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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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They are BOTH absolutely gorgeous... What a lovely pair of cars!
Robert... My toolkit's bigger than yours... na, na, na, na, na!
Seriously guys, they both look amazing... and Robert... That was a great purchase...
Amazing boys.... _________________ Cosmo - 1985 BMW 325e, Single Owner, 265,000+ ORIGINAL miles and still going strong! But now on the East Coast and the salt air corrosion is eating my beautiful car alive...
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robert1700
Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 1398 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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If only I could keep my car clean, and those bottlecaps, they are the worst thing to try to keep nice.
I can not use the large tool kit because I have the cool euro trunk cover. hahahahaha _________________ 1987 325i Convertible
51,000+ miles
Sold to a friend car is now destroyed, such a same. |
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, the bottlecaps are tough to keep clean, but I can't believe much work the basketweaves are. When I get back, I'm going to order some kleenwheels. I've washed the basketweaves 3 times since I arrived and they're black again.
What's the "cool Euro trunk lid???" _________________ Cosmo - 1985 BMW 325e, Single Owner, 265,000+ ORIGINAL miles and still going strong! But now on the East Coast and the salt air corrosion is eating my beautiful car alive...
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dale
Joined: 22 Aug 1999 Posts: 3087 Location: Seattle, WA USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Look to the left of the toolkit in that pic, that trunk under-cover is what Robert is talking about.
Factory option, maybe accessory, cleans up the underside of the trunk lid.
Dale _________________ http://www.unofficialbmw.com
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Do you remember a member up here named fporro, or Frank Porro? He used to go to junk yards all the time. He's actually the one thata got me the large toolkit tray... He had a few of these at one point, but they needed a bit of cleaning up. He offered one to me but I turned it down, just cause I'm a purist. He may still have them or access to them if you want one... I think his email address was fporro@msn.com, but I haven't seen or heard from him for two years or so... As far as I recall, he wanted to send two to me, one that I could keep and the other to return to him after modifying it to handle the large toolkit... _________________ Cosmo - 1985 BMW 325e, Single Owner, 265,000+ ORIGINAL miles and still going strong! But now on the East Coast and the salt air corrosion is eating my beautiful car alive...
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cmcon98
Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 1844 Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Both are beautiful cars! I love the look of the rear headrests in a cabrio.
Decent cabrios are getting rare here in the northeast. People trash them by driving them in the winter or using them for cheap beach cars in the summer. The winter salt rusts them and the summer sun bakes the interiors to a crisp when they're left in beach or marina parking lots all day with the tops down. Nice, well-maintained examples are getting fewer and farther between. _________________ Cirrusblau '88 325iC 5-speed
Cosmosschwartz '99 M3 'vert 5-speed |
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85-325e
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Southampton, NY
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:07 am Post subject: |
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BTW Robert... that purist comment I made... I guess I didn't say it right. For a while, I had the dreaded wetness in the trunk... When Frank offered that cover to me, I kept thinking about the water that I had condensing all over everything in the trunk, getting trapped behind that euro cover, and rusting the trunk lid out, so I said no to it... but I was definitely intrigued and almost took it... _________________ Cosmo - 1985 BMW 325e, Single Owner, 265,000+ ORIGINAL miles and still going strong! But now on the East Coast and the salt air corrosion is eating my beautiful car alive...
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wazzu70
Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 838 Location: Issaquah, WA
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Rumor has it that the real cool kids have the Euro big tool kit with the emergency reflective triangle, and the triangle moulded into the cover I can't believe I dont have a picture of it anywhere though in all the ones I have of the car...
I guess I need to get a cabrio now so I can join the photoshoot next time _________________ -Nick
1984 BMW 325e
1991 BMW 325i
1976 Honda CB400F Super Sport
"The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten" |
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fporro
Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 218 Location: Hawaii
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