"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/15/2014 at 17:14 • Filed to: None
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
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I've sold my E30, and bought two other cars.
My daily driver was a 1986 BMW 325, this little guy right here
TL;DR, sold one BMW, bought a Chev and another BMW, fun ensued.
I just clocked it over 280k kms, and the clutch was nearly gone. This was a beat car, and I'll do a full post on my adventures with it later. The moral of the story is, I was tired of throwing money and time at a mediocre driving experience, and wasn't about to drop more into it to make it road trip worthy. In about month I'll be embarking on a roughly 4700km journey to Montreal for a music festival, also because road trip. This poor guy wasn't about to do that without a lot of money, luck, and more money. Fortunately, a friend of mine had bought a truck that he drove to the Yukon and back, a 1997 Chevy Blazer. So I sold the E30 for a painful loss, and now I drive a Chevy. I feel like the first BMW guy to be happy to get into a 90s GM product, but I love the Blazer. It starts every morning, it's not actually that bad on gas, and it was only $600. I trust this thing to go to Montreal, oh and after 290k ams, I think it still had its original spark plugs and wires. I changed them and the difference it made was surprisingly large.
Then one of my other friends into BMWs sent me a link. There was an E28 for sale, a 1983 533i, with a '91 M30B35 swapped in, 5 speed with a short shifter, 3.73 LSD, M5 rear sway bars, lowered properly (probably H&Rs/Bilsteins). $2000, which was an amazing deal considering the Euro front spoiler, is rear spoiler, and euro lights and grilles. Unfortunately it was sold immediately, of course. So we thought that was that, but lo and behold, two days later it was for sale again, pillaged of its euro components, but its real value is in the rare diff and M5 sways, which require custom fabrication to mount them on a non-M5, and the later engine, giving it 30 more hp than a non-M5 E28 ever came with....so we went and saw the car, the guy was getting all kinds of flack from the forum for taking the parts off it for his automatic 528e (seriously??) and offered $1000, but we'd have to think about it, and couldn't get it tonight (he needed it gone by the next day). We drove away, he texted us 10mins later saying if we brought $500 tonight and took it away, it was ours. So we did, I mean honestly who could turn that down. So that's how I am now currently 1/3 owner of an E28. and DDing as well. It's hilariously fast as well.
With my friends other Polaris E28
Dirt donuts in the Blazer and pretending the E28 is a rally car because mudflaps and steelies. Brown steelies.
Seriously, it came with brown steelies, they're the best.
So yeah, more to come as we do work, and I'll do full posts on the work on the E30, and my friends perfect E30 318is, and if you aren't bored by then I can do the '86 535i/5 as well :p
E30Joe drives a Subaru
> gmctavish needs more space
06/15/2014 at 17:17 |
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At first I was skeptical. But you have done well.
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gmctavish needs more space
> E30Joe drives a Subaru
06/15/2014 at 17:19 |
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Why thank you good sir
jkm7680
> gmctavish needs more space
06/15/2014 at 18:23 |
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Very nice! I'm liking what's being done.