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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 06:42 AM
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My Ride: 2007 530xiT: CPO purchase in 2008, used by a BMW exec previously, and like-new when I got it. Compared to my other cars, at first I thought it felt heavy and steering was too heavy. Now, I really enjoy driving it in town and on the freeway. On my
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just a few self portraits during a road trip from SF to Dallas
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 06:44 AM
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Nice pics! How was the ride itself? Boring or cool?
Ok, now that I'm done with my serious questions, here's the smartass part of my post:

So you're the guy that was looking for a car bra!

BTW stacking pics is really kind of a requirement

Thanks for sharing the pics, man! Love roadtrips
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 07:19 AM
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My Ride: 2007 530xiT: CPO purchase in 2008, used by a BMW exec previously, and like-new when I got it. Compared to my other cars, at first I thought it felt heavy and steering was too heavy. Now, I really enjoy driving it in town and on the freeway. On my
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1) car drove awesome. the car wants to run and just feels great at speed. on the road to Carlsbad Caverns, was cruising at 95, and it was perfectly stable. brought it up to 100 to set the max on my GPS. while the car would do 100 no sweat, thought about the wind load of the Yakima pod on the roof rack and kept it to 90

2) no man, I've used Colgan bras since my 91 525i. btw, at 100, no bra issues

3) sorry, didn't see or know that it would go sideways. where's the stack control?
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 04:26 PM
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nice man thanks for sharing
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 05:56 PM
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Hey bra, welcome aboard. I get kidded about my mud flaps too.

Nice pics, car looks clean for such a long road trip.
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by yeewiz' post='961913' date='Aug 1 2009, 11:19 AM
1) car drove awesome. the car wants to run and just feels great at speed. on the road to Carlsbad Caverns, was cruising at 95, and it was perfectly stable. brought it up to 100 to set the max on my GPS. while the car would do 100 no sweat, thought about the wind load of the Yakima pod on the roof rack and kept it to 90

2) no man, I've used Colgan bras since my 91 525i. btw, at 100, no bra issues

3) sorry, didn't see or know that it would go sideways. where's the stack control?
Great pics. I too love road trips. My wife and I are talking about doing a two week one next year through the southeast.

To stack pictures, you just have to physically stack the photo attachments in your post vertically. So you draft post should look like this:

[photo1.jpeg]
[photo2.jpeg]
[photp3.jpeg]

and so on
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Old Aug 1, 2009 | 11:46 PM
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Great pictures
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 05:01 AM
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thanks all. oh, finally figured out how to move the images around, thanks sdg. here's a couple more shots to test stacking
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by yeewiz' post='962688' date='Aug 2 2009, 09:01 AM
thanks all. oh, finally figured out how to move the images around, thanks sdg. here's a couple more shots to test stacking
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Nice pics. You have figured out stacking.
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 10:18 AM
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Great pics, thanks for sharing
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