This is Simone...

[MC Hammered]

[Farbin Kaiber]

Oh happy day!

[dillon7]

I want mtech 1 in my life.

Looks amazing

[MC Hammered]

They say "If you love something, then let it go... If it comes back to you, then it is yours forever!"

That morning 3 years ago when I handed the keys to the new owner Mike and watched him drive away I knew I made a mistake, and I've relived that moment many times thinking about what I had done. So you can imagine my surprise when I get an email from Mike that read:

Hey Winston. Sorry about not getting back to you about the wheels.

The reason for this email is I’m thinking about letting Nina go and I wanted to give you heads up about it. I won’t be listing her for a few weeks but Ill give you first shot at it if you want since you seemed so sad to lose her. She is in basically the same condition as when you sold her to me as I have not had the chance to repaint her yet.

This was a no-brainer decision, I booked my one way flight to Edmonton, Alberta and when I landed on April 25 it was the start of a 900 mile drive home.

Mike picked me up from the airport and this is what was waiting for me when we arrived at his home.



The original collector decal was still there



Loading her up with all of the parts I sold Mike and the Borbet B's which needed new rubber.





Nina wasn't in exactly the same condition she left Vancouver in as the crappy roads in Edmonton did give her a few extra blemishes, a thin coat of dust everywhere and one broken foglight lens. I just accepted this as wear and tear until I looked at the odometer and it read just over 88000 miles!

In the 3 years he owned it he put less than 10000 miles on the car! To put it in perspective I'm going to rack up 1000 miles just going home!

Got all the paperwork done, called it an early evening so I can start driving at 5am in order to have as much daylight driving as possible.

I thank mike for his hospitality and snap a pic of the milage at 5am.

[MC Hammered]

Mike advised that I should head should travel South and avoid the mountain passes which might get snow.

South I go and at 9:30am I make it to Banff... and guess what? It starts snowing.



Nina has a set of summer tires on so I was praying for the snow to not stick. A couple of hours later and as I get close to the Alberta-BC border I find myself stuck in a traffic jam.



I cross the BC border and am making good time, at 11am I'm in Golden, BC




500 miles down and I am just outside Kamloops, BC and yes... been driving all this time with no front or rear plates.






Being Chinese I had to get a shot of the lucky odometer reading



Nina meeting Betty for the first time

[fporro]

Wow, it truly reads like a love story, I was so... so surprised when you let her go way-back then and now Im so happy to see you guys reunited again., congrats :)

[getouth]

Pure win!

[bradnic]

Nina and Betty together! wowowowowowowowow. Glad you got the car back Winston. Hope you got that salt off pronto..

[LJ851]

Nina meeting Betty for the first time

So much win.

[JonTheHero22]

Happy that you could get her back

[DT-BeTaR]

very nice! I have the exact same car only atlantis blau. full m-tech 1 kit and about 100,000km on the clock. full on Euro import. shes on Jacks right now getting a new suspension over the winter.

I'm in Van all the time for business maybe I should do the drive from Edmonton next summer and meet the e30 gang there!

[MC Hammered]

Fixed most of the picture links from post #138 onwards.

Damn it's been almost 2 years since I got her back and haven't posted an update! One is coming soon!

[DIIRTY-30]

Gorgeous. Loving the MT1, makes me wish I still had an early model.

[325ix]

Really love the blue top on this thing.

[bradnic]

yo winston... need an update :-)