Celebs and E30s

Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:56 am

grantfk10 wrote:ouch! massive sig pic, Sunny.

Sorted..

Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:59 pm

Barry Fry had a brand new 323i back in '84 (UBL 44Y, red) that on delivery had a massive flat spot between 1st and 2nd due to a factory balls-up with the inlet manifold.

He actually got it fixed under warranty and then became so attached to it that he used to call it "Bertie Big Bo11ocks" and always drive it on the morning before big matches to bring him luck.

He still has the bloody thing, but has shamefully fitted a modern radio.

Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:23 pm

Monty, as in the Desert Rat, had an ex-Paris-Dakar 325iX in sand camoulflage that he took as a 'trophy' after routing some Germans in the war in Algeria. Monty actually took the dashboard out one day when he was back in Blighty after the war and found not only several glovebox torches but a bloody diamond encrusted Luger shoved under there.

It was Rommel's personal sidearm, but it was also engraved with the radio keycode for the factory fitted Blaupunkt Melbourne. He figured that if anyone tried to steal his radio they'd probably come to his house in the night afterwards in order to kidnap him and sweat the code out of him. He would then shoot them in the nuts.

Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:29 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:Monty, as in the Desert Rat, had an ex-Paris-Dakar 325iX in sand camoulflage that he took as a 'trophy' after routing some Germans in the war in Algeria. Monty actually took the dashboard out one day when he was back in Blighty after the war and found not only several glovebox torches but a bloody diamond encrusted Luger shoved under there.

It was Rommel's personal sidearm, but it was also engraved with the radio keycode for the factory fitted Blaupunkt Melbourne. He figured that if anyone tried to steal his radio they'd probably come to his house in the night afterwards in order to kidnap him and sweat the code out of him. He would then shoot them in the nuts.

Yawn

Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:31 pm

Go to bed then...

Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:43 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:Henry VIII, big fat King of England type fella, used to have an M3 convertible as a sunny day runaround, but then he ditched it after he'd killed old Anne Boleyn, or however you spell her name, because he thought it was bad karma to tool about in it after she was gone (I think he used to dog her in it, and that's how Elizabeth I came about).

He traded it in for some sort or gold carriage thing with heraldry type rubbish on the doors.

Keep going Mr 123, im not complaining

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:07 am

kieran325 wrote:
BEERBOY123 wrote:Barry Chuckle allegedly had a 325i Touring but I have to admit my sourcing for this 'fact' is not 100% reliable.

Shame it wasn't used in the TV programme instead of their gay Flintstones/Noddy wagon.

To you, to me.
I shit you not, we have a guy at work who used to be a roadie for the Chuckle Brothers.

I'm going to ask him when I see him.

Also find out how many girls they managed to nail.

I can imagine a 'spitroast situation' in which all you can hear is:
- to me
- to you
- to me
- to you
etc!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:47 am

George wrote:
kieran325 wrote:
BEERBOY123 wrote:Barry Chuckle allegedly had a 325i Touring but I have to admit my sourcing for this 'fact' is not 100% reliable.

Shame it wasn't used in the TV programme instead of their gay Flintstones/Noddy wagon.

To you, to me.
I shit you not, we have a guy at work who used to be a roadie for the Chuckle Brothers.

I'm going to ask him when I see him.
Also find out how many girls they managed to nail.

I can imagine a 'spitroast situation' in which all you can hear is:
- to me
- to you
- to me
- to you
etc!

this made me chuckle

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:52 am

Will smith had a facelift red convertible e30..

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:57 am

Leighton Reese, Welsh darts player (and winner of the inaugural World Championship in 1978), had a black 325i LPG touring with gold script 'Darts World Champ '78' decals (bit like the JPS Lotus livery cars).

When he moved from Wales to Vegas in the 1990s, he sold the thing to his brother-in-law Bryn. Bryn used to show it at events but the autobox went after a while and it was deemed uneconomical to repair. Leighton Reese's car!!! Money should not have been a factor! Shame on you Bryn, you tightfisted bastard.

Bryn availed of the scrappage scheme to get 2k off a bloody Fiat Panda. Shame on you again Bryn, that car should be in Yfadlfelgoch museum now. You make me sick you punk!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:02 am

^^^I don't know where you get all this information,weather it be true or or complete waffle,but has me in stiches whatever!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:19 am

All 100% fact, as I'm standing here on this R100RT. Which links to the fact that Pedro Delgado, very famous old Spanish (pedal) cyclist, was sponsored by M-Power in the late eighties and had one of the first M3s as a corporate reward for going around saying how BMs were better than the Spanish crap that used to pass for cars in those days.

The Spanish Inquisition were not at all happy about this, and questioned him for treason, and he ended up in a Spanish gaol for five years. He was never the same after, lost all his hillclimbing brilliance, and his M3 was publicly burned in Madrid City Centre by the secret police as an example to others.

The irony is, he's the face of SEAT now, and endorses Cupras and so on. Quite a comeback.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:15 pm

Nearly forgot, Mike Joyce (drummer for the Smiths and...drummer for the Smiths was about it really), had an Alpina C2 from Sytner in about 1986, when the Smiths were at the height of their fame. He was desperate for it to be the album cover of The Queen is Dead, but Morrissey said no, we're going to use an old French film star, and you're just the drummer Joyce, so shut up you ponce. I run this bloody band.

Joyce was gutted of course, but if you can find a copy of his solo 'Salford Drum Machine' LP, it has his C2 2.7 on the cover (C749 OCH), with a crossed drumstick logo on the roof. Joyce is on the bonnet, sitting in a field of wheat, with a raven on his arm. And the raven has a copy of The Queen is Dead in its beak, shredded!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:04 pm

Looks like its no longer with us!
The vehicle details for C749 OCH are:

Date of Liability 01 10 1992
Date of First Registration 11 02 1986
Year of Manufacture 1986
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2494CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour RED
Vehicle Type Approval

Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £118.25
12 Months Rate £215.00

Sat Jun 18, 2011 5:14 pm

Doesnt really count but some woman on come dine with me had a real nice E30 M3. Not a celeb but she had her 5 seconds of fame.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:14 pm

^^^ Are you sure you're not making that up? Sounds a bit implausible to me.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:01 pm

Bill Pertwee (the ARP man from Dad's Army) had a 316 in '85 and was used by his local dealer (L&C) to promote the whole 'austerity model' ethos (dig for victory, waste not want not - all that WW2 sort of thing). Which is a bit odd really, given his most famous role: should have been promoting a Brit base model really, a Mini City or something. Prostituted himself really, to get a free car and free servicing and his mug in the local paper.

I'll let him off though, because he has a Morgan three-wheeler now with RAF style roundels on the side, a Lewis gun welded to the bonnet and a rear-facing Browning machine gun manned by Clive Dunn (for car show/Goodwood Revival purposes. And shooting down attacking Focke-Wulfs I suppose).

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:05 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:Henry VIII, big fat King of England type fella, used to have an M3 convertible as a sunny day runaround, but then he ditched it after he'd killed old Anne Boleyn, or however you spell her name, because he thought it was bad karma to tool about in it after she was gone (I think he used to dog her in it, and that's how Elizabeth I came about).

Wasn't it finished in Royal Blue?

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:06 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:^^^ Are you sure you're not making that up? Sounds a bit implausible to me.

BRILLIANT!!!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:17 pm

Hugh Laurie had a 318iS briefly, very briefly, because he was so underwhelmed with the customer service of his local dealer - they refused to rectify an imaginary delivery paint fault - that he rejected the car, told them to go **** themselves, and bought a Volkswagen SANTANA LX (!!!) instead. What a dick.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:44 pm

Martin Hughes-Games (the Springwatch tit who is always looking at Kate Humble's tits) has a rust-bucket '87 320i (Baur) in his mum's garage. He wants to crack on with a resto, but there's a family of reed warblers nesting in the bloody engine bay, so he has just got to wait 'till they fledge before he gets going.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:01 pm

It would be Reed Warblers. They love damp conditions.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:07 pm

I know! That's why it's obviously true. The parent birds have got it easy, the lazy sods, because they are feeding the brood on all the dead flies splattered on the front of the car! Clever little sods.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:09 pm

Reed Warblers and E30s. It's almost a match made in heaven

. I suspect, however that the wing mirror spiders are keeping the chicks plump, too.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:10 pm

You couldn't make it up: horse and carriage, love and marriage, E30 and Reed Warbler...

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:11 pm

I bow down to your persistence if nothing else

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:22 pm

I've only just begun: just wait until you hear about the E30s owned by Levi Rootes (Keith Rootes), John le Carre and Graham Coxon from Blur (100% true).

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:48 pm

Didn't Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon in a 325iX?

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:53 pm

Er...I doubt it!!! Caesar only had a provisional licence for a starter. And the iX was not available then for and two-er.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:54 pm

FINK ABOUT IT!!!

Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:11 pm

Where have you been???

We have missed you........

Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:16 pm

I was running a gelato stand in Chile for a while. No internet. Back now thank God.

Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:28 pm

If you can remember that far back, Chris Evans' TFI Friday sidekick Will MacDonald ("Wiii-lll! Weee-lll!) had a 318i convertible (H reg) from Bates (of Maldon, Essex). His dad, Bob McDonald ("Big-Bob-Mac" as he was known) was the sales manager of Bates (and a right hard negotiator) at the time.

He actually made Will pay full whack for the car and then charged him extra for power steering and electric windows, which were standard anyway. His own son! That's a bad attitude.

Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:36 pm

Maxi Priest had an E30 M3 that he bought brand new back in the day

Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:40 pm

Beerboy is a funny bastard.

Got me in stitches yet again.

Surely having a celebs name on the log book would do nicely if you ever came to sell it.