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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:29 am

Which is usually pretty dangerous.

I want an E30 couch....


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Im hoping to get a sorta industrial/minimal style flat and I think it would look epic. Id have the shell cut in half like so, leather M3 bench, with the leather door cars, sit the back on lowered springs and deep dish wheels, the front bit could sit on feet so its level.

Anyone else think that would look pretty funky? Dont know what Id do with the boot, maybe put a sound system in it? Storage?
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:33 am

Only snag is, how would you get it into the flat? Most have fairly narrow hallways and doors...
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:35 am

Shit thats a point. Maybe if we do up the school part of our house here at home, or if i got a place with french doors.

A couple did it on grands designs with a mini but then i remembered they had to get a crane to post it through a 3rd floor window.

Could cut it into small sections and reweld but to make it look seemless would require a very skilled welder
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:44 am

chop the roof and turn it into a cabby...job done :D
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:46 am

verde wrote:Could cut it into small sections and reweld but to make it look seemless would require a very skilled welder
And then repaint it in two-pack paint inside the flat? :mad:

Car-based furniture is the sort of kitch idea that works in galleries and faux-American burger joints, not the poky confines of a British lounge.
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:48 am

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verde wrote:Could cut it into small sections and reweld but to make it look seemless would require a very skilled welder
And then repaint it in two-pack paint inside the flat? :mad:

Car-based furniture is the sort of kitch idea that works in galleries and faux-American burger joints, not the poky confines of a British lounge.

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" that works in galleries "

Exactly - Im into all that minimalistic contemporary shit, I want my house to look like an art gallery. Fuck brittish lounges, I want glass and stainless steel everywhere.
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:49 am

Verde since you just got a job and going on the amount you need for a deposit on a flat these days I'd say that will have rusted away to nothing before you can afford a place to put it :D
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:56 am

Rtaylor2208 wrote:Verde since you just got a job and going on the amount you need for a deposit on a flat these days I'd say that will have rusted away to nothing before you can afford a place to put it :D
This is sold man its getting picked up today

The intention is to do it when I have a place later in life :)
Iv been going nuts since I got a job, got a tech 2 kit and getting my car ready for its brown paintjob this winter. Itl be brown by xmas
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:02 pm

when i cut an e30 up, i was going to chop the boot off, use as a coffee table, that opened up , with the bumper being on the floor !

sofa like that would be a good idea if you had the space tho, but moving it about/getting it in would be aggro

plus youd need to spend a fair wack on it to get it looking decent
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:06 pm

When I scrapped any of my E30's I got a bloke with a Hiab to just lift it off the drive. Then I went down the pub with my sheckles earnt and a jolly good knees up :)
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:27 pm

Duke137 wrote:When I scrapped any of my E30's I got a bloke with a Hiab to just lift it off the drive. Then I went down the pub with my sheckles earnt and a jolly good knees up :)
Seems like that just isn't cool anymore Fergus! :mad:

Wonder when someone will try turning a cab into somekind of hot tub, a nice M30 would make a good heater/bubble blower thing. winkeye
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:29 pm

Duke137 wrote:When I scrapped any of my E30's I got a bloke with a Hiab to just lift it off the drive. Then I went down the pub with my sheckles earnt and a jolly good knees up :)
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:57 pm

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Duke137 wrote:When I scrapped any of my E30's I got a bloke with a Hiab to just lift it off the drive. Then I went down the pub with my sheckles earnt and a jolly good knees up :)
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Test is rebooked diable, if i get the same woman again im properly fucked. Half of my friends have licenses and shouldnt and i keep getting knocked back cos this whore is too timid to be doing her job.

That idea for the table sounds cool polsta but would be a lot of work. and your right about moving the e30 couch around, it would be a pure nightmare, plus spending £££ to get it looking good.
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:15 pm

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diable wrote:Verde, please don't take offence but pass your driving test, get a girlfriend and use your imagination on sexual perversions instead of stupid ideas (photos of naked girlfriend would keep Gert and Pete satisfied on here though) :D
if he hasnt a licence or a bird, he can get a bird round on the back seat :D
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:16 pm

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diable wrote:Verde, please don't take offence but pass your driving test, get a girlfriend and use your imagination on sexual perversions instead of stupid ideas (photos of naked girlfriend would keep Gert and Pete satisfied on here though) :D
if he hasnt a licence or a bird, he can get a bird round on the back seat :D
only with chlorafoam or rohypnol
I live in Aberdeenshire, there arnt any women here. They look like trucks. Il hold off til I can drive and go back down to edinburgh and obliterate the stocks of drunken daddies girls and then flee back to the hills.
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:08 pm

Verd, why don't you do the sort of thing the top gear lot have done and fabricate a sofa using the rear bench and a couple of armchairs with two front sport seats?

Pete and I would love to see pic, if you manage to get a bird over. Pete ca supply the chloroform if you ask nicely! :D
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:14 pm

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Gert_8 wrote:Verd,

if you manage to get a bird over.
I'll be far too old to be able to get my pecker up........

8O :D
LOL!! :D You're too harsh on the poor boy.
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:35 pm

8O I see! You coont! :D
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Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:05 pm

Kedge wrote: Wonder when someone will try turning a cab into somekind of hot tub
That'll never work - your average E30 will have so many holes that the water will drain out in 30 seconds :wink:

On the plus side, you might not have a boot well with water in it on the passenger side underneath the aerial. :rolling:
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Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:17 pm

the shell is away to be put to practical use :D
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Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:32 pm

Loon676 wrote:the shell is away to be put to practical use :D
Iv been keeping an eye out for reps for you btw man, none come up yet. Whats gunna be your approach? Get it rolling first or get it welded?
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Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:47 pm

Trim off what I don't need, repair the inner arches then fab all the bits I need. Might take a while due to work, but I'll just have to make time!!!

Cheers for the look out min, im still not having much joy. Even crap sets with no tyres going for over 200!! Not fair!!
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Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:21 pm

Itl be worth it in the end mate. Il keep looking out for em. So pissed off I weighed in those pinas, I only got 60 quid for em aswell.

Whens that glamis meet you mentioned btw?
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Glamis is all ways same weekend as TITP.

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Im sure iv been to that when I was younger. Well if alls well I should be there next year. If that 30th year celebration meet happens somewhere in scotland that will be a good one aswell
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Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:48 pm

Will definitely be a good one. I'd imagine with it being an anniversary year itl be able decent turn out
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Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:55 am

Loon676 wrote:Trim off what I don't need, repair the inner arches then fab all the bits I need. Might take a while due to work, but I'll just have to make time!!!

Cheers for the look out min, im still not having much joy. Even crap sets with no tyres going for over 200!! Not fair!!
I've got a set of very fine 17" reps that are going to hit the sale section, but if you're struggling to pay £200 squid, then I don't think these will be for you. All four with caps, pina badges and tyres that have covered less than 500 miles.

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