I think I stole an E30!!!

[warmsquash1]

Take a look at this cabby guys and give me your honest opinions... I just went down to NJ and bought this 1988 325i Cabriolet and I think it's got some good potential. It has @ 120,000 miles to the previous owner's best guess (typical odo no-go) and the seats are pretty toast, the roof doesn't leak but is veeeery worn, the front X-member is cracked and the rack is leaking (previous owner's son was 15, stole it, and ran from the cops bottoming it out HARD in the process. Hence the sale...), but it runs great and the body is BEAUTIFUL!!! I have quite a few project in store for it, including but not limited to:

1. Front and rear Plastic bumpers
2. 5-speed swap
3. replace cracked engine/suspension X-member and worn front suspension
4. Shadowline it
5. Some rear headrests would be clutch...
6. New roof
7. New custom tan leather seat covers with roundels in the upper portion
8. 17" rims
9. lower it with coilovers
10. Euro smoked ellipsoid conversion
11. Possibly either a 2.7L ETA lower with an 885 head and a Holset HX35
OR a complete engine swap with a GM L67 supercharged V-6 and a
Camaro 5 speed ( I can't find anyone out there that's done this swap
so if anyone has a link or knows a thing or three about it, HIT ME UP!

Here are some pics of her when I got her. Let me know what you think!

[Cong405]

Do you have the title to it?

[lambo]

Do you have the title to it?

+1

Did you buy it from the kid who stole it?

Looks like a nice project. What's with the funky antenna?

[Click]

I think he means the owners son "stole" it in the sense that he took it for a joy ride without permission from his dad.

[freeride53]

Nice cellular phone and trendy antenna!

[LuckyHenriksen]

Nice Dukes of Hazard CB antenna on the trunk! Looks like quite the project, good luck!

[Dominic49]

who do the owners son steal it from?

[416stroker]

Clean pic up how much

[vlad]

I hope you have have the budget for the mods you listed 'cause you are looking at at least $5-10k easily to do what you listed...

[warmsquash1]

Well I do have the title and it's a CLEAN title, not a salvage or anything. I paid $1,400 for it plus deisel for my dads truck and car trailer to go get it. It was a legit deal. I have another cabby, an '87, that has been given a few too many hot suppers and I'm taking the suspension, X-member and 5-spd out of that for this one. The rest I'm going to chip away at. Yeah, the 3rd brake light cover is getting swapped to get rid of that stupid car wash wrecker and the console is getting swapped from my other car as well. I think I could get the Smithsonian to buy the cell from from me. It's so '80's it smells like Aquanet and pink leg warmers draped over a Member's Only jacket.... A maroon one.... I'll post more pics as it progresses....