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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on June 29, 2001, 09:17:00 AM
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Now you just have to quit F4U, ride a Dora, and you will be the perfect Luftwabble :D
Congrats,
Pepe
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pretty in black ...
But you'll have to clean it each day ... :D
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This one does not belong to me, but in 90 days, one just like it. Thats what garages are for Straffo. :D
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Thats what garages are for Straffo :D
Ya but having a so pretty car and leaving it (her ?) in a garage what a gachis/loss ;)
muahaha :D
(I'm evil I know and I won't try to cure myself ;))
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Black is probably the most difficult color to keep up, must wash in one direction, wax in one direction, to prevent swirl marks..but hey, the price negotiated made up for the long term grief of maintaining this paint.
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Hehehehe, I had a black car once.....never again. I'm not sooooo disciplined :D
Cheers,
Pepe
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Yep got one black (well dirty back indeed ;))
And I've just one opinion : NEVER AGAIN :)
pretty but just plain boring ...
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You have a good taste Rip :)
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I will never buy anything but a black car...... gets dirty easily, but when it's clean........ Hell yea! :eek:
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Blah. I like cars older than me :)
[ 06-29-2001: Message edited by: Jigster ]
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Don't go for black in the UK - it is widely rumoured that the police like to play speedtrap snooker.
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Definitely true qts - I know a speed cop. :) But he might have been taking the p.
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Originally posted by Jigster:
Blah. I like cars older than me :)
[ 06-29-2001: Message edited by: Jigster ]
Same here Jig, er, used too...then a funny thing happened one day last year, a friend came over to borrow my F250 truck (which I am keeping) and dropped his '92 525 BMW off with me for the week-end. I never even gave a BMW a 2nd look on the road, could care less about them...then I drove it. The first day, the quality of the car and the way it handled slapped me in the face, and, to add insult to injury, the 2nd day of driving it, I looked down and saw 180,000 miles on it, here I was thinking all along the car had maybe 20 or 30k on it.
Recently, wife and I discussed holding off on a new Ford F350 diesel due to gas prices(old truck is now 10 yrs with 140,000 miles on it), and the fact that commuting 60 miles a day with the aforementioned would not be practical, so, a car was more practical. Then the last 5 weeks I started trying out every car there was, Audi's, BMW's, even a C205 Mercedes (thanks, nice car, but too much fluff for my taste)....then, I drove a 330Ci...and never looked back...this is NOT an expensive car, its the lowest price Beamer that the product line has, but the quality is still there, so is the 'get-up-and-go' (0-60 in 5.9 seconds) and my mid-life crisis is fulfilled with the 2 door coupe. :)
Sorry, I had to tell someone about it! It's technically my first new car, the last two the wife drove until they were both old, then I got her 'hand-me-downs'....but, its a good thing, cause now I got my own! ;)
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i once worked at a currency brokerage and my boss gave me some good advice on bmw's:
a 3 series says you are still working and coming up but that you have good taste. a 7 series says you have arrived. a 5 series says nothing - you should be one or the other: either making it or you're there - in between is wishy washy.
many will assuredly disagree but somehow it stuck with me and i am happy with my 325i.s. :)
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LOL MrFish!
"Good advice"? LOL!
The wealthiest man I know drives a Honda Accord to work. He's worth nearly a billion dollars. Kinda tells me that he's too smart to try and define his worth or status with a car :D
BTW.. if you're going hard-core status... any BMW merely says "Couldn't afford a nice Mercedes" :D
AKDejaVu
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Thats what garages are for Straffo. :D
Right, keep telling yourself that Rip. It rains even more up there then it does down here! ;)
SOB
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Well, I just want to assure you that it will be painful having to care for this car on a consistent basis... :p
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Status? Blah! Fug status, I want a nice fast car, that fulfills my mid-life crisis, that gets reasonable gas milege, and something that I can take to the track now and then and have some fun!
Now, how to get the gun rack attached to the back window? Any helpful hints? :cool:
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yeah... agreed that it is stupid to have your car 'say something' about you - one sure way to spot a teen on a prom date or a guy who just blew a week's earnings is to find the stretched limo with all the flash, as the millionaire will always be in a subtle towncar or something since they dont want people to notice and mooch off them! :)
- i never really thought of it as being about status, (though i am sure my boss did - he was from singapore wore a ton of gold and bad cologne and like talking about his money ad naseum) to me it is more something about the middle choice.
i agreed with him to the extent that you should either buy the best one or the most accessible one - a 5 series seems like a waste since you get roughly the same performance and a damn fine car from the 3 series. if you are gonna shell out that much for the 5, then why not just get the 7!?
i mean to me, the 5 series says you dont have enough cash for the best one but you desert the 3 series just because it is the least. which means you are probably buying it for the wrong reasons - "look mine's 2 better nya nya" i dunno it is a stupid argument either way - its totally subjective, i just have a 'thing' about the 5 series, so sue me. - ;)
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Simple answer to that Mr. Fish:
M5
AKDejaVu
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DJV you beet me to it.
M5 IMHO *the* best sports car you can get for anything around that price range. Blows toys like most of the viper series and the new and old nxs's out of the water, great car.
Good taste Rip, the 3.0L will hold you off a little longer then the others, but you'll still be puten a chip in it soon if you plan on going to the track.
Drive fast.
-AKHog
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Man does the dirt show up on that dark green Toyota Tundra I bought in Feb.
The truck is great, but it sure shows where its been.
Enjoy your beemer when you get it Rip. They are great cars.
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Ok Rip u took the first step man, now go buy urself a 109 or 190 and come back LW. Cuz we all know deep down in our hearts the German stuff is simply, ahh, umm, well Golly-geeit look at that BMW pic. :) :)
Enjoy!
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SWEEEEEET!!!
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Rip get a sunroof so your nose wont bump the headliner :D
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sho ore'
congrats! Car shoppin here too, nuttin that fancy though :)
Watching the movie "Finding Forrester" I discovered that the BMW emblem is representative of a propeller spinning in a blue sky as they made engines for the Luftwaffee during WWII.
(http://www.bmwusa.com/homeimages/icon.gif)
Eagler
[ 06-30-2001: Message edited by: Eagler ]
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Mid life crisis ripsnort?
Damn, I considered you YOUNG!
You're what, early 30's?
I expect to be a brat til I'm about 40, and then I'll mellow out til I hit 50 and the REAL mid life crisis.
:D
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It is what all the top executives at Boeing are now getting!!
Looks like Rip will be parking out in the South 40 taking up two parking spaces!! :)
Gman will have something to pick up chicks in!!!
GO GMAN GO!!!!!
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Originally posted by Eagler:
Watching the movie "Finding Forrester" I discovered that the BMW emblem is representative of a propeller spinning in a blue sky as they made engines for the Luftwaffee during WWII.
(http://www.bmwusa.com/homeimages/icon.gif)
Eagler
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wha? i dont agree with that. bmw stands for bavarian motor works (bayerisch motoren werke) and they take their symbol from the coat of arms of bavaria:
(http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/images/de-by)1.gif) movies are a bad place to learn things :)
[ 07-01-2001: Message edited by: mrfish ]
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Originally posted by mrfish:
wha? i dont agree with that. bmw stands for bavarian motor works (bayerisch motoren werke) and they take their symbol from the coat of arms of bavaria:
(http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/images/de-by)1.gif) movies are a bad place to learn things :)
[ 07-01-2001: Message edited by: mrfish ]
er humm, maybe some of both :)
how about this then:
http://www.lauderdalebmw.com/history/ (http://www.lauderdalebmw.com/history/)
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/automotive.htm (http://www.heraldica.org/topics/automotive.htm)
http://http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe =off&ic=1&th=ca0a3e5610f72d67,4&seekm=6fbhfr%24rba%241%40news.monmouth.com#p (http://http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&ic=1&th=ca0a3e5610f72d67,4&seekm=6fbhfr%24rba%241%40news.monmouth.com#p)
what do you mean, I learn all my history from movies ;)
Eagler
[ 07-01-2001: Message edited by: Eagler ]
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Both are true, the prop image and the Bavarian coat of arms. The two inspired the symbol together. BTW Eagler BMW made aircraft engines in WWI as well, for example they were used on Fokker D.VIIs along with the Mercedes inline 6 cyinders.
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ:
Both are true, the prop image and the Bavarian coat of arms. The two inspired the symbol together. BTW Eagler BMW made aircraft engines in WWI as well, for example they were used on Fokker D.VIIs along with the Mercedes inline 6 cyinders.
ah... alright - i'll buy that. ;)
the flag is also pretty suggestive of the logo:
(http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/images/de-bavar.gif)
as is the lesser coat of arms:
(http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/images/de-by)2.gif)
:)
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Indian, you know me better than that! Yes, moonroof is in it just in case though... ;)
Thks guys, just treat me like its a Chevy Metro and we'll get along just fine! I'm still a redneck at heart! Still got a pick up, a shot gun or 20, still hunt and fish... ;)
Santa: Turned 41 last week. :)