Another new member and a pic of my E34

[Scott H]

it has the bumper cover for the tow bar....have you ever towed with it?

[Speeder 553]

That is the coolest lic plate I've ever seen on a Beemer.

[SC David]

That is jawdroppingly clean! VERY nice car. I'm jealous.

[Alan_525i]

Very very nice looking car. Welcome to the board.

[jrobbo]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the very warm welcome! It's great to have found a place where people appreciate the timeless shape of the E34 (one of the best looking bimmers ever IMHO)

To answer some of the questions:

• E30 Spring Isolators are the small rubber things that sit on top of the springs, between the spring and the spring mount. The E34 units are 9mm think, but the E30 units are only 3mm thick, and are a direct replacement. Cheap and easy way to lower the front of the car by 6mm
• The colour is called "Macau Blue". It is in fact a very dark purple, it almost looks black in the shade. Take a look at some of the pics on the links below and you'll see it's true colours
• The M Parallels that I have on the car at the moment are only cheap replicas. They seem OK, but they wouldn't be as light as the original pieces. They only cost me $300 locally (PM me if you want to know wher I got them in Melbourne) as opposed to trying to import some originals for many many times that price. I'm still on the lookout for some originals though, at the right price...
• Anthony, thanks for the memory For those that don't know, I used to run a website many years ago called the M5 Springboard. It was a pretty crappy website, but had a lot of good info on it. When I first got my car, I found it really hard to find any info on it on the web, so I created the website to share whatever info I could find. Most of that info now lives on the E34 M5 FAQ, over at http://www.bmwe34m5.net
• I used to have a little 6x4 trailer that I used to tow around when we were landscaping our garden, but I don't have the trailer anymore
• I should point out that the paintwork on my car is far from perfect, the pics flatter it a little. every panel has some sort of imperfection, be it a scratch or small ding. I'd love to get it completely resprayed, and I had a quote for $7000 to get it done, but my wife won't let me spend the money One day...

Here are some pics of it:

This was just after I put the wheels on it:
http://www.jrobbo.com/M5/HalfMoonBay

A friend of mine has (had) a Techno Violet 540i LE 6 speed, and we took both cars down to Green Point at sunset and took some pics:
http://www.jrobbo.com/M5/ShadesOfPurple

A few more pics after my last bout of detailing
http://www.jrobbo.com/M5/Detailing

Thanks again guys, I'm looking forward to meeting up with you and seeing some of your cars next time there is a meet near me.

Regards

John