E30 Zone

We'll peeps i'm back from Max P. It's been a long weekend as we got there early Thursady and a very expensive one too cause we stayed at the Hilton, where it cost Ԛ£15 for a bacon sandwich and Ԛ£25 for a chiken breast.

The show itself wasn't as big as previous years, and there was the usual batallion of Saxo's and crap like that. There was also a pink Jap looking E30 which i cant even find the words to describe. , but there were also some truly awsome cars there, including a genuine carbon fibre TVR Tuscan worth over Ԛ£250k and my mates 5 series which was on the same stand as me running a proven 550bhp and the mentallest interior you've ever seen with a price tag of Ԛ£115k. Ho and a Kicker demo Hummer H2 on 26" rims and 20,000w of pure power. It made you shake when you came within 10 feet of it, so i've asked them to sponsor me with some ICE. On the last day, they gave out 5 awards. The best ICE, best Interior, best car of show, best German car and the best paint.. My mates car walked away with the best German car (Although i along with thousands of others thought he should have got best interior too, but Max is all about the politics) and i walked away with the best paint awards. I was really shocked cause there was cars there with Ԛ£20k paint jobs (Air brushing etc) and i was not too happy with the colour when i picked the car up from the painters, but the lighting in the hall showed the depth of the colour and everyone loved it and i guess that's why i won in the end


I'm not really a Max boy, but to come away from the biggest modded car show of the year with the best paint prize is not bad going. Ho and i dont have any pictures cause i forgot to take my camera with me. I took the charger, my cradel and even my lap-top to download the pictures and i forgot the bloody camera I just hope others took some pictures of it.

Well done BEN!!

Atlast a reward for all your hard work and effort

We're or should I say I'm yet to see the new colour, so get some pics up asap!!!

Nice one. Get some pics up.

nice on ben, the things you can do with a roller and a tin of hammerite eh?

got on ya ben, well deserved award. bet you feel as though all that hard work and money spent was all worth it . and yep get some pics up dude, you secret on the colour was revealed to us all but we aint seen any pics? are you still going brooklands?

someone else has posted bout this on pub talk...
would love to see some pics

Good stuff ben, i really must try and make it along to one of these meets.

A

I've been desperatly searching the net for pictures of the show, but i cant't find anything. Hardly a suprize as it only finished yesterday. My mate took a couple as he had no memory left on his camera, so i'll see if i can get him to mail them to me tonight and i can post them up tommorrow or something Failing that, you have to wait until the weekend to see it at Broklands. I'm meant to take the car back to get mopped properly and i also picked up a chipped door over the weekend, but i might just hold on until after Brookland, incase i dont get her back on time

Nice one mate, well deserved if you ask me!

good on ya ben nice to see all the hard work is appreciated and cant wait to see the pics
with all the grief youve had mate you deserve to win good on ya mate Daz leeds

Thanks guys The only problem with winning best paint is that there's notb that much you can do with it. Year House of Kolor were falling over themself's when i was presented with the awards (Even the UK director came to see me), but it's my painter that's going to get the most out of it cause from the sound of what they were saying, they want to start sending people to him for spray jobs. I know there also want me on their stand, but i dont want to go that way, as up to now, i've enjoyed the freedom of being able to chooses what shows i do and what stand my car goes on because i've paid for every single thing on my car out of my own pocket. Once you get involved in sposorship with these Companies, then they start dectating to you and i'd hate that. We'll see what happens soon enough i guess

bootyman wrote:My mates car walked away with the best German car (Although i along with thousands of others thought he should have got best interior too, but Max is all about the politics)

sorry Ben but i dont know where u got the "thousands of others" bit from but from what i heard the M3 that won the best interior was easily the most popular.

Saw your car there Ben and it really does look superb....was going to come and chat but you werent there..came back later and you still werent there.....


Definitely deserve the paint job award..well done

Chaos did you take pictures of the 5 series interior? In my openion that was way tricked than the M3 that won the best interior and i'm not just saying that because the car belongs to a friend. If you'd touched the leather, you'd have seen how supple it was. The stiching was also 2nd to none and as for the key board in the steering wheel The man even had little bottle of shots hidden in the dash with enough ICE to out do Live 8 (Well maybe i'm getting a bit carried away there ) but i was there for 4 days and i know that thousands of others thought it should have won best interior. Besides, he won best German car last year too, by beating Jamie Shaws car. Since then he's spent over Ԛ£20k updating the car and hewas bitterly dissapointed.

Ho well. I'm happy though

Ben, it's a good job i asked a mate to take pics of your car then

Will get the pics off him when he comes online, no idea what quality will be like mind.

Anything is better than nothing mate It was reallt frustrating sitting there and not being able to take even a single picture. I nearly went into town to buy a didi cam just to take some, bit i already have 4 at home and the girlfriend would kill me too, so i though better of it

I guess that'll teach me not to forget next time

Need to be like me dude, people are actually shocked when they see me wiithout my cam! lol

found a pic for ya's

lovely car man

and tha pink E30

you desevered best paint!!

sorry to have hassled ya (the mirror had fallen out of ya boot)

glad ya enjoyed it, I did

Not a great pic but it's the only one i got.

That pink E30 needs smashing up with the owner inside

booty man. luvvin ur car man. gotta say wow its impressive. and as 4 the pink e30, i saw tat at the modified nationals. its soooo wrong

well done ben
it looks well

but........................

ZAINO would make it better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done geesa, well deserved effort. Its about time someone took notice of that car, that bodie kit is brilliant and that new paint job has made it look eithen better

Yeah that does look the biznizz Ben, wish i'd have gone myself now ,
you are right about the Hilton too, my missus had her xmas party there
one year and it was Ԛ£6 for a pint of lager.
We never held it there again ! Nice place though, with the concierge at the door in his top hat and tails, i nearly poohed meself.

JonnyBravo wrote:and tha pink E30

the funniest is the 4 pot under his bonnet LOL

dont knock the four pot!!!

c76jon wrote:dont knock the four pot!!!

u cant...cos chances are it will start to 'knock' first

LOL
not when it starts with an //M

Karan wrote:

c76jon wrote:dont knock the four pot!!!

u cant...cos chances are it will start to 'knock' first

very true.

ben- your car does look awesome in the new paint, althouh some shots of it under natural light would show the deepness of the colour much better i think. cant wait to see it at brooklands

c76jon wrote:LOL
not when it starts with an //M

Yeah.....M40, M42, etc. etc.

Cheers folks. It's funny cause the car still looks quiet orange and light in the pictures, but it looks really dark and deep in the flesh, cause i wasn't sure if i'd done the right thing changing the colour when i picked her up simply because of how dark red it was.

Jon, i was wondering when you were going to hit me with the Zaino bit mate

Mods can you kindly lock this thread please cause i'm about to post a few pics i took quickly lastnight and i dont want too many threads going at the same time. Thanks

B