Pet peeve: non-enthusiast E30 drivers

[m3_eater]

About once a week on the way home I see this young lady in a diving-board E30. Looks stock. She never looks over - probably thinks I'm some kind of psycho. Any other E30 driver in SE Michigan usually is at least somewhat of an enthusiast.

People approach me all the time to talk about the car, especially at gas stations. The most interested are usually Subaru WRX drivers! I get thumbs up and playful driving from E46 owners all the time. For some reason though, the E36 owners seem stuck on themselves.

[eric (^__^)]

lol you are such a funny guy

[submwar]

well i usually drive in the nude so you could imagine the looks i get from fellow e30's

what? my doctors said it was perfectly normal. my gf on the otherhand.....

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[TDE30]

One of the greatest things I have noticed about driving an older BMW is that the most wealthy and affluent people will usually give you props when they see you go buy. This is likely because they probably had one back when these were $30k entry-level German cars. It's not unusual that someone in an E60 M5 or a 997 pulls alongside and gives a modest thumbs up. It always makes me grin.

[kencopperwheat]

That high!? Wow. I guess just know most of the e30 guys in Portland so I pretty much just wave at them. Speaking of which, what part of P-Town are you in? I'm in NW just off of 23rd.

i would say around 75% of the guys driving e30s at whom i flash my lights or wave return the gesture.

currently, there has only been one female driver who has acknowledged any kind of car similarities, and she was a beautiful redhead with a white 325i/4 with some tasteful mods in the parking lot of a chevron.

basically if i see an e30 in ok or better condition, i try to make some kind of connection. otherwise its probably a lost cause.

but yeah, that is kind of a pet peeve of mine as well.

[TDE30]

Suprisingly the e36m3 drivers usually have alot of respect for done up e30s... Even though they firmly believe that :

e36m3>god+the jesus

Julien

ROFL. And other E36 non-///M drivers share the same outlook and make their cars look like an E36 M3 and join Bf.c.

bro, i usually just flip them off adn mouth fuck u becuz i am way cooler than them. if they follow they learn how a REAL MAN brake checks on 295 near Portland.

For God's sake, shut the fuck up.

[E30nate]

its funny that i just saw this thread. one of my buddys at school it s VW guy, and he was comparing the cult following of the e30 to the mkII VW's. here in sac there are quite a few e30s, but most of them are stock, or just kids that wanted a rear wheel drive car to rice out. it really is sad to see.

[e30nub]

i try to ignore people in e30's waving at me....

lol

[sefb222]

Suprisingly the e36m3 drivers usually have alot of respect for done up e30s... Even though they firmly believe that :

e36m3>god+the jesus

Julien

thats what 24v swaps are for.

making e36 drivers look and feel silly.

[BeirBrennerE30]

i try to ignore people in e30's waving at me....

[z31maniac]

it's an e30, who cares, it's not a ferrari or 911, or even a 2002. I don't believe e30 = cult car, it's not a limited production car. it's for most a cheap car to own/drive. now if it's an e30m3 of that's different and I bet still most people won't know the difference between it and a regular old e30...

I don't think something has to be limited production to be a cult car.

We are all driving 20 year old Bimmers and love them, there's web sites, meets, E30 specific parts suppliers, a spec racing series...........sounds like a cult following to me.

We're just a small cult.

[Funkmasta]

Well, Sacramento, San Fran, and LA is a slightly different story.

In every other part of the US, an E30 is DEFINITELY a cult car.

E30 = Arguably the best chassis that BMW ever built = cult car, because growing numbers of people are starting to realize this

[Jon325i]

it's an e30, who cares, it's not a ferrari or 911, or even a 2002. I don't believe e30 = cult car, it's not a limited production car. it's for most a cheap car to own/drive. now if it's an e30m3 of that's different and I bet still most people won't know the difference between it and a regular old e30...

Can't argue with you on this one. Especially so in regards to the M3.

Jon

[Jean]

it's an e30, who cares, it's not a ferrari or 911, or even a 2002. I don't believe e30 = cult car, it's not a limited production car. it's for most a cheap car to own/drive. now if it's an e30m3 of that's different and I bet still most people won't know the difference between it and a regular old e30...

funny you mention e36m3s, when I had my r32 I was getting thumbs up and questions about it from the e36m3 drivers for some reason... lol

my 2 cents.

[matthugie]

Surprisingly the e36m3 drivers usually have a lot of respect for done up e30s... Even though they firmly believe that :

e36m3>god+the jesus

Julien

Guilty as charged.