Falling In Love.

[Cletonius]

Fathers day weekend 1999. I had always liked the e30 and e36 and then my dad bought a z3. My mom said it was his fathers day gift. One hell of a step up from a 95 intrepid. After driving it and experiencing what BMW was about u knew I would own one someday. When it was time to sell my Dakota I figured I'd give the e30 a shot. Drove one and ended up buying it. All records included, yay! After a year of ownership and a few repairs later its a love/hate relationship but I still really enjoy diving it

[1fastETA]

It all started in 2008, my brother bought an incredible looking 325es. I loved it as soon as we drove it, i owned a nissan s13 at that time, still do actually, but it was life changing i could say.He used it to go to high school, after he graduated he bought a jeep wrangler with a skyjacker suspesion and a whole lot of oher goodies and well the e30 was just pushed aside. I bought it from him to the amount of 1500 dollars. Just like my s13, I emphasize this, I WILL NEVER LET IT GO. It has truly been an adventure so far with my e30..

[QUKBMER]

My first love of course is american muscle. But i have always loved bmw's since my dad started working in bmw dealers in 1978. Worked for janaco porsche/audi/bmw in norwalk then he work for ocean motors bmw in santa monica and then the last dealer was century motors bmw in alhambra. They were the dealer that made the century turbo's on the 3's/5's/6's and 7 series in the early eightys.I didnt get me first bmw untill 1998,74 2002 auto then a 86 325es.

[RondoAcapriccio]

All great stories. I feel in love with e30s probably 5 years ago when I was 13. This movie Paid In Full was about coke dealers in the 80s full of e30s. I seen them and was like wtf is that car! Looked them and looked at them for sale on craiglist religiously for years I finally got mine October 16, 2011 and I ain't ever going back.

Lol that movie has nothing but e30s, e28s, e24s, and 900 saab turbos lol. Good movie with amazing cars.

[SGT4677]

Converted

I Hated BMW's in the 80's when I lived in cali.A few years back a friend invited me out to a BMWCCA HPDS at Pacific Raceways and gave me a ride in his supercharged E36 M3.I havent missed a club HPDS since then.

In '09 I was given a couple of rides in PRO3 cars and after the last ride I got out and told my wife "whew that was fun! I gotta get one of those!" she just rolled her eyes at me,but shortly after that I wrecked our Shelby and the search was on for a replacement.I found my 90 is with a bunch of good parts and bad workmanship 2 years ago and I'm slowly upgrading it and tracking it every chance I get.

I had never even driven an e30 when I bought the rat.Now we have 3 E30's, the trackrat 90 is,my wifes 85 auto coupe and a 87 sedan that I picked up for 350 bucks a few months ago for parts but started driving it instead.

I even named one of my dogs "Enzo" after the dog in the book "The Art of Racing in the Rain"

[BlackbirdM3]

I wanted an M3 the first time I saw one, perhaps '87 or so. At the time I really couldn't care less about cars as I was into airplanes, and there weren't any cool cars in the town I lived in aside from a '56 Porsche 356A Speedster than my friends dad owned. We went to visit family here in the Bay Area and I saw my first M3. The box flared fenders and the rear spoiler did it for me. Oddly enough I think it might have been the same trip that I saw my Alfa Romeo GTV for the first time sitting in a friends barn. Little did I know the car would be mine 20 years later, and that car would pave the way to my getting an M3. Oddly enough, I just can't seem to form an emotional connection to it.

Will

[noE30]

I was a VW guy before I liked BMW's. I owned a mkiv gti through the last half of high school, I ended up selling it because the loan was too much for a kid my age (~$10k loan at the age of 17-18). Few months later, I was reading a thread on the vwvortex and someone posted an e30, and I knew I had to have one.
I guess you could say vwvortex brought me to r3v/e30s.

[samurai pizza cats]

two years ago, R3Ved my 350z and needed a cheap inbetween car while the 350z got replied. Found my 87 325 sedan on craigslist for $900 and had more fun driving it than my 350z lol. now i have a project 2002 and a daily e30:pimp:

[gone002]

june 1980....