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e30topless
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:44 pm

going to look at this barn find in the morning, anyone know what sort of interior this is ?

never seen that type of cloth before ?

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Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:53 pm

I had a four door interior like that once, assumed it had been a retrim
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:53 pm

Seen it in quite a few German tourings but not a m3
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:56 pm

It could actually be my old car! It was a 316 i put an earlyb25 in, but it was granite grey(ssilver?) with a dolphin bonnet as i bumped it and it was a near match! Do you know the reg?
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:56 pm

It could actually be my old car! It was a 316 i put an earlyb25 in, but it was granite grey(ssilver?) with a dolphin bonnet as i bumped it and it was a near match! Do you know the reg?

Forget that sorry, didnt see the arches mine was defo not an m3!
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:10 pm

It's a rare German trim Iirc , I think Pete, has seen this before, not popular over here
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:20 pm

I've seen it in a couple of iS's
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:26 pm

I think i saw a interior like that for sale somewhere a little while back. Might have been ebay
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:31 pm

didn't sanchez have one like this for sale from his old 318is a few years back ?

obviously his didn't have the M3 rear bench
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:35 pm

think I have seen it in IS form mick now I think but never in an M3?

I'm just trying to work out what it is I haven't seen the car yet I just have pics :(
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:36 pm

Very late 215 'motorsport' velourz. I have seen a few late M3s with it and a handful of late UK E30s. I prefer it to the IS check but most victims don't.
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:46 pm

I've seen it in late 320iS's and late M3's.

EDIT. There was a complete interior for sale on the zone not that long ago.
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Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:50 pm

pacerpete wrote:Very late 215 'motorsport' velourz. I have seen a few late M3s with it and a handful of late UK E30s. I prefer it to the IS check but most victims don't.
Thanks pete, so she looks like a normal late 215 ? All I know is its a German import that has stood for 6 years since the owner deceased :(
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:40 am

magpie wrote:didn't sanchez have one like this for sale from his old 318is a few years back ?

obviously his didn't have the M3 rear bench
Correct.

Was an option in the mighty 318IS and m3 only as I was told when I did some digging on it. Should have a tri-coloured Mtech tag stitched to the side of the front seat bases in the top piping.

My set went to Manchester via eBay some years ago for a couple hundred nuggets.
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:28 am

Good find topless!!!! :cool:
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:31 am

nowt gets under the radar !
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:33 am

I had a nice mint complete interior in that trim for sale a few months ago, ended up going to California as no one here was interested...
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:45 am

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'Motorsport' lightning bolt pattern.

Seen above in 'neon blue',as fitted to neon blue cabbies,current at the same time as late M3.

More colour versions seem to have been available in Europe,a zoner imported a purple touring interior a while back.
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:49 am

I don't think it's anything like the lightning fabric.......
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:08 am

No, its not. I cant seem to find the pics from when I sold the set but Ive got a decent pic of when the buyer installed it in his car. I'll upload it in a sec

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I'll keep looking for the pics I had taken for my for sale post, but I've probably deleted them by now as I sold this last summer.
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:17 am

Its quite cool actually, I don't mind it. I think I've seen it before in a scraped car.
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:36 am

it looks gay as fook :gay:
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:34 pm

magpie wrote:it looks gay as fook :gay:
to each their own
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:18 pm

I think it's very bright and funky. But I guess it's not popular for a reason!
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:26 pm

It's very period and so is cool :cool:
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Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:02 pm

daimlerman wrote:Image

'Motorsport' lightning bolt pattern.

Seen above in 'neon blue',as fitted to neon blue cabbies,current at the same time as late M3.

More colour versions seem to have been available in Europe,a zoner imported a purple touring interior a while back.
That cloth is the same patern all be it in a different colour to that used in ceccotto and a sport Evo E30 M3's.
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Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:30 am

Well I found the pics after all...
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Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:41 pm

magpie wrote:it looks gay as fook :gay:
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