Shorty

That is so true, I used to pop on here every now and again to see what was happening in bimmerworld.

Thanks, I didn't mention my first car - a mini, it was poo brown and auto when I got it, reverse was blown so out came the 1000cc engine and in went a 1300cc engine with a manual box another mission with dad.. I'm pretty proud of the cars i have owned (minus the starlet) - My 325 coupe in my signature pic, I sold that and some one ended up writing it off. I only just got my beemer on Monday and had been looking for about a month and stumbled upon my 318is coupe that i made manual, it was at Turners DVA, a write off, tried buying it back but it went for too much in the end, was planning on using it as a doner car. On the topic of my old cars, does anyone on here own or know who owns my 318 e30 (in my signature pic) I have seen it once or twice since I sold it and am always hopeful that it will go up for sale so I can buy her back..

Been hiding either at work (the Kingslander - in Kingsland) or at home in Takanini

Hey all, I'm Shantelle, but you can all call me shorty. I first found this site when I had my first Beemer, my white E30 318is coupe manual, I sold that and ventured on to a E36 325i coupe auto, I then got bored with the auto trans, so imported a silver E36 318is coupe auto and did a manual conversion - great learning experience and time to chill with dad. I then ventured away from BMW to my other passion Subaru, I ended up with a 98 Stb Forester, now that I have bought a house, and my car was going to be parked outside, I decided to get something thats not a target for theives, I ended up with a 96 toyota starlet glanza turbo - I was happy for about a week, then reality hit me, so I'm back now with a 94 purple 325is Coupe, manual, with the dove grey leather interior. I will post pic's as soon as I have taken some, need to give her a clean first.

Its near Mt Eden, In Auckland.. Thats what I did last year for Bathurst, Big telly, surround sound.. Mean!! It always sux when you run out of beer tho

Hey everyone!! Been a long time since I been on here.. I'm working at the Kingslander, in Kingsland... We are showing Bathurst live throughout the whole day!! Opening from 10am for brunch.. BBQ will be going in the afternoon.. Hopefully a couple of NZV8 cars will be there, and a couple drivers. Also it's Oktoberfest at the bar, until the 20th of October meaning that you can purchase a Kingslander Stein for $20 its yours to keep and you can refill it for $10 until the 20th of October. There are 15 screens in the bar to catch the v8 action so why not come down and show your true colours (I know they ain't bimmers) but it will still be an enjoyable day. I think the Auckland Mini club is going to be there... so we should show them up!! Hope to see you all there Shorty

Yea how the hell do you have two silver tourings in the same place at the same time? I have always wanted one!!! they are just soooo cool and different. Here is a pic of my E30 I put the bodykit on it and lowered it on jamex lowring springs, Im not sure how low it dropped though. But I could only just get it in the garage at night with out cracking the sump. Also a pic of my current beema, my E36 318 manual coupe, its lowered on superlow bilstein springs but once again im not sure how much it has dropped sorry.

Welcome, my younger brother (17 years old) just bought his first beema yesterday a little red E30 4 door 316 auto, i will post some pics of it, and my cousin of the same age bought a green 4dr e36 318 auto last week, i will get some pics of that too, just love how they copy me hahaha, except for the whole 2 door and 4 door thing. but anyway welcome to the forums and hope you enjoy your new beema

Yea go the holden!!!! nice ride, check out mine for some ideas if ya like, its in the rides showroom under shorty's e36 coupe or something. Im loving the wheels,they suit the car. for the side skirts try European Autospares in Manukau, I got some M3 style ones from there, traded my old standard ones so as far as I know they have a set of standard E36 sideskirts.

I'm stunned, don't even know what to say.....

That is correct hence the pink in my signature, all my mates know that that pink is my signature colour - its the same colour as the pink badge on a SUBARU WRX STI

I been thinking about the GT splitters, they would be awesome, but I think my baby might be too low for them, i would be dramatised if i happened to rip them off on the kerb in a car park, but they would look awesome....I'm going to put more thought into it i think

true I will look into that would love a personalised one though but they are just crazy expensive, considering you can replace a standard one for like $20 (im probably wrong) its probably cheaper then that. But I suppose I could just get mine done on a EURO plate

The background is on symmonds street. If you take the symmonds street off ramp when you go to town, you will come to a set of lights at the top of it,go straight (over symmonds st) then its the first driveway on the left, its in like a car park, very horrible pot holes in the entrance but if your careful then its all good. I used it as a backdrop to take photos of one of my mates cars and they turned out awesome so I used it for mine

I managed to score some super low bilstein springs off trade me. its got standar shocks though = bottoms out too much they are too soft, but it looks nice. I wanted the mags since i had my E30

Thats why i didn't get the chrome look ones, black is where its at

I would love Euro plates, i wanted a personalised one that said shorty but thats obviously long gone as are most variations, also being a student i cant justify spending that kind of money on a plate but oneday when im not studying its definitly on the cards. I will look in to the splitters and wing. I was also thinking of the rear spoiler that goes at the top of the rear screen, but thats the least of my worries. About the tint % i have 20% on my rear windows, when the car is checked on the inside with a light meter it should be 35% so I should not have the 20%'s on my rear windows but I'm to sore pocket wise to replace them, if it fails the next warrent I will rectify it but at the moment it doesn't seem to be a problem. I know most people don't like the indicators, at first i wasn't sure whether to put them on but since I couldn't get hold of a standard clear one at the time of getting my black coupe on the road, I just stole the ones off one of dads cars but he wanted them back to help sell the car. I think they are better then the chrome backed ones, especially when they were on my 325

Hey everyone, I finally took some quick pics of my car, now that it is manual and I have fixed the fabric on my door panels. I have retrimmed the door panels with black fabric. My dad converted it to manual so its so much more fun to drive. and the other major problem I had with it was the fact that the cat converter in it had no baffel inside it, so it sounded horrible, so dad made up a new exhaust system for me, it now has no cat and a coby middle muffler and a cooper at the rear with a twin tip, sounds soooooo much better. Since I put the twin tip on i needed to change the rear valance of the m3 bumper to a 6cyl one so the hole was bigger. When I first got it I put the 18's on it, and I had a 15" sub in the boot, which has now been replaced by two 12"s, I have an alpine headdeck, JVC components at the rear and pioneer components at the front. I originally tinted the windows myself but they didn't pass the warrent so I got the two front windows and the rear screen done and just left the two rears as they were. All that I want to do now is get hold of an M3 Evo 2 piece spoiler. Hope you enjoy the pics. comments are welcomed... can anyone think of anything else that needs to be done??

I'm pretty sure that European has rare ones for the E30 not sure about the front though. And they have a racing dynamics one for a 6cyl front, and another unbranded 6cyl front which they just got it, I wanted one of them but they wont fit my car because its a 4cyl

Some people have way too much money, for the money spent on that car they could have had the best of both worlds and just purchased an E36 coupe and a GTR. Its pretty impressive though, i do like the GTR's but at the end of the day a BMW should just stay a BMW.

hmmm so thats why my E30 and E36 dont have cup holders, because bmw cant design decent ones

My dad has this problem too!! not long ago we owned 8 bmw's in our family of 4 which 3 or us are fully licensed drivers, we are now down to four - my E36 318is coupe, mum'm E46 323i sedan, dad's E39 525i, and his E46 328ci. Since he has sold some of our beemas he has taken ownership of 15 mini's not all of them are driveable, some are parts cars to help restore the worth while ones. but there are still 15 of them! He has two mini utes (factory) a mini van all original, a mini clubman van, he is restoring a mini cooper 's', all the rest are just typical little mini's. He has just recently imported two mini's from Japan, they are the oldskool shape but the are from the years 1999 and 2000. one is auto. they have air con and are fuel injected 1300cc. When they are all complied i will post some pics they are mean one has a nice leather interior. but if you think thats an obsession, I will take some time one day to take some photos of his mini model collection, I reckon he has more then 500 model mini's :s

Yea STI pink rocks my world (thats my fav. pink!!!)

Hey now what is wrong with pink??

oh hahahahaha yea one of my mates made it something stupid so i changed it to one of the first things that grabbed my attention hehehe