In the summer of 2007, I bought a '90 325is. I was 18, had never worked on cars, knew only a little about E30s, and was in general a complete baby.
This is what it looked like when I brought it home.
The next 2 years I slowly worked, rebuilding and fixing the car. Began autocrossing, got a job through that and made lots of connections, all because of this red car.
It's finally mostly done and looks like this.
After working on this car so much and doing all of this work on such a nice E30, I decided I'd buy another one for my 66 mile round trip commute. I had bought the car at 135,000 miles and in three years made it to 192,000 already.
A year ago, I bought Dusty, the blue car. An '84 325e, for $1000. Salvage title, ran ok, needed a lot of work. Here it is with the red car when I first purchased it, before the red car was lowered.
It's taken me roughly a year to get it in order, new wheel bearings, new shifter bushings, diagnosing strange electrical gremlins, and in general having it slowly fall apart around me.
On Wednesday, an immaculate bone stock '91 318i, with maintenance records and extra parts/tires, came up for sale for $1800. Of course, I bought it.
It runs amazing, and only seems to need to be cleaned a little better(it lived on a gravel road), a new tie rod, and a 4.10 LSD.
I have a problem.
This is what it looked like when I brought it home.
The next 2 years I slowly worked, rebuilding and fixing the car. Began autocrossing, got a job through that and made lots of connections, all because of this red car.
It's finally mostly done and looks like this.
After working on this car so much and doing all of this work on such a nice E30, I decided I'd buy another one for my 66 mile round trip commute. I had bought the car at 135,000 miles and in three years made it to 192,000 already.
A year ago, I bought Dusty, the blue car. An '84 325e, for $1000. Salvage title, ran ok, needed a lot of work. Here it is with the red car when I first purchased it, before the red car was lowered.
It's taken me roughly a year to get it in order, new wheel bearings, new shifter bushings, diagnosing strange electrical gremlins, and in general having it slowly fall apart around me.
On Wednesday, an immaculate bone stock '91 318i, with maintenance records and extra parts/tires, came up for sale for $1800. Of course, I bought it.
It runs amazing, and only seems to need to be cleaned a little better(it lived on a gravel road), a new tie rod, and a 4.10 LSD.
I have a problem.
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