//Moving over from the touring section, to keep that for specific tech questions//
Hello!
Background:
I imported and purchased this vehicle back in late September/ early October of 2020.
It was essentially a birthday present to myself/COVID moral booster. Through Instagram, I was connected with Leo from Garage30 and he had just so happened to post a decent 89 touring in lachsilber that was not 100% clean but definitely better than any e30 I've ever owned. I knew I had to have it and reached out immediately. I will say I slept on the idea of sending such a large amount of money, sight unseen, to a guy Ive never met for a car Ive never seen, but I took the risk.
[Her being put on the trailer next to 2 M5s and 1 e34 B10 I'm assuming]
About a month later, she arrived. The trip was nerve racking to say the least. My girlfriends brother offered to do the trip from Michigan to Baltimore in his Alpha H3. So we strapped up the car hitch and set up from sub 24 hour car extraction haha.
Now, Im not sure if every person that imports a car has experienced this but, before we left I had to call the company that accepted my shipment and schedule a time to pick up my car. The timing is very tight and honestly the worst thing about the entire process. I called the guy on the documents giving to me by my broker and eventually I got a guy that picked up. He gave me a very vague window of when he would be available for me to pick up my vehicle. When me and my bud arrived, we waited for about an hour and half, and the guy kept giving us excuses as to why he had not shown up. Being out of state and taking a day off was nerve racking, I didn't know if I would need to stay a night in Baltimore or what haha. After a lot of annoying check in, a random car pulls up to us tell us to follow them. We had nothing to lose at this point and were excited to just get the ball rolling again.
It honestly felt like we were being taken to some unheard of site to be off'd.
Through all of the heavy machinery we passed, eventually we saw her sitting next to excavation equipment and all of my worries were gone.
We quickly signed the documents and packed her up. I stalled a few times getting her on the trailer
Hello!
Background:
I imported and purchased this vehicle back in late September/ early October of 2020.
It was essentially a birthday present to myself/COVID moral booster. Through Instagram, I was connected with Leo from Garage30 and he had just so happened to post a decent 89 touring in lachsilber that was not 100% clean but definitely better than any e30 I've ever owned. I knew I had to have it and reached out immediately. I will say I slept on the idea of sending such a large amount of money, sight unseen, to a guy Ive never met for a car Ive never seen, but I took the risk.
[Her being put on the trailer next to 2 M5s and 1 e34 B10 I'm assuming]
About a month later, she arrived. The trip was nerve racking to say the least. My girlfriends brother offered to do the trip from Michigan to Baltimore in his Alpha H3. So we strapped up the car hitch and set up from sub 24 hour car extraction haha.
Now, Im not sure if every person that imports a car has experienced this but, before we left I had to call the company that accepted my shipment and schedule a time to pick up my car. The timing is very tight and honestly the worst thing about the entire process. I called the guy on the documents giving to me by my broker and eventually I got a guy that picked up. He gave me a very vague window of when he would be available for me to pick up my vehicle. When me and my bud arrived, we waited for about an hour and half, and the guy kept giving us excuses as to why he had not shown up. Being out of state and taking a day off was nerve racking, I didn't know if I would need to stay a night in Baltimore or what haha. After a lot of annoying check in, a random car pulls up to us tell us to follow them. We had nothing to lose at this point and were excited to just get the ball rolling again.
It honestly felt like we were being taken to some unheard of site to be off'd.
Through all of the heavy machinery we passed, eventually we saw her sitting next to excavation equipment and all of my worries were gone.
We quickly signed the documents and packed her up. I stalled a few times getting her on the trailer
Appreciate all of the support in here. There's a bunch more happening with the car at the shop before I get her back and a bigger surprise later on this year with the engine.
- Getting the M54 off the truck
- Parked and ready to gain another 100 ish HP
- M20 go bye bye
- cleaned bay
- Went with a Singly Clutch Flywheel over the Dual - will see how this goes haha.
- Pre-Coolant routing but M54 is in.
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