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Baur Poll

Baur: stylish, rare and cool?
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65%
Baur: fit for scrappage...
35
35%
 
Total votes: 99
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:33 pm

Haterz !!!! :D
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e30topless said : Proper BMW's have 4 headlights, last of the run was the E30 and E34/E32 anything after that is just complete shite
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:36 pm

Innit
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:00 pm

Hey, i've got a more door with an M40 lump. I understand haterz....innit!

However, as lowly as my motor is in the scheme of things, i still wouldn't trade it in for a Baur!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:06 pm

SPADGE wrote:Right then all you closet Baur fiends!
I have found you a new motor on ebay!!
Thank me after you have bought it :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1988-BMW-316-CABR ... 3efa0ca6c8

What an absolute crock of shite :P
Different people have different tastes, although some people have odd boundaries if they like all E30s just not Baurs.

I'd much rather roll in that Baur than this 'proper' convertible http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-320I-E30-CONV ... 3357578403

But I guess a trip to halfords could push any car across my taste boundary :)
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:11 pm

That's soooo nasty!

The taste boundary has been well and truly crossed...IMO!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:24 pm

..a poverty spec steelies and hub caps baur chromie would be :cool: dark blue though maybe :?
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:29 pm

rh306 wrote:..if the anti-baur thing is all about the hoop, do the Baur haters also dislike 911 Targas and MK1 Karmann Golfs?
..... Or Triumph Stags?? :cool:
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:31 pm

I cant agree with that rh306....even a Baur deserves alloys. You wouldn't keep a dog and not feed it!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:33 pm

sihooker wrote:I cant agree with that rh306....even a Baur deserves alloys. You wouldn't keep a dog and not feed it!
Oh i would, i hate the things :)
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sihooker wrote:I cant agree with that rh306....even a Baur deserves alloys. You wouldn't keep a dog and not feed it!
..fraid I'm a poverty spec deviant (with the radio blanking plate in place to prove it) :o:

a Diamonds are Forever Stag in Topaz orange would be :cool:

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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:38 pm

Alex, there is something wrong with you! :mad:
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:43 pm

Is that Stag a Baur conversion?
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:45 pm

No its what a Triumph Stag is like!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:47 pm

sihooker wrote:Alex, there is something wrong with you! :mad:
winkeye winkeye
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:55 pm

Ollie_bwoii wrote:No its what a Triumph Stag is like!
Bloody hell! What on earth did people see in 'em??

I hate all this targa-top silliness. Being half topless is only good when attractive women are doing it!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:57 pm

However, as lowly as my motor is in the scheme of things, i still wouldn't trade it in for a Baur!
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:00 pm

Baurtje wrote:
However, as lowly as my motor is in the scheme of things, i still wouldn't trade it in for a Baur!
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Very funny! :D
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:27 pm

StuBeeDoo wrote:
rh306 wrote:..if the anti-baur thing is all about the hoop, do the Baur haters also dislike 911 Targas and MK1 Karmann Golfs?
..... Or Triumph Stags?? :cool:
Interesting these have come up twice in the last week on here - from another thread:
djk wrote:Haven't driven a Stag of any description - to be totally frank, they are one of the few cars I have an inbuilt prejudice against. I'm a bit love/hate with all triumphs really - I have moments when they really appeal to me, then others when all I can think of is Hamlet cigars, Bells whisky, whippets and ugly wives. Jensen Interceptors give me much the same twin extremes, but I guess all cars that last out to be classics go through a period of being desperately unfashionable and associated with 'the wrong sort' - e30s are no exception, I'm just somehow able to ignore it more readily with them, probably because my grandfather had one and so I associate them with old duffers and stringback driving gloves rather than red-braced bwankers or, latterly, provincial drug dealers.
Not sure what the stereotype of a Baur owner is - perhaps the coveter of other things best left in the 80s, like Bros LPs, 'zany' fluorescent clothing accessories and Sinclair C5s.
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djk wrote:
StuBeeDoo wrote:
rh306 wrote:..if the anti-baur thing is all about the hoop, do the Baur haters also dislike 911 Targas and MK1 Karmann Golfs?
..... Or Triumph Stags?? :cool:
Interesting these have come up twice in the last week on here - from another thread:
djk wrote:Haven't driven a Stag of any description - to be totally frank, they are one of the few cars I have an inbuilt prejudice against. I'm a bit love/hate with all triumphs really - I have moments when they really appeal to me, then others when all I can think of is Hamlet cigars, Bells whisky, whippets and ugly wives. Jensen Interceptors give me much the same twin extremes, but I guess all cars that last out to be classics go through a period of being desperately unfashionable and associated with 'the wrong sort' - e30s are no exception, I'm just somehow able to ignore it more readily with them, probably because my grandfather had one and so I associate them with old duffers and stringback driving gloves rather than red-braced bwankers or, latterly, provincial drug dealers.
Not sure what the stereotype of a Baur owner is - perhaps the coveter of other things best left in the 80s, like Bros LPs, 'zany' fluorescent clothing accessories and Sinclair C5s.
I think it'd be quite hard to pitch... Maybe the same people who buy Saab 900s. Looking for an 'interesting' motor but don't want to spend 8K on a Merc SL.. It used to be the cliche that ad men drove old mercs and citroen DS's, I think these days they probably drive Fiat 500s though :gay:

Stag's definitely have a wiff of Werthers Originals about them you're right winkeye
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:30 am

I'm actually surprised the vote isn't even more in favour of the Baur to be honest :eek:

Before this poll i would have wagered that more than 65% of Zoners had zero taste :)
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:36 am

baur power :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
ah chromie -classic not plastic
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:39 am

Roof up or roof down its still a pram :D

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sihooker wrote:
Ollie_bwoii wrote:No its what a Triumph Stag is like!
Bloody hell! What on earth did people see in 'em??

I hate all this targa-top silliness. Being half topless is only good when attractive women are doing it!
stag is not a targa top its got a T bar , some people have no taste.

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T Bar's are pretty useful sometimes too winkeye

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rh306 wrote:T Bar's are pretty useful sometimes too winkeye

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I can do that with my sunroof! Cant think why i'd want to though.. :?
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SPADGE wrote:Roof up or roof down its still a pram :D

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Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:26 pm

andyp wrote:
stag is not a targa top its got a T bar , some people have no taste.
I stand corrected. I still dont like 'em though!
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sihooker wrote:
andyp wrote:
stag is not a targa top its got a T bar , some people have no taste.

I stand corrected. I still dont like 'em though!
well i must say you are the 1st person i have ever met that dont like them. :D
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andyp wrote:
sihooker wrote:
andyp wrote:
stag is not a targa top its got a T bar , some people have no taste.

I stand corrected. I still dont like 'em though!
well i must say you are the 1st person i have ever met that dont like them. :D
Woo hoo! I'm speshul :mad:

Actually, Djk doesn't seem too enamoured with them either...

djk wrote:
Haven't driven a Stag of any description - to be totally frank, they are one of the few cars I have an inbuilt prejudice against.
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