E21 & Classic BMW meeting Bangkok, Thailand - Feb 16

[Jeroen]

NOTE: all the latest info on this upcoming meeting is gathered in this 1st post!

I'm in Bangkok for a couple of days and together with the great help of the admin and core members of http://www.bmwclassicthailand.com - http://www.bmwe12thailand.com and http://www.bmwe12-e28thailand.com we have established the following mini-meeting with a bunch of E21/Classic BMW owners.

When: Sunday February 16, 2014 starting around 15:00 hrs
Location: Khinlom Chom Saphan Restaurant, Bangkok

Spread the word if you know some more people or websites, or let me know!
Thanks and I hope I can meet up with some fanatics from the other side of the globe!

Also see on Facebook:

Many thanks to Att, Pitisak, Pong and Chula for making this possible!

[Att]

Hello Jeroen,

Looking forward to meet you soon!!!

[pitisak]

Have a good time in Thailand.
See you in Bangkok.

Pitisak

[Jeroen]

So as part of a 3-week tour of Thailand we were also able to have a meeting there. With help from CK, webmaster of BMW Classic Thailand (http://www.bmwclassicthailand.com) a meeting was set up on short notice.

So I was already impressed to see 5 classic BMW's parked when we drove up, but they just kept coming! In total 16 classic Bimmers turned up: 2000 NK, E3, E12, E28, E30 and 8 pcs E21's! Met CK and his wonderful E12 and also long time forum member Pitisak with his mint E21. All nice cars and enthusiastic and kind owners! After a lot of tire kicking, small talk and photos it was time to sit down at the riverside restaurant for a genuine Thai dinner, with nearly all participants! Great conversation over good food and the occasional beer. After dinner we drove Pong's beautiful 320. The M10 on Webers sounded good across nightly Bangkok!

Pong also showed us around Bangkok for a couple of days and was great company which truly contributed to make the stay in Thailand perfect. A few days later we flew over to Chiang Mai where we also met up with forum member Att for a great night out. Thanks to all in Thailand, it was a true pleasure meeting you. I hope to be able to add a photo report of the meeting here in a couple of days, but the photos can already be found on the Facebook page and group. Will make a brief separate topic on the rest of the trip later as well. For now, I'll leave you with a little teaser from the meeting.

[pitisak]

Hi Jeroen,


This is the lInk to our meeting pictures posted by Khun Chula.
You may not understand Thai but pictures can say by themselves f ha ha ha.

http://bmwe12thailand.com/board/index.p ... 540.0.html

[croma_man]

question for mr. pitisak

what colour code is this E21 ?

[pitisak]

question for mr. pitisak

what colour code is this E21 ?

I don't have exact color code.
I just try make it look like "016 Iberischrot Bright red".

[Jeroen]

Nice report indeed Pitisak, thought that was the original thread so I never checked that one out. Until CK and you pointed me there lol

[Jeroen]

Here are the long awaited photos from the Bangkok meet!





Pitisak's car:

















Yups, easier to source: Toyota power







Nice set of butts! We'll take a closer look at the black car, Pong's immaculate example with a 2 litre M10 in a set of carbs that produces a lovely song!





























Time to introduce the owners to you!













Pitisak:



CK from BMW Classic Thailand:















Pong:



These gentlemen wanted a Baur, but never being imported there it is hard to get one registered. So they're building one E30 Baur themselves at the moment!















Special visitor











Try to get this bunch organised!

















Dinner time! Great food during a sunset dinner along the banks of the Chao Phraya river







Pleasant surprise by a latecomer

















Time to call it the day, but in style by taking Pong's carbs -and the rest!- through nightly Bangkok!
Once again, many thanks for a wonderful reception and a great day!

A little bonus: E21 seen in the wild in the streets of Bangkok the next day!



And one more, we saw BMW testing their latest prototype in the streets of Ayutthaya!

[Jeroen]

And a little video:

[323baur]

I missed something
I do like the speedometer, which is red lined from 120km/h!

[Jeroen]

From 100 even, it must be in miles

[uwbuurman]

Nice pic's, must be very nice to meet all these people, sharing the same BMW-madness, even all the way over in Thailand!

[Jeroen]

Thanks guys, yup to have a meeting like that all the way over there was really amazing. We have to thank the active Thai community for that, but it was great to meet enthusiasts with the same mindset all the way over there, and to meet long time forum members like Pitisak (and Att at a later stage as he lives further north). Thinking very much alike and yet live so far apart, then you have to grab a chance like this!

[pitisak]

All photos are very nice.
Specially for the one of my big smile in E21.