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Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:11 pm
Heres a quick pic of my car at the new 3 series launch.
had a good night, looked at the new 3 series coupe

and talking to the touring car team and helped them load up the car at the end of the night.

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cliffybabe
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:23 pm
congrats fella looks good

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Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:25 pm
nice! I like that pic.... old and new together! sweet!

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Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:00 am
mine will be there on Saturday (well, in sunderland)
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:11 am
That's a credit to you - congrats
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:12 am
Well Done bud, the pic looks spot on...She looks minty mint too...
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:57 am
they wanted to do the same with an old chevy i have when the merged with deawoo! no chance pal!

im so sexy justin brought me back 5 times
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:37 am
Hey, good effort mate!! She's llooking awesome since the respray, making me jelous!!
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:59 am
Fair play!
How'd they contact you to ask to borrow your car though?!
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:03 am
Looking good!
The new coupe is stunning!
The 335i is rapid too!

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Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:51 am
thats great mate, looks as good as new too!
Bollocks to this 24v scrap!
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:28 pm
I bought aload of parts off them for when i built the car up after the re-spray and they asked me if i was restoring an E30
i said ,ya
they said, can we borrow it for the display?
and am sure you can work out the rest!

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Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:22 pm
Appletree your Is looks really clean but get the sills painted satin black to finish,please take this as constructive critisim.
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:06 pm
They used to be black

but i preferd them red

. ive also got some SE side skirts to go on

and if i had left them black when i got it sprayed i would have ended up with a black line above the skirts when i finally get round to fitting them.
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Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:21 pm
Looks great!!! Blooming stunning infact. Good respray on it.
Oh and the new 3 series doesn't look that bad either.


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Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:34 am
Had a good look round your car yesterday - it really *does* look good!
Lovely job.
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Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:40 am
looks awesome!!!
congratulations!!!
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Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:51 pm
Cheers for the commets lads am pleased you all liked it! its my pride and joy and i've spent loads of time trying to make it back to origonal standard plus a few extras along the way!

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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:38 pm
Your car looked ace at Santa. Iain or Martin told me about the display. I would have been well chuffed!!! Red respray looks amazing. good work
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:59 pm

hay bro ruffly wat kinda damage is that beauty of a spray job
where was it done
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:06 pm
Thats looks ........F*!?~#king Mint......
I bet you were smiling ear to ear.........
Well done on such a perfect example of an E30.....
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:32 pm
apple, your car looks the bollocks!!! welld done fella!
im just wandering though, why the E30, and not the E21, the first 3 series? and was there an E36 there too?
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:12 pm
Car looks utterly gorgeous mate, and just goes to show (in my eyes) nothing will ever touch an E30 for looks. It was and still is the finest.
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:48 pm
looks fantastic sir! I see that both yours and Chris's were chosen because they felt that any alpine white rightness would overshadow the new car

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:30 pm
320Touring wrote:looks fantastic sir! I see that both yours and Chris's were chosen because they felt that any alpine white rightness would overshadow the new car

or that it was the plain obvious fact that brilliant red is much more heroic than white

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:29 pm
To start with the re-spray was Ԛ£650 for the whole car (not engine bay, boot or door closers) but included 3 IS rear spoilers, x2 sets of mirror and a spare sun roof and sum SE skirts.
However i did strip the car and rebuild it my self mainly as i wanted to make sure it went baak together right! the sprayer was good and he's done my freinds car but like he said he hasen't got the time or the infomation to spend an hour trying to find out how to take some trim off properly! not that he was rough atall, just after all the effort i put in i wanted it to be mint.

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:32 pm
billgatese30 wrote:320Touring wrote:looks fantastic sir! I see that both yours and Chris's were chosen because they felt that any alpine white rightness would overshadow the new car

or that it was the plain obvious fact that brilliant red is much more heroic than white

more heroic how sir? step forward and exhibit your bulgarian insurance docs for scruitiny then
white and red however are faster, due to weighing less cos of no laquer

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:40 pm
320Touring wrote:[
more heroic how sir? step forward and exhibit your bulgarian insurance docs for scruitiny then
white and red however are faster, due to weighing less cos of no laquer

ah, you see they're in the post along with the tax disc
although you need all the help you can get with weight saving seeing as you are 500cc's short of a proper engine
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:46 pm
billgatese30 wrote:320Touring wrote:[
more heroic how sir? step forward and exhibit your bulgarian insurance docs for scruitiny then
white and red however are faster, due to weighing less cos of no laquer

ah, you see they're in the post along with the tax disc
although you need all the help you can get with weight saving seeing as you are 500cc's short of a proper engine
500cc's short, but up one head
anyways back on topic- the e30 whips the new 3 series

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:49 pm
OHH and i haven't changed colour it was just a streight respary as i fitted two new dealer wings and thought that the chance of them being blended in and looking good wouldn't be very high so i got the full car done.

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Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:03 pm
looks fantastic, a real credit to you. Keep the m42 dude, i've decided!


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Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:06 pm
Yes mate!

us m42 guys need to stick together, were getting few and far between!
think this car has got to stay as it is + the bolt ons and maybe another E30 to do a conversion in to a track day slag

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Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:41 pm
hay hay just testing