e30 paint job *new pics*

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Sorry the pics are so small, and that the white balance is HORRIBLE, camera phone can’t cope with a mix of fluorescent, daylight and halogen where it was parked for now. Hopefully it will be all put back together this week!! Not in the picture (well, barely visible in the trunk) is the smoked MHW tails and front turns, euro bumper trim. I decided to go sort of hybrid-mtech2 and keep the plastic front and rear bumpers but with the lower valances and combine that with the e36-m3-style side skirts. Color is E60 M5 Sepang Bronze Metallic. The guys at the shop keep teasing me about my “brown” BMW :wink: The “bright” areas around the windshield are just a reflection of the area UNDER where the glass will be, they sanded / painted into the edges so you won’t see the original white - I am putting on black trim and we’re painting the window trim to “shadowline” it (I had wanted to get OEM pieces but the used ones for sale all seemed incomplete). Windshield broke coming out but the old one was badly pitted from age/miles and the glass guys felt bad so they are really hooking me up.

I am getting a new black headliner put in by a local shop and eventually might get black carpet. We left the under-hood stuff alone, it will get sandblasted and painted black when I get around to saving up for a swap (probably next year, I’ve been debating euro s52 vs other options, don’t need stupid power). The paint job also serves as a nice reminder to me that it’s my DD not a race car lol… Every time I get tempted to gut / cage / strip it the whole “… but you JUST repainted it!” argument can steer me clear…

So far I’m VERY excited to see the rust fixed and the new paint!!

Looks nice and shiny. I should have my car to that stage very soon.

:tup:

Very nice choice on the color. Kind of like a darker pewter color. Looks sharp from what I can see.

:tup: x 10 Even with the not so great pictures it looks really nice!

nice quad

i know kevin has one for sale, not sure if it’s this one :wink:

looks sharrp

Hotness :tup: I love that paint color!

That’s gonna be one purty E30…

Looking good.

So do you have another winter beater?

nothing says you have a problem like modifying/fixing up your winter beater.

car looks great and i’m jealous of you on all automotive aspects of your life.

:tup: As I dont remember if I responded to your email or not (the weekend is a complete haze)

hot. still not a fan of the sideskirts though

are you putting a spoiler on the trunk lid too?!

euro s52 is a hot swap. 280hp, itb’s out of the box.

I can’t tell, but is that cardinal interior?

forgot to add: very hot project overall. :tup:

this car is looking real fly. :tup:

hotness

I want an e30 sooooooooo bad. Hot car

i could be convinced to sell my 90 325is

yeah, mtech-2 spoiler :smiley: and yes it’s cardinal w/ sport seats (heated, and working, at that). they’re a LITTLE rough (small tear on the psgr bolster) but the backs are freaking MINT and I’m probably going to get them recovered in a year or two when they really need it.