Hello from Holland

[Joy]

Hi folks,

after a long time just reading the forum it's time to introduce myself. I've searched the internet for ages to find some info for 4-pot BMW's. This is the first forum that has some serious info on performance etc.

So my name is Joy, 25 years old and I live in Holland. I'm driving a mauritius-blue 318is coupé. It has done 120000 miles (190000 km). It's just a car for having fun in the weekends so did some mod's. I installed a Supersprint catback racing system. Factory sound was written on the box... yeah right huge impact on the ears. Also fitted Bilstein shocks with AC Schnitzer springs. Very nice balanced. Got rid of the 15 inch wheels and fitted some 17 inch E90 styling 32 wheels. It has a slightly different offset so it gives the car a bit more filled stance. For night-driving, swapped the halo's for 6K xenon.

I'm not driving a Ti so I hope that's not a problem.

Greetz,

Joy

[sparkchaser]

Even though you don't own a ti, we'll let you stay.

Welcome aboard!

[Tyler]

Welcome to the site.

Your car looks very nice.

[Panzer_M]

Nice, might be dropping into Eindhoven and traveling around Son and Nijmegen to do some Battlefield site-seeing in the coming months.

[Joy]

Thanks for the warm welcome !

@Panzer, if you're really interested in war-history and got some time to spend go to Calais (France). A piece of the Atlantic wall still remains.

http://mehmet.perso.cegetel.net/accueil/accueilp.htm

Just click on the menu's on the left side to view some pictures and ignor the unreadable french blabla

[aparatchik]

Hey Joy, welkom!! Ik ben Nederlands, maar woon al 13 jaar hier in de VS!

Panzer... very cool, you're going to my hometown!! the house I grew up in is actually built RIGHT on top of the dropzone for the 101st in Son (I've checked the original maps against current-date ones

Kinda cool to think that the Band of Brothers was there before I got there!

[Joy]

Cool ! It's a small world after all Band of brothers rules big time.

If you ever fancy a pair of wooden shoes or some lovely smelling cheese give me a ring :P

[sparkchaser]

Originally Posted by Joy

Cool ! It's a small world after all Band of brothers rules big time.

If you ever fancy a pair of wooden shoes or some lovely smelling cheese give me a ring :P

Unpasteurized cheese?

[Panzer_M]

Originally Posted by Joy

Thanks for the warm welcome !

@Panzer, if you're really interested in war-history and got some time to spend go to Calais (France). A piece of the Atlantic wall still remains.

http://mehmet.perso.cegetel.net/accueil/accueilp.htm

Just click on the menu's on the left side to view some pictures and ignor the unreadable french blabla

Been there

spent a week in Normandie with my opa in 1998 for a reunion of 12thSS/25th SS PzGr Reg soldaten. also went to Dieppe on the coast to see that beach(Failed attempt by the Allies to invade German-held France)

drove the ardennes in a weekend in the summer of 1999

and visted Kiev, Rostov, Moscow, St. Peterberg, Warsaw and Buda and Pest in the East.

[aparatchik]

I do hope you went to Spa while you were in the Ardennes!!

[aparatchik]

I've been thinking of doing the full dutch farmer outfit with the wooden shoes for halloween... boerekiel, etc. Scary, really!!

Originally Posted by Joy

Cool ! It's a small world after all Band of brothers rules big time.

If you ever fancy a pair of wooden shoes or some lovely smelling cheese give me a ring :P

[Panzer_M]

Originally Posted by aparatchik

Hey Joy, welkom!! Ik ben Nederlands, maar woon al 13 jaar hier in de VS!

Panzer... very cool, you're going to my hometown!! the house I grew up in is actually built RIGHT on top of the dropzone for the 101st in Son (I've checked the original maps against current-date ones

Kinda cool to think that the Band of Brothers was there before I got there!

An uncle of mine attacked Son with the 107th Panzer Brigade durning Op Market Garden. He was a driver of a Sdkfz 250/1(Lichte Schutzenpanzerwagen) or a Demag 1ton halftrack(unarmoured prime mover). He spent the operation doing ambulance duties and moving Material to the forward area. I got photos of him with a 250 in Aachen dated Sept/44 on the back...which is right at Market Gardern which was 17-26th IIRC

[Panzer_M]

Originally Posted by aparatchik

Hey Joy, welkom!! Ik ben Nederlands, maar woon al 13 jaar hier in de VS!

Panzer... very cool, you're going to my hometown!! the house I grew up in is actually built RIGHT on top of the dropzone for the 101st in Son (I've checked the original maps against current-date ones

Kinda cool to think that the Band of Brothers was there before I got there!

almost , Son was attacked by the 502 PIR, the 506th(BOB) PIR attacked Vegel.

82nd got Grave and Nijmegen as it's objectives.

[aparatchik]

Yep, 9/17 is liberation day in Son, when Market Garden kicked off. Your uncle probably ran materials and/or troops to the bridge over the Wilhelminakanaal between Son & Eindhoven, which kept the 101st at bay until 9/18. My mom actually remembers hiding under the kitchen table during the shelling the city received from the germans around 9/19, after being liberated...

Originally Posted by Panzer_M

An uncle of mine attacked Son with the 107th Panzer Brigade durning Op Market Garden. He was a driver of a Sdkfz 250/1(Lichte Schutzenpanzerwagen) or a Demag 1ton halftrack(unarmoured prime mover). He spent the operation do ambulance duties and moving Material to the forward area. I got photos of him with a 250 in Aachen dated Sept/44 on the back...which is right at Market Gardern which was 17-26th IIRC

[Panzer_M]

I had 12 relatives in the Wehrmacht, 8 Heer, 2 Luftwaffe, 1 Kriegsmarine, plus my father who was born in 1936 served as a FlaKhelfer in his district, working/repairing radios. amazing as a kid, but after my granddad came to the US in the 1950s my dad went into the USAF in 1958 to do radios/Radar again.

In the last 10 years I manage to gather all their medals, passbooks, letters, parts of uniforms and most important atleast to me photoalbums, both unit albums and personal.