Well its been awhile since I've been very active on this forum, life seems to be in the fast lane at the moment leaving me and my car in the slow lane. But Im doing as much as I can when it comes to BMW's.
Well my Euro car hasnt seen to much attention, I drive it every once in awhile to the local BMW meets, other then that it mostly stays in the garage. Only thing that has changed is the wheels, I put BBS meshies on it.
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Since then ive picked up a few more cars to help me keep busy.
I had a 2001 Ford Excursion 4x4 limited when I moved out here but needed a truck, and prefered one that had an I-6 and a turbo, if you get what im saying. So I got a 2000 Dodge 3500 dually 24v cummins.
I picked up a 1954 Bel air in thoughts of making a rat rod, but that plan went down the drain when my brother offered me his 91 cabrio M50 swap, along with another shell, m52 long block, s50 short block, m50 bare block, and BBS meshies. My brother delievered the cabrio to me since I was on a tight time schedule but the shell still remained at my parents home 600 miles away. The cabrio has an m50, 3.73lsd, m3 drop links for sways, eibachs on billie's, camber/toe adjustments, slotted rotors, z3 shifter, sport seats, supersprint exhaust, etc...
Here's the cabrio:
Then I started looking around for E46's for my wife. When we moved out here she had a 2006 ford fusion, which I must say, was actually a nice car for the price. Real comfortable, 30mpg, and had tons of storage space. But me being me I convinced her to get a BMW. So we then added a new E46 to the garage.
It was a one owner with 145,XXX. Cold weather package, sport package, adult owned, non smoker, automatic, buisness radio, harmon kardon package, brand new tires.
After that I started looking for a trailer to haul that shell I mentioned earlier that I got from my brother in the cabrio deal back to my house. So the search begin, I looked around and waited. My budget was kinda tight so I couldnt be to picky. I finally found a gooseneck that was to my liking and budget, so I scooped it up. It needed a full re-wire and tires.
38' gooseneck.
Around this time our dog had puppies and I wanted a male, and he was then dubbed the name Bimmer. So here's the little rascal.
A few months later I decided to take a shot at going to get my shell from my parents house and another E30 325e thats been there since I moved back in 08.
Well that trip went okay up to the day we went to leave. I loaded the cars up the night prior to me leaving and came out to a flat. So I plugged it and let it sit for a few hours to see if the weight of two cars would make it leak and it didnt, so I was good to go. Me and my wife made it about 30 miles away from my parents house and it blew out. So I put on my spare but it had a slow leak coming from the valve steam. Since it was sunday and I was out in the middle of nowhere I decided to take the trailer back to my parents house and just leave it. But I will add that my truck got 17mpg pulling the 38' trailer empty to Kentucky, and then got 19.7mpg bobtailing on the way back :D
So thats where im at today. I know its a long post, but thanks for reading. (If you read it all)
-Cliff notes
Havent posted in awhile
Got a truck
Got an M50 swapped Cabrio
Bought the wife an E46
Got a gooseneck
Made an attempt to drive 600 miles one way to get my car. But failed.
Well my Euro car hasnt seen to much attention, I drive it every once in awhile to the local BMW meets, other then that it mostly stays in the garage. Only thing that has changed is the wheels, I put BBS meshies on it.
Thread of car
Since then ive picked up a few more cars to help me keep busy.
I had a 2001 Ford Excursion 4x4 limited when I moved out here but needed a truck, and prefered one that had an I-6 and a turbo, if you get what im saying. So I got a 2000 Dodge 3500 dually 24v cummins.
I picked up a 1954 Bel air in thoughts of making a rat rod, but that plan went down the drain when my brother offered me his 91 cabrio M50 swap, along with another shell, m52 long block, s50 short block, m50 bare block, and BBS meshies. My brother delievered the cabrio to me since I was on a tight time schedule but the shell still remained at my parents home 600 miles away. The cabrio has an m50, 3.73lsd, m3 drop links for sways, eibachs on billie's, camber/toe adjustments, slotted rotors, z3 shifter, sport seats, supersprint exhaust, etc...
Here's the cabrio:
Then I started looking around for E46's for my wife. When we moved out here she had a 2006 ford fusion, which I must say, was actually a nice car for the price. Real comfortable, 30mpg, and had tons of storage space. But me being me I convinced her to get a BMW. So we then added a new E46 to the garage.
It was a one owner with 145,XXX. Cold weather package, sport package, adult owned, non smoker, automatic, buisness radio, harmon kardon package, brand new tires.
After that I started looking for a trailer to haul that shell I mentioned earlier that I got from my brother in the cabrio deal back to my house. So the search begin, I looked around and waited. My budget was kinda tight so I couldnt be to picky. I finally found a gooseneck that was to my liking and budget, so I scooped it up. It needed a full re-wire and tires.
38' gooseneck.
Around this time our dog had puppies and I wanted a male, and he was then dubbed the name Bimmer. So here's the little rascal.
A few months later I decided to take a shot at going to get my shell from my parents house and another E30 325e thats been there since I moved back in 08.
Well that trip went okay up to the day we went to leave. I loaded the cars up the night prior to me leaving and came out to a flat. So I plugged it and let it sit for a few hours to see if the weight of two cars would make it leak and it didnt, so I was good to go. Me and my wife made it about 30 miles away from my parents house and it blew out. So I put on my spare but it had a slow leak coming from the valve steam. Since it was sunday and I was out in the middle of nowhere I decided to take the trailer back to my parents house and just leave it. But I will add that my truck got 17mpg pulling the 38' trailer empty to Kentucky, and then got 19.7mpg bobtailing on the way back :D
So thats where im at today. I know its a long post, but thanks for reading. (If you read it all)
-Cliff notes
Havent posted in awhile
Got a truck
Got an M50 swapped Cabrio
Bought the wife an E46
Got a gooseneck
Made an attempt to drive 600 miles one way to get my car. But failed.
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