Two Alpine White Allrads

So one of my colleagues and I head out to lunch over West of I-25 on Arapahoe in the south part of Denver Tech Center.  When we came out to my iX, another white, but an 1988 iX was parked right next to me.  My brain had a hard time processing what I was looking at, at first.  Was I seeing double?   Nope!  

un-Denver Cars and Coffee - April 19, 2014

I say un-Denver because this quasi Cars and Coffee at the old Great Indoors parking lot at Park Meadows has never been the official meet place.  This parking lot is big and has never been crowded with shoppers on Saturday morning so the guys in South Denver/Highlands Ranch area have always hung out there around 10am.  Several of my close BMW CCA friends typically show up here and planned on coming this particular Saturday to finally see the iX / Allrad I had been tinkering with.

Here's some pics from that fun gathering:

Antenna goes up, antenna goes down, sort of

Back in the 70s and 80s it was a luxury to have a telescoping antenna mast.  The problem is that the elements conspire to keep that mast from going all the way down.  Either its the lack of lubrication or the physical restrictions of kinks from things knocking into it, but every 5-10 years you need to spend about $50 replacing it.

The good folks over at r3vlimited forums and e30tech forums have figured out that the BMW Z3 roadster's flexible, amplified static antenna works perfectly for an E30.  Three items:  The base, the grommet and the antenna.  You can get all the parts used from $30-50 or new for about $100-120.

I gathered them up new.  Disassembled the trunk, unmounted the stock broken unit and then I installed the new setup.  Looks and works great.

Here's a write up:
http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23843