Before I dive into the build, I think I should give you guys a little background into my BMW obsession.
My first car was a mk6 gti that I got on a lease, and me being the 16yr gear head kid at the time, I went over the miles in a matter of months (8000 miles when I should have been at 3500, whoops). So in order to avoid paying a big amount the the dealership to buy more miles, I had a choice. Either stop driving as much as I was, or buy a project car and put as many miles on it as I wanted. I think we all know what I picked..I wanted something manual, rwd, classy, and somewhat fast.
'98 M3 seemed like the perfect pick to me. :) After buying the car and bringing it home from a forum member down in Florida (I lived Ohio at the time) I can honestly say I was the happiest damn kid. I had an M Car!!! I was still in high school and I had such an amazing car, safe to say that besides winters, I was driving this beast much more than I was my gti.
Flash forward two years, the gti leased is up and returned to the dealership, my M3 was coming along
and I was starting my second year of school in Florida (about an hour away from where I bought the car from, funny how that works). At this point, I spent a good amount of spare time just browsing local CraigLists, the summer before I had flipped a E36 325is (auto, or i honestly would've kept it), came out with about a $1700 profit :).
After that, I was searching for the same kinda thing, I was a college kid and making some money off fixing up BMWs and selling them seemed like a pretty awesome gig. Weeks later, after not finding a good candidate to fix up, I said screw it and switched the search from FL to my hometown back in OH. And that's when I found this..
'1990 325i', Okay I'm interested. 'Red, Sedan', good so far. '134k miles', not bad not bad. 'Crackfree dash, hardly any rust', I'm liking what I see..'Not running', not exactly a bad thing for what I'm looking for. 'Auto',
. Of course the car's price is all the way at the bottom of the ad, probably gonna try and justify some high price for a non running car or somethi.... 'Price $500'. 3 hours later, with the help of my friends and my Dad, the car was in my driveway. According to my dad, it was the original owner's son selling the car, apparently she was tearing up as the car was getting towed off. She'd be happy to know it went to a good home :)
This is probably going to be one of my favorite projects (no way in hell I'm just going to flip is for cash). I'm planning on getting rid of the auto box ASAP. Most likely refresh/upgrade suspension, clean up the little rust it has, get a few cosmetic bits here and there, and then swap it. Want it to be a street beast that I can take to the track, figure a father, son track car build would be pretty awesome.
(Don't know how often this will be updated since I'm not in the same state of the car, but will get updates as soon as I can!)
My first car was a mk6 gti that I got on a lease, and me being the 16yr gear head kid at the time, I went over the miles in a matter of months (8000 miles when I should have been at 3500, whoops). So in order to avoid paying a big amount the the dealership to buy more miles, I had a choice. Either stop driving as much as I was, or buy a project car and put as many miles on it as I wanted. I think we all know what I picked..I wanted something manual, rwd, classy, and somewhat fast.
'98 M3 seemed like the perfect pick to me. :) After buying the car and bringing it home from a forum member down in Florida (I lived Ohio at the time) I can honestly say I was the happiest damn kid. I had an M Car!!! I was still in high school and I had such an amazing car, safe to say that besides winters, I was driving this beast much more than I was my gti.
Flash forward two years, the gti leased is up and returned to the dealership, my M3 was coming along
and I was starting my second year of school in Florida (about an hour away from where I bought the car from, funny how that works). At this point, I spent a good amount of spare time just browsing local CraigLists, the summer before I had flipped a E36 325is (auto, or i honestly would've kept it), came out with about a $1700 profit :).
After that, I was searching for the same kinda thing, I was a college kid and making some money off fixing up BMWs and selling them seemed like a pretty awesome gig. Weeks later, after not finding a good candidate to fix up, I said screw it and switched the search from FL to my hometown back in OH. And that's when I found this..
'1990 325i', Okay I'm interested. 'Red, Sedan', good so far. '134k miles', not bad not bad. 'Crackfree dash, hardly any rust', I'm liking what I see..'Not running', not exactly a bad thing for what I'm looking for. 'Auto',
. Of course the car's price is all the way at the bottom of the ad, probably gonna try and justify some high price for a non running car or somethi.... 'Price $500'. 3 hours later, with the help of my friends and my Dad, the car was in my driveway. According to my dad, it was the original owner's son selling the car, apparently she was tearing up as the car was getting towed off. She'd be happy to know it went to a good home :)This is probably going to be one of my favorite projects (no way in hell I'm just going to flip is for cash). I'm planning on getting rid of the auto box ASAP. Most likely refresh/upgrade suspension, clean up the little rust it has, get a few cosmetic bits here and there, and then swap it. Want it to be a street beast that I can take to the track, figure a father, son track car build would be pretty awesome.
(Don't know how often this will be updated since I'm not in the same state of the car, but will get updates as soon as I can!)
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