Yesterday a friend of mine and I went to go pick up a 'shell' outside of Houston.
I located this car through someone I had bought some parts off of for my e30 m3. He texted me asking if I knew anyone that wanted a 'shell'.. he was willing to give it away for free if someone would come get it out of the back of his shop. I had an interest as I'm doing some rust repair and a rust free shell would be handy for some floor boards and things like that. I agreed to come check it out and had planned to take a few things and part it out.
When I arrived we found this. A complete 325is roller, w/engine and 5spd trans out, 108k miles, nice interior, full set of books... Everything to put the car back together appears to be there. No accidents, completely rust free. Paint looks like it will clean up good (aside from from bumper)..
The catch is, no title. Owner says he lost it and didn't want to deal with it as it was going to be a project car (track I guess?) and he never transferred it to his name when he bought the car in 2009, it's been sitting since then.. This was fine with us as we were going to chop the car and part it for a small profit.
Anyway his story about the previous owner checks out and we have her contact info so we thought the car is so nice it would be a shame to scrap it. We are going to try and contact the PO and get the title some how to save this car.
After unloading the car and having a few drinks while feeling like Wayne Carini and giving ourselves a pat on the back for our successful 'barn find' we decided to take on a little challenge. We are going to take this $0 e30, put it back together, sell it, take money and continue to flip and see how far we can get building the empire. All really depends on the title, if we can get it we'll probably resell as a track car or donor..
It may be quite some time before an update but I'll let everyone know how she turns out! Wish us luck!
Stay tuned.
I located this car through someone I had bought some parts off of for my e30 m3. He texted me asking if I knew anyone that wanted a 'shell'.. he was willing to give it away for free if someone would come get it out of the back of his shop. I had an interest as I'm doing some rust repair and a rust free shell would be handy for some floor boards and things like that. I agreed to come check it out and had planned to take a few things and part it out.
When I arrived we found this. A complete 325is roller, w/engine and 5spd trans out, 108k miles, nice interior, full set of books... Everything to put the car back together appears to be there. No accidents, completely rust free. Paint looks like it will clean up good (aside from from bumper)..
The catch is, no title. Owner says he lost it and didn't want to deal with it as it was going to be a project car (track I guess?) and he never transferred it to his name when he bought the car in 2009, it's been sitting since then.. This was fine with us as we were going to chop the car and part it for a small profit.
Anyway his story about the previous owner checks out and we have her contact info so we thought the car is so nice it would be a shame to scrap it. We are going to try and contact the PO and get the title some how to save this car.
After unloading the car and having a few drinks while feeling like Wayne Carini and giving ourselves a pat on the back for our successful 'barn find' we decided to take on a little challenge. We are going to take this $0 e30, put it back together, sell it, take money and continue to flip and see how far we can get building the empire. All really depends on the title, if we can get it we'll probably resell as a track car or donor..
It may be quite some time before an update but I'll let everyone know how she turns out! Wish us luck!
Stay tuned.
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