Hi There

[Ricfutures]

Very touching story and no better shop to help make your wish come true, all the best to you.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Congrats with a car that looks just perfect !
And i'm sure this car will have a positive impact on your health

[mkPOTO]

congrats on the build and you and your family will be in my prayers. Stay strong buddy!

[Sean@PSI]

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami

Welcome and best wishes, car looks stunning!

[ZEEM3R]

Not gonna lie, seeing your car is making me want to go back to white and peel off my orange. Amazing! PS-which angel eyes are those?
And good luck with your health and enjoy your life to the fullest!

[SkeezyLP]

Mike, car looks stunning! You have great taste, very classy. Keep checking those things off the list. your thread has inspired me to break away from the day to day grind and do some of the things I've always wanted to do. Stay strong, drive hard!

[omegaSMP300]

The car looks great. Enjoy it sir.

[clbmw]

Thank you for feeling able to share this with us Mike, hope you're enjoying the M3 and best wishes.

[tacoman]

Good for you!

Us south Floridian's will keep you and your family uplifted in prayer.

Thank you for sharing

[boostaholic786]

You have very good taste and I like your "bucket list". Thats what color I ordered for my M4 that should be here either late next month, or earlier April. I reserved an allocation and they called me and told me they were ready for me to come in and option out my new M4 and I chose Mineral White as the color since my current car is Alpine White and wanted something just a little bit different. You have great taste and hopefully things turn around for the best for you and your health. My prayers are with you and if your ever in Dallas or Fort Worth area, PM me sometime and we can get together and go have some back road fun

[Detroit M3]

Front page!

[nlpamg]

Car looks great.

All the best to you.

[khanyam4]

The m3 is that car best of luck to your health and don't give up.

[Powaup]

nice ride dude, keep on fighting

[Patrón]

Awesome project my friend. What part of Texas you living at? Let's get a ton of ///Ms to meet up somewhere and have some Bbq and an epic photo op with you in front of all of them.

What do you say?

[Gbiz]

Lovely car. I wish you the best in your fight.

[myBailey07]

Wow! I shared this post on bimmerpost.com about some mods to my car and mentioned the fact that since I have cancer it was on my bucket list. I wrote this post in less than five minutes and did not even think much of it as I am very open about the challenge I face in the hopes that it might educate, inspire or help someone, somewhere in the process. More than anything I just wanted to share the cool beemer pics with fellow beemer fans, get some beemer self validation,and thank the guys at EAS. Good service is rare these days.

THANKS for all the support and kind words guys. It has my wife in tears...

For some of you that have asked in private messages I am doing okay. I have a genetic mutation called ALK that drives the cancer and am on a clinical trial for an experimental medication targeted to that. It sort of puts the brakes on, but unfortunately cancer is clever and will eventually mutate its way around this inhibitor. So, it’s a game of hoping the medical world finds new stuff faster than the cancer mutates.

In the meantime it is about adjusting to the new reality, getting new perspective, realizing what is truly important, getting the most out of whatever time is left and also try and make a difference in the process. AND put as many miles on the M3 as I can as FAST as I can, but I guess I should rather not say that on a public forum...;-)

The biggest lesson I have learned is that waiting and fear are probably the things that hold us back most.

Have you ever found yourself waiting for the perfect moment to pursue that dream? Have you ever found yourself saying that you’ll do it in “just one more year”, that you need “just a bit more money” or “just a bit more time”? Staying in that bad relationship/job "just a bit longer"?

On August 13, 2013 a doctor ended up standing next to my bed with a heartbreaking message: “Your time is up and running out fast”. My biggest regrets are those times I could have treated people better and those times that fear and/or reluctance held me back from pursuing a dream.

Next time when you say “next year”, ask yourself what your answer should be, what will you do if you knew that next year might not be there. Will you still wait? Don’t.

So when the chance came up to own my M3, I though about it for about two seconds..;-)

For anyone interested in my progress and my musing on cancer, life, my car and other topics I post about these on Facebook. Find me under my name Michiel Espach and I will invite you to the group of folks following…

And I would love going on a cruise/meeting with those other folks with M3's here in San Antonio/ Austin.

Cheers and love

Michiel

Live Hard, Live Fast, Be Kind.

[david.orr]

All class ...... car and owner! Inspirational. Thank you.

[Cosa Nostra]

If there is a God - and, yes, I know there is, he will be with you always regardless of the outcome! In the meantime, may your (ahem dare I say) recovery be as speedy as your M3. Do not ever give up hope.

[Maz335i]

I don't know what to say...absolutely inspirational my friend!

I wish for you the very best!!! May you enjoy the M3 in the best of health and for years and years to come!!!

Take care bud.

[tareemaa]

Beautiful car man.

My prayers to you and yours. God bless you brother.

[ozinaldo]

The kind of story and the kind of person behind it that make me come back to this Forum again and again. I admire the attitude towards life. Wish you all the best and yes that is a one hell of a good looking M3.