my smelly old E28 528i

Doive wrote:  The colour is luxorbeige metallic according to the sticker on the wing, I'm not sure what this translates to in english - metallic gold? Up close and in bad light it tends to look silver, but when the sun hits it just right the gold shines through. It's like one of those flip effect paints chavs pay hundreds of pounds per litre for!

Luxor Beige is a lovely colour - my E32 is that colour. its really an E34/E32 colour, so your E28 must be one of the very last built. I don't think Luxor means Gold, i think its just named after the desert sands & great pyramids around Luxor, Egypt. maybe

£5k is a bargain for a mint ultra low mileage E28 Alpina, it should sell in a jiffy. rarer than an M5 E28 and they fetch that easily.

thats a fab car jonathan, wheels set it off a treat, doive love the colour of yours, your paint work has flecks of silver mixed in the paint to make it slightley perlesent... slight change of colour in different light from gold to silver.

Jonathan that 528i is fantastic looking! Saw an E28 at the scottish meet today with the full shadow line trim, never really liked it as I'm a bit of a chrome man myself (meaning I like chrome, I'm not made of chrome - autoglym away please). Anyway I digress. It was a white M535i and the shadow line looked superb, I think it must suit certain colours like the white and very much suits your black car! Superb.

Philip my car was a december 87 build, wasn't registered until feb 88 so as you say one of the very last. Been told it could be just about the last 525e to leave the factory, something I must get checked out to see where it came in the grand scheme of things. Was the luxorbeige an option on all E28's or only on the eta Lux models? I've seen one other on ebay but never laid eyes on another on the road.

Must spend a few weeks sorting the paintwork on the car, its a bit dull and lifeless but nothing a nice sunny week and arms like tree trunks won't cure. I like my cars to shine.

Nick wrote: and so does the yellow Magic Tree.

Mee-OW!

spokey wrote: Nick wrote: and so does the yellow Magic Tree. Mee-OW!

Derek, God rest him, would have knocked points off at Harewood for an air freshener of any sort.
.. I used the same principle to separate two otherwise identically mint E30's.. the Magic Tree lost the owner the trophy that summer!

Hi jonathan that e28 looks great mate !

Where did you get your wheels as i've been looking for some of them for the e39 for ages they are like rocking horse doing's!!

Will come and say hi at gaydon cant wait to see your car in the flesh!!

Jonathan Cox   Do you have any handling problems with those alloys, I have them on My E34 and have often thought about changing the original's and sticking them on the E28.

Here they are on the E34



These are the original metrics.

M3AG, the photographer was Craig Pusey, I've known him for a couple of years through the BM Club.

The car was resprayed BMW Jet Black, it used to be Diamond Black, however I prefered the solid black and also the colour match would be better if it was damaged in any way. The Alpina front spoiler was bought new from BMW, I had to wait a year for Alpina to make a batch then another year for the boot spoiler. They're not cheap either! I'm not trying to replicate an Alpina car, it's just that I like the bodykit and the car looks better with it rather than without, and I'm just not keen on the M535i kit at all.

Jamie(e39)528i, yes the wheels are hard to find. I was just lucky really, stumbled across them in a BM breakers yard in Norfolk (Emray BMW I think)whilst buying a fuel pump for my E30 318iS. They had come off a burntout car and were in a right state, more of a brown than silver. I sent them to Pristine Wheels in Milton Keynes, the only prob was that they couldn't diamond cut the outer rim, so I had to have them blasted and powder coated.

SilverBMW528, I don't suffer any handling probs at all, plenty of grip, I've poly bushed all front and rear ends to cope with wheels, had to get them from Australia though as no company in this country does them!!

e28silverBMW, the rear wheels are 9.5Jx17, the tyres are 245x40x17. The arches had to be rolled quite a lot, but this didn't matter as car was being painted any way. Then I fitted M535i wheel arch extensions. M3AG

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Jonathan Cox wrote: SilverBMW528, I don't suffer any handling probs at all, plenty of grip, I've poly bushed all front and rear ends to cope with wheels, had to get them from Australia though as no company in this country does them!!

Don't suppose you could let me have there details ?