I think I owned this car longer than any other.
0I made a mistake – I went to see the Alpina
I love photographic memoirs of my cars. I have tens of thousands of photos of my cars, but I can never get close to the artistry of a professional photographer. Stephen Hall, from www.stevehallphotography.net, is a friend who has done
01987 BMW E30 Alpina C2 2.7 for sale
Oh boy this is hard. I’ve just had the car go through its final stages of restoration. It’s had absolutely everything done now and needs no work at all and at no expense spared. It’s currently sitting at CG Performance
0E30 Alpina goes in for work – fourth time lucky!
How many times can I go through with this? I’ve just dropped off my E30, C2 2.7 Alpina to a workshop of a friend to have the work completed hopefully, for good this time I hope. It’s now had 3
0Alpina C2 2.7 back in my care, for now
What is it about an old car like this that makes you forget about its countless foibles, allowing you to convert a tiresome, 100 mile drive in a troublesome car into a delightfully vivid trip down memory lane? It’s like
0Alpina Restoration Complete
So a year has passed and not much has really changed. LOL seriously. A fuck load has changed, but there’s no car news. I’ve been driving around in a Mini Cooper S for about a year now and it’s actually
0What’s up dawg?
By way of a semi apology, I try to justify my absence with a digest of the past three weeks.
0Alpina rebuild well on the way….at last
Alpina gets a major part of it’s restoration complete, as it comes out of the bodyshop sparking with newfound youth and vigour.
0Henry’s new M3 chases the bloodline
Having mastered the M3 CSL for the extended period he owned it, opting for a factory new E92 M3 was proof of Henrys avoidance of expected conventionalism. Excellent at doing the GT thing and equally competent on circuit. A couple of cheeky photos with the C2 Alpina showed a comical trace of the 3 series bloodline that went back over 22 years.
0Oh forgot about the C2..!
In my chaotic deliberations of the last year, I’ve ommitted to share with the world wide intraweb some of the more interesting acquisitions I’ve made of late, specifically this Alpina C2 2.7. I’ve been looking for an E30 BMW (80’s
0E30’s 4eva
Met up with Dave today to see his M3 and compare with both our cars. Surprisingly chalk and cheese cars, both with strong merits and characteristics. Some pictures:
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