First ix

[Alaska Ted]

To make a long story short, my 13 yr old son really wanted my wife's 92' E36 as his first car. I know, 13 seems a little early, but you can drive with a learner's permit at age 14 in Alaska. After explaining to him that a rear wheel drive car in Alaska is a horrible choice for a first car, we started causally looking for something else. Low and behold within a few weeks, we found a 1989 325ix for sale about 100 miles from home(this is practically next door in Alaska). The car had been sitting in a shop for 10 yrs. We trailered the car home about 11 months ago and have been working on it off and on since. Its our first experience with an ix and it did not take long to really start to like this car. What an awesome machine, way ahead of its time! We have been using this forum for trouble shooting and repairs so we decided that we should probably join and share a little of our ix story if anyone is interested. I have documented most of the repairs because we home school our kids and this car is one of my son's long term school projects.

[bluebeamer]

glad to see people are picking up ix's everywhere looked for about 3 months till i bought mine last week. I am picking up a parts car in May and am located in northern bc, if you need some parts let me know and ill see what i have.

[Alaska Ted]

Thanks a bunch, I'll keep you in mind when we are hunting parts. Hopefully I'll get some pictures of the project posted soon.

[TehRaydarlover]

Sounds cool, you should make a built thread!

[Alaska Ted]

Its been fun but I'm not sure it would qualify for a build thread. Its more like a let's see if we can get it running thread. trying to load a few pictures now but its kicking my butt.

[Alaska Ted]

ix heading home

Test pic

[litu]

Coool Ix, awesome :)

[Nisse Järnet]

Looks nice!

[101]

Welcome! That's a nice find! And a coupe to boot!

There's no better father - son bonding experience than getting an E30 right. You'll both remember these days for a long time! (spoken from experience as you can see from my signature below)

[packratbimmer]

Great car to put your son in! I have never driven a car that was better in the snow!!!
BTW: I begged my dad for my first car when I was 11 - just make sure he still does his school work - LOL.

[Alaska Ted]

Update on first ix

So after a year of tinkering, my son showed off his home school project at the home school expo. He wrote a paper on the history of BMW, and paper about his ix. We also had a laptop with a slide show of the work we did on the car and a few of the parts that were replaced at his booth. We pulled the car up on the sidewalk and parked in front of the entrance to the VOTECH school where the expo was held. Needless to say, the project was a pretty big hit.

[Alaska Ted]

pic of the expo

booth and ix

[Ether-D]

Where in AK are you guys? I used to live in Girdwood for some years around 2000-2004. That first pic looks like it could be on the Turnigan Arm somewhere. My real good friend (also e30 nut) lives in Bird still. Good luck on your project!

[Alaska Ted]

Palmer AK

Where in AK are you guys? I used to live in Girdwood for some years around 2000-2004. That first pic looks like it could be on the Turnigan Arm somewhere. My real good friend (also e30 nut) lives in Bird still. Good luck on your project!

You're real close, the pic was taken between Moose Pass and Turnagain Pass. we live in Palmer AK. God's country!!!

[nomansland92]

WOW great find on such a clean Ix, Good luck with the car and I'm sure your sons going to love driving it!