Celebs and E30s

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:19 pm

Rob Birch from the Stereo MC's, weasel-boy type semi-chav, had a lowered cab with all the tasteless 'council' add-ons you could possibly imagine: silver wheels with spokey-dokeys, neon strips under the the sills, crumby smoked lenses, whitewall tyres, skull valve caps, massive exhaust pipe, blacked out windows, E36 dash etc.

As he couldn't drive he used to stand on the passenger seat throwing his trademark 'I'm on a spacey surfboard' arm gestures as he wafted along to the next show.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:29 pm

FrankSinatra had one apparently.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:29 pm

Sadly not true, he hated anything German. He did have an E-type though.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:44 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:Sadly not true, he hated anything German. He did have an E-type though.

Sorry, not an e30 as you rightly say, but a very big shlong, so rumour has it.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:48 pm

That may or may not be true, but this thread is about celebrities with E30s, not 'very big schlongs'. Deviation my friend, you lose five points.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:53 pm

Humble apologies Beerboy

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:06 pm

That's ok.

Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode had an M3 that he actually bothered to convert to RHD when he was in the States. DURRRR! What a div! I suppose he was probably spaced out: it was about the time he was drugged up to the max, and I guess he didn't realise they drove on the right there.

Post Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:39 pm

beerboy you made me laugh

my giggling annoyed the wife this made me laugh more

Post Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:00 pm

Wolfgang 'Taffy' Von Tripps, German Count, Ferrari F1 driver, athlete and pigeon fancier (true) didn't have an E30. Of course he didn't - poor soul died in 1961! But he did nevertheless have a BMW 325 Leichter Einheits-PKW, or the Germans' WW2 Jeep equivalent. The one you see getting blown up all the time on all the WW2 films. He liked it because it was good for pigeon point to point stuff, lots of room for the pigeon baskets and good traction for releasing them from muddy fields in the Rhineland.

He flogged in the fifties when the first G-Wagons came out. It's in the Imperial War Museum now, complete with pigeon baskets, lures and stuff.

Post Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:06 pm

Bavarian Axel-F producer and leather trouser fan Harold Faltermayer ran over his mother-in-law in his Labatt's 2.0 M3 ex-BTCC touring car (touring car -not a touring). Accidentally of course, he wasn't used to the dogleg gearbox and thought he was in reverse! She was standing in front of him and he floored it because he was late for a meeting with Pet Shop Boys, for whom he was helping produce the LP Behaviour.

He mashed her right into the garage door! Unbelievably, she was ok, but it shook her up a bit.

Post Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:04 pm

The late Sir Jimmy Saville had...

No, I tell a lie. I've run out of stories.

Post Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:09 pm

assassin wrote:
BEERBOY123 wrote:Sadly not true, he hated anything German. He did have an E-type though.
Sorry, not an e30 as you rightly say, but a very big shlong, so rumour has it.

I think you're confusing Frank Sinatra with that cunt, what's his fucking name..Eroll Flynn (is that how it's spelt?). Reported to have had a big shlong and loved anything German as he was a Nazi sympathizer. Das is gud, ya?

Post Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:09 pm

assassin wrote:
BEERBOY123 wrote:Sadly not true, he hated anything German. He did have an E-type though.
Sorry, not an e30 as you rightly say, but a very big shlong, so rumour has it.

I think you're confusing Frank Sinatra with that cunt, what's his fucking name..Eroll Flynn (is that how it's spelt?). Reported to have had a big shlong and loved anything German as he was a Nazi sympathizer. Das is gud, ya?

Post Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:29 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:The late Sir Jimmy Saville had...

No, I tell a lie. I've run out of stories.

I simply refuse to believe this

Post Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:57 pm

beemerbird wrote:
BEERBOY123 wrote:The late Sir Jimmy Saville had...

No, I tell a lie. I've run out of stories.
I simply refuse to believe this

me too

Post Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:06 pm

What, that I'll never run out of stories!

Mrs McCluskey, frosty old Grange Hill headmistress in the Zammo, Fat Roly days ("That ain't my Mars Bar - honest!"), had an E21 316. If you look closely at the opening credits, you can see a cartoon drawing of it in the staff car park, next to that ar*eh*le Mr Bronson's Vauxhall Firenza droop-snoot, just before the bit where the big sausage comes down on a fork ("Da-da-dad-naaaa!").

In one episode, where old crazy Danny Kendall goes off the rails and keys her E21 up, she moans on to Bronson about the 30 stage paint process and how hard it will be to sort it all out.

Great days.

Post Sat Nov 05, 2011 4:15 pm

Martin Lancelot Barre, Brummie guitarist with Marmite rockers Jethro Tull, had a gold 325e that he converted to run on goose fat in 1991. Seriously, there was an article in the Birmingham Post at the time: 'Golden Goose - Barre runs car far on bird star' - terrible headline I know, but the Post ain't The Sun.

He was all a bit Green and saw how various celebs were getting press attention by running their cars on chip fat or lard or HP sauce or jam or urine or whatever, so decided to get in on the action. Since he had a goose farm anyway, he went down that road for the publicity.

He still has it in a barn, with a genuine 1701 seed drill shackled to the tow bar, for shows and stuff.

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:21 pm

One celeb that should have owned one is George Michael. He wouldn't have fallen asleep at the wheel of an E30

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:53 pm

Vanessa Redgrave used to have a 320 touring in green, so she said.
I was assigned to drive her on location at Chartwell whilst 'The Lonely War' was being shot there. The films name was changed to The Gathering Storm for reasons beyond a 3rd A.D.
Ness (as she demanded everyone call her) was miffed at being driven around in a six wheel drive Gator, the props dept managed to knock up some twin lights for the front and replaced the 'bench' in the back with a cream leather sports seat (it's what she had in hers) alas the bbs's were a no go.
Mad as a bag of frogs she is, but I got away with so so much. she has a 'thing' for red hair.

A film fact. The National Trust wouldn't let EON film inside the house so his study, bedroom and lounge were recreated in oak on the lawn 400 yards from the house.
And the tractor seen at the start of the film ended up costing over £30K of the films budget. It was only on location for 3 days.

The military hovercraft in James Bond 20 (with the Irish bloke) had a 318 cab painted in a camo effect. He brought it down to Aldershot tank training place on the first day of shooting. It blended in so well it was only found when the British Army were putting the latest Challenger (in '04) through its paces.

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:57 pm

My old man bought an 02 from Lonnie Donegan (sp?) by the time he had driven it home his jeans were stuck to the seat.
The dirty sod didn't just use bed posts.

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:59 pm

Billy Idol in his wilderness years before his come back in the US had a stretch moredoor chromie in White.

Do I need to continue?

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:00 pm

Gary Newman has never owned an E30 thankfully.

He would only crash it.

Post Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:06 pm

This guy had an E30

Whilst carrying out a little resto with the engine out he came up with the idea for a bridge. The rest is history.

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:13 pm

^^^^ unlikely

I think he's playing with his balls though, dirty old gent.

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:18 pm

TouringTash wrote:This guy had an E30

Whilst carrying out a little resto with the engine out he came up with the idea for a bridge. The rest is history.

Yep, thats the original dude that did the first ever M30 conversion

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:27 pm

I'm so surprised that none of you have quoted this superb use of a Baur in this thread, which makes me think that you're all gay!

Gorgeous little poppet she is! Wonder if the back seat survived?

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:32 pm

The princess of pop

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:34 pm

DanThe wrote:The princess of pop

Hmm, thats me done for the night!

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:47 pm

Z3I wrote:I'm so surprised that none of you have quoted this superb use of a Baur in this thread, which makes me think that you're all gay!

Never seen the video before but there's a higher chance of you being Gay if you're seeking it out on youtube

.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/new ... -ever.html

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:53 pm

Im sure kylie is one of the most photoshopped celebs, according to google images

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:58 pm

She can't drive though.

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:09 pm

Ranchero wrote:
Z3I wrote:I'm so surprised that none of you have quoted this superb use of a Baur in this thread, which makes me think that you're all gay!
Never seen the video before...

right, that's it, i'm keeping my Baur

i've not seen that before either, but what was the car at 2:00?

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:30 pm

But it wasn't hers

Here we all are adding vital infomation pertaining to E30's and their owners and then the page gets hijacked over some squeeky woman in a car which obviously isn't hers. I mean who would let someone else drive their E30? Or can't women drive and sing at the same time

Post Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:34 pm

anyone ever see the out takes to the vid of her singing in a jaquizi (you know what I mean)
I played a Bar in N1 for NYE2000 and this was playing on a 10ft screen behind me. I ended up just a little parra as the night progressed. It wasn't until I left the managers office to get paid that I saw this playing.
It was 'doing the rounds' by a certain mtv editor and not sure if it made the web.

It was artistic but my god it was bordering on flith. wink wink

Post Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:00 am

adit wrote:
Ranchero wrote:
Z3I wrote:I'm so surprised that none of you have quoted this superb use of a Baur in this thread, which makes me think that you're all gay!
Never seen the video before...
right, that's it, i'm keeping my Baur

i've not seen that before either, but what was the car at 2:00?

That looks like a Ford Falcon to me, just going over the Harbour Bridge heading into Sydney. They usually had 4 litre engines, and looked very similar to Granadas, but with a touch of Australian quirkiness.