RARE E30 Harge in storage for decades... tell me about this car!

[buguhrich]

He sent me a video of the motor rapping up, it sounds sick. maybe high compression.

Any way you could post that video up here?

[JasonC]

It has Kamei side skirts on it, and looks like phofa (sp?) rear pieces on the apron. What front air dam does it even have?

[dirty30]

I want.

Foha? I think that's how it's spelled.

[kronus]

Looks like a proper H26, but that interior is definitely from somewhere else.

- the BBS RA wheels came on some Hartges originally, including Tavern Gnome's which has now passed through a few other owners and was for sale by GutenParts at some point in the recent past. I'm not sure if they were an upgrade or a downgrade for people who didn't want the 1-piece Hartge wheels.
- the rear apron doesn't look right, here's a good look at one:

- the skirts, as jason said, are Kamei
- the motor will have a crank out of a 323i with 84mm-bore hartge-spec pistons, rods and cam. Likely a 731-casting head with some work done to it. Info on these engines throughout this thread
- some general info here

you should get some pics of the front apron and headers. Is it a dogleg or a standard OD 5-speed?

[kronus]

Some things give me pause though, like the different hartge script on the back, the wrong rear and side skirts and the mismatched stripe ends. This might have been a car that was brought to Hartge some years after its purchase to have a "tuning kit" of bolt-ons thrown at it.

[flyboyx]

i think the only way to know if its a real car would be to cross reference the vin with hartge.

in the case of alpina, they put a special vin tag on the back side of the core support on the right side. i know hartge did something similar to this.

it has a lot of cool parts on it. could be real. the non hartge parts definitely give pause though.

[M-technik-3]

Hartge and Alpina in the early days were just a Tuner not a manufacturer of cars. The bad thing is most of their old documentation has been lost.

[sweet6e30]

interior BARF,,... it looks like JABBA the HUT took a Dump in there.

cool motor.

[e30m3s54turbo]

Alpina keeps records of all the cars they built.

Hartge did not keep records of their cars they built. Hartge would put on a red Hartge vin. tag on their cars. The only e30s that I seen that would have the red Hartge vin. tags would be a Hartge H35. My old Hartge H26 did not have a red Hartge vin tag.
The tag should look like this.

[CrusherCurtis]

$4k lololololololol. That car would sell it less than 10 minutes if were posted with an asking of $4k.

[humzak77]

Fucking. Want. Now. I dont care if its legit or not.

[GT BMW E30]

wow....:p smiley face color interior. worth 4k. anything more go over it with a fine comb.

[matthugie]

$4k lololololololol. That car would sell it less than 10 minutes if were posted with an asking of $4k.

I agree 100%. Yes, there is some mismatching on the car, but it's still got quality parts on it and having been stored for so long is probably very low mileage.

[Threehz]

Shit, it looks like 50K/60K on the clock. A stock E30 with that low mileage will sell for $5K+ today easy. Given a bath that thing would fetch $10K in an instant.

That interior though... Why?

[8380 Labs]

having been stored for so long is probably very low mileage.

yes, and also probably needs every seal and bushing replaced.