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[Saul]

Just now, Pedro said:

It´s my second least body style for an E30, would much rather prefer if it was a coupe or a station, but there you go. It´s just a 316i, 90 hp or something like that. My girlfriend used it as a daily for years, and it's never missed a beat.

I do like an E30, would love a 320 Touring.  E30 and E34 arguably the best BMWs in terms of looks and quality.   I can see you also have an emotional attachment to that one.  

I love my E46 Compact, wanted one for years but had to wait until they were cheap enough for my pocket.  I can't imagine ever selling it as I had to wait to long to get it.     I do like old BMW's cars and bikes.  If I won the lottery I would have many.  

[Clive]

14 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

It won't be enough

Off you go. 

Oh.. wait a minute.   

[Saul]

18 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Fucking hell it's fucking freezing here!

Picked my Girl up from College this morning, -7.5C in fecking Cornwall for feck sake.   

[Six30]

3 hours ago, Pedro said:

 

Inspected, insured, and sort of washed. It’s now officially mine, too, since I ended up buying it. Will be here for grocery getting and the odd dinner out.

center caps for the wheels please 

[Pedro]

23 minutes ago, Six30 said:

center caps for the wheels please 

Sadly stolen a long time ago. And these center hubs are insane to buy.

They stole the front badge at the same time too, how she cried...

Hate scum that steals stuff like that.

[Sir Fallsalot]

1 hour ago, Saul said:

Picked my Girl up from College this morning, -7.5C in fecking Cornwall for feck sake.   

Yup it was a bit nippy today @Saul, I was north of you in Tenby, It was -8.5c when i arrived this morning and i was working outside in it, never went above 2c all day. I have been working in temperatures below freezing all week, but never mind about my easy job lets hear some more about how hard Pete's getting it in his warm office pressing those spring loaded keys on his keyboard for a living, must be absolute hell 

[XTreme]

3 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

lets hear some more about how hard Pete's getting it in his warm office pressing those spring loaded keys on his keyboard for a living must be absolute hell

[Pedro]

9 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Yup it was a bit nippy today @Saul, I was north of you in Tenby, It was -8.5c when i arrived this morning and i was working outside in it, never went above 2c all day. I have been working in temperatures below freezing all week, but never mind about my easy job lets hear some more about how hard Pete's getting it in his warm office pressing those spring loaded keys on his keyboard for a living must be absolute hell 

Warm office? Think again, he only runs the heating for one hour in the morning!

[XTreme]

30 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Warm office? Think again, he only runs the heating for one hour in the morning!

One hour of the Pellet Burner belting out the heat is fine until the evening as it's still quite mild.

[boboneleg]

2 hours ago, Saul said:

I do like an E30, would love a 320 Touring.  E30 and E34 arguably the best BMWs in terms of looks and quality.   I can see you also have an emotional attachment to that one.  

I love my E46 Compact, wanted one for years but had to wait until they were cheap enough for my pocket.  I can't imagine ever selling it as I had to wait to long to get it.     I do like old BMW's cars and bikes.  If I won the lottery I would have many.  

This is my neighbours E34 Alpina B10, he just leaves it out on the road in all sorts of shitty weather and it hardly gets driven.  Surely that's not the way to treat a car like that ...........

 

 

 

[Pedro]

Just now, boboneleg said:

This is my neighbours E34 Alpina B10, he just leaves it out on the road in all sorts of shitty weather and it hardly gets driven.  Surely that's not the way to treat a car like that ...........

 

 

 

An E39 is a tough car, though

[Tango]

Got another calendar today! There's a weird tradition here that the firemen, bin men, postie, etc come round on the run up to Christmas for their tips, but they're not allowed to just accept money. So you "buy" a calendar from them for whatever you think appropriate.  I don't know what the rules are, but the French are very creative in finding ways around them!

Anyway, anyone want to buy a calendar?

[boboneleg]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

An E39 is a tough car, though

Is it an E39 , my bad @Pedro I'm not at all au fait with BMW's . He also has a 2008 BMW 650 like this 

 

[Saul]

Don't see that many E39's now, you can still just about get a decent one for banger money but they are going up.   Not Alpinas obs. Great Cars.  

[Saul]

33 minutes ago, Tango said:

Got another calendar today! There's a weird tradition here that the firemen, bin men, postie, etc come round on the run up to Christmas for their tips, but they're not allowed to just accept money. So you "buy" a calendar from them for whatever you think appropriate.  I don't know what the rules are, but the French are very creative in finding ways around them!

Anyway, anyone want to buy a calendar?

Still allowed to tip here.  I always look after the bin men, always good to keep them onside.    

[Pedro]

28 minutes ago, Saul said:

Don't see that many E39's now, you can still just about get a decent one for banger money but they are going up.   Not Alpinas obs. Great Cars.  

I once took an E38 740d off a client for dent payment, it was 500000km with worn out everything but would cruise the A2 across souther Portugal at 230kmh with nothing but a hum! Going that fast with that worn suspension bushings felt like steering a small fishing boat over rough seas

 

That was a classy car and I would own another if ever found a nice manual one with the right seats.

[Saul]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I once took an E38 740d off a client for dent payment, it was 500000km with worn out everything but would cruise the A2 across souther Portugal at 230kmh with nothing but a hum! Going that fast with that worn suspension bushings felt like steering a small fishing boat over rough seas

Another stunning looking car.  Not my thing but if I had continents to cross that would be a good choice.    You can still get a tidy one here for £2000 but you also see nice ones for £20,000.   I like the smaller nimble Beemers.  E36/E46 Compact or even Z3. 

[Pedro]

20 minutes ago, Saul said:

Another stunning looking car.  Not my thing but if I had continents to cross that would be a good choice.    You can still get a tidy one here for £2000 but you also see nice ones for £20,000.   I like the smaller nimble Beemers.  E36/E46 Compact or even Z3. 

Nothing like a compact, here's my 318ti

 

From 1:05 on this video, too:

 

 

 

[Saul]

28 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Nothing like a compact, here's my 318ti

 

From 1:05 on this video, too:

 

 

 

Cool, I love my E46 318Ti also, right engine, right gearing, right balance, right car.   Of course I may be bit biased.   I bought it 3 years ago with just 60,000 miles, new cam chain as well for good measure.   Can't find any decent photos of it right now but do have them some where. 

When I was Saab mad I used to do track days mostly at Castle Coombe and Thruxton.  Kids came along and took the budget for those high jinx.

The E83 is my wife's money pit.  

 

[Buckster]

Last of the real Saabs. 

[Pedro]

43 minutes ago, Saul said:

 

 

Lovely car! The E46 would have been a lot more balanced for track driving, no?

[Saul]

9 hours ago, Buckster said:

Last of the real Saabs. 

In my mind the two door T16 without the S body kit on 16" Super Aeros was the purest of them but I was a Saab geek.  I do still miss my 99T two door and I could geek on about that for pages.  But you are right once GM became involved things went down hill.   Do have a soft spot for the 9000 which was not a GM inspired product although did get a GM V6.  

[Saul]

7 hours ago, Pedro said:

 

Lovely car! The E46 would have been a lot more balanced for track driving, no?

Classic Saab 900 was a surprisingly good handling car, the 99 was better IMHO but you are right the E46 a much better more modern developed package in many ways.    Thing is with those old Saabs you have to compare them to their contemporaries to appreciate how good they were.  Back in the days when 100 BHP was a lot for a car the Saab 900 was head and shoulders above most mainstream offerings.    Not just in power, the double wishbone front suspension was awesome.  My C900 in that picture had 200,000 miles on it and was running 200 BHP without hiccup.  The motor could have produced much more but the gearbox was the Achilles heel in that model.   

Again though a lot of modern cars blow both the E46 and c900  into the weeds in every measurable way but it's all about they way they feel.    Whoops nearly let the geek out, its alright I have put him away again.  

 

[Catteeclan]

If one of my household told me they were getting a Beemer I'd kick them square in the nuts. Breakdowns involving self igniting egr valves, limp mode due to gear change position faults.
Most of the older ones along with some mercs and VWs are being bought up by the immigrants and chavs who promptly remove the DPFs turning them into even more unreliable polluting bags of stinking crap.

Most cars built between 1996 and 2006 were some of the best ever, that has long since passed.
 

[Catteeclan]

My long term friend who recently died had a long spell with Saabs. We'd jump in and thrash it to where ever we were going to have a walk. Derbyshire, Dorset, they just soaked it all up.
He had a silver aero which was "a motorbike on four wheels", his words.