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Can not seem to get any info re,this cars interior, no one seems to know, so can only presume its very rare, has anyone else got a fACTORY INDIVIDUAL INTERIOR?????
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Mon May 23, 2016 7:56 pm

wow its rare, no body has no info what so ever on this option, waiting for BMW to confirm it is the only one in the whole wide world :D
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Tue May 24, 2016 3:25 pm

Can't get far with no pics :wink:
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Tue May 24, 2016 4:05 pm

there are pics!! see below winkeye
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Tue May 24, 2016 9:42 pm

looks like its been either retrimmed in white and left the rest factory grey or its been dyed. there was no such thing as BMW individual back then although if you had enough money and knew the right people...........cars did come out in funky specs
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Tue May 24, 2016 10:10 pm

That just looks like a re-trim to me, the grey seat backs being particularly grim
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Very clean looking for 90's car. Retrim for me.
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Retrim
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Wed May 25, 2016 5:13 pm

Yep. Retrim.

Individual spec shows Silver leather. That looks more like Lotus White?
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Wed May 25, 2016 5:51 pm

Wasn't this previously discussed in the external ads section? :?
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Wed May 25, 2016 7:16 pm

can no one read??? check the spec sheet, fronts have just been reconalised, silbergrau hell.

lol, its in black and white. :D
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Wed May 25, 2016 7:34 pm

SILBERGRAU HELL.............LIGHT SILVER GREY...IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST IMAGE SHACK PIC IT SHOWS THE SPEC SHEET, INDIVIDUAL!!! NOT A RETRIM CHAPS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO GROW A PAIR AND STOP BEING A NON BELIEVER AND AGREEING WITH THE KNOW ALLS!!!!
UNDERSTANDABLE THOUGH, AS ITS VERY VERY VERY RARE.

YES IT CLEAN, THE CAR HAS DONE 37000 MILES, I HAVE JUST HAD THE FRONTS RECONALISED, BACKS HAVE NEVER BEEN SAT IN!!
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Wed May 25, 2016 8:03 pm

When this car comes to me i'll confirm what it is.
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Wed May 25, 2016 9:39 pm

Why recolour low mileage leather ?

And why do it in a different colour
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Thu May 26, 2016 6:33 am

Lol, it's not a different colour!!! Silver gray hell, light silver grey, upholstery code 9990 special trim without colour description!!!! It's not rocket science :D
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Thu May 26, 2016 8:31 am

Someone needs to calm down a little...
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Thu May 26, 2016 8:44 am

Lol :D
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ross_jsy wrote:Someone needs to calm down a little...
+1 :?
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Thu May 26, 2016 3:21 pm

You never know, I didn't know that there was a leather dash before that American joined here with his m3 cab for example :mad:
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Thu May 26, 2016 4:56 pm

Plus the lagoon green paint on that M3 was special order.
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Thu May 26, 2016 7:29 pm

Like Simon said, if you had enough money......

Looks nice though 8)
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Thu May 26, 2016 9:06 pm

Gert_8 wrote:
ross_jsy wrote:Someone needs to calm down a little...
+1 :?
And cut down on the capitals.

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Thu May 26, 2016 9:10 pm

individual spec show...........silbergrau hell, which in good old blighty is excuse the capitals!!!
LIGHT SILVER GREY winkeye
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Sat May 28, 2016 12:46 pm

Time to now put this to bed, Yes it is a Genuine Factory Individual ordered car, that option came in to affect @ 1988!!!! obviously a very rare option at the time.

No issue with all above comments if you don't know you don't know, :o:
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Sat May 28, 2016 2:00 pm

TBH If I was the OP, think i'd be a bit p1ssed by the Zones reactions here. Chap has a nice interior, rare and with proof and he's been shot down with retrims and wrong colours etc etc :roll:
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Sat May 28, 2016 5:11 pm

That's because a lot of our members have no idea what you were buying into, back in the day,when you bought an E30, before BMW became the shadow of the company that once was, that we have today.
E30s were intended to be individual cars, finished to individual specs., if that's what the original purchaser wanted, with a massive range of optional extras that could just about double the price of the car, and if what they wanted wasn't in the options list, BMW would oblige in exchange for enough money.
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Sat May 28, 2016 5:25 pm

Light silver grey was a leather colour available on E36's and later later E34's which had the darker silver grey plastics coupled with the light silver grey leather.

The E30 in question happens to be a late one which was made as the same time as the above was available so what's not to say it was a special order in that combo? The vin spec certainly seems to back that up.

Although it's something all of us have not seen does not mean it's not possible.
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Mon May 30, 2016 9:19 am

Quick one, i also put the original question on couple other forums,

The BMW car club came back with answer re. Individual options on E30,s apparently Baurs were often ordered with individual specs they posted some vins.

From what Barry said re. the E36 having the colour combo it obviously solves the mystery, the chap liked that combo and ordered it for his Touring.

So i think there is no other E30 Touring with this interior....wow, let alone with 37000 miles!!
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:08 am

Shame he did not spend his money on an engine instead of trying to make his interior look like a Hush Puppy showroom :D
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:19 am

There is more to life than big engines, like knowing what your talking about winkeye
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:28 am

You're :)
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:34 am

with daft comments like hush puppy showrooms, i thought for a minute it was you trying to be funny, sell me one of your un cracked dashboards and i will forgive you.
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:42 am

Terry, obscure trim options on 4 pot shooting brakes was not one of my strong points at school. What I do know is that the trim looks shite. BUT you only need one person that disagrees and gets his money out :)

PS MINT dash here £250 :D
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Tue May 31, 2016 10:44 am

are you about to come and collect the dash?
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