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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:49 pm

Following on from another thread it got me thinking.
What is the rarest E30 colour?
Could it be mine(soon to be Wullies),VulkanGrau with apparently 50 produced winkeye
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:50 pm

has to be that flat beige colour. surely cant be more than 49 people with taste that bad :lol:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:52 pm

beardymat wrote:has to be that flat beige colour. surely cant be more than 49 people with taste that bad :lol:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:53 pm

I reckon

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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:53 pm

well as discussed in other thread, mineral blue is pretty rare, three so far winkeye

also lots of funky colours on the south african e30s i believe :?
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:56 pm

beardymat wrote:has to be that flat beige colour. surely cant be more than 49 people with taste that bad :lol:
:lol: :lol:



How many Laguna greens are there on the Zone?
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:56 pm

eko wrote:Following on from another thread it got me thinking.
What is the rarest E30 colour?
Could it be mine(soon to be Wullies),VulkanGrau with apparently 50 produced winkeye
vulcan grey gets my vote! winkeye
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:56 pm

I only know of one purple e30!
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:59 pm

I would think its Zobel brown - code 190
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:59 pm

tailoutcharlie wrote:well as discussed in other thread, mineral blue is pretty rare, three so far
One less as of last week thanks to me!
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:00 pm

grantfk10 wrote:How many Laguna greens are there on the Zone?
I know of at least 4
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my colour is apparently quite rare
it was a special order colour

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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:02 pm

if i can arrange a meet with another mineral blue convertible I'll bare my arse in woolies window :wink:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:04 pm

any way anyone can check the dvla or somewhere for numbers or colours still going.....




actually that sounds like a right ball ache :?
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:07 pm

tailoutcharlie wrote:any way anyone can check the dvla or somewhere for numbers or colours still going.....




actually that sounds like a right ball ache :?
lol yeah and it will be "poo brown" because nobody wanted it. Im sure there are some horrible sick coloured, off yellow, eggshell, horrible light beige coloured e30s around. (i don't think thats the BMW name though). :)
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:10 pm

Saturn blue, There can't be many of these chrome turds left alive ( If you know of any in breakers let me know :wink: )

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the candy pink 1 that i used to have hahaha :P
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:24 pm

As the above clearly proves rare doesn't necessarily equate to desirable ! quite the opposite in fact ! :eek:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:27 pm

I suppose that comment is aimed at me.
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:57 pm

mineralblue wrote:if i can arrange a meet with another mineral blue convertible I'll bare my arse in woolies window :wink:

Hmm , time for a respray just to see that? (on second thought, maybe not!)
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:01 pm

johnl320 wrote:Saturn blue, There can't be many of these chrome turds left alive ( If you know of any in breakers let me know :wink: )
I like that!
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:03 pm

What, the colour or the comment?

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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:06 pm

There was a rare purple on late ourings i believe.
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Colour.
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:12 pm

tylerma wrote:
grantfk10 wrote:How many Laguna greens are there on the Zone?
I know of at least 4
essexboy
you
gortour
Bharat

......and gra325i has my old touring, also laguna, although the way he is going with white E30s, it looks out of place in his "fleet" so may end up white too! :roll:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:12 pm

maxfield wrote:There was a rare purple on late ourings i believe.

what are ourings?lol :mad:
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:21 pm

To Truly "Understand" the colour, first you must say it ina ze German winkeye Image
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:28 pm

wullie325i wrote:
maxfield wrote:There was a rare purple on late ourings i believe.

what are ourings?lol :mad:
They are tourings, if that wasn't obvious enough...

This is the colour:

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Click here to see thread about it
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Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:54 pm

Check out this bag of 5hit i bought as a run-around a few years back....

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Pusta Green
Colour code 194


Never seen or even heard of another 1 in the same awful colour.
Proper nasty green. lol

(and check out the comedy plate that came with it :roll:)

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E30_tracker wrote:Check out this bag of 5hit i bought as a run-around a few years back....

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Pusta Green
Colour code 194


Never seen or even heard of another 1 in the same awful colour.
Proper nasty green. lol

(and check out the comedy plate that came with it :roll:)

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:rofl: Classic!!
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Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:41 am

grantfk10 wrote:
tylerma wrote:
grantfk10 wrote:How many Laguna greens are there on the Zone?
I know of at least 4
essexboy
you
gortour
Bharat

......and gra325i has my old touring, also laguna, although the way he is going with white E30s, it looks out of place in his "fleet" so may end up white too! :roll:
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sterling silver metallic by the looks of it, cant get hold of spare panels for love nor money.
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Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:59 am

E30_tracker wrote:Check out this bag of 5hit i bought as a run-around a few years back....

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Pusta Green
Colour code 194


Never seen or even heard of another 1 in the same awful colour.
Proper nasty green. lol

(and check out the comedy plate that came with it :roll:)

James
I like this!! Even if it sounds like it's called 'Pustule Green'
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Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:08 am

That green is a rare early colour like the beige not as rare as that spoiler though hope you kept that e30 tracker.
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That plate would be worth money if it was B19 MUF :mad:
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