As some of you may have already seen this car around these boards, it was initially purchased by Paul, then Erick, Dan, me and finally my good buddy Paul. (different Paul)
Would like to share a story on a little e30.
I bought the car back in December of last year from a buddy of mine in hopes of using her as a dd and occasional track toy.
Before my buddy Dan owned it.
First time seeing her while under Dan's ownership
As I saw it pull in the parking lot, I said out loud, "damn that's a clean e30" and what do you know, a year or two later I bought it from Dan. I bought it on a whim at Qualcomm Auto-x when Dan called and said he had some electrical problems behind the dash.
Funny thing being, I bought the car not physically being able to drive it. Due to a back injury I'm stuck in a wheelchair which limits me to an automatic transmission. Dan's car was obviously a manual so I called my buddy Paul and we went onto designing a set of hand controls. The project got too costly, complicated and potentially unsafe.
Considering Paul was my "chauffeur" for the time being, he also fell in love with the car and offered to pay what I paid if I was to ever sell it. He also got bored one afternoon and decided to fix all the wiring nightmare left over from Dan :D
Pretty much everything was put together and the car sat at my house for another few weeks till I finally decided to let it go to Paul.
Paul picked her up March of this year and the tear down for paint begun 2 weeks ago. We took everything off the car, windows, trim, sunroof, bumpers, etc...
My GF took a break from the kitchen and gave us a hand!
Rocco guarding the parts
Taking out the sunroof, first time had to refer to the Bentley
My M3 had to spend the night outside while the e30 was in its bed missing body parts
The tow truck came to get her the next morning
Brought to the shop in one piece, the guy was a complete noob
At the body shop
Sanding the five coats of paint off the hood
to be continued...
Would like to share a story on a little e30.
I bought the car back in December of last year from a buddy of mine in hopes of using her as a dd and occasional track toy.
Before my buddy Dan owned it.
First time seeing her while under Dan's ownership
As I saw it pull in the parking lot, I said out loud, "damn that's a clean e30" and what do you know, a year or two later I bought it from Dan. I bought it on a whim at Qualcomm Auto-x when Dan called and said he had some electrical problems behind the dash.
Funny thing being, I bought the car not physically being able to drive it. Due to a back injury I'm stuck in a wheelchair which limits me to an automatic transmission. Dan's car was obviously a manual so I called my buddy Paul and we went onto designing a set of hand controls. The project got too costly, complicated and potentially unsafe.
Considering Paul was my "chauffeur" for the time being, he also fell in love with the car and offered to pay what I paid if I was to ever sell it. He also got bored one afternoon and decided to fix all the wiring nightmare left over from Dan :D
Pretty much everything was put together and the car sat at my house for another few weeks till I finally decided to let it go to Paul.
Paul picked her up March of this year and the tear down for paint begun 2 weeks ago. We took everything off the car, windows, trim, sunroof, bumpers, etc...
My GF took a break from the kitchen and gave us a hand!
Rocco guarding the parts
Taking out the sunroof, first time had to refer to the Bentley
My M3 had to spend the night outside while the e30 was in its bed missing body parts
The tow truck came to get her the next morning
Brought to the shop in one piece, the guy was a complete noob
At the body shop
Sanding the five coats of paint off the hood
to be continued...
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