More e30s for grown ups?

[DRTSRFR]

Just wondering if you guys were eager to work on cars at a young age like this too?

My Dad bought a Model A with 3 motors when I was 7. He gave me a handful of wrenches and let me go to town on one that wasn't running. By the time I was 13 I built one that ran. The rest is history... and I still have the Model A.

I started both of my kids that way, had 'em handing me tools by the time they were 4 or 5.

[kickinindian]

this post is making my head hurt.....all the Cuz :(

[Bearmw]

Old BMW's will ruin your life.

[GillesBigCowboy]

Before I was 1 year old, my grandmother said I would shake and jerk my head in the passenger seat anytime she slowed or stopped (I was pushing her to drive faster!). She had a nearly new VW bug.
Before I was 2 years old, I was working the stick shift from the passenger seat while she worked the clutch.
Hot wheels, slot cars, Speed Racer, F1, Road and Track, Road Atlanta, and a go cart just fanned the flames until I emptied my savings to buy my first car 2 weeks before my 16th birthday: a 1971 Volvo 142S 4spd that I abused every day.
It was many cars, and many years later that I took my 2002 GTI to the Summit Point Raceway, and I learned where to find nirvana. A not-so-young man in need of a budget racecar, I considered and drove a few different cars before my first test drive in an E30.

It is great that there are still so many cheap e30s out there... extreme durability and relatively inexpensive parts make economic operation very feasible.

E30s for all who want them!!!! it's a beautiful world we live in!! HO HO HO!!!

[e30onBBSs]

Just wondering if you guys were eager to work on cars at a young age like this too?

Not until I knew it would save tons of money/ make much cheaper ownership of having a car one day did I get interested into wrenching too

[Vincent Brick]

Just wondering if you guys were eager to work on cars at a young age like this too?

I wasn't. I grew up around cars, literally learned to read from reference books. My Dad was big into Corvette restoration and later Mopars when I was growing up, but as a teenager all I wanted to do was play in bands, guitars were cheaper than cars. I grew up in a really depressed area, and only half the kids I knew could afford cars at all, no one was into cars in the slightest, not even the kids with money at my school. I had cars as a teenager, but they were mostly pretty crappy. It wasn't until I was in my 20s and could afford my 1st Neon that I was able to get into cars some.

I don't actually like working on cars, its just the only way I can have one close to what I want. I'd rather be able to afford an E90 or something and pay someone else to work on it.

[Navarone]

More e30s for grown ups?

Old BMW's will ruin your life.

I would say my E30 has been paramount in getting me laid.

I started with cars young, my mom taught me to fix em, and to drive manual. Dad had some cool cars growing up but I never got to experience them, he got MS before I was born. I've taught a few girls to drive stick, trying to keep the tradition alive in America!

[BLACKCHARM88]

Wow, great thread gents. Figured I'd purchase an e30 shell for my kid when they're 12 or 13 and tell them get to it because that's their car for high school.

[lukeADE335i]

My first car was a '65 Toyota Corona with non-assisted drums all round, 4 speed on the tree & no seat belts (and being a pre-1967 built vehicle, there was no expectation that they had to be fitted).

An e30 is much safer than something like that, and we're only talking one generation ago. We didn't all end up dead. Most of my school mates had 60's or 70's cars. The 'newer' cars were early 80's. Very few of us had new cars, maybe one student in my whole year.

Comparing those cars to cars built in the early 2000s and calling them unsafe is a joke.

[Navarone]

More e30s for grown ups?

Damn kids, get off my lawn!!

Hey, at least we know what people are cross shopping for with our cars.

[dirty30]

Kids need to buy themselves their own damn cars. At least let them die in something they paid for with thier own money.

[slammin.e28]

Kids need to buy themselves their own damn cars. At least let them die in something they paid for with thier own money.

BUTTTT MAH kid needs that supercharged Fawksboddy so he'll be the fastest one in high skewl.

[NoM54me]

When I see "240", I think "Volvo".

[Jims5543]

Old Fekker checking in:

All my son has owned since getting his drivers license when he was 16 was E30's.

the key is education, teaching them how to actually drive, now to anticipate idiots, and now to avoid an accident. Where to drive like fools and where not to.

Autocrosses are perfect outlets for getting it out of your system.

My son purchased a $500 E30 destined to be a 24 hours of Lemons car when the team backed out. It was a bronzit 325i and Autotragic.

He fixed it up (with dad helping and teaching him to wrench) and sold it to buy a 325is manual. Which he saved up and purchased lots of handling and go fast goodies for, eventually selling and buying a 1991 318is with a M50 swap.

He loves that car and plans on keeping it a long time.

So back up to the $500 Lemons car. I drove him up to Virginia to buy it in the family Audi A6, we were worried about driving the E30 back because it was a very neglected car, previous owner was a drug addict that went to jail and the car sat in impound for a long time. Ironically the Audi died on the trip back in North Carolina and ended up in a Audi shop for an entire month being fixed, we ditched it and continued on our journey home depending on the E30.

I was so impressed with that car I let the lease expire on the Audi and purchased a E46 330i cash driving it for 4 years before trading in on an RX8 R3. I just sold the RX8 and I am about to take ownership of a 318is Sedan with a M52 swapped in ready for a supercharger. :D

Now back to my son, I spent countless hours with him teaching him to drive both in the car and in empty parking lots while he zipped between cones and did drills.

then Tire Rack finally had a Street Survival School passing through Florida, best money I ever spent, it taught hi so much and made him a much better driver all in one day.

If you are between 17-21 years old you should be doing this for 2 reasons.

1. It is invaluable how much you will learn about driving there.

2. If you are a dood, there are a lot of 17-21 year old girls there. Just sayin....



Spend the money take the school thank me later.

[Stanley Rockafella]

When I see "240", I think "Volvo".

:rofl: