Totally, and quite a few of them did, which was great. I keep a pretty clean car and I think the cosmetic mods are very tasteful, personally I think it was one of the cleanest & best looking cars out there. Of course I had a couple M guys ask me where I got the grille stripes from, as always. One time I had a guy ask me if my bumper was off an M coupe...Originally Posted by holyc0w
Thanks Boss, it definitely was.
Car looks great NoVA! Yeah it's an interesting dynamic, like some elite club inside the club, but I guess I understand it. If you don't have an M car at a BMW meet, you're just some poor wannabe in a lot of guys' eyes. When I had my Estoril E36 M3, I'll admit I snobbed once in a while. When I'd see another nice E36/E46 running around I'd think to myself, oooh nice looking car...too bad it's not an M+1
I had joked with the woman next to me with the blue E36 that "oh of course I'm next to the 3 super rare M3s (Phoenix Yellow/Black 6MT, Silver grey/Imola 6MT, LSB/black 6MT), no one cares about the lowly ZHP" at the beginning of the show.
Towards the end she said I didn't know what I was talking about. You've had people non-stop talking to you about your car.
I think I went though the "ZHP breakdown" 15-20 times. "Welllllll it was an option package..."
Feels good to get the compliments and recognition.
One guy was looking at getting an e36 m...after seeing my car he is now leaning zhp. I pointed him toward the Roundel article which is fantastic for that discussion and I think probably built up a lot of interest in the cars.
I would say though that those numbers are wayyyyyyy down at gen pop car shows and meets I've gone to. No one looks at the zhp. All about the ///M if I'm parked next to one especially. Maybe one person...and it usually is good conversation since they'll know what they are looking at.
Personally I don't really care if anyone likes my lowly old E46 ZHP or not, I love it and I know it looks great, all that matters. But compliments and questions are always welcome of course
I posted a couple pics of the rally on my fb page, and one of my old buddies even commented something like "the E46 still looks smooth, but when are you going to upgrade??" I'm thinking, I literally did just upgrade to another ZHP!!
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