Come back to R3V:)

[mavrikno13764]

Never left either, but Ive been a lurker my whole internet life! lol
Also, my build is not worth posting. Its been 19 years with the M3, and I am still not done.

[Panici]

Never left either, but Ive been a lurker my whole internet life! lol
Also, my build is not worth posting. Its been 19 years with the M3, and I am still not done.

I'd like to see it. Especially if you have film photos from 19 years ago!

[mavrikno13764]

Lol Film Photos? I guess 2mp sony cybershots arent any better than film cameras!

All my post and pictures got ruined by Photobucket trying to monetize itself.
Since then, I have given up on posting pics.

[Panici]

Lol Film Photos? I guess 2mp sony cybershots arent any better than film cameras!

All my post and pictures got ruined by Photobucket trying to monetize itself.
Since then, I have given up on posting pics.

Ah I had one of those early digital cameras as well. HP with 8mb compactflash.
Regular film in an SLR looked better though.

I managed to keep my early digital photos through a series of backups. Did any of yours survive?

[2mAn]

Lol Film Photos? I guess 2mp sony cybershots arent any better than film cameras!

All my post and pictures got ruined by Photobucket trying to monetize itself.
Since then, I have given up on posting pics.

I moved everything I could salvage over to Flickr, but you can upload here and while a lot of things aren’t functioning great anymore that is something that does! … 5 pic limit per post but whatever… LETS SEE THE M3!!

[varg]

Film is definitely better than early digital. Especially if you kept the negatives.

[mavrikno13764]

Cant believe this was 5 Years ago!
But other than removing the stickers, the car hasn't changed much:
20210328_0928 - Streets Of Willow - 5235-Edit_100 by Brian Villanueva, on Flickr
20210328_0928 - Streets Of Willow - 5233-Edit-2_100 by Brian Villanueva, on Flickr
20210328_0928 - Streets Of Willow - 5237-Edit_100 by Brian Villanueva, on Flickr

[mavrikno13764]

I lied, I forgot I got cheap wheels for the streets:
Untitled by Brian Villanueva, on Flickr

[Stan]

I prefer this to FB

[2mAn]

I lied, I forgot I got cheap wheels for the streets:
Untitled by Brian Villanueva, on Flickr

Where was this at? It reminds me of the old Archies Ice Cream nights haha

[mavrikno13764]

I miss Archies, its been a while since I have driven my M3 to LA. This is at Dave's Drip in Santa Barbara / Goleta.

[dirty30]

I've been back more frequently since picking up a vert project only to find the classifieds here have pretty much dried up and everything on ebay is like 25x the cost I used to pay lol

It doesn't help I used to manage a BMW parts department and remember when I could open ETK and order literally anything I needed next day, any euro part... anything.

Anyways, I'm back semi permanently now. Anyone got a brake reservoir for an 87 and an early style front lip? I smushed mine on my car trailer, long story.

[lukeADE335i]

Yes - parts have got much more expensive than back in the day (although I cashed in with the large parts hoard I had lurking in my shed over the last couple of years - didn't chase crazy prices, just a fair price in the current market to help out some other enthusiasts). Most of the young guys buying parts 'couldn't believe my prices', but if they knew what I'd paid for those parts in the early 2000s they'd cry. One person asked what my M30 swap cost me, and when I said less than $2k including a manual conversion and swapping to a LSD, they nearly fell over.

[BlackSpeed66]

I don’t think I’m an “OG” but I’ve had my car for 18 years now. Going on 10 years with the S52 swap and it runs and drives brilliantly. I’ll be 45 in a few months….. “life” has definitely happened over the past few years…. family health crap, house repair crap, job change crap…. But the e30 keeps truckin on. Really wanna do a 6 speed swap on it now.

Still kickin... 220,000 miles as of the trip to Watkins Glen for the Grand Prix Festival last week.

[dirty30]

I've never done social media but my girlfriend is kind enough to list things for me here and there. I cannot express how much of a steaming cesspool of buyers and sellers facebook marketplace is. To think I would occasionally rag on people that posted on craigslist is almost laughable now. I don't know anywhere else to list and sell items, there isn't any traffic here but I will anyways. I just don't get what using classifieds has turned in to, from people not willing to just give me their phone number to asking 50 questions or setting up a clear time and place to meet then not even having the decency to let me know they're running and hour and a half behind. Ridiculous. Rant is over.