Hey whats up guys! Long time no post, nor e30. I'm hoping some of you guys will still remember me, I sold a good amount of parts on here over the years and such so I'm sure a few will.
Anyways, I picked this Laguna Green Vert up I'd like to say about 2 weeks ago? It was posted on Craigslist for only a few hours at such a cheap price I had to take a look at it. I've debating on making a build thread for it for weeks now, here it is.
I bought it off a older lady in her late 60's I'd say, she'd owned it since 2005 and WOW she trashed this thing. Interesting fact, her husband belonged to the Hells Angles in his younger years. After looking at it for about 10min I actually decided it wasn't for me, and told her thanks for showing it to me (all because the interior was much worse then described in the ad.) I mean for god's sake this thing came with a comfort seat on the drivers side, from a 4 door so you couldn't even fold the seat forward to let passengers get in the back.
We kept talking and what do you know, I bought it. This is by far the worst condition e30 I've ever bought. Her plan was to sell it to a local junkyard/ California's "cash for clunkers" program, which would have also smashed the car, but decided to post it on Craigslist to see what would happen. It has 200k+ miles, smokers car for 10 years strait, and obviously never detailed under her ownership. The only good thing's going for this car is it's probably a 2 owner car, it still has the original key, and I have records of all the service it received. Well I guess you could also say the paint's fairly decent besides the trunk lid which I'll probably be getting painted, plus it has a clean title.
Did I mention how bad this thing smelt? I drove it home with the top down SUFFERING! Cigarette ash's where flying in my eyes the entire drive down the freeway.
Now of course with that all said, I've made a ton of progress in the short 2 weeks I've owned this thing, it's actually a really nice car now. I'll be doing the timing belt, water pump, ect. this up coming weekend since there's no records of it ever being done plus when I peaked in at it under the front timing cover, there where crack's showing. If I had to take a guess I'd say the belt is about 15 years old.
Anyways, I picked this Laguna Green Vert up I'd like to say about 2 weeks ago? It was posted on Craigslist for only a few hours at such a cheap price I had to take a look at it. I've debating on making a build thread for it for weeks now, here it is.
I bought it off a older lady in her late 60's I'd say, she'd owned it since 2005 and WOW she trashed this thing. Interesting fact, her husband belonged to the Hells Angles in his younger years. After looking at it for about 10min I actually decided it wasn't for me, and told her thanks for showing it to me (all because the interior was much worse then described in the ad.) I mean for god's sake this thing came with a comfort seat on the drivers side, from a 4 door so you couldn't even fold the seat forward to let passengers get in the back.
We kept talking and what do you know, I bought it. This is by far the worst condition e30 I've ever bought. Her plan was to sell it to a local junkyard/ California's "cash for clunkers" program, which would have also smashed the car, but decided to post it on Craigslist to see what would happen. It has 200k+ miles, smokers car for 10 years strait, and obviously never detailed under her ownership. The only good thing's going for this car is it's probably a 2 owner car, it still has the original key, and I have records of all the service it received. Well I guess you could also say the paint's fairly decent besides the trunk lid which I'll probably be getting painted, plus it has a clean title.
Did I mention how bad this thing smelt? I drove it home with the top down SUFFERING! Cigarette ash's where flying in my eyes the entire drive down the freeway.
Now of course with that all said, I've made a ton of progress in the short 2 weeks I've owned this thing, it's actually a really nice car now. I'll be doing the timing belt, water pump, ect. this up coming weekend since there's no records of it ever being done plus when I peaked in at it under the front timing cover, there where crack's showing. If I had to take a guess I'd say the belt is about 15 years old.
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