Horrors in the PH Classifieds

[AstonV12]

Please post your nominations for some tasteless tat which some folk have the cheek to put on sale here and in other sites.

I'll begin with..

Exhibit A:


This car started out as a 318i saloon - I know, hard to believe isn't it. This dedicated owner has garnished this vehicle with - and I quote - a "full" BMW 3.2 straight-six.

Thirty-thousand pounds has been spent.

This car has the popular but very 1990s "Lexus" lights and the bodykit is shall we say an acquired taste.



The observant among you would have noticed the rather individual but altogether tasteless "3 series" detailing on the insides of the doors. Like we didn't know what it was already. The interior has to be seen to be believed.

Yuo may think that having 30k spent and the 3.2 six garnished within that it may cost you an arm and a leg. But you'd be wrong.

http://cdn.images.pistonheads.com/aimg/1356/135643...

Available for just £7000

Do we have any other nominations?

[kambites]

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

[Cooky]

kambites said:

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

But would you wish to be seen driving it?....Methinks Not

[martin vr6]

Precisely why the E36 has in some cases a "chavvy" image and why some things are best left alone

[martin vr6]

Precisely why the E36 has in some cases a "chavvy" image and why some things are best left alone

[DjSki]

Seen much worse....you can do better than that surely..

[kambites]

Cooky said:

kambites said:

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

But would you wish to be seen driving it?....Methinks Not

I've never been particularly bothered by image, so if it was cheap for what it was, yes. Wouldn' take much to make it look fairly standard again anyway.

It looks better than anything BMW currently produce anyway.

Edited by kambites on Thursday 7th January 07:46

[AstonV12]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/858547.htm

Bad very bad indeed...

Edited by AstonV12 on Thursday 7th January 07:47

[AstonV12]

kambites said:

Cooky said:

kambites said:

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

But would you wish to be seen driving it?....Methinks Not

I've never been particularly bothered by image, so if it was cheap for what it was, yes. Wouldn' take much to make it look fairly standard again anyway.

It looks better than anything BMW currently produce anyway.

Edited by kambites on Thursday 7th January 07:46

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

[martin vr6]

I remember that 306 estate from my "max power" days, I actually used to like it and even today it doesn't look that bad, at least it still resembles a 306.

C mon got to tryharder, search under saxo, Corsa and fiesta there must be some beautys in there

[BlueEyedBoy]

Again, either you have never seen some of the incredible efforts in the classified or I must love tat other than the bonnet, and the overdone bumper, that is'nt too bad.

[kambites]

AstonV12 said:

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

New bumpers and wheels from a scrap yard would go a long way.

[AstonV12]

kambites said:

AstonV12 said:

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

New bumpers and wheels from a scrap yard would go a long way.

Interior? Or do you like the "3 series" logo

[AstonV12]

Ugh.



http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1394485.htm

[kambites]

Can't say it particularly bothers me. I don't spend much time staring at my door cards.

[XitUp]

martin vr6 said:

I remember that 306 estate from my "max power" days, I actually used to like it and even today it doesn't look that bad, at least it still resembles a 306.

C mon got to tryharder, search under saxo, Corsa and fiesta there must be some beautys in there

Yup. I remember that too. I remember there was a Civic or Accord Aerodeck around the same time that was a much better version of this.

AstonV12 said:

kambites said:

AstonV12 said:

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

New bumpers and wheels from a scrap yard would go a long way.

Interior? Or do you like the "3 series" logo

Quick ebay search, £30 for some standard door cards.

[900T-R]

Don't forget those headrest covers - the scrappy will probably throw a pair of those in for free if you buy their doorcoards, though...

[Cooky]

AstonV12 said:

kambites said:

Cooky said:

kambites said:

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

But would you wish to be seen driving it?....Methinks Not

I've never been particularly bothered by image, so if it was cheap for what it was, yes. Wouldn' take much to make it look fairly standard again anyway.

It looks better than anything BMW currently produce anyway.

Edited by kambites on Thursday 7th January 07:46

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

However much you spent on it it will always be lacking in taste, it is what it is, a pile of crap yesterdays chavwagon.

[OnTheOverrun]

AstonV12 said:

Are those supposed to be flames coming from the front or is it finished in burr walnut vaneer in a homage to Rovers past?

[die fahrt]

Cooky said:

AstonV12 said:

kambites said:

Cooky said:

kambites said:

Doesn't look particularly bad to me. I've certainly seen far worse.

But would you wish to be seen driving it?....Methinks Not

I've never been particularly bothered by image, so if it was cheap for what it was, yes. Wouldn' take much to make it look fairly standard again anyway.

It looks better than anything BMW currently produce anyway.

Edited by kambites on Thursday 7th January 07:46

The car has had 30k spent on it and you think you can revert it to tasteful from tasteless without significant expense?

However much you spent on it it will always be lacking in taste, it is what it is, a pile of crap yesterdays chavwagon.

er, std interior £100, std bumpers, wheels and lights £200, and you can recoup more than that by re-selling the tat. et voila, a nice 3.2l E36