While the coupe lives in the garage almost always these days, I drive my daily car quite a bit for work. I am on the highway going 200 to 500 miles round trip pretty often. This week included three days of travel, and unfortunately the highway was not kind to my M3. I ended up behind an extremely long conveyor belt type of machinery that was being towed. Must have been 70 feet long. I was trapped behind it on a single lane, full speed ramp that connected two highways, and discovered it was dropping little bits of stone or concrete whenever it hit a bump. I didn't really realize it until it was too late. I thought a might have heard something hit the front of the car, and I was relieved it didn't hit the windshield (three chips last year alone). But when I arrived at my destination I discovered I had a new grille badge of sorts - a stone chip lodged in the lower screen. And the drivers side fog lamp didn't escape injury, either. This was an expensive three days of driving. Please be careful out there - especially with a car that is more classic than this 20 year old e36...
