Meet “Inki” the eta. She’s a gorgeous 1987 325es in gleaming Schwarz black with a hot cardinal red sports interior. In a world where upgrades are all the rage, Inki is proud of her diving board bumpers and her original front lip. She has no rust and her original paint shines like new. Her upgrades are minimal – a chipped DME and a full “is” exhaust from an acquaintance who wasn’t so lucky in life. And we did her eyes late last year adding ellipsoids to her already stunning appearance. Other than that, she looks almost the same as the day she left the BMW factory 25 years ago.
Inki is the pride and joy of my son, as well as being his first car. In the year that we’ve had her, we’ve gone through everything in the car together and fixed a number of little things along the way that make her that much more perfect. She’s already an honorary member of the R3VLimited community as she inherited a set of MattB shift boots from rich4rdee, a radiator from jclar, and a replacement 2.93LSD diff from fanofe30s. She was all set for another 100K of smiles and nods from folks who see her rolling down the highway. We were planning her future with a new suspension setup and looking at a S52 swap someday.
And then tragedy struck. A rogue Honda Civic pulled out in front of Inki. Although her fully functional ABS brakes tried and tried, she could not avoid the disaster. The rogue Civic popped its airbags and sent its occupants to the hospital. Inki stayed strong and protected my son without a scratch – a testament to her German engineering heritage.
Now the mission is on to save Inki. Insurance companies being what they are fail to see Inki as anything other than average and want to send her away. Inki is NOT average. While we’re fighting that battle, I need to reach out to the greater R3VLimited community and help her cause by trying to find some nice used parts. She’s a little bit twisted up front, but she is certainly not ready to become a donor car quite yet.
Here is a list of parts that we know we need right now:
· Front diving board bumper and front bumper shocks
· Right side U.S. grille
· Center kidney grille
· Right side U.S. Ellipsoid headlight set assembly
· Air conditioning condenser
· Working electric pusher fan
· A nice shiny hood in Schwarz black
· A nice shiny, rust free right fender in Schwarz black
If you have any or some of these parts available, please PM me. If you have really nice sheet metal parts but are in a different color, that might work for me as well. Shipping would be prohibitive on the bumper and sheet metal parts, but Inki’s cousin - Ingrid the Volvo wagon is always up for a weekend road trip if you’re within say 6-8 hours of Cincinnati.
Help me save this car! I’ve resisted the temptation to embed a Sarah McLachlan song in this post but I may have to resort to that.
THANKS! And happy E30 motoring!
I'll post the parts I'm looking for in the "Wanted" section as well.
Inki is the pride and joy of my son, as well as being his first car. In the year that we’ve had her, we’ve gone through everything in the car together and fixed a number of little things along the way that make her that much more perfect. She’s already an honorary member of the R3VLimited community as she inherited a set of MattB shift boots from rich4rdee, a radiator from jclar, and a replacement 2.93LSD diff from fanofe30s. She was all set for another 100K of smiles and nods from folks who see her rolling down the highway. We were planning her future with a new suspension setup and looking at a S52 swap someday.
And then tragedy struck. A rogue Honda Civic pulled out in front of Inki. Although her fully functional ABS brakes tried and tried, she could not avoid the disaster. The rogue Civic popped its airbags and sent its occupants to the hospital. Inki stayed strong and protected my son without a scratch – a testament to her German engineering heritage.
Now the mission is on to save Inki. Insurance companies being what they are fail to see Inki as anything other than average and want to send her away. Inki is NOT average. While we’re fighting that battle, I need to reach out to the greater R3VLimited community and help her cause by trying to find some nice used parts. She’s a little bit twisted up front, but she is certainly not ready to become a donor car quite yet.
Here is a list of parts that we know we need right now:
· Front diving board bumper and front bumper shocks
· Right side U.S. grille
· Center kidney grille
· Right side U.S. Ellipsoid headlight set assembly
· Air conditioning condenser
· Working electric pusher fan
· A nice shiny hood in Schwarz black
· A nice shiny, rust free right fender in Schwarz black
If you have any or some of these parts available, please PM me. If you have really nice sheet metal parts but are in a different color, that might work for me as well. Shipping would be prohibitive on the bumper and sheet metal parts, but Inki’s cousin - Ingrid the Volvo wagon is always up for a weekend road trip if you’re within say 6-8 hours of Cincinnati.
Help me save this car! I’ve resisted the temptation to embed a Sarah McLachlan song in this post but I may have to resort to that.
THANKS! And happy E30 motoring!
I'll post the parts I'm looking for in the "Wanted" section as well.
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