Im back, where's BEN?

[HippyEarly]

No, he was webmaster. Ove Kvam is the norwegian ice racer. lol.

Thats the guy! Ove was the man. Good shit friend, good shit

edit: members rides, post pic, posting random work horse picture

[reelizmpro]

i was probably Black Sheep ## of Jeeves ##. Was Gustav the ice racer? I feel as though it was someone else. Bad with names but he was from norwayish and raced his 4door 318is on a frozen lake. thought it was the coolest thing id ever seen.

No, he was webmaster. Ove Kvam is the norwegian ice racer. lol.

[HippyEarly]

Looking good!

Ex-Ben member checking in ( I think I was Jeff86325is or something like that)

i was probably Black Sheep ## of Jeeves ##. Was Gustav the ice racer? I feel as though it was someone else. Bad with names but he was from norwayish and raced his 4door 318is on a frozen lake. thought it was the coolest thing id ever seen.

[HippyEarly]

you making a trek down to visit e30 motorwerks????

Not planned as of now, but maybe. A cousin is getting married and me and my car are long over due for a road trip. I've just been driving deep into the woods for the last few years.

I sense a deep history with this "Hippy Early" character...

Naw, Im simple.


This post is mostly about the help i may need along my journey. Maybe we will start with fenders. I've got a crease in my DS. Im weighing my options on putting another clean one on or fixing what i have. Both fenders have what i assume to be a factory "weld" at the seam to the firewall gutter system. Because of this should i value my current (assumably oem numbered (maybe not numbered but the idea) never removed) fender more than a replacement and fix what i have? Either way i would need to paint because as you can see with the kit, i didn't (<--past tense for Danny) care about factory, and i repainted my own color.

thoughts/ emotions?

Other items i haven't been able to locate are bearings or bearing sets or full rebuild kits for transmission and or differentials. I plan on going through both of these in the months to come but haven't sourced possible hardware. Dealer, Turner, this Blunt guy you speak of?


Thanks for helpin the daft

[JeffNJM3]

Looking good!

Ex-Ben member checking in ( I think I was Jeff86325is or something like that)

[HippyEarly]

There's actually still a BEN board but it's not the same as it once was in the Gustavo Melo days.

I remember being 15-16 and reading BEN nightly. Then a short stint in the (can i say it here?) DTMPowa days and i moved to the city and parked the e30. Walked away so to speak.

Needed a couple parts i found on local craigslist, meet a few people that helped re-inspire me. Happy to see a good community, was a bit rowdy back when, Fuc i sound old, pics.....

[Ryan...]

I sense a deep history with this "Hippy Early" character...

[Invisible Saddle]

you making a trek down to visit e30 motorwerks????

[reelizmpro]

There's actually still a BEN board but it's not the same as it once was in the Gustavo Melo days.

[HippyEarly]

I guess i don't have to ask who Danny is cause your here, so heres a lollipop , cause i don't really care what you banned.

So after a long time of not liking what i had done i finally fixed my issue. Don't get me wrong, I always loved driving my 30 because as long as the glass is clean everything looks good from the drivers seat. But walk to and from, you all can imagine, a person starts to hide from themselves.

So i did what any sane person would do. I ripped that shit off and drove bumperless for a couple weeks. Better, way better, happy in my new found enlightenment but still not acceptable.




A brand new car. Still no bumpers but i could feel it, something good about to happen. Worked on a couple small things for a couple weeks and one random day I CL'd everything bumper-wise from an 86 es. I just wanted to get something decent to get by until i figured out what to do but i got everything that i foolishly took off that the factory gave me.


Amazing what can be done when you start to love again and give it a little effort.

Many things to do and a deadline of a trip, Portland to Newport CA via 101 in the middle of may. Plan is to get everything on the car purdy (not beautiful) and functional so that i can start playing with more suspension. And i imagine many say this but i have always wanted to dodge cones. This being my sunday driver things will go slow but as ive shown, im learning.

[Avus E30]

haha be careful

[Jesse30]

too many will not know what you're talking about

[accident]

lolz

[Danny]

Danny banned it.

Danny Schilling likes this.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Danny banned it.