BMW E3

Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:15 pm

bss325i wrote:RE my sport, it looked rude with all the alpina parts and the retrimmed recaros were nice enough but I wanted the car to look as close to as it would have done back in '89 and that meant no retrims, no Alpina parts and no big tunez!

Blaupunkt, M techic and factory leathers FTW!

U forgot M-Technic springs / Boge shocks

?

Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:16 pm

bss325i wrote:
pony wrote:So if a car is resprayed purely to get rid of stone chips would that improve or reduce its value ?
Depends if the car was completely original paint wise and your M3 is not so that answers that question!

Is mostly original paint though not completely

I have had paint depth measured all the way around the vehicle

E46 M3s just seem to get stone chips very very easily

Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:27 pm

pony wrote:
bss325i wrote:RE my sport, it looked rude with all the alpina parts and the retrimmed recaros were nice enough but I wanted the car to look as close to as it would have done back in '89 and that meant no retrims, no Alpina parts and no big tunez!

Blaupunkt, M techic and factory leathers FTW!
U forgot M-Technic springs / Boge shocks ?

Nah, i want it to handle properly thanks.

Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:41 pm

bss325i wrote:
pony wrote:
bss325i wrote:RE my sport, it looked rude with all the alpina parts and the retrimmed recaros were nice enough but I wanted the car to look as close to as it would have done back in '89 and that meant no retrims, no Alpina parts and no big tunez!

Blaupunkt, M techic and factory leathers FTW!
U forgot M-Technic springs / Boge shocks ?
Nah, i want it to handle properly thanks.

I would have thought you want OEM handling seeing as you got OEM exhaust / stereo etc

Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:48 pm

pony wrote:
bss325i wrote:
pony wrote: U forgot M-Technic springs / Boge shocks ?
Nah, i want it to handle properly thanks.
I would have thought you want OEM handling seeing as you got OEM exhaust / stereo etc

No.

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:05 am

pony wrote:
bss325i wrote:
pony wrote:So if a car is resprayed purely to get rid of stone chips would that improve or reduce its value ?
Depends if the car was completely original paint wise and your M3 is not so that answers that question!
Is mostly original paint though not completely

Worth more than if it had paint chips, but less than if it had never been chipped.

So restoration has improved the value, but not to where it would have been if the damage had never happened..

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:08 am

bss325i wrote:Excellent cars are already few and far between.

This. I haven't seen an E30 I would call excellent condition in ages..

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:13 am

snakebrain wrote:
bss325i wrote:Excellent cars are already few and far between.
This. I haven't seen an E30 I would call excellent condition in ages..

In fairness, Andy's chromie was solid as a rock and he paid peanuts for it.

Citybus's chromie, that sold for £5k, was like new!

Edit: Colin's Cab or Tall Colin's German M3

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:27 am

Was that the green one? I should have bought it...

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:32 am

snakebrain wrote:Was that the green one? I should have bought it...

Andy's? Yea it was. It was a nice car but for £4k it was to rich for my blood.

Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:26 am

...at a certain level of rarity condition becomes immaterial though. If you have a 250 GTO it doesn't really matter if you crash it into a wall, because there will always be a long queue of multi-millionaires buyers waiting to buy one

On super-exotics poor 'barn find' condition examples can be worth more than restored cars, this probably only happens when restoration costs are less than the anticipated future value?

Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:57 am

I think M3 CS Manual will be very sought after in the future

Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:33 am

bab-91 wrote:
snakebrain wrote:Was that the green one? I should have bought it...

Andy's? Yea it was. It was a nice car but for £4k it was to rich for my blood.

Green one?!!

That must have dropped it a few shillings in value!

Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:19 pm

Gert_8 wrote:
bab-91 wrote:
snakebrain wrote:Was that the green one? I should have bought it...

Andy's? Yea it was. It was a nice car but for £4k it was to rich for my blood.
Green one?!! That must have dropped it a few shillings in value!

No, it was an absolute beaut. It languished for ages on autotradrer and I didn't bother to look at it as I assumed it must be rotten if noone had bought it. Andy went down to see it, and found it was indeed a cracker and by then the poor chap was desperate enough to part with it for buttons...

Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:20 pm

pony wrote:I think M3 CS Manual will be very sought after in the future

You're worse than a broken record!

Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:29 pm

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/vintagecars- ... -s/8211606

Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:16 pm

bab-91 wrote:http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/vintagecars- ... -s/8211606

Get it bought! All it needs is a proper gearbox, and it needed one of those the day it left the factory...

Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:38 pm

Hmm not sold on the colour and I could never molest a 3.0 S.

Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:56 pm

The colour is triumphantly, nay exuberantly, of the period. And you'd molest your own cat if you got a chance, so I don't see that being a problem!

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:01 pm

My cat is very titillating and its always wet, what does that tell you?

I'm not really a red car type of person, people might be fooled into thinking I want to talk to them.

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:02 pm

bab-91 wrote:I'm not really a red car type of person, people might be fooled into thinking I want to talk to them.

Don't worry on that count...nobody would want to talk to you anyway!

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:03 pm

bab-91 wrote:My cat is very titillating and its always wet, what does that tell you?

I'm not really a red car type of person, people might be fooled into thinking I want to talk to them.

Don't worry Bab, I think it's a more suitable pink for you now.

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:09 pm

Maybe this is the BMW for bab..

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:13 pm

Posh boys stick together, O'er!

(I would have an Isetta bubble.. not that one)

Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:13 pm

bab-91 wrote:My cat is very titillating and its always wet, what does that tell you?

.

That you have a very high boredom threshold and you never
let your cat indoors.

Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:11 pm

Can anybody name this colour? (Don't say green)

EDIT: Got it, never mind!

Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:54 am

Tundra green.

Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:03 am

Well that's a better Tundra green than the BL variant that my old man chose to put a brand new Mini 1000 in back in '75!!!

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:38 pm

Andyboy wrote:Tundra green.

Found it eventually, thanks for confirming.

B7 wrote:Well that's a better Tundra green than the BL variant that my old man chose to put a brand new Mini 1000 in back in '75!!!

I think it's my favourite colour for that bus. It's pretty much British Racing Green?

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:40 pm

Did you buy that locally?

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:42 pm

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:44 pm

My apologies, Bab, that was directed at Imy.

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:51 pm

Gert_8 wrote:My apologies, Bab, that was directed at Imy.

Imy? Now I'm doubly confused! Are you on the wrong thread?

Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:53 pm

Shoot! Totally wrong thread. Sorry

Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:11 pm

bab-91 wrote:
Andyboy wrote:Tundra green.

Found it eventually, thanks for confirming.

B7 wrote:Well that's a better Tundra green than the BL variant that my old man chose to put a brand new Mini 1000 in back in '75!!!

I think it's my favourite colour for that bus. It's pretty much British Racing Green?

BL Tundra is nothing like BRG. Tundra is lighter and looks like someone's smeared a babies nappy all over the car. It really is shit!