From Alpine to Lachssilber (1988 325is)

[Holland]

:( Everyone with 88s convert to plastic bumpers. I love the combination of late tails and metal bumpers. I've been trying to find me an 88. But yeah, the car does look good!

Agreed. Silver 88's with metal bumpers and some polished splits are a universe apart.

[e30pdee]

:( Everyone with 88s convert to plastic bumpers. I love the combination of late tails and metal bumpers. I've been trying to find me an 88. But yeah, the car does look good!

Honestly I do too, I still have all the parts to convert it back to metal. I just figured if I was going to spend money painting it i might as well convert bumpers, cause the DB metal was really oxidized.

[e30pdee]

Very nice. Looks like the Lac car had plenty of rust around the trunk.

Yea actually it had some rust where the tailight mounts were too, the bondo work on the rear quarter panel when i originally bought it was poorly done. The body shop i gave it too had a lot of attention to detail so whatever was wrong they pretty much took care of it's a California car so the rust it did have was minimal luckily

[e30pdee]

Car looks good Pauldeen! When I finally get my car down to California, I'll make sure to meet up with you and my cousin. I want to show him what an NA inline 6 can do against his EVO.

Thanks man! I cant wait to see your beast in action. After I get coilovers and interior redone that'll probably be next, I really want to do m50 turbo, but its impractical so i just might try to do a s50 swap somewhere down the line.

[e30pdee]

Looking good!
Fellow Lachs guy here.

Are those wheels 15 or 16? They look great.

Man, I love my lachs not too many around, i have a gray interior too which i love!

16x8 actually et15 offset! They fit great it barely rubs at one and a half turns from center.

[brutus87]

Looking good!
Fellow Lachs guy here.

Are those wheels 15 or 16? They look great.

[series88]

:( Everyone with 88s convert to plastic bumpers. I love the combination of late tails and metal bumpers. I've been trying to find me an 88. But yeah, the car does look good!

[2mAn]

Car looks good Pauldeen! When I finally get my car down to California, I'll make sure to meet up with you and my cousin. I want to show him what an NA inline 6 can do against his EVO.

[Restoman]

Very nice. Looks like the Lac car had plenty of rust around the trunk.

[e30pdee]

Hey guys, haven't been on here for a while actually. So about a year ago i had a alpine white coupe which i was mindlessly trying to piece together after some rocker damage before my school started. Unfortunately I couldn't seem to finish in time, and I couldn't make anymore time for the car. I decided to sell the car at about the end of November last year sure enough in about two weeks she was going of with some guy all the way to Oregon from The Bay Area. Having sold my car I wasn't sure when i would be able to find another, it only took two weeks and I found a much better platform to start from. Ill just let the picture to the talking from here.

Last picture of the white one


Hello 88' Lachssilber!


Paint was in horrible condition, looked like this all around


Converted the bumpers


And it was off to the paint shop... Here is the first picture of her back, bumpers werent painted the right color and some of the trim pieces broke during the whole process.




Few months later, this is what she looks like now with all her little pieces buttoned up.


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