You know you own an E9 when...

[dang]

(a popular question on other forums... our turn!)

You know you own an E9 when...

1) You have to open the door to reach the seat belt.

2) People ask what kind of car it is while you're driving down the freeway!

3) You change lanes to avoid small puddles in the road.

4) Hot air blows from your heater all year round.

5) ...

 

[TodB]

More

5) You turn on the windshield wipers (every time) when using the turn signal

 

[jmackro]

6) Toll collectors finish their lunch while your window is rolling down

 

[schnell540]

7) You can hear your car rusting.

 

[x_atlas0]

8.) You take out a loan for trim bits.

 

[jhjacobs]

9) You have boxes and boxes of old parts "just in case"

Corollaries:

a) you buy parts you don't need but might someday
b) you hide the parts if you have a significant other

 

[MichaelP]

10) You get bloody knuckles and knees (and possibly scalp lacerations) just changing a fuse.

11) You seriously ponder whether deleting the windshield wipers wouldn't be sensible.

12) Making a key involves coordinating several parties on at least two continents.

13) You roll down the windows on winding roads to prevent them from exploding.

14) You drive around with an empty toolkit.

15) You own at least one parts car, but your s.o. isn't sure which one it is.

 

[pmansson]

16) you have to check the weather forecast each time you consider driving it, (in other places than AZ and CA).

17) you tell your passenger, getting out of the car, not to close the door by pushing the window

18) you avoid using the small ventilator windows, because you know how fragile the tin? alloy securing mount is

19) you talk to Lotus Elan (1965-1975) owners about rust issues

20) you wonder how to jack up the car, (with provided jack) without damaging the body

 

[Roland Grant]

You know..

21) Every time you settle in and start up that you'll be driving something very special that day.

22) Before you start, you do a quick perimeter check for new bubbles / worsening bubbles, whilst holding your breath.

23) You get Christmas Cards from your local bodywork man.

RG

 

[Dave B]

24) You are often telling kids " no, its not a 6 series."

25) You also get Christmas cards from your local petrol station.

26) The spotty little herbert at the main dealer tells you that you haven't quoted a correct chassis number because its not on his crappy computer.

 

[Dave B]

You know....

27) And you great a great welcome from Malc and Mrs Malc when you pay them a visit!

 

[Malc]

28.. The welding supply shop opens a trade discount account for you.




(Thanks Dave. I'll put the brewer on )

 

[larkinca]

(29) You mortgge your home to purchase replacement door weatherstrips

 

[blumax]

When you own an E-9

30) other car enthusiasts lust after your toy and show 1 thumb up

31) others gather around to examine and admire it at coffee shops

32 always the question--when did BMW make them?

 

[blumax]

33) always tell passengers to avoid pulling the obvius door pull to close the door

34) please don't pull out the ash tray trying to open the door to get out

35) remind them the German engineers were pretty smart-they hid the door handle to prevent "dummies" from accidently opening the door and falling out

36) also remind them the Coupe is not fragile in spite of its numerous apparent foibles

 

[gpetrus]

37) After seeing how your Coupe was pieced together when manufactured(and scratching your head), you realize that manual labor was cheaper then.

 

[Adam]

38: you study German to figure out new ways to curse Karmann.

 

[Malc]

39.. You consider the official workshop manual as good bedtime reading!

(Maybe that's going a bit too far)

 

[pmansson]

40. you know that you have better all round visibility than any other car made today (except som convertibles).

41. you appreciate that you have a higher miles per gallon figure than a lot of modern cars (weighing so much more than our deal old coupe. This statement esp. relates to the fuel injected cars).

42. you and many others think that this is a much more beautiful car than most other, ugly cars being produced these days.

 

[jhjacobs]

43. You clearly understand why Germans drink warm beer (Bosch refrigerators) ... and similarly the English (Lucas refrigerators).