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E30Mike
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:31 pm

Just did a 160 mile round trip today and didn't see a single E30
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:36 pm

Where did you travel too?
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:38 pm

Hastings to Guildford and back, A21 M25 & A3
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:39 pm

Hastings to Guildford and back, A21 M25 & A3
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:42 pm

i drive mine up the A3 most days

All the e30s were probably getting fixed for tomorrows trip to work
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:19 pm

I saw a silver 320i touring driving along Fosse Islands road in York today. It looked to be in pretty good nick from what I could see from the kerb. Then it turned right into Waitrose, must have been lost :)
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Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:24 pm

Saw two m3's last week. One a dark blue cab with grey extended leatherz I see quite often and a grey one on English reg which I have been informed has been bought by a chap over here clicked past me in town, sounded rough
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:18 am

I saw an E30 on the A21 near Hastings on Sat afternoon.. white and kitted out.
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:26 am

Ive seen quite a few round my way recently... probably on their way to Iver Heath though! :D
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:07 am

Come by Eastbourne I'll show you the moredoor :D
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:11 am

Pretty rare sight here. I've seen two on the road since the weather improved and they were rough as fook!!


Seen a lovely e28 wearing calypso in my home town tho!
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:38 am

Morat wrote: Then it turned right into Waitrose, must have been lost :)
Old money innit :)

I drove 1200 miles up to and around Scotland last year and didn't see one other E30 on the road. :(
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:41 am

Car park at my new office normally has three parked in it; mine, a bronzit chromie and a delfin quattroporte that is rapidly losing the fight against tin-worm.

They were like hen's teeth when I bought mine, but they're bloody everywhere now.
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:10 am

Often to be seen around Christchurch

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Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:39 am

Mitchen wrote:I saw an E30 on the A21 near Hastings on Sat afternoon.. white and kitted out.
Not a local one, pity
Used to see plenty on my way up the 21 at the weekend
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:35 am

I was in Ireland last week and only saw one, a suprisingly unmolested black facelift four pot two door. They are disappearing fast around here, even without my help :) They are now very old cars and as most are foooked, using one as a daily requires lots of time and money to keep up to scratch.
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:05 pm

You need to come the the Heathrow area there everywhere ! !
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:09 pm

there seems to be quite a few round here aswell. a red m3, silver 318is, red 318is iv seen within the last few weeks
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:17 pm

Saw a red Touring on Saturday on the A46 (IIRC)- it overtook my 320 as I was towing a trailer.
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:03 pm

Come drive round stoke they are breading over here lol
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Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:57 pm

Good there's still plenty out there, perhaps Gareth has scarred all the local ones away
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Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:06 pm

I see 3 on a regular basis here in Liverpool, all convertibles too;

Silver 320i SE chromie,
Estoril blue 318i SE
Black 325i sport.

All 'older' drivers too. The 318i I've been behind a couple of times on my way to work down the dock road, makes me laugh how it wallows and dives around the 3 dock road roundabouts with it's super high suspension.
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Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:36 pm

Chap near me has a red 325i plastic bumper cabby, we share the same mechanic apparently and the mechanic reckons mine's the more solid of the two. Few around Ipswich, mostly rough drug dealer spec cars but also a few nice ones. Seen a couple of cracking original spec cars around Colchester with older gents driving them. One bloke near me has a mint 635 Highline daily driver, I want it soooo badly. Bit off topic but my mates old fella has a sub 100k '89 Carlton GSi 24v owned from new and looks showroom fresh. Every time I see him I ask him to sell it to me, he's a pensioner and would be far happier in a Honda Jazz.
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 5:00 pm

I see a white sport everyday when I look out the kitchen window :cool:

Oh that's right, it's mine, :D

There's a few round my way, sometimes see a dolphin 2 door on 9j borbet AM's between warsop & four ways, there used to be a white M3 rep in warsop but I ain't seen it for a while.
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 6:51 pm

Four on my drive and a E34 :D
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:02 pm

So many doors, so few Hiabs :D
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:50 pm

Hello Pete,only one 4door but sooooo clean,your back passage still stuffed full?
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:45 pm

There are loads near where I live in South London but I've only seen one Non-Sport 325i that isn't a Cab or Touring anywhere in the last year. They are getting to be the real rare machines nowadays.
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:29 pm

I've started driving around Hammersmith, Shepherds Bush to go work now, and I literally see one or two different E30's a day! No chavvy mod cars, all OEM nice looking motors.
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