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Sparkysparks
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:12 pm

Walking from st albans train station i just saw what looked like a pre facelift red 4 door e30.
Had to look twice and a third time as it has square lights!
Is this a foreign spec or something cus it looked like a merc.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:14 pm

think Zender used to do some quad square headlamp grilles, can't recall E30 ones very much, defo E21's though

not particularly nice and very much "of their time"
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:25 pm

yuk ! :( square lights
will be back in an E30 oneday soon !


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Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:30 pm

i recall e30's in the late 80's with square lights, but definatly not very nice :puke:
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:57 pm

I remember them, usually only saw them in red and white.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:38 pm

yeah it wasnt pretty, it looked like an old golf, or polo, cant remember which one, It was just strange to see thats all.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:44 pm

I remember them and I like em.
M30 Tech 1 Touring on gas.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:00 pm

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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:05 pm

an old golf with square lights? your thinking about a jetta mate winkeye
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:07 pm

Sparkysparks wrote:Walking from st albans train station i just saw what looked like a pre facelift red 4 door e30.
Had to look twice and a third time as it has square lights!
Is this a foreign spec or something cus it looked like a merc.
I used to live in St Albans and regularly saw the car you're on about. YES, you did see correctly.
Zenders they are. I walked past the car one day and had a damn good look. I almost left a note on his screen asking if he wanted to sell his headlights (just to have something a bit different) but they wouldnt have looked right on my car.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:50 pm

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:eek: That's awful :eek:
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:51 pm

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It just doesn't work does it!
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:56 pm

They have to be round :D
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:23 pm

Unless the pic is the wrong way round, that's a LHD cab ... did our European brethren have that as an option?
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:33 pm

kamei rings a bell
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:43 pm

tomze30 wrote:Unless the pic is the wrong way round, that's a LHD cab ... did our European brethren have that as an option?
No they didn't. Hella were one of the perpetrators of that disaster. Aftermarket jobbie. :puke:
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:17 pm

The car was a bit of a heap tbh, not worthy of aftermarket goodies, It looked like it would have been a model before the tech 1's.
It works untill you get to the edges with the round grille.
Deffinately different.
hartgefan wrote:an old golf with square lights? your thinking about a jetta mate winkeye
Yes i think i probably was, actually

Is there any cars on the zone with these cus i never knew they existed.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:24 pm

this was quite a common conversion back in South Africa, as well as on Golf MK1 and Ford Cortina's Capri's etc..with similar set-up and was even available on E28! The build quality was crap and the cars usually had other junk on them as well, like rear window lourves and those pathetic solid rear light bars. Looked like it was made from reconstituted puke.
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:44 pm

If you love em you can have them!!!!!

check this out!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-320-E30-squar ... dZViewItem
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Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:41 pm

Love em!
Hell no, just more interesting than tinted lights thats all.

p.s. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-320-E30-squar ... dZViewItem
how much!!!
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