Hey everybody. I feel like I've started an epic quest. I guess I'm posting this because on one hand, I think having an audience will keep me motivated to see it through to the end, and another reason is that I know there is a lot of experience and knowledge represented in this forum. So, here goes my first post.
Started back in 2011, when me and three of my buddies decided to compete in the "Chump Car". You all may have heard of the 24 hours of lemons, and this is basically just another venue to race old junk cars.
I've always been interested and 80s three series cars, and I had stumbled upon an '86 325 coupe with a manual transmission for the asking price of $350. We bought it together, spent some months working on it, replaced a few mechanical things,basically gutted the interior, and finally got it moving under its own power.
Then kids happened, Real jobs happened, and mainly just more important stuff got in the way.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, two of the three friends were helping me move and we started chatting about the car. It had been sitting in my friends driveway for the last three years, basically in the same state that we found it back in 2011. When we found it that day, it was under a tree almost literally buried up to its wheel lug nuts, and just looking sad. Anyway, here we were, debating its fate 4 years later.
My friend wanted to donate it to someone because we obviously were not going to compete in that race. I just couldn't stand to see it given away, and since I've always had a soft spot for these cars, I decided that I would take it as my own. And, since I needed the extra cash (we're trying to build a house), I decided that I would "downgrade" from my 2005 Acura RSX type S, and ultimately make this BMW my daily driver.
So fast forward to last week, and there we were, loading this car up onto a car trailer again, this time with the goal of taking it to my driveway where it would stay, until it was alive again.
More to come with Pictures!!
Started back in 2011, when me and three of my buddies decided to compete in the "Chump Car". You all may have heard of the 24 hours of lemons, and this is basically just another venue to race old junk cars.
I've always been interested and 80s three series cars, and I had stumbled upon an '86 325 coupe with a manual transmission for the asking price of $350. We bought it together, spent some months working on it, replaced a few mechanical things,basically gutted the interior, and finally got it moving under its own power.
Then kids happened, Real jobs happened, and mainly just more important stuff got in the way.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, two of the three friends were helping me move and we started chatting about the car. It had been sitting in my friends driveway for the last three years, basically in the same state that we found it back in 2011. When we found it that day, it was under a tree almost literally buried up to its wheel lug nuts, and just looking sad. Anyway, here we were, debating its fate 4 years later.
My friend wanted to donate it to someone because we obviously were not going to compete in that race. I just couldn't stand to see it given away, and since I've always had a soft spot for these cars, I decided that I would take it as my own. And, since I needed the extra cash (we're trying to build a house), I decided that I would "downgrade" from my 2005 Acura RSX type S, and ultimately make this BMW my daily driver.
So fast forward to last week, and there we were, loading this car up onto a car trailer again, this time with the goal of taking it to my driveway where it would stay, until it was alive again.
More to come with Pictures!!
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