E30 Zone

I,ve been looking on the net at E30 pick ups and other BMW pick ups people have done and have really found myself liking them for all the wrong reasons . There so wrong the look so right if you get my drift, makes me want to take the grinder to mine. Anyone else out there a have a love for them or even got one and some cool picks to post, or is it just me on this one?

4 doors make good pick ups

Bear in mind that the rear bulkhead is a structural member on saloons and do your research carefully before you pick up your angle grinder!

m_jermyn wrote:4 doors make good pick ups

Wouldn't a coupe be the easy option as you wouldn't have to fill up the rear door shuts.

Toyota make good pickups.

This looks best, I'm assuming a Baur rear c pillar has been used?

Here's an even better pickup.



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How about an E34 pick up?

Just found this

Coolest pickups ever = Chevy El Camino

I took this in 1996 -



I wonder what happened to it ?

more wrongness:

A '70 is indeed cool but a '59 is cooler !

That Impala is smart

It's an El Camino ....

E30BeemerLad wrote:Coolest pickups ever = Chevy El Camino

Chevrolet do make some lovely trucks. But the best is a 3100. I just can't decide on first or second series.

rh306 wrote:more wrongness:

more photoshop more like.

Such a thing was destined to exist. A series of coach builders set about making a 745i E23 into an armoured, 8 wheel drive, twin engined brute with trunk mounted BMW R100 GS's, for a wealthy man of kuwait residence.

I do not know if it was ever finished, as all I have is some details on the plans, and hartge liveried mock up images.

kieran325 wrote:I took this in 1996 -



I wonder what happened to it ?

loving this one looks really cool.
Any zoners out there got one or doing one or is it not cool any more

Did BMW not do an M3 one?

cecotto479 wrote:Did BMW not do an M3 one?

If they did they kept it quiet,
Mebbies because the guy who wanted to make it was off his nut on acid?

E30 pick ups are horrid

cecotto479 wrote:Did BMW not do an M3 one?

yes

there's been two for sale on Ebay in the last few days
(sorry, i can't find the links at the moment - may be ended)

yes , I love them. I built one before. It has to be built on a 4 door and I used a mk 2 Astra van boot lid for the rear part.

adit wrote:there's been two for sale on Ebay in the last few days
(sorry, i can't find the links at the moment - may be ended)

This one?


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

Some pictures which I made at Retroclassics in Stuttgart this year. Its an AT-Design Pickup, based upon a 323i Baur TC, with a Hartge H23-engine.

Gr Jeroen

E30BeemerLad wrote:This looks best, I'm assuming a Baur rear c pillar has been used?

That looks pretty cool

Gosh!!

tonybtonyb wrote:

E30BeemerLad wrote:This looks best, I'm assuming a Baur rear c pillar has been used?

That looks pretty cool

I think they have used a standard c pillar and just cut the roof and moved the pillar forwards, well thats what i would have done if i was doing one.

E30BeemerLad wrote:This looks best, I'm assuming a Baur rear c pillar has been used?

This one I would imagine, is "just" a cut up 2-door with the rear windows left behind.
I'd use a Baur base. Take the canvas roof off, pick-up the back end, and you get a pick-up with a built in roll cage, and a targa roof.
Definitely cool, and the way I'd go. Would love something like this.

On second thoughts, the rear side window looks too short to be a standard 2-dr one, so yes, prob IS a Baur rear, doesn't look like they left the Targa panel in though.

Pyros is just about to do his up... Blog has been started...

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... lay&jid=94

I think they look cool plus there very different

Hi there is one on ebay starting £1000

As Gortour said above im just starting to re-build my one, i love them, they are such a head turner, i remember when we went to pick mine up, had it on the back of a trailer and pretty much everyone stopped and watched it go past