Almost 20 years ago I was supposedly set up to buy an e30m3, alpine on cardinal ~123k miles for something like $7k in Missouri. Sells it to someone else in the middle of the night, literal hours before our planned transaction. E30m3 prices went obviously where they went after that.
I since had an m roadster at one point and dug it, was recovering from the size of my previous e39m5. The only thing I didn't like was the convertible part. Not very practical. Especially now that god (darnit) forced me to start shaving my head. Figured if I was going to lust after a reasonably expensive old bimmer, the clown shoe would be the one. More power than the s14! Has the sports car layout and feel like my 240z where you have to step into the car, over the sill, and sit down on the floor. Hatch would have ample room for my dog. Bingo. And the haunches. Oh those rear arches are what dreams are made of. But then those prices started soaring too. I settled on a lovely e46m3 and have been quite happy with it, even though it wasn't "the one."
Flash forward to a couple weeks ago. A r3vlimiter who became a good friend over the years, Andy T3rd Ferguson sends me an ad for a $19k m coupe in a very cool colorway about 50 min away from him in NJ. It's whooped, 207k miles, rust on the doglegs and subframes, but holy shit it's an m coupe. In an amazing colorway. For $19k. I messaged the seller who appeared to be bombarded with messages, thinking there was no way I'd be lucky enough to win the purchase.
2 days later it was mine. I rented a car and drove 6 hours to NJ, slept in that car overnight. In the morning the M Coupe was mine! As it turns out I was literally 5 minutes from Levent @ZMBlueDevil so I stopped by and we grabbed coffee/lunch, a fitting hang for this significant trip.
It has the wrong motor (s52) so I'm on the hunt for a wrecked s54 m roadster. That way I can swap subframes while swapping the motor, and right all the wrongs at once. Have a buddy who also has a clown shoe he's lsx'ing, he welded the Randy Forbes kit into my old m roadster after a friend bought it from me, agreed to do mine once I find a donor car and buy the RF kit. I also need to sell my e46m3, wrong time of year for that. But I finally have my clown shoe, and I could have never done it without R3v!
WTB: wrecked s54 m roadster
FS: 2003 M3, titan on black, 113k, no accidents no rust
Love y'all!
I since had an m roadster at one point and dug it, was recovering from the size of my previous e39m5. The only thing I didn't like was the convertible part. Not very practical. Especially now that god (darnit) forced me to start shaving my head. Figured if I was going to lust after a reasonably expensive old bimmer, the clown shoe would be the one. More power than the s14! Has the sports car layout and feel like my 240z where you have to step into the car, over the sill, and sit down on the floor. Hatch would have ample room for my dog. Bingo. And the haunches. Oh those rear arches are what dreams are made of. But then those prices started soaring too. I settled on a lovely e46m3 and have been quite happy with it, even though it wasn't "the one."
Flash forward to a couple weeks ago. A r3vlimiter who became a good friend over the years, Andy T3rd Ferguson sends me an ad for a $19k m coupe in a very cool colorway about 50 min away from him in NJ. It's whooped, 207k miles, rust on the doglegs and subframes, but holy shit it's an m coupe. In an amazing colorway. For $19k. I messaged the seller who appeared to be bombarded with messages, thinking there was no way I'd be lucky enough to win the purchase.
2 days later it was mine. I rented a car and drove 6 hours to NJ, slept in that car overnight. In the morning the M Coupe was mine! As it turns out I was literally 5 minutes from Levent @ZMBlueDevil so I stopped by and we grabbed coffee/lunch, a fitting hang for this significant trip.
It has the wrong motor (s52) so I'm on the hunt for a wrecked s54 m roadster. That way I can swap subframes while swapping the motor, and right all the wrongs at once. Have a buddy who also has a clown shoe he's lsx'ing, he welded the Randy Forbes kit into my old m roadster after a friend bought it from me, agreed to do mine once I find a donor car and buy the RF kit. I also need to sell my e46m3, wrong time of year for that. But I finally have my clown shoe, and I could have never done it without R3v!
WTB: wrecked s54 m roadster
FS: 2003 M3, titan on black, 113k, no accidents no rust
Love y'all!
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