A travesty

[Tavern Gnome]

A couple grand in 20's will change somebodies mind quick.

All my car deals in the last 5-6 years have been in cash, with 20's. I don't know why, but 4-5 banded stacks of 20's has a better effect than 50's or 100's.

Last time I got paid for a car in 20s the money REAKED like weed. I think he must have been storing his product and revenue in the same lunch box.

[xLibelle]

Pfft, a couple grand... This car would go for 20 - 40k depending on condition

[dkbmxer002]

what a bitch to keep it because it is a "trophy"

[E30_pilot]

I say keep asking her about the car.
Sooner or later she'll cave and sell it to you.

[davey101]

similar story...sorta....its just a rusty eta with minor body damage...but its what got me into e30s...been ooogling over it since i was 10 :p and of course it hasnt run since then....

hoping to save it and auto-x it after college...if i just save up enough money :(

i would definetley save that csl though...thats a REAL shame if it was lost due to the lack of TLC

[uofom3]

My ex-neighbor has a real 3.0 CSL sitting in an alley behind her house. She got the car in a divorce deal and brought it to Birmingham from WA state. She and her ex went to Germany back in the early 80's and brought the car home with them. There are still numbers in the windows from auto-x or track events.

The car's been languishing under a cover in the alley behind her house for a couple of years.

Her DD is a minty 635, but the 3.0 is going to die a slow death in that alley.

Anybody else have a similar story?

FUCK. that sucks majorly.

There is a 50k mile e30 m3, white on black, rolling around Corvallis, Oregon that some woman drives. Complete with Hawaiian seat covers.

Also, until a few years ago there was a 12k mile e30 m3 that lived around the corner from where I grew up that literally lived in a bubble. The guy was the original owner, got tired of it, and started letting his wife drive it to work. It ultimately got sold for 30k plus and is now some guys DD back in Chicago. you could literally have eaten off of every inch of this car. the leather still smelled new, and only like 8 people had ridden in the car in it's entire life. Too bad.

[uofom3]

FUCK. that sucks majorly.

There is a 50k mile e30 m3, white on black, rolling around Corvallis, Oregon that some woman drives. Complete with Hawaiian seat covers.

Also, until a few years ago there was a 12k mile e30 m3 that lived around the corner from where I grew up that literally lived in a bubble. The guy was the original owner, got tired of it, and started letting his wife drive it to work. It ultimately got sold for 30k plus and is now some guys DD back in Chicago. you could literally have eaten off of every inch of this car. the leather still smelled new, and only like 8 people had ridden in the car in it's entire life. Too bad.

I am having a hell of a time over here - disregard the quote.

[Lair]

I've been wanting a 1969 Rambler S/C Hurst since i was 17. In high school i found one but the guy didn't want to sell. Then last year out of the blue someone told me about one in a barn that was being stored and the guy who owned the barn wanted it out of there cause the guy wasn't paying him anymore to store it there.

Anyway it turned out to be the one that i wanted to get in high school. Found the guys number and called him about it, still didn't want to sell even though it hasn't been touched in the 12 years that i last asked about it.

But in the end, these cars that we want that we see sitting around isn't ours to tell the owners what to do with them. If they want them to rot, It's their loss.

I tried to buy a pair of Karmann Ghia convertibles that sat in a guy's parents' yard for at least 10 years. One was a perfect bare body shell, but had been outside in the elements and was rusted through in multiple places. The other one was wrecked in the front, and the top was left open just enough to flood the interior every time it rained. That one had a small bush growing up through the open trunk.

I actually went to the guy's house and asked him if he would sell, and he told me he was "planning to restore them next spring". 5 years later, they finally disappeared.

I drove Ghias for years, and every few months someone new would tell me about the two Ghias.

I found a website that details locations of old muscle cars that are parked, but not ever for sale. Sad stuff.

I hate that shit.

[TDE30]

Go out and buy some kind of a durable cover for it (thick guage tarp, nylon rope, etc.) and put it over the car. When she comes out asking, "what are you doing?" Simply tell her you want to keep it protected from the elements until she's ready to sell you the car ;-)

Jon

Best idea yet. While you are taking the old cover off and putting the new one on, look around for any signs of rust.