What got you into E30's?

[martauto]

I find it interesting the common connection between rwd escorts and E30s, i hope the value follows as well.

I was brought up on these and passed my test in a new " S " reg 1.3
My first car was a 1.3 L

Mart.

[SUMPCRACKER]

That is a propper nice car you have there mart, it will soon be worth a lot more, 2 door chromies are next on the price hike!

[fuzzy]

i wanted a RWD estate to cosworth convert.this one will do.

[gooner1]

I was just looking for a slightly bigger convertible after selling my 1965 MGB Roadster,
and getting more than a little pissed off with my Xr3i electrics failing.
Took a chance on the cab i now own, after spotting it on ebay. Best move i,ve ever made.

[bobbin1982]

My car history is:
Austin Metro
Triumph Acclaim (Loved this car)
daihatsu charade
ford fiesta 1.1
ford fiesta 1.0
ford escort 1.6
Now i own my lovely 325i tourer , a lot of people dont like the colour (malachite green) buty i do
I have loved these cars since i was 10ish i used to see all the debt collectors/cocaine dealers driving them and thought "That looks so cool"
Only had my tourer for about a month now but im absolutly loving the 6 pot rightness
I like it when im sitting at the traffic lights with another BMW but newer and only 1.8 or something and i piss all over them, Their face is a picture
And you cant beat the stares people (birds) give when you are sitting in traffic and the engine is bubbling over

[jamie323i]

I bought my first E30 after driving my mates 525i 12v,it made me realise how well built the BMW's of that time were,i had been an avid Ford fan,sierra's escorts and a granada.

My E30 was a 316 1.8 carb so wasnt the fastest car in the world,but even with 175k on the clock it didnt have any squeaks or rattles and the doors shut with a clunk rather than a rattle!

I came across the 323i by default really,my mate needed rid as he had managed to buy his 635csi back from the insurance company,he never really loved the 323i and as a result of that he only put 100 miles on it in two years!
Only paid £100 so had a result really,dont think i will sell now,doesnt really owe me much and is a tidy old car with only a few jobs to do (dont they all!)

My current E30 is a toy really,i have a new Mondeo as a daily so only use the E30 at the weekend when the sun shines

[m4xos]

my old man got me on e30's when i was a nippa!

literally,

ive got pictures of me about 3 years old sat on bonnets of alpina's, m3, baur's, sports on his old car fore-court! also on rolls royces, bentleys etc..

gutted now tho, wish he still had them all!! also wouldnt like to sit on the bonnets now!!

[fuzzy]

And you cant beat the stares people (birds) give when you are sitting in traffic and the engine is bubbling over

ive never met a woman who gets turned on by an overheating car.

[Chris]

My dad bought this one in 91 (i was born in 89) i've wanted it ever since i can remember. And after i passed my test dad kinda gave it to me

It's a lovely old bus even if it is only a b20

Chris

[Ritz]

My uncle. 1989 F reg 318i saloon 4 door. Not that special but it was when I got inside.

Angled dashboard, arcade-style accelerator pedal, the whole "Ultimate Driving Machine" slogans in the 80's......joined the BMW car club when a little older, read the mags...and the rest is history.

[e30nige]

Even today there are'nt many better lookin motor's than a lowerd e30 always loved em me dad had a 325i one of my first motors was a 316i e30 it's simply a cool car

[SteMarsden]

After some British rubbish (minis and Novas) I seemed to 'progress' to owning a lot of Fench sh1t (106 Rallye S1 and S2, Clio 16v and Clio Williams) and then I bought a mk2 Golf GTI.

This was a pretty disapointing car after the preceding sporty stuff, BUT, the feeling of quality in comparison was brilliant!
Then went on to a mk3 Golf GTI which was truly poor, Corrado G60 and then a Bora (to commute 80 miles a day in).

Then bought an E46 318i Saloon and although it was a slug, it just felt and looked right.

Not sure whether its an age thing for me, but my cars have all felt great at the time, I suppose an E30 is just a point in time thing for me.

[ImysE30]

My uncle had a very nice white Tech 1 2 door when i was younger. Always wanted one ever since

My cousin also had a mauve purple cabby with white interior

E30 for life

[magpie]

What got you into E30's?


rwd righteousness!

[325sideways]

My mums mate picking me up from school in her convertible then driving us round town with the roof down, i just loved it good old days back in 1990 !! iv had 24 e30's up to now and im never going to stop having them, my daily is a 328i e46 good car but not as connected as an e30 and dci megan hate it all plastic and has cost me a furtune only 3 years old with 38 tho on it and every thing has gone wrong with it french sh%*(wifes car)

[m4xos]

What got you into E30's?


rwd righteousness!

+1

[djk]

I've just loved them since I was a kid - my grandfather had a succession of BMWs, including an e12 5-series, e23 728i, e24 628CSi, culminating in an E-reg e30 318i when he retired, also a mate of mine's Mum had a 2dr, whch thinking back on it, could have been a tech1 sport.

When I was in my teens, another's mate's dad got a red 325i touring - he saw me walking down the road on the day he got it and stopped just to show it off - I'd probably met him once before at the time, but he was obviously just so pleased with it he wanted to show anyone who'd look!

They just look cool, they combine all the things I like in cars - simple 3-box shape (the saloons!), quad lamps, RWD. After serving the 'expensive insurance apprenticeship' in a succession of 1.2 Clios, when I was 25 I bought the moredoor, unseen off ebay. When I went to pick it up, I just couldn't believe how mint it was, and how absurdly good the history file was - it might be a beige, 4dr 320i, but I just love it and it's definitely a keeper. Other cars will come and go, but I'm determined that that one is hanging around!

There were a few iconic German cars from the 80s - e30 325i, Golf GTI, Audi Quattro Turbo, 'whaletail' 911 (even the 928 - remember Risky Business?)- and they all seemed to leave an impression on me as a small boy. I guess it's the combined reputation of pace and over-engineering that somehow shaped my young mind - if I had the time, space and money for a proper car collection, I think I'd have examples of them all (next to all the other old junk I still covet - Capris, Elans, Interceptors, Alfas..... Ooh, Rover SD1.... I could go on ad nauseam).

This has turned into a monster post - sorry if I've bored you all!

[GC318]

What got you into E30's?

Redundancy money!

[Felix79]

I had a radio controll car which was an e30 when I was 6

[adz79]

I got my 325i because theres not many cars u can buy for less than a grand that will be:
Rwd, fun, look good and fairly cheap to maintain with pleny of spare parts.
4 months of owning it and i cant see why i'd want another car, more fun than the xr2's, 3's and pug gti's ive had.
My daughter is 4 yrs old and goes in a mood wen i use the '03' plate mazda 323f sport. She says ' I want to go in the beemer' and my 10yr old boy always asks me to kick the back end out going round islands, and thats got nowt to do with the gangster coolness of a black e30.

[E30Gheko]

Rover SD1? Oh yeah man. I'd have one of them! My old boy had 2 rover 22tc's which were pretty cool but I do love the SD1 for some benign reason.

I took an old E30 to an engine specialist near me to sort out the sheared exhaust manifold nuts. Whilst I was there I noticed a rusty SD1 outside which looked like it hadn't moved in a while. When I asked him about it, I was a bit embarassed when he informed me that it was his daily driver!

He then popped the bonnet and underneath was the most gleaming rover V8 I have ever seen. He'd had the engine for ages and just kept changing the shell when they got too rusty.

[Falkster]

I was always loving the RWD and had a series of Escort RS2000s but they were becoming too rare and nice to rip up villages with and came across my first 325iSE when I was 20 then moved onto a nice tech2 sport....had a break then 7 years ago bought my M3 which I still have and unless I get a good offer I wont get rid of.

[magpie]

I was always loving the RWD and had a series of Escort RS2000s but they were becoming too rare and nice to rip up villages with and came across my first 325iSE when I was 20 then moved onto a nice tech2 sport....had a break then 7 years ago bought my M3 which I still have and unless I get a good offer I wont get rid of.

i've built a couple of bda escort mk11 2dr's 20 yr ago.rs clocks were around £10 then,and the pick up pipe conecter could be pocketed from any scrappy off a 3ltr capri.happy days,had my fun and sold on.
now it's all about the e30 after tooo long with fwd wronguns.
i'd love an m3.

[csl]

rs clocks were around £10 then

Remember it well.Sport clocks were £5 ! Sport s/wheel £5.I got 2 brand new "flat dish" Mexico head lights of a mate for a tenner! In fact a whole Mexico was £300!

[robbo86]

Mrs86's dad. He offered me his very tidy e36 318i. I was going to buy it but Mrs86's very badge concious sister demanded her boyfriend got to buy it instead. So I started to look round other cars again, but began to come back to bmws. Then my e30 came up on auto trader with virtually no details on it but only 2 miles away. So I popped down and had a look and left with my e30.

[csl]

I still rate the 309 gti's over the 205's all good fun though.
While were on french wrongness I must admit I'm quite fond of Renault's williams clio.

Agreed on the Williams Clio.........exceptional imho,perhaps the best car i had.

E30 M3/325i Sports were responsible for my affliction.

[pac1982]

I had a clio 16 valve with a williams engine fitted which had a megan 2.0L bottom end, went like stink but was so unrealiable!

I remember it costing me £160 for a few inch of rubber pipe from renault

[cirrusloon]

Walking home from school in 1988 got me into E30's and BMW's as a whole.

I used to walk down a busy main road on my way to and from school and on the way back one summers day (probably has something to do with feeling good at the time) I heard a bellow behind me. Turns out it was a new, two door 325 in a cheeky silver (probably Lachs - didn't know the colour schemes back then) blasting past me. Obviously a happy owner exercising his new car. The sound was fantastic.

He shot back the other way about 10 minutes later, so I got to see the front end properly. 4 headlamps with wipers were unassailably cool to a 13 year old. I'd seen them on the road prior to that moment, but I didn't look at them until then.

That's the moment I realised I needed to learn how to drive. I badgered my mother into teaching me in her MK II Cavalier on some local wasteground until she eventually gave in. Bless her.

[blitz877]

my first e30 cost me £100 with t&t, it had dlown the head gasket and the engine had already been stripped, the guy said it would never run again for some reason so we had a bet that if i got it running within 1 week he'd give me the money back that id payed for it so it was a free car in the end! he was well gutted

loved e30's ever since

[LeonNewton]

Deck at DRP motersport.

after wrighting of my golf sunday eavening on the way home from the lakes i took monday off work to find a new car. looked at a few mk2 golfs and a coupple of e36's and deck called me a girl for looking at golfs and a fool for looking at e36's he surgested an e30 and low and behold ther wos a white 318i about 10 miles away. £500 a love afare bagane and i have looked back ever since.

[TopSod]

I havent got a clue what draws me to them! My first e30 was a 4 pot tourer, not a mark on it except one tiny little scab on the door off a stone chip left untreated. I then went through 4 e36 or maybe it was 5 I cant remember, but although they were comfortable to drive, they were nothing like the e30. I think they lacked character or something I dont know. When you're driving an e30, you know you're driving an e30. Then I got my current 2 door 325i and tbh, other cars will come and go through the years, but this one is going nowhere. Unless I get carried away and write it off

[e30bmlover]

the old man... the bastard! plus dey are gangsta!!
but iv jogged on now... the lure of 24v's was too much... the short engine and the exhaust note keep me entertained. . . but i do miss the money pit..

[magpie]

my first e30 cost me £100 with t&t, it had dlown the head gasket and the engine had already been stripped, the guy said it would never run again for some reason so we had a bet that if i got it running within 1 week he'd give me the money back that id payed for it so it was a free car in the end! he was well gutted

loved e30's ever since

safe bet

[bigredbmw]

i bought my e30 off my m8 8 yr ago for 850 quid and neve looked back since in all the time ave had it i have probably spent 3000 pound on it including buyin it

[magpie]

i bought my e30 off my m8 8 yr ago for 850 quid and neve looked back since in all the time ave had it i have probably spent 3000 pound on it including buyin it

do you do your own work?