New Car Day!

EdGrip

Well. The shit old Beetle that I have been driving around was on a long-term loan to me, and the owner has just sold it. So I needed a car.

I have always fancied a late-80s era E30 BMW - the last time BMW made a good-looking car. 

So I drove up to Liverpool yesterday and bought one. It's very, very clean - and a smooth drive. It's got a boring noisy powerflow chav exhaust that I'll get rid of at some point when I have more money.

And, of course, because it's me, it has decided today that it won't start. Hopefully nothing too serious - taking it to the mechanic tomorrow. Fuck fuck fuck bollocks. 

Anyway. Here you go. Family photo, as they say.

mrkb

Pretty nice, but have you been pulled over for drug dealing already!?! ;-)

Gassage

@edgrip

I heard your putting the band back together?

chillidoggy

Top Tip - Simply wear a baseball cap on back to front rather than removing a noisy exhaust.

mudslide73

Gassage said:

@edgrip

I heard your putting the band back together?

He traded the Beetle for a microphone. 

ROOG

mudslide73 said:

Gassage said:

@edgrip

I heard your putting the band back together?

He traded the Beetle for a microphone. 

I love that film :0)

not_the_dj

I bet you're good at hill starts.

TinLip

I want the police cruiser. Is that a Crown Victoria?

TTony

EdGrip said:

So I drove up to Liverpool yesterday and bought one.

That's not the usual way of acquiring cars in Liverpool.

EdGrip

RE: Drug dealer car - not yet! My general aim is to subvert all the BMW Driver stereotypes and as such call the whole thing a conceptual art piece.

The cruiser is an '89 Chevrolet Caprice. Picked it up at the USAF military police auction. It's an old USAF military police car. They were practically giving 'em away! It's got a cop motor - a 5 cubic litre plant. It's got cop tyres; cop suspension; cop shocks. It's the model featured in the film Terminator 2, so it'll run good with a driver made of liquid metal. 

Being in the heart of Norfolk, the ground here is famously flat. I had in fact just tilted the camera to make the image edgy and dynamic like on the cover of Max Power etc. Top tip.

Non-start fault turned out to be a worn ignition switch. There's a knack.

thisisguitar

That car just makes me think of 'Gomez - Get Myself Arrested' :-)

holnrew

Does the police cruiser still have a siren?

EdGrip

Yup. ^_^

RaymondLin

That Police car is epic beyond words. 

chillidoggy

I like the idea of the magazine cover, but I think you've missed a trick there. You could really do with some young bird in a tracksuit with a Croydon facelift draped over the bonnet for full effect. Oh, and a pushchair in the foreground.

xmrchi

^^don't forget the can of special brew

EdGrip

Stereo's broken too. All it plays is Fun Lovin' Criminals.

chillidoggy

mrchi said:

^^don't forget the can of special brew

Special Brew? Are you crazy? It'd be own-branded high-strength lager, the brewer of which no-one's ever heard of, not anything vaguely 'expensive', and Lambini's the usual tipple round here. You clearly are very posh indeed, and should therefore dress down and go visit some less fortunate areas of the environs to see how the plebs live their lives.

stickyfiddle

Awesome cars, E30s 

My Dad had a lovely green one. Most have been dicked about with by now, same as old Impreza Turbos, but looks like yours hasn't though, which is excellent  

The only major thing I'm aware of on those is cam belts - they have a tendency to shred an engine if they die before you replace em!

chillidoggy

My mate has a BMW E30 diesel estate that's nearly done 290,000 miles.

EdGrip

@chillidoggy - that's reassuring to know! This one's only done 90,000. So far. 

@stickyfiddle - this is a 318iS, so it's got the 16v 1.8 engine that became standard on the cars that followed in the 90s - it's got a cam chain rather than a belt. Win!