Rarest Colour

[MadE30mike]

What colour of 325i Sport is rarest?
How many of each colour were made?

Someones bout to know the answers to this 1

[MadE30mike]

Takeit this 1s got you all stumpd!

[Splondike]

Sterling or Granite silver I guess... not sure which - seem to have seen less in Granite than in Sterling, but that is no guide I suppose.

[e30bmlover]

1982-1985 cars
henna red - 052
alpine white 1 - 146
lapis blue - 173
opal green - 171
sapphire blue - 149
baltic blue - 178
cosmos blue - 185
black - 668
polaris silver - 060
pasta green - 194
planaten green - 188
basalt blue - 180
gazelle beige - 128
bronzit - 421
bronzit beige - 139
graphite - 087
burgundy red - 199
safari beige - 147

[Splondike]

1982-1985 cars
henna red - 052
alpine white 1 - 146
lapis blue - 173
opal green - 171
sapphire blue - 149
baltic blue - 178
cosmos blue - 185
black - 668
polaris silver - 060
pasta green - 194
planaten green - 188
basalt blue - 180
gazelle beige - 128
bronzit - 421
bronzit beige - 139
graphite - 087
burgundy red - 199
safari beige - 147

Erm Sports were 86 - 90 ?

[MadE30mike]

What about tech2 sports?

[e30bmlover]

1985 onwards

arctic blue - 045
zinnober red - 138
karmin red - 172
dolphin grey - 184
diamond black - 181
alpine white 2 - 218
saturn blue - 176
zobel brown - 190

[e30bmlover]

What about tech2 sports?

hang on!!!!

[e30bmlover]

plastic bumper cars....

lachs silver - 203
cirrus blue - 189
royal blue - 198
luxor beige - 219
diamond black - 181
dolphin grey - 184
atlantis blue - 207
mineral blue - 231
malachite green - 205
plus alpine white, zinnobar red, gloss black 668.

[Splondike]

1985 onwards

arctic blue - 045
zinnober red - 138
karmin red - 172
dolphin grey - 184
diamond black - 181
alpine white 2 - 218
saturn blue - 176
zobel brown - 190

A few colours missing there though... Lazerblau, Brilliant red, lachs etc etc

[e30bmlover]

uuum i dont quite know how to say this but..... the info came from my e30 restoration bible..... i didnt look at what it said... its the paint codes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my bad!

[MadE30mike]

Where you getting this info mate

So theres no Sterling silver?

My car is Sterling n not Lachs right?

[ed325i]

Yes but What colour of 325i Sport is rarest?

[MadE30mike]

uuum i dont quite know how to say this but..... the info came from my e30 restoration bible..... i didnt look at what it said... its the paint codes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my bad!

<---------- youv had to much of that ! lol

Any1 got the Facts in question then ???????

[e30bmlover]

Where you getting this info mate

So theres no Sterling silver?

My car is Sterling n not Lachs right?

yes mate your car is sterling silver!!!! same as mine!

[Splondike]

Where you getting this info mate

So theres no Sterling silver?

My car is Sterling n not Lachs right?

Yours is Sterling for sure mate

No Calypso Red, Sterling, Graphite and loads more in that list

I know they aren't all sport colours...

[e30bmlover]

uuum i dont quite know how to say this but..... the info came from my e30 restoration bible..... i didnt look at what it said... its the paint codes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my bad!

<---------- youv had to much of that ! lol

no mate the best thing about all this is that i havent started on it yet!!!

[MadE30mike]

Yes but What colour of 325i Sport is rarest?

Any1 ?

[zaust]

Got to be ben's bule cab sport...

[e30bmlover]

i know that sterling silver IS a rare colour!

[pnd]

I thought sports only came in certain colours though BMW's individual colour system may mean there are exceptions to this. For the mark 2 I thought only red,black,white,lachs and dolphin were available. As for rarity the white and lachs seem less common.

[e30bmlover]

please refer to them as either facelift(mk2) or pre facelift(mk1) these are not some sort of ford escort or vauxhall astra!

[csl]

Granite silver is my bet for the rarest colour on a tech2 sport (i've only come across 3).

[MadE30mike]

Has anyone got the facts here ! ?! ? ! ?

Come on people someone on the zones got to know this

[da4x4turbo]

my guess is glacier blue

gletchersblau metallic to be precise!

[MadE30mike]

I didnt know they made a tech2 sport in glacier blue

Still no1 knows? i thot the Zone had answers to everything E30

[Simon13]

i have the facts!

sorry e30bmlover i'm not sure where u got those colours and numbers from!

tech 1's only came in

diamond black
dolphin grey
lachs silver - by far the rarest colour of the tech 1's

1989 tech 2's only came in these 3 colours also.

Then in 1990 BMW added to the original 3

Brilliant red
Alpine white
Sterling silver - rarest stock colour

then in 1991 Granite silver was a special order colour so this is infact the rarest

[drifty325i]

Cosmos blue is deff the coolest colour

[bottlecapE30]

e30bmlover haha the color list and there panit codes image if there were only 1304 e30s after 1985 we would have some rare cars eehh, honest mistake

[shazE30]

ill tell you the rare colour that nasty pink one done by animal bodykits fukkkin nasty

[325iSportMark]

then in 1991 Granite silver was a special order colour so this is infact the rarest

I'm sure there was a thread like this a good while back on sport colours, and it seemed that out of all the thousands of zoners there was only mine and 1 or 2 others. There was also a couple of other zoners who had granite silver on other models, theres a really nice cab that sticks in my mind.

I fancy at some point doing a big project that would involve a colour change to blue, and have often thought that it would perhaps be a bit wrong to do it to a granite silver sport because they are so rare, and that getting another to do it on would be less sacrilegious?

Wot you think guys and gals?

[march109]

Don't do it!!

Buy another car to do it to. Your car is a true piece of history. Find a shed thats allready been spryed some crap colour and bring it back to life. I'm thinking of those yellow green and pink colours that council types seem to love so much!

[325iSportMark]

Don't do it!!

this was the kind of response I was expecting, and to be honest, this was the way I'm leaning anyway. Im a big lover of all things Alpina, and was thinking of looking for a nice C2, but for the same reason I think it would be a bit wrong to take it too far away from mint factory spec on a rare car, so I'll most likely use a sport for the base, but give it a strong Alpina flavour.

Not sure when my plans will come to fruition, but I reckon I'll most likely buy another one rather than change the colour of mine.

[Simon13]

leave the colour and just add your alpina bits?

[325iSportMark]

Don't get me wrong, I really do like the colour of mine, and I like the fact that it's unusual, it's just been a long standing daydream to do it in a really deep metallic blue. It would be a BMW colour, and I would want it to look like a factory special, so something like Biarritz blue is what I've got in mind