B3 Alpina Touring

[LateFan]

Sorry if repost! Pretty sweet car.

B3 2.7 Alpina Touring









Although I'm pretty partial to a dark blue coupe myself.....

[flyboyx]

i loves me some alpina blue. i wonder if the wagon is a factory built car or a tribute?

[LateFan]

Dunno - I bet others here can spot that. If real, though, where did the Alpina valve cover go?

http://collaverglas.tumblr.com/post/61058242802/motoring-con-brio-alpina-b3-27-touring-e30

https://motoringconbrio.com/2013/09/11/alpina-b3-2-7-touring-e30-it-exists/

http://auto-motif.tumblr.com/post/61114987144/panscraper-collaverglas-motoring-con-brio

Didn't find it on the Alpina Register.

[uturn]

Who paints their fan shroud?...

[LateFan]

^^^ especially if it's an original car.

[e30m3s54turbo]

It is a nice car. I don't see a Alpina vin tag. It looks like a original BMW vin tag. Alpina offered deco pin stripes only gold and silver.

[Wolfman]

Who paints their fan shroud?...

....or anything under the hood white??

[djjerme]

There's still a few cars here and there that aren't on the registry.. He tries to keep it up to date, but it's only one dude, and he has all models/builds to keep track of (which with the recent changes to them being produced on the BMW assembly line and pretty much becoming mass produced models now, it's a lot..)

That being said, to find out it authenticity, you'd need to see a few things:

-The Alpina VIN that Raul mentioned.
-The correctly numbered plaque
-If a Bucholoe built car, the stamping in the shock tower (Synter cars didn't have this.)
-Also if it's a Bucholoe car, the crossed out BMW cowl VIN
-The 4 digit stamping on the head
-The stamping on the Engine block (Alpina engine series + car number)

And even these days, people won't accept that as 100%. unless you have the build sheet. Either the original, or a reprint from Bucholoe.

I've seen a lot of crazy stuff done to Alpina's, so even with all the painting and what not, doesn't rule it out as legit.

[LateFan]

....or anything under the hood white??

^^^


Good info djjerme.

[Julien]

I say tribute.. That looks like 5 lug brakes

[LateFan]

They're such good-looking cars.....