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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 :mad: :mad: :cool: . 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?
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:58 am

4 doors make good pick ups
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:02 pm

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.
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:04 pm

Toyota make good pickups. :D
1990 325i Cab auto in Alpine White II
1988 Alpina C2.5 moredoor in Black, 71k
1990 325ix, moredoor auto in Laser Blue. 51k
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:08 pm

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

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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:17 pm

Here's an even better pickup.

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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:21 pm

How about an E34 pick up?

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Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place.. :o:
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:24 pm

Just found this :mad:

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Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place.. :o:
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:29 pm

Coolest pickups ever = Chevy El Camino

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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:39 pm

I took this in 1996 -

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I wonder what happened to it ?
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:44 pm

more wrongness: :cry:

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Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:51 pm

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


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That Impala is smart
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:44 pm

It's an El Camino ....
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:01 pm

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.
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 2:51 pm

rh306 wrote:more wrongness: :cry:

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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.
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:37 pm

kieran325 wrote:I took this in 1996 -

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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
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:37 pm

Did BMW not do an M3 one?
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:22 pm

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
M50 Turbo!!! :o I shall say no more :D
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:49 pm

cecotto479 wrote:Did BMW not do an M3 one?
yes :D

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Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:35 pm

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)
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Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:48 pm

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.
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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
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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
www.Baur-TC.de
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:37 am

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

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That looks pretty cool :cool:
They don't make bm's like this anymore!..They should.
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:40 am

Gosh!!
They don't make bm's like this anymore!..They should.
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:03 pm

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

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That looks pretty cool :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.
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:47 pm

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

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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.
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:50 pm

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.
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:58 pm

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

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... lay&jid=94
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:12 pm

I think they look cool plus there very different
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:26 pm

Hi there is one on ebay starting £1000 winkeye
They don't make bm's like this anymore!..They should.
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Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:37 pm

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
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