The official Portland E30 sightings thread

[AbeSonic]

Saw a white two tone Baur Thursday or Friday rolling around in Vancouver. Looked absolutely gorgeous.

[e30austin]

Rough '89 alpine sedan came in to my work (discount on mcloughlin) on weds or Thursday. Muffler delete and not a straight body panel on it.

[CorvallisBMW]

Spotted an '88 alpine coupe on ESM wheels about 10am this morning, turned from N Albina on to N Lombard.

[Wishno87]

Had Oregon plates. Pretty sure he works at the smoke shop on E street and Washougal River Road

That's my buddy John

[BK544E34]

Probably Alex's car

Had Oregon plates. Pretty sure he works at the smoke shop on E street and Washougal River Road

[shameson]

Spotted stanced Alpine white coupe on 14 East in Camas just now.

Probably Alex's car

[BK544E34]

Spotted stanced Alpine white coupe on 14 East in Camas just now.

[tward]

i was at the light at 209th and tv today in a gold e30 and a fella in a black e30 asked me if i wanted to sell it. i had the car turned off as it had been idling for the last 45min and running real hot. i feel like a dork because i couldn't roll down the window w the car off then the light was green im a dork

[roaddigitydogg]

Spotted this by work today at esco

That's mine. I originally bought it for parts to put on my red e30 but then decided to keep it because it doesn't have a sunroof. I pretty much swaped every single part from my red e30 onto it and sold the other stuff. I went through the entire wiring harness and removed every single wire I didn't need, which really simplified the car, especially underneath the gauge cluster. I was really surprised that I was able to get another 30 lbs out of the car from doing that. It more or less just has lights, windshield wiper, and blower motor/heater core. I'll probably ditch the HVAC box at some point...maybe this summer.

I wanted to try to make an E30 without shit weight distribution for auto-x/track days, but I don't think that's going to happen with the other mods that are done to it, which add a lot of weight up front. I really thought having the dash board out would help (along with a lot of other stuff removed from the front end of the car) but the scales say otherwise. I guess I'll just have to get 15 of those giant metal plates found under the spare tire (or the giant rectangular chunk of steel in the convertible) to regain that famous BMW-50/50-weight distribution.

I didn't do anything to the body other than that 2x4-shaped dent in the front fender. I did put the front bumper back on tonight (which PO installed the old bumper on with zip ties? :p). Yeah, one of the PO's installed the flares extremely high, which I thought was kind of funny at first (along with a lot of other work done to the car), but it does provide the best clearance for when I'm running wider tires. I probably wouldn't have installed them that way, but I don't know what tires/wheels were originally being run on the car when the flares were installed. E30's suck at fitting wide tires...with the fender flares installed any lower it looks like it would be difficult to fit a ~275 tire without rubbing. The 225 tires on there now don't have a whole lot of space on the outside even with an ET27 wheel, and they rub on the insides at full lock.

[CorvallisBMW]

I saw a slammed flat black cabrio with a hardtop parked at one of the Forest Park trailheads last week. Anyone know the car? IIRC it was on backetweaves.

Also, silver/delphin late model on 17" wheels driving West on Lombard yesterday around 4pm. Looked like maybe an older lady was driving?

[SoundByte]

Yup. I do most of my wrenching at my friend's place in oak grove. Was headed the other way in my shitbox 2002.

[e30austin]

Probably. I live out here. Bike on the roof rack?

[SoundByte]

Forgot to post this, saw a bondo'd e30 on a trailer I5 Northbound on 1/28. Maybe someone is going to build a racecar out of it.

Terrible cell phone picture taken while driving. The risks I take for your viewing pleasure.

Haha, that was my friends and I retrieving that ratty 318 from Albany. It's actually not bondo'd! Just really badly and half-assedly sanded. It's gonna get an M20 swap and be a starter E30 for a friend of mine.

Also, pretty sure I saw Austin headed NB on 99E last night around 6:45. I was fresh off work and not paying too much attention though.

[browntown]

Forgot to post this, saw a bondo'd e30 on a trailer I5 Northbound on 1/28. Maybe someone is going to build a racecar out of it.

Terrible cell phone picture taken while driving. The risks I take for your viewing pleasure.

[Mafiaracers]

the guys at munich just swapped that one this past year. Obii m52, i believe. It's a good looking car.

s52 ;)