Given the day that’s in it and everything else going on, I thought back to the E36 saloon, a 92/93 registered car, that was driven by a group of lads from Dublin to Sydney around 2003. I think it was a 318, dark red with grey cloth interior and manual gearbox but can’t remember for sure.

They had a website, long gone, www.dublintosydney.com, that documented the whole thing. When they brought it back home, BMW Ireland ran a promotional campaign highlighting the benefits of a used BMW. The lads even showed the car in Murphy & Gunn or Maxwell Motors at the time.

I couldn’t find anything about it online when I searched today. Was anyone on here involved or know what happened to the E36?

It was a superb achievement, hard to believe it was nearly 20 years ago.