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re: E30 cosmetics



Kurt Zimmerman wrote:
>Phil Marx writes:
>> ........However, it retained
>> our heavy aluminum 5mph bumpers which were replaced
>> for '90 by the body-color covered euro-style bumpers.
>
>Just a comment:  My '89 325is was built in October of '88.
>It has body-color covered euro-style bumpers.  I'm pretty
>sure that all '89 E30s except for the convertible have the
>euro-bumpers.

chris pawlowic also noticed:
>my Canadian '89 325i (build date fall '88) has the body coloured covered
>euro style bumpers.. I would have thought US and Canadian cars would be
>very similar and am surprised US cars did not get the bumpers for another
>year

Well.......you're right, I meant to type '89 or should have just said "the
next year".  Thanks for catching it.  US and Canadian cars are usually the
same.  Notable exceptions would include E28 M5s with black interiors and
the dozen '95 M3s with *real* M-engines.  Then there are those funny
numbers on the instruments.....

- -Phil

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