leichtbau

Bilt Hamber is incredible stuff. Hammerite I’ve only used on ships, but with great results.

All 260’s are 5 spd. 260/6 is the M30 bellhousing bolt pattern, 260/5 the M20. 265 has a removable bellhousing.

How much was the new windscreen and where from if you don’t mind me asking? Was it one colour or with a top tint?

There’s well over 40 still on the road in NZ. The number of them mint or fully restored significantly lower. The last properly restored MT2 for sale went to Australia pretty quickly. Good luck with your search.

Gus I’m going with the Aussie RHD reps on the Evo, waiting for the border to reopen so I can use some cheap Air NZ labour to save on freight.

Courier delivered the Alpina piston rings I’d ordered pre-lockdown. So I moved them from the post office box to beside the block.

I loved the blackline lights for the pfl E90, it’s a shame they didn’t do a similar cluster for the FL.

Shouldn’t the guy working for BMW know that clear taillights have been a retrofit option on the 5 series since the E60? The wheels on the OP car are Kelleners Sport btw, they’ve been a bmw tuner since the 80’s.

Wisdom there. The only bmw that has had better seats than the Sport option is the E39 with the comfort seat option. edit: anyone with an E82 should snap those seats up immediately. edit 2: those seats are from the most modded from factory 1M in NZ, it had every single BMW Performance option available to the 1M back in 2011, and then got KW V3 coil overs, 20” BBS wheels, and an akrapovic exhaust before they became a bmw supplier.

Counterpoint: the car (at one point) had most of the Schnitzer E46 catalogue on it, and came out of one of the most expensive to live countries in the world. It really isn’t beyond the realms of possibility to think that the original owner changed the colour of the car at the same time, and had a proper job done.

Vapour blasting would take the metal back to steel, then you spray the bay with no clear in your gun. It’s incredibly simple to mimic paint finish as poor as BMW have been outputting over the last 20 years. The challenge really is to get as much orange peel into the clear as they seem to.

I’m eyeing those up as well, so would like to hear your thoughts on them when you bolt them up.

Classic Alfa to replace an already unreliable V6 with an even worse version. The 159 should have at least come with the longitudinal version of the GM high feature V6. The pick of the range is the 2.4 diesel, which seems blasphemous in an Alfa.

Stamped or badged?

Just need a purple one now!

I’d buy this https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-2636647300.htm and spend the rest on refreshing the engine for piece of mind.

They’re chalk and cheese. The C32K is an E36 M3 for grown ups. That wagon down in chch would be my pick, but it’s over priced. They‘ll be considered some of AMG’s finest work in the coming years.

So those were shill bids at the end correct? I’ve just been offered it for $16k.

Tank is the same as the 6 cylinder and touring models, the 63L version. Sport Evo used the smaller 55L tank.

Wow, someone got a steal! No wonder they sold so quickly. The BTB headers are one of the few that legitimately give a power increase on the M20.

Schwarz instead of Carbon Black is always nice. Early car so it won’t have the MK60 ABS unit. I believe this is the first ever M3 into NZ as well (kiwi new I mean, ignoring that pre production LSB example).

It's a genuine Alpina, a cursory look in the engine bay reveals the crossed out WBA vin with the WAP Alpina vin stamped below it, which was usual for the cars before Alpina cars started going down the same production line as the rest of BMW's. I disagree about the seat striping issue, most E46 Alpina cars from Nicole BMW (the japan Alpina source) have the seat stripe on opposing sides, so it makes sense for the earlier generation to have run the same fabric. Blue dials and orange needles in the cluster is also a clue, albeit one that could be faked. I think chalk it down to a car that's had its rear seat changed, everything else matches.