Saphire Blue 1981 323i

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:41 am

Hello people, here are some pics and info about my car:

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2078260

Greetings,
Carlo

Mat (of e30 fame) · Post by **Mat (of e30 fame)** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:07 pm

Your link doesn't seem to work

Madhatter · Post by **Madhatter** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:12 pm

worked for me earlier, then cardomain said they are going to be down for maintenance, thats probably why.

Mat (of e30 fame) · Post by **Mat (of e30 fame)** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:30 pm

Theres a rational explanation for everything.......

gerrit323 · Post by **gerrit323** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:39 pm

I would like a daily driver like that too

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:59 pm

Seems to be working again...
It is a pretty nice daily driver, but living in Amsterdam with a car like this isn't too good for your heart... I've had it broken into (broken driver's side window) and had several parking damages. Fortunately I am really well insured so any damage is instantly repaired. Unfortunately they don't pay for a dented kidney, which I have about once a year due to parking pigs... So I buy 'bout every used kidney I can lay my hands on, right now I have five nice ones in stock

gerrit323 · Post by **gerrit323** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:29 pm

Know what you mean about the kidneys.
When I bought my e21 the kidney was also damaged, replaced it by a new one and since she's not my daily driver I hope it stays like that for a while

Gerrit

Tjaard · Post by **Tjaard** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:36 pm

Nice wheels

varden · Post by **varden** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:10 am

damn thats nice

1979BMW · Post by **1979BMW** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:27 am

Nice car!

How long did it take you to do the body work?
How long did you work on it every day?

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:55 pm

Thanx Tjaard! Whatever happened to the brown tinted windows..?
Unfortunately, since that might not have been clear, let me confess that I don't do that much work on the car myself... No room, no time, probably not enough knowledge (well I do know quite a lot about E21's but to put things into practice is a whole other ball game ofcourse

) So the bodyshop gets all the creds for making it look as it does. And I get the creds for putting a shit load of money into a 24 year old car

Tjaard · Post by **Tjaard** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:48 pm

Thanx Tjaard! Whatever happened to the brown tinted windows..?

they are with a new ower who bought the Iberischred 323i some time ago ... I had to move so no more room to do the work on the car needed

and that was a lot since the previous owner did a bad job fixing the car.

But somehow I managed to buy another (henna) red 323i about a year ago and put it in a rented storage. It is being sprayed now so it should be ready this winter.

http://www.bmwinfo.com/models/e211.jpg

http://www.bmwinfo.com/models/e212.jpg

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:09 pm

But somehow I managed to buy another (henna) red 323i about a year ago and put it in a rented storage. It is being sprayed now so it should be ready this winter.

http://www.bmwinfo.com/models/e211.jpg

http://www.bmwinfo.com/models/e212.jpg

Nice! I like the retro striping (which you're obviously are going to lose when it's resprayed...).

Tjaard · Post by **Tjaard** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:34 pm

The striping is original BMW and was proberly ordered by the previous (1st) owner ... car has about 93.000 KM.

Your car looks great

what month (1981?) is it? I notice you have the facelift type but wit the older style headrests, just like mine.

Carlo · Post by **Carlo** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:03 pm

I believe it's March '81. It's imported from Germany in 2001 though. I have the old style headrests since a while ago I bought an interior that had those. I still have the square ones, but I like the shape & fabric of these better. I also had a 4-cylinder ribcord interior for a while, which you can see in one of the pillar detail pics. But when I found a really nice 6-cylinder pacific interior, the ribcord obviously had to go