First of all, let me briefly introduce myself. I am a long time lurker on r3v and when i say long time, i mean since the late 90's, and have only registered recently. I have been into BMWs in general and e30s specifically since mid 90's, before i had a licence. I got my first e30, a Bronzit 86 coupe as my second car in 2000 and took it to close to 600,000km. That was followed by an 85 coupe, a 1990 325i sedan at which point I got into e34s and then sort of left the scene for a while. All these were modified to various extents but never really achieved much, as they were daily all commuters driven year round including Ontario winters with piles of salt being dumped on the roads daily.
I always knew that ill get back into e30s and have been following the market and checking classifieds regularly. About 2 years ago i decided to see for myself whats out there and if something good comes up then pull the trigger. Sadly all i found were rusted out and roughly patched up POS that people were trying to sell for 5-7k. Seriously the amount of junk e30s ive checked out was ridiculous. So i gave up. This summer i decided to try looking again but figured that ill raise my budget if the right specimen comes along. Shortly after i saw this car on kijiji and went to check it out with no particularly high hopes.
The car checked out though and i pulled the trigger on the spot! And for a whopping 3500$ I am back in the e30 game!
So here is the summary:
She is a 2 owner 1987 Delphingrey on Grey houndstooth cloth manual ETA coupe. The car is basic with manual crank windows, sunroof, pop out rears. All is fully original unmodified and complete. The only mod is a cd player. Luckily the original deck was still around, so i grabbed that to pop it back in.
She has got 212000km (137k miles appx) on the odo which checks out with carfax and its clean to a point of as new as i have seen these cars. Especially the interior. Uncracked dash, spotless seats ( although comfort, so this will have to be addressed), etc.
Body is rust free other that a small bubble on the hood. The car has been repainted though from the drivers door back but the quality of the repair is very good. Windows were pulled etc to respray, and is blended perfectly with only slightly visible orange peel.
The plan is to enjoy it when the weather is right and keep it OEM plus of course.
Some work has already started so in this thread ill document that progress.
And here are a few pics snapped before she went into hibernation.
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I always knew that ill get back into e30s and have been following the market and checking classifieds regularly. About 2 years ago i decided to see for myself whats out there and if something good comes up then pull the trigger. Sadly all i found were rusted out and roughly patched up POS that people were trying to sell for 5-7k. Seriously the amount of junk e30s ive checked out was ridiculous. So i gave up. This summer i decided to try looking again but figured that ill raise my budget if the right specimen comes along. Shortly after i saw this car on kijiji and went to check it out with no particularly high hopes.
The car checked out though and i pulled the trigger on the spot! And for a whopping 3500$ I am back in the e30 game!
So here is the summary:
She is a 2 owner 1987 Delphingrey on Grey houndstooth cloth manual ETA coupe. The car is basic with manual crank windows, sunroof, pop out rears. All is fully original unmodified and complete. The only mod is a cd player. Luckily the original deck was still around, so i grabbed that to pop it back in.
She has got 212000km (137k miles appx) on the odo which checks out with carfax and its clean to a point of as new as i have seen these cars. Especially the interior. Uncracked dash, spotless seats ( although comfort, so this will have to be addressed), etc.
Body is rust free other that a small bubble on the hood. The car has been repainted though from the drivers door back but the quality of the repair is very good. Windows were pulled etc to respray, and is blended perfectly with only slightly visible orange peel.
The plan is to enjoy it when the weather is right and keep it OEM plus of course.
Some work has already started so in this thread ill document that progress.
And here are a few pics snapped before she went into hibernation.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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