You do have to wonder just what he'd been drinking to make him think that his creation was an improvement on the original! A mate had one of the last ones (Hi Line?) in dark metallic blue, it looked gorgeous.
And speaking of BMWs, I owned one of these up until '96. same as the burgundy-coloured one....I
really should've kept it. It had belonged originally to a member of the Saudi royal family who was hoofed out of the UK in the 60's for supplying cocaine in London - his diplomatic status saved him from prison - and I had a file of press cuttings from, I think, The Mirror, showing him with the car in Mayfair just before he left for home.
Pete