Jack, nice to have little experiences like that! I go to a monthly single malt scotch club for dinner and there's this really nice 70+ year old gentleman at the dinners who owns an E36 M3. He loves to chat about driving...driving as in an interactive process between driver, car, road and other drivers, especially when you can go round and round and round and keep shaving your time down until the little beastie is going from horsepower-limited to brakes-limited to horsepower-limited to brakes-limited, etc.... It's kind of funny...last time we were chatting he was dinging "old people" who sit in the left lane of roads driving their Buick LeSabres ( so true!) totally oblivious to what's going on around them. "They give me a bad name!" he says! *LOL* He sounds very much like the gent in the M5 you met...

Drew, I think Jack just accidentally hit the 2 when he meant to say M60B40...

Cheers,
Duey