My Alpine 318i slicktop

[jw 325ic]

gorgeous. sooo clean man. but you know this...

[ninjaotter]

I always thought cardinal was a lot brighter. That looks amazing, makes me want to trade out my black interior.

[brgracer]

An mtech1 or 2 wheel would look great as well.

Hopefully, I'll get a nice Mtech 2 wheel in the future.

Time to invest in some cardinal sport seats. Looking good thus far!

That's the plan. I already have a set I need to pickup, but the driver's side needs to be recovered.

where did you get the cardinal interior? I also have a white 318i slicktop (and an S50 waiting to go in) and have been dreaming of cardinal since before I found the craigslist ad.

Damn, our cars would be twins, especially since you are local as well. Cardinal interior was posted for sale here several months back. It was down in VA beach, but luckily I had a friend coming up from NC that picked it up for me along the way up.

I always thought cardinal was a lot brighter. That looks amazing, makes me want to trade out my black interior.

Depends on how you shoot it. I was using a prime lens with a low f-stop and no flash. I think it brings out the natural darker color and makes it look "nicer." If you use flash, it comes out a lot brighter in pictures and looks more plastic like. In reality, it's a little brighter than it looks in my pics, but not by much.

[constructor]

Love Alpine/Cardinal. Excellent choice!

[JT325is]

oh man. my favorite color combo.. good job man

[phreshkid]

I need to find me a nice cardinal carpet now Feck!

A little dirty but she cleans up reall nice

[sandlock]

Lookin good, nice resto.

[Holland]

I actually prefer that carpet in there, looks better.

[Motorsports]

Huge improvement. I like the direction this car is going.

[ColdAccord]

coming along nicely, glad you're enjoying it. Cardinal looks great. the journey to get the blue sport interior (and m3 exhaust) was incredible though. D.C. parts trip that incorporated a lengthy 2-6am bike ride (and women).





our hotel from 6am-11am, when I was awoken by a car door that turned out to be Joel, who I had met at Watkins Glen years prior and took a lap with him in his euro e21. He then treated us to falafel at his sister's shop he was operating

falafel shop had a bit of... ulterior enthusiasm

had a bunch of menus from amsterdam under the tables, heh

[mkoneod]

Don't worry..IF things go right, the blue interior is going into good hands...:)

[Hyelifecl]

Very nice. Love the interior.

[brgracer]

Updates:

Awesome motorsports handles from group buy!


Euro smilies! I tried the yellow Laminex stuff, but the color just didn't look right so removed them.



All red tails and 30% tint all around.


Some more updates worth seeing coming very soon!

[brgracer]

New front Alpina valance!



Bonus content of the Westtown Alpine white 24v crew (that will hopefully be going three strong soon )



More goodies to be installed soon....

[DREWHALL]

Looks good so far! I've been thinking going the same basic color for the centers on my wheels on a brilliantrot car. I need to figure out what these things are called.