"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
04/14/2014 at 12:19 • Filed to: Daily Turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
04/14/2014 at 12:19 • Filed to: Daily Turismo | 1
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What do you do when a small rodent dies in your car's ventilation system and starts emanating the rotten funk of decaying flesh? Your minty clean classic BMW M3 suddenly becomes the The Ultimate Decaying Machine .
As anaerobic organisms begin to consume the poor little whiskered fellow's remains, they produce a variety of noxious compounds including methane, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia. Do you put a bandana on your face and just drive through through the fetid stench or do you spray bleach into the vents and hope for the best? The latter is what the seller did of today's !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! currently bidding for $29,101 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go on ebay, located in Glenmoore, PA.
The E30 M3 has been riding a tsunami of price appreciation in the past decade or so, and is the poster child for the "they don't make em the way they used to" movement. Lightweight, uncomplicated, tail happy, simple - it is everything that today's M3 isn't and that is a good thing.
Under the hood of the E30 M3 is a 2.3 liter dual-over-head-cam S14 inline-4 (essentially an S38 inline-6 with 2 cylinders lopped off) that puts out 192 horsepower in catalyst equipped US spec. This one has a Turner Motorsports Performance chip tune that bumps horsepower up to 216 and adds another 19 ft-lbs of torque.
Inside the only evidence of mousemaggedon are a few stains in carpets from where the bleach concoction sprayed into the vents leaked out into the carpets, but the HVAC system was taken apart to recover the corpse. Smell is 100% gone according to the seller. Otherwise, the choice of vinyl when redoing the fronts seats looks good and this thing looks ready to run.
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Image credits; !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! creative commons. Seller submission from Brian M.
Battery Tender Unnecessary
> DailyTurismo
04/14/2014 at 12:32 |
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Damn. If people are willing to bid $29k on a EVO poser with a dead animal stench, it's time to up the agreed upon value on my collector's car policy.
NaturallyAspirated
> DailyTurismo
04/14/2014 at 14:23 |
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I had always heard that the engine in the E30 M3 was hard to drive on the street due to all of it's power being at the top end. The 318is was the one that I heard was the "most fun" in the E30 lineup, with the 325is a close second depending on your personal preference.
Dsscats
> Battery Tender Unnecessary
04/17/2014 at 02:02 |
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Seriously. The value of E30 M3's is getting ridiculous. I saw a 150,000 mile one in need of new paint and interior work go for $33k.