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westy's 1985 BMW E30 "Alice"


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Looking good, what colour finnish you going for?

Man looks like you have a sweet house location!

I was gunna use this Imola red maybe with some white stripes/race car.

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Pretty close to right shade in that pic.

The other colour was a satin silver/cant do that now can I ha.

Imma stick with the RK's for the moment.

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Without trying to sound like slam is everything, but is there a reason you didnt build it lower from the start?

A satin finish would be sweet, but its hard as everyone has different opinions on how they would build it.

Few reasons, front arms are past 1/2way already (roll centre correction pins are available), steel edge on the inner guard area, gravel road at the end of the drive, wanna be able to hammer it elsewhere without worrying about it, kinda think it suits it and I'm 38.

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Im only ever doing satin cars from now on unless im paying someone to do the paintjob. So much work getting car straight. mab easier on a newer car.

Def true.

This car was pretty good to start with, so makes it a lot easier.

I painted a kitchen in a 2part silver that was available in different gloss levels. Was quite easy to use and reasonable tuff but dust is a pain cause you cant wet sand and polish.

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So, the race committee finally decided I could enter this thing.

Now I have to decide if I want to ha.

If I do, I'll be remaking the body bits in GRP or some sort. Makes all sorts of other issues a hell of a lot more simple though....

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yeah... like i was going to mention painting a BMW a Renault color on Bimmersport...

so true that it hurrrts.

Can't just say light silver or dark red though. Omg schwartz alpine hellrot techno bronzit polaris silver.

Also,

http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/ind ... opic=24369

lol'd.

Seems you know a few of them ha.

Know what you mean though. However, Toyota/Nissan/Merc probably have just as many.

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