Stunning E28 B2.8 Alpina on eBay

alpinalover wrote: Secondly, you now say that I'm not talking about Donnie' car at all (the one on Ebay), but another one! What car is that supposed to be Drew?? Cos I don't know. This whole string was a discussion about the E28 Alpina that was on Ebay (Donnie's/Gavin's car). What other car could I be referring to?

Bloody hell, you just keep on tripping yourself up!
You mention "Gavin" when I don't think anyone else
here has. Therefore I assume you've seen the Ebay
advert?

If not, how else did you come across the guy's
name? Please do tell!

You know full well that there are two red Alpinas on
Ebay right now - we're not stupid and it's obvious
you're trying to wriggle out of this one.
You just can't go onto a forum and openly state that
someone else's B9 'isn't a real Alpina' when in fact
it's exactly the same as yours. That's just nasty
rumour mongering and it's not fair on the owner.
Again, How would you like if someone did it to you?

For the record, your car was built in July 1982 and left
the factory as a bog standard 528i with a sports
steering wheel and Recaro type seats, was sent to
Alpina in Buchloe for conversion and was then
imported and registered in October 1982. So I've not
seen the records eh? I must be a mindreader then!
WTO 50Y is the RHD B9 built by Sytners, and thus
the first Alpina built there. By the way, it still has
matching engine,head, body, gearbox and diff
numbers.

Sorry, but you started this.

Hi M3AG, I think the idea of a meet for a pint is a great idea. Wait a few weeks until my B9 is back on the road and I'll bring it along and the infamous letter from Sytners (just to prove it exists).

James if you could make the meet I'd be happy to see you there. You can have a look round my Alpina and generally talk Alpina stuff. Like you I also love the 635 CSi - it's a gorgeous shape and still has that wonderful sharks nose in common with the 5 series. I don't know a lot about 6 series Alpinas, but they did make them. Again several years ago I nearly bought one to go with my B9. It was a White M635 converted to Alpina spec by Sytner (I think as an experiment) but with the full knowledge and support of Alpina GMBH. What was really interesting was it was turbocharged. It was a super quick car and beautiful too look at but at the time was a bit too expensive for me. I still wish I'd bought it though. M3AG is right - not all Alpina owners want to fight with handbags at dawn. I'm a Newbie myself and was just as surprised by the welcome I got as you were.

Drew I'm not going to comment on your last posting other than to point out that I only know of one Alpina on Ebay at present and that that is owned by a guy called Gavin whom I assumed used the name donniembmw in this forum.

If you want to attend a meet I'd be happy to see you there

Hi Alpinalover, got it wrong again! Im Donniembmw, my E28 was on Ebay last week, but the one on ebay just now is someone else!!!!poss called gavin, ****

Thanks Drew, I would agree, as the B2.8 was as you say, in part a cosmetic variant, but with LSD, sports suspension, recaro, Alpina spoiler, steering wheel  & a few other goodies, from new.

Just a quickie I've got a b2.8 with a hole in the exhaust, one of the front pipes. Had a quick chat with sytners and they're showing standard two versions both off left hand drive 528i cars. And were not sure which one it was, to email the vin to BMW. But you fellas are saying it should be different exhaust just for the alpina.

Has anyone had to order one, and do they know which one it should be

Cheers

 

Dave 

Would agree with M3AG, the downpipes are the standard ones for the B2.8, although the earlier 528,s (E12) were different.

Hi, the E28 528i/ B2.8 exhaust is more  or less the same as the M5 E28 set up, one centre box and rear box. In fact identical other than the bore diameter of the pipies by 2 or 3mm! The 528i system is better due to only having two parts, whereas the 535i has 3 boxes. I reckon the 528i setup sounds much better, as emissions were not a problem at the time, therefore more free flowing, Ive checked against a mates M5, and almost identical!,from the front box to rear. Also a lot cheaper.

Cheers for that.

Ive had a look at the BMW parts system (stuck the vin in) and had a look at the car and am happy which one it should be.The middle/end bit has been done its just the front that bit from the manifold that needs changing.

Thanks again everyone you've saved much head scratching