What ever happened to the Wheeler Dealer E30?

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Post Sun Nov 08, 2015 1:15 pm

A zoner had it a while back
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Post Sun Nov 08, 2015 1:54 pm

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Post Sun Nov 08, 2015 3:01 pm

I thought it died years ago complete with its "stainless steel" exhaust. winkeye
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Post Sun Nov 08, 2015 3:44 pm

hennabm wrote:I thought it died years ago complete with its "stainless steel" exhaust. winkeye
performance air filter :rolling:
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Post Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:55 pm

Brewer caused the suspension to collapse :D
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 2:38 am

lol i did a vehicle check thing online its not even listed so must be dead :?
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:59 am

After lots of mods including a 2.7 and nitrous Iain Temple sold it to a guy on the Isle of Man IIRC, he was building a 2.8 engine for it but I can't remember if it ever got finished/fitted
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:34 am

Luke Tunny ?

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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:45 pm

I thought a guy called Gaz from Manchester had it? I can't remember his username but he had a motorsport cab and an M3 if i remember correctly?
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:12 pm

Yeah he did, gazza325icab, I seem to remember it being at Chris Warburtons for a while when I used to frequent, I don't think Chris bought it but was just doing work on it, he then sold it to Iain T
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:20 pm

DanThe wrote:Yeah he did, gazza325icab, I seem to remember it being at Chris Warburtons for a while when I used to frequent, I don't think Chris bought it but was just doing work on it, he then sold it to Iain T
That was the silver one they featured wasn't it? That had lots of chrome "extras"? I think the "Midnight Blue" (WTF?) one Ed and Mike done a full and thorough restoration on is long dead.
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:23 pm

Yeah the silver touring, don't know about chrome but I'm sure it had colour coded door handles, didn't realise there was another one! Video in first post does not work
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:50 pm

The blue one they bought at an auction, "restored" and sold on with a full stainless steel 'zaust and performance air filter...

They used to have a feature where they'd show you an alleged minter, basically what they were aspiring to. The silver one was used for this and I vaguely recall it had lots of tasteful bling upgrades and big wheels.
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Post Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:57 pm

I think I do remember it now, was it a cabby? Seem to recall the chinaman attacking a gearstick locking device with an angle grinder :D
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Post Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:13 am

DanThe wrote:I think I do remember it now, was it a cabby? Seem to recall the chinaman attacking a gearstick locking device with an angle grinder :D
That was on an even earlier Mike brewer program pre Ed China i think called deals on wheels and it was a neon cab that some punter brought in to mikes garage so tart up before selling on.

It was a feature about helping people to maximise on the sale of their car and another one i remember was a mk1 golf cabrio.
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Post Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:25 am

The silver one was a lachs 325i Touring owned by 325SME, Steve, from South Wales. Nice chap, nice car.
The only "bling" in really had was a 325i badge on the centre consol, colour coded door handles, 'pina reps and was lowered slightly.
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Post Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:26 pm

Ah, man! Video has been removed?!! :?
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Post Thu Nov 19, 2015 6:03 pm

I bought a lachs silver 325 touring after seeing wheeler dealers back in the day I still own the car but it needs work :cry:
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Post Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:40 pm

I remember thinking Idd like one of them (age 14) now I have 2 :-) all they need is some new bumper trim, but didn't listen to Mikes advice they both white lol
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Post Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:47 pm

etouring wrote:I remember thinking Idd like one of them (age 14) now I have 2 :-) all they need is some new bumper trim, but didn't listen to Mikes advice they both white lol
Back when I originally watched that, I went out and purchased new bumper trim which cost about £100 back then. It's shot up in price ridiculously since. :(
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Post Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:26 pm

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etouring wrote:I remember thinking Idd like one of them (age 14) now I have 2 :-) all they need is some new bumper trim, but didn't listen to Mikes advice they both white lol
Back when I originally watched that, I went out and purchased new bumper trim which cost about £100 back then. It's shot up in price ridiculously since. :(
Haha oh yea the dealers are just silly, Trev sorted me some ok front trim for £20 :-)