"RPM esq." (rpm3)
06/30/2015 at 18:08 • Filed to: BMW, Craigslist
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"RPM esq." (rpm3)
06/30/2015 at 18:08 • Filed to: BMW, Craigslist | 1
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As long as !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for cheap old BMWs, let me pose the following hypothetical to the Oppo brain trust. Let’s say that you are in possession of a 25-year-old German car. It is not a classic per se, but it is a desirable model nonetheless. You love the thing and struggle with whether or not to sell it to make room for your newer, faster car. Around the time you start considering selling it, you also decide to invest in freshening up the paint. I have to think there are a few competing impulses and resulting options:
1. Keep it original: respray it in the original color.
2. Knowing that certain colors demand a premium on the used market, some are neutral, and some effectively require a discount, choose one of the popular colors.
3. Paint it your favorite color and damn the consequences.
If you choose Option 1, you can get away with not taking it all apart to repaint the engine bay, door jambs, etc. If you choose Option 2, for a late-80s/early-90s BMW, you should probably choose black or silver; white and the reds are likely neutral; but avoid beige and Oxford Green like the plague. If you choose Option 3, and your favorite color is one of the unpopular ones, you’re trading your own pleasure for perhaps a few hundred bucks when you eventually sell it, which might well be worth it. But if you choose either Option 2 or Option 3, you have to paint the whole thing, right?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I present what happens when you pick Option 3, your favorite color is one of the unpopular ones, and you don’t bother to invest in fully painting the car: an enthusiast like me thinks “well, too bad it’s green, but it’s clean and cared-for and the price is right...” and keeps reading with increasing interest as your well-written ad goes on, then clicks through the pictures... !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and I make fun of you on the internet and do not buy your car.
Moral of the story: there’s no accounting for taste. Which option would you choose?
Buckner
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 18:12 |
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Flat black of course.
Nibby
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 18:15 |
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BLACK WITH RED PENTAGRAMS EVERYWHERE
BarryDanger
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 18:24 |
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I really like that green. It’s a shame it’s not all 1 color though. My 72 bavaria was repainted from the cream to that same bmw red about 20 years ago and it looks pretty faded on the top surfaces. Of course it was only painted on the outside so the jams and bay are all cream... I’m thinking about going back to that cream though.. Guess I have a thing for the unpopular colors.
x87172
> BarryDanger
06/30/2015 at 18:25 |
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I really want to see that on an E28! (Just as long as it’s not mine.)
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 18:44 |
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I would go original because I struggle to figure out where to go for dinner. Imagine me trying to figure out what color.0
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
06/30/2015 at 18:45 |
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I’d buy that.
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Nibby
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
06/30/2015 at 18:46 |
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Which car should we use?
Something... diabolicar.
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
06/30/2015 at 18:48 |
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A ‘59 Cadillac or a ‘67 Continental if you want an honest choice. Or if we just wanted to be weird maybe a 2001 Prius.
unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 18:59 |
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If your on a budget I’d look into a rustoleum paint job. Sure it sounds like orange peel galore, but search it up. Lots of people paint their old f100 rustoleum red with a lot of sanding to compensate the orange peel. After a sanding and clear coat it looks great. Sure the color choices are generic but this is an introduction to painting so you can learn from your mistakes with the rustoleum.
AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 20:13 |
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Normally I would go with the original color since the amount of work and money required for a full color change is immense. Although if I was super rich I’d go for Silver Grey since it’s a BMW and the German racing color is silver. Unless it was an e36 or newer, I’d go with Techno Violet or Carbon Black or Jerez Black depending on the car.
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> BarryDanger
06/30/2015 at 21:02 |
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I actually think the brown and cream colors look great pre-1989 or so. It’s really just the too-common (1) beige E30s and (2) damn Oxford green E31s, E34s, and E32s that see a color discount.
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> unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
06/30/2015 at 21:04 |
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Nothing against cheap paint done right... It’s different from an old BMW, but I have a beige FJ80 LandCruiser that will probably be getting a tan Monsterliner paint job this fall. Close enough that the door jambs won’t look weird, but totally rugged and fresh on the outside.
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> AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
06/30/2015 at 21:06 |
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Good choice...that's the color my M3 is!
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> BarryDanger
06/30/2015 at 21:55 |
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Yeah unless you can afford to take it all apart and paint the engine bay and jams etc. you will see the other color if its a big difference. It would be nice to change it back. Someday I will paint my 240Z, it has the original orange paint but I need to paint it to preserve it in the future I think. Unless I can find a master to clean it up and maybe clear it.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> RPM esq.
06/30/2015 at 22:57 |
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If you’re flipping it, then number 2. If you’re keeping it for the long haul, then either your favorite color, or go original if changing the color would hurt value/do a disservice to the car as a piece of history.
For example. If I were to get an old late 70s K5 Blazer, I would paint it metallic poo brown with a white top, because that’s what my dad had when I was growing up. Though I would be sure to do the jambs and other inside bits. If I came across a Panther Pink Hemi Roadrunner, then I would keep it pink not because I love it, but because in that case resale red might hurt the value. Or in the case of my Cutlass, Covert Beige is not an exciting color and certainly doesn’t help the value, but you never see it and it fits the car so well. So I like it as a time capsule.
X37.9XXS
> Buckner
07/01/2015 at 09:03 |
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