Bring a Trailer Auctions, E30 edition

[Echo30V]

Check out the 1988 M3:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-bmw-m3-37/

[M-technik-3]

Was amazed how much the Alpina B3 went for on BAT as it's not legal here in US yet and still drew 25k with slushbox.

[Powling]

Another 318is up today too.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1991-bmw-318is-25/

[Poorhouse]

The Bronzit E28. :shock:

[Echo30V]

The 318is looks nice in the pictures but I’d like to get an up close look at the restoration especially the corrosion areas.

[djjerme]

Damn, the mythos of the 318is is getting better every listing.

[2mAn]

Damn, the mythos of the 318is is getting better every listing.

dont forget the the "should've kept it" comment :rofl:

I sold my 318is on Bat a few months ago. It happened to sell for about 4-5k more than I expected. I thought I had just won on Price is Right and was jumping around with my friends when the bidding got to 16k. Today, I realize that I should have just kept the car. It was unique, fun, cheap to maintain. It could basically run forever. I should have just kept it.

[s1uma1]

The seller on BAT stated they bought the M3 from Jim Powell, a long time BMW enthusiast/collector down in San Diego. Not sure how much that had to do with it but nothing surprises me anymore.

Jim powell... that sounds really familiar. I vaguely remember him having an estoril blue e36 me back in early 2000??

[djjerme]

I do have to say - there is a bunch of want on BAT right now. That E24 ending today is taunting me. I doubt it will stay at that price, but damn..

Also, the LS powered Bavaria and that Bronzit E28. The E34 Alpina is also on my radar..

in the non-Bimmer arena - the Dodge Dart vert is sexy as hell. I owned a hard top version 20+ years ago, and I wish I had kept that one. As well the Datsun race car - I still love those little boxy things..

[2mAn]

A little over a half hour left on the 318i vert and its at $7k. Will this one skyrocket into the high teens or will it just clear 10 and close out??

[djjerme]

what's up with that '74 3.0CS. The patch in the spare tire well - I just can't stop noticing it. Looks really bad. It's not like you can't get at the area to run a well from the outside.. Probably the easiest patch you could do, but it looks like they just took a piece of metal, set it in there and ran a bead from the inside. Looks really shade tree.

[2mAn]

Not sure, but E9s started rusting the minute they were completed from the factory... its a shame how bad some of them are

[djjerme]

It's part of the fuel economy - as the engine starts to wear and get worse gas mileage, the car "lightens" itself - so the perceived gas mileage stays the same..

[Echo30V]

The Vert stalled out at $10,500 and reserve not met. Wonder what they were looking for.

[MrBurgundy]

Wonder what they were looking for.

My guess would be around 15k

It is a nice car, but for me, this is the least desirable e30 configuration. m42/late model/vert.

If I were going to get an e30 vert, it would be an m20/early vert, which is exactly what I have :p

An m20's sound, plus no top = one very nice time.