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...when you drive your Luger project (the green car below for the uninitiated) 500 yards from one storage shed to another, never getting out of first gear because you can only select the gears in the top half of the 'H', with virtually no brakes to stop you but perversely a front caliper that's binding so you can't push it...
And for all of this you get out of the car with a big sh*t-eating grin on your face, like you've just got a free blowjob from a page 3 girl who says she gonna tell all her mate to came 'round and 'have a go'!

Your sat in the sun in Cornwall wondering how the work on your brakes is going and wishing it was here!

when you look at the sunshine today and think... Dammmm! why is my car not back on the road yet!!! like now.... (still waiting for mick to ring back!!!)

or debating over the alpina front valance or the original factory spec look... chrome or de chromed?...decisions decisions...

You know you drive an e21 when...


You have to pump the k-jet baffle plate cause it constantly seizes.

You have to find a headunit that will work on more than a 25 degree angle.

Car wont start and you have to hit the ignition relay

Constantly find new glovebox handles because your friends keep breaking them.

Instantly break into a sweat when you hear DOGLEG, LSD and RECARO.

You've been without your car for 21 days and are counting the hours till you get it back again.

72 hours to go....hopefully.

+1 to Mark's latest post! : I am always looking for little silly reasons to go to the parking and look for something I may have forgotten in the car, or add some water in the windshield washer tank, or change the cds in the cd-wallet etc-actually just to see the e21 once again!!!

but also,

You know you drive an E21 when....

You recognise, one by one all the other E21s in your neighbourhood, and around your house in a radius of at least 10 blocks !!!!

You think about adding up all the money you've spent on your car but bottle out at the last minute.

RetroBeemer wrote:You think about adding up all the money you've spent on your car but bottle out at the last minute.

Then feel sick !!

When you haven't driven an E21 on the road for coming up to three years. I can't see mine on the road until this time next year, through choice though.

You get all excited about getting your car back only to be gutted when a phone call tell you it'll be another week.

RetroBeemer wrote:You get all excited about getting your car back only to be gutted when a phone call tell you it'll be another week.

Oh poo,Is that from fixing the spoiler scrape?

...when the local kids on the way home from school point and say it looks 'Sick' (I hope that's a good thing)

02Man wrote:

RetroBeemer wrote:You get all excited about getting your car back only to be gutted when a phone call tell you it'll be another week.

Oh poo,Is that from fixing the spoiler scrape?

...when the local kids on the way home from school point and say it looks 'Sick' (I hope that's a good thing)

No, the brakes etc.

Sick? It's if they say ''butters'' you need to worry! I think?

Who knows? Way to old now,thankfully

RetroBeemer wrote:You get all excited about getting your car back only to be gutted when a phone call tell you it'll be another week.

i know EXACTLY how you feel mark. it's not nice, especially if yours is a daily driver and have to cycle everywhere when it's gone