Metal bumpers

[Jand3rson]

your car looks sick josh, I wouldn't change a thing.

Well thanks very much.

[Skafrog]

ahh, the e-loving.
How about this one:
Only 2 door 89+'s are good looking. Every other e30 looks like ass. :)

[Avus E30]

ahh, the e-loving.
How about this one:
Only 2 door 89+'s are good looking. Every other e30 looks like ass. :)

I say you are wrong

[mikeedler]

early rear arches or not, chromies FTW! super rake!!!

[OptimusGlen]

I like mine :)

but everyone has an opinion.

[///M Powered]

i think the longer you have diving boards, the less you care about them, at least that's how i am.

d-boards ftw.

[chuckybob]

i used to hate the diving boards. then, about a week ago, i was steering a dodge spirit parts car that was being towed out of my garage, and we smacked my e30. right in the diving board. didnt do shit. barely left a mark on the plastic. if i had plastic bumpers, id bet that it wouldve cracked or worse. vive le diving board!

[turnofftheradio]

I like my diving boards. I un-tucked and strrpped the paint on them when I got the car. I am however glad that not everyone shares my opinion. I like that all of our cars are made for what the driver wants, not what someone else decides is good looking.

[smooth]

i used to hate the diving boards. then, about a week ago, i was steering a dodge spirit parts car that was being towed out of my garage, and we smacked my e30. right in the diving board. didnt do shit. barely left a mark on the plastic. if i had plastic bumpers, id bet that it wouldve cracked or worse. vive le diving board!

exactly.

I actually like the classic look over the modern on my cabbie. A number of us grew up loving these cars before plastic bumpers were even thought of. It seems silly to me to claim that metal bumpers weren't in the designers mind when they made the cars...but then another person's point that Euro chromes were most likely the intended design. I can concede that and I plan on grabbing some as soon as I can figure out how to make em fit on my '89 vert.

I find it interesting that a lot of people comment on the non-utility of diving boards when:

1. most accidents happen within a few miles from your house
2. most accidents are low speed rather than high speed
3. the only time I really worry about my bumper/fender damage is when I accidentally smack someone in a parking lot--where metal rules all (except mass)

now my wife's plastic bumpered e30, that's a different story. Hadn't even had it for two weeks before she tapped the side of an illegally parked van while backing up. She *claims* the bumper was merely gouged, but it was still $500.

[Digitalwave]

I actually like the classic look over the modern on my cabbie. A number of us grew up loving these cars before plastic bumpers were even thought of. It seems silly to me to claim that metal bumpers weren't in the designers mind when they made the cars...but then another person's point that Euro chromes were most likely the intended design. I can concede that and I plan on grabbing some as soon as I can figure out how to make em fit on my '89 vert.

It wasn't probably the intended design, it WAS the intended design. The US is really the only market that got diving boards, everywhere else got the "intended" Euro chrome bumpers.

[smooth]

It wasn't probably the intended design, it WAS the intended design. The US is really the only market that got diving boards, everywhere else got the "intended" Euro chrome bumpers.

perhaps you can email the original members of the design team and ask why they don't fit on my car then?

[Digitalwave]

perhaps you can email the original members of the design team and ask why they don't fit on my car then?

US cabrios are all "late model" versions. International cabrios had plastic bumpers, unless it was an early model which I believe had it's own set of euro bumpers. Your 89 is a late model, therefore plastics are a direct fit and the early euro's aren't.

[NC325iC]

ahh, the e-loving.
How about this one:
Only 2 door 89+'s are good looking. Every other e30 looks like ass. :)

agreed... i have an 89 with two doors...

[Ramon]

Metal is the way to go




thats just my opinion...

[NC325iC]

agreed(somewhat)