***Pics of your 1st ever E30***

[ccsdo5]

My first e30 and first car I bought myself at 17; 1988 325ix with plastic bumpers and well over 250,000 on the chassis.





I drive the crap out of this thing since the day I bought it. I spun it and broke the front subframe and cracked the oil pain. Spent the spring/ start of summer fixing it and refreshing the suspension just in time for last winter to abuse it more.





Then I blew the HG and decided I had enough with this car and it being AWD and parted it out. Honestly this car owed me nothing it was fun first car, it taught me how to work on cars, and at the end of the day because of the part out I ended up making money on it and using a lot of parts for 318is drift car.



This was the end to that car. During the winter I miss it, but it had to much rust to be worth it anymore.. :(

[e30austin]

Bought this pile of shit for $100 when I was 14 in 2007. Actually was a pretty nice car then. Needed a trunk lid from a careless PO. 197k and all original Zinno paint/panels and a mint Natur vinyl interior. The next day, my house was cleaned out so it went away to replace all my stuff.



Bought it back 3.5 years later in a little rougher shape than I sold it. Guess that's how it goes. Post M50 swap and E36 5 lug conversion.


I drove the shit out of this car for a couple years and wasn't too nice to it (to say the least). It still was a blast to drive but something was lacking so...S50 time (pic is with Hans the traveling roundel).


Now under going heart surgery. Might be back on the road sometime this decade. It will see boost...eventually

[KIRIEIW]

Heres mine, I looked at over 10 cars till I found it. Best part... It was free! Didn't run but after a new engine (M20B25 Swap) and tons of parts, Its the most solid e30 I've ever driven to date. I plan to keep it for a long time yet.




and a pic of its more current look,

[blunttech]

This was my first e30 (red one) and Super Dupers first e30 (white one)

[steve68]

First one was in 1991, bought a 85 325e from a auction paid $8500 for it had 45K on it, battery was dead so it would run, charged the battery add a alternator belt, and everything was fine, sold it to my brother for $5500, 2 years later, no pics only on film!

1994 bought a 88 325is drove it till 2001 had 275K on it, lowered on RD springs, VW BBS wheels, is front lip, my dad drove it into the ground, sold in in Alpharetta GA mid 2000's for $300, fool, looking to see if anyone here may have bought it, was sitting in the back of Kauffman tire, was lach with gray inside, also on film

bought my M3 in 2000 been inside since then, getting ready to get it running again. no pics here, at my home in FL.

[cWalk3r]

This is my first e30 completely stock. Recently I found out via a free car report that it had a rebuilt title... I knew something was wrong with it when I bought it. I can't find out what was wrong with it only that it was rebuilt and auctioned. There's no report of frame damage or any other kind. Funny thing is its from British Columbia and it was brought to Nova Scotia and now it has a clean title hahaha



This is how it looks now. I should be getting a respray this summer!!!

[808e30325i]

Looks pretty clean ^

[Andrew325is]

I bought my first E30 in 2004 when I was 21. I bought it from a car dealer in Grants Pass, OR when I was a college student in Ashland. It was a bone stock 1986 325. The only mod I did was adding the rear spoiler. It was pretty much flawless, except for a little crack in the dash. Someone told me it used to belong to one of the professors at SOU. One of my favorite cars ever. Good memories.

Here's the only pictures of it I could find. I took them just before I sold it. I got the stupid idea of buying an E36 instead. Regrets, regrets. lol

[Cabriolet]

sold it for a bad reason. but i had one for a year and a half.

first only real e30.

my first e30 was a 1986 325es
IMG_2060 by Eric Berger, on Flickr

[808e30325i]

RIP 12/18/11

Nice, driving through water shot.

[Vincent Brick]

Please see sig, been daily driving it almost a year. Definitely not the first E30 I have worked on though, I was quite familiar with them coming into it due to past employment.

[R3Z3N]

RIP 12/18/11

[Pottsalot]

So many memories and feels in this thread. Keep it going.

[rcsoundn1]

"I don't get how people can buy the same car over and over. Either stick with what you have or get something else? I would get bored fixing the same problems again and again"

Well you do get better at fixing the prob. and you are able to better source parts, faster and cheaper. I like vehicle diversity, and though this is my 3rd E30, there are other cars I would own multiples of. There is something to be said for becoming an expert at fixing a particular make or model of a car.


Bought this sometime in 2007/08? for $500 at the dealer I was working for. Came in on a trade. It overall was not to bad, aside from the bad rear end collision it suffered at some point. Sold it on ebay for 2k, sight unseen. Buyer sent a tow truck. Never heard from the guy. it was a 325.

[roguetoaster]

After it's first set of tires:


Today:


The first, and the only one I want to keep. It's seen 8 other E30s come and go in the ~4.5 years and almost 100k miles I've had it. It's seen the bad times and good times and been there for me every time I've needed it. Truly the best car I've ever had.