. Next morning, we made the rest of the trip. We camped the same way the few nights we were up in the mountains as well and it is simply the best! Clean air, no clouds, the stars with shooting stars falling across the sky; amazing.

So, on the way up there, my trunk was so cramped you had to sit on it to close it, but it all fit (thank God for the e34's HUGE trunk). On our way back, we had another passenger making it a trunk full of stuff, and 5 full sized adults. Everyone was comfortable (we threw pillows on the back for headrests LOL), and the car made it threw the Grapevine no problem with all that (M50 powa!). It was the worst time to travel through the Grapevine as well with it being 100º+ out mid day! The funny part was that I drove the whole way up, and on the way back down, everyone FOUGHT to drive back LOL!

That whole trip was roughly 2000 miles, but BOY was driving through the mountains fun! Everyone was just EGGING me on to push her and I did. Never to the point where the tires squealed, but much faster than they had ever gone around a corner! One guy was getting car sick, and the rest were just like 'HELL YEAH' in the straights! Also, no one could believe how far I was able to get off a tank of gas. Literally, they would ask every few hours if we needed gas only to realize we were getting about 500+ miles out of a tank!

Not long after, I had to make another trip to pick up a friend from Modesto and I made that whole trip with only gas station stops. Overall, in that one months time span, I probably did about 3000 miles. It was seriously a BLAST! 183k miles and going strong!

Literally, they would ask every few hours if we needed gas only to realize we were getting about 500+ miles out of a tank!

Yeah, but the cost of filling 21.2 gallons in California (at least around here) is not a pretty sight.

Couple 2k round trip trips.. Longest single trip was from Sacramento to San Deigo and then from San Deigo to Kansas City.

Yeah, but the cost of filling 21.2 gallons in California (at least around here) is not a pretty sight.
Yeah not any more.