Sold E39 Brown Trout (tm) ROFFLE BACK OFF.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

How do you know this? Is it a bit of a special car then amongst BMW circles or something?

 

 

It's not unique - I was wrong on that. There were about 50 RHD Panama brown cars built including 528i's, but it wasn't a regular production colour for the UK and it's not listed in a 1996 brochure. As well as the usual Insipid silver and the pale Glacier green, the E34 Fjord grey metallic was carried over, quite a nice colour.

There were colours available in Europe you couldn't get over  here such as Zobelbrown, a browny grey metallic named after the rodent.

[Jim Bell]

I wonder how many of the PANAMA 50 remain.

[greengartside]

Just seen this thread - that interior is bloody amazing. I’m not a BMW man but I would roll in that nae bother. I wonder if DMB would have a dealer plate set for it? Stick in a pair of standard front lights and I think that would be one fine vehicle.

 

WANT LEVEL: 636382/10

[sloth]

Id say this car is a bmw individual order. If you was posH nuff you could have any combo.

 

23/46 i r8 topkek.

[Jim Bell]

Does anyone have knowledge of someone that can cut and code a key for these?

The local trades say they cannot because BMW use fancy rolling codes. I dont like having just one key but I also dont want the dealers pulling my pants down.

[SiC]

RBJ will know for sure. I seem to remember him mentioning that the dealers can do a key only for like £40-50 or something on these older BMWs.

[nebuchenezer]

Many numbers are wanted

[cort1977]

 As well as the usual Insipid silver and the pale Glacier green, the E34 Fjord grey metallic was carried over, quite a nice colour.

 

 

Had a Fjordgrau metallic E34 many years ago, seemed like a proper grown up car when I was 24.

 

Loving the Brown Trout, any plans to kill the angel eyes with fire, even unplugged they're offensive.

[Eddie Honda]

Does anyone have knowledge of someone that can cut and code a key for these?

The local trades say they cannot because BMW use fancy rolling codes. I dont like having just one key but I also dont want the dealers pulling my pants down.

 

Dealer might not pull your pants down for a non-remote key that starts the motor: http://autoshite.com/topic/31128-more-well-known-high-st-chains-in-trouble/?p=1472430

[ChinaTom]

Everything about how that car looks is perfect. It is a half-sucked Werthers Original spat out into some mud. In a good way.

 

Business RDS should mean that in one of the sub-menus you will find you have a reverb setting. You can have John Humphreys updating you about the world from an empty cathedral of an early morning. Probably the most useless yet appealing function ever in a vehicle. No quarter inch input jack for a Höfner though.

 

Great buy.

 

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[mitsisigma01]

Liking the brown .

When's the roffle ?

[Jim Bell]

Went up to check the tyre pressures today and noticed that theres no dust caps on the stems. Someone must have checked themselves recently as they were all bang on.

While I was down there I noticed that theres a pretty much new set of matching Yokohama W Drives on there. Thats about £200s worth of tyres alone. Classy.

 

The lad at Halfords let me have a handful of caps as I was buying some Tigerseal. Gr8 service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jazoli]

I'd like whatever (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) dibs on it too, it looks great.

[davehedgehog31]

That is splendid. Well bought.

[5speedracer]

You won't, it's unique in the UK. It was a dealer launch car/demo for Neep of Colchester (now Cooper) who ordered it in this colour. Brown was seriously unfashionable* back then so an odd colour choice.

 

N843FEV is the original registration number btw.

Brilliant dealer name especially for us Scots as a Neep is a turnip, as in haggis and neeps.

 

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[Jim Bell]

Also found this in with the last 3 mots.

 

 

 

 

Values have PLUMMETED in the last two years.

 

Plummeted.

[Kiltox]

FUTURE CLASSIC M8 PUT IT IN A WET FIELD

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I can trump u tho m8.

 

Bort for £250, timing chain guides borken.

[GrumpyCat]

Normally I'm meh about BMWs, but this is...

 

[Mrs6C]

This brown BMW is fabulous!

[hairnet]

did you sack off the metal plates and weld them into something more needing?

[Jim Bell]

did you sack off the metal plates and weld them into something more needing?

 

Not as yet man.

[BavarianRetro]

Does anyone have knowledge of someone that can cut and code a key for these?

The local trades say they cannot because BMW use fancy rolling codes. I dont like having just one key but I also dont want the dealers pulling my pants down.

PM sent.

[carlo]

I can trump u tho m8.

 

Bort for £250, timing chain guides borken.

 

Know which one I'd rather have, and it ain't silver, Bangleised and stuck on the back of a low loader.

[Pillock]

Brilliant dealer name especially for us Scots as a Neep is a turnip, as in haggis and neeps.

 

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I thought neeps were Swede?

[Jim Bell]

I thought neeps were Swede?

 

Now lets not get into the whole Turnip/Swede debate. This thread has just got friendly again.

[Pillock]

NEEPIST

[hairnet]

turneep

 

ffs and your country is connected to scotland so you should know these things

[BavarianRetro]

BMW told Arnold to do one on numerous occasions.

 

So he bought Harry Fairbairn - a Glasgow and Ayrshire BMW car and bike dealer.

 

To be honest, they're no better nor worse than any of the others now.

 

Great bit of business for Arnie.

 

Suddenly all his decent Motorstore stock was AUC at a suitably increased price AND he had outlets for trade-ins at Fairbairns that wouldn't be suitable for retail there, going to Motorstores without the need for buying in from - or selling to - the trade.

[83C]

Pair of randoms for me too. That E39 is epic.