The what keeps your from selling your car thread?

[BMWerke]

the amount of people who stop me on the streets telling me "I love your car" or "clean BMW". i wont get rid of it until it gets stolen or catches on fire.

[hotghias]

Every summer for 6 years I've sworn I'd sell it (broken AC). Then I change my mind every fall when I realize there isn't a more-fun, better-performing, more-character-having car for the $1500 it's worth. It does just about everything I need, including towing my sailboat(haha).

[Ryan Stewart]

Not much right now. I'm actually considering selling it off to bolster a down payment on a new car. Might even part it out because its worth more in parts.

[MR 325]

Not much right now. I'm actually considering selling it off to bolster a down payment on a new car. Might even part it out because its worth more in parts.

Damn Ryan, I'd love to own your car! Is it still looking pretty?

[CorvallisBMW]

The looks and attention I get from driving a white-on-white convertible straight out of Miami Vice, while bumping Ice Ice baby and fist pumping as I drive down the freeway in my oversized shades.

[Emre]

I've run the same E30 for 20 years now. I can't let it go for sentimental reasons: my dad bought the car new and gave it to me when I started med school.

Then there's the fact that I've slowly modified and tuned it into one of the best handling and most reliable E30's I've ever driven. I spared no expense with that car; I would never be able to recover enough money to make it worth selling.

Even though I have no real use for it and it just eats up valuable garage space, I'm not sure I'll ever bring myself to sell it.

[Jonny Cash]

I would sell it for an m3 to replace it, or take a shell and build from scratch. Other than that..

Its such a pita to get into another car and back-track what every other moron over the years did to it. The more you know your car, and where/when things were addressed, its that much harder to sell it.

You could buy a really clean e30, spend over 5k, and not know of any stupid little issues its had until you dig into it. same goes for any car, even moreso for your average bmw.. look at the people who drive them..

Ive been working on an Mcoupe for the past week.. What looks like a nice car from the outside.. What many people out there would pay over 15k for- including me up until this learning experience.... OMFG

[BigD]

-if I sell it, I'd have to replace it with another toy car
--this means finding something else that appeals to me (small, light, rwd) and nothing realy does, and relearning the car, starting all the mods from scratch... just thinking about that makes me want to shit

-my $ loss would be absolutely epic (this winter's turbo/5lug phase alone is well into 10s of thousands), I know everyone says this but I'd seriously likely get better value out of it setting it on fire than selling

-sentimental reasons... this car has been with me almost as long as my wife, who has been there for me when I changed the clutch in an apartment underground lot, prepared the engine swap in our livingroom, towing it cross country etc, it's a member of the family now. When we moved, the engine swap wasn't finished and the house purchase wasn't closing for another 6 months. I had it in a friend's garage, trying to do as much as I could. I contemplated selling it unfinished. She told me, in no uncertain terms, that it's not happening.

[Ryan Stewart]

Damn Ryan, I'd love to own your car! Is it still looking pretty?

Its still looking pretty good, it just sits in the garage now. I never drive it. I at least have it on a battery tender but the last time I drove it the exhaust had a lot of white/gray vapor and a funny smell (not sweet or anything) so I am betting/hoping the gas went bad (it sat all winter without a stabilizer). The problem is I dont really have the time to drain the tank so I dont know when I will brave driving it again. .

[Wh33lhop]

Every time I almost keep up with a minivan off a stoplight I know it was totally worth the motor swap.

[phreshkid]

Those damn vtech Honda minivans

[CorvallisBMW]

Every time I almost keep up with a minivan off a stoplight I know it was totally worth the motor swap.

You just made my new sig!

[Matt-B]

-Because of things like the e30 picnic, when you meet people you have never met before, and you fell as if though your best friends

-Because the books arnt clear, your buddy comes over so you can study his car

-When everytime you need help, your friends race to your house, cause they want your car on the road

-Because e30 friends are like none other, and like and care about your car even when it not running

-because of the weekly get to gethers

-Because no other random buyer would appreciate the time and parts on it, and understand euro and rare

-Because no one would pay my asking price

-Because i dont know shit about other cars


Maybe Im emo, but i think the e30 is a special car to own, and other people just dont understand us

[BimmerTim]

I could never part with my pink fender. And no one would buy it. And I love how no one ever expects it to be fast.

[e30e]

Cause its worth more in parts than whole and I'm not taking the time to deal with cheap asses on craiglist or shipping parts to cheap asses on r3v. Plus it makes a great mobile storage unit for my parents.