Tierfreund
Well-Known Member
I´ve got a very nice 71 3.0S that is currently Chamonix (original color but not original paint). The interior is black velour, stock wheels and hubcabs, all chrome in place and in very good nick, (factory) tinted windows (greenish).
Since the paint has some partial resprays that don´t fully match the rest and since I really can´t stand the dirty white anymore (enhanced by my parking space neighbour beeing a very nice bright white Pagoda) I´m looking at a complete respray.
I´d like to stick to a color that was factory available in 71 for the E3 or at lleast factory available for the E3 during it´s build time. Non metallic is a more realistic choice for the model year and easier to respray partially (hey, it´s a 71 BMW driven as a daily driver in even the lousiest wether, so some repairs / resprays in the future are inevitable). These are preferences, not conditions...
The interior is very nice (and hard to come by in really good condition theses days), so I´d prefer it to stay the way it is.
Trouble is, I really cannot make up my mind. Black is a safe bet I´d say but not really all that exciting on an E3.
Fjord is very nice, but every second restored E3 over here (germany) is fjord or silver...
Any suggestions / opinions / recommendations from the crowd? Any pictures that could convince me?
Resale / Value is not an issue, it´s a keeper (and as an E3 almost worthless (financially) anyway...)
Remember, it´s a BAV ("too bad, it´s a bav...") not a coupe, so some things that look great on the E9 (Inka / Ceylon / Gulf) look plain silly on the 4door.
Since the paint has some partial resprays that don´t fully match the rest and since I really can´t stand the dirty white anymore (enhanced by my parking space neighbour beeing a very nice bright white Pagoda) I´m looking at a complete respray.
I´d like to stick to a color that was factory available in 71 for the E3 or at lleast factory available for the E3 during it´s build time. Non metallic is a more realistic choice for the model year and easier to respray partially (hey, it´s a 71 BMW driven as a daily driver in even the lousiest wether, so some repairs / resprays in the future are inevitable). These are preferences, not conditions...
The interior is very nice (and hard to come by in really good condition theses days), so I´d prefer it to stay the way it is.
Trouble is, I really cannot make up my mind. Black is a safe bet I´d say but not really all that exciting on an E3.
Fjord is very nice, but every second restored E3 over here (germany) is fjord or silver...
Any suggestions / opinions / recommendations from the crowd? Any pictures that could convince me?
Resale / Value is not an issue, it´s a keeper (and as an E3 almost worthless (financially) anyway...)
Remember, it´s a BAV ("too bad, it´s a bav...") not a coupe, so some things that look great on the E9 (Inka / Ceylon / Gulf) look plain silly on the 4door.
