The painter resprayed the front end (due to stone chips) while my dad sorted the lump.I sold my E30 back in 2001 after 3 years of ownership. And i have some very fond memories of that car.
Anyway i'm trying to trace it. Maybe some Edinburgh/Scottish zoners can help me.
A young dude from Livingston bought it. Does anyone on here know if it's still alive?
It was a 1991 316i in Apline White, colour coded electic mirrors but rest was poverty spec (cloth interior/all black bumpers/no fogs/no sunroof) with 17" Aplina's, lowered 60mm. Reg: H 261 JSW.
After i sold it i bought a mint E36 coupe, but the E30 kept appearing. Really bizzare. Two weeks after i sold it i passed him on the edinburgh bypass, then saw it in Lanarkshire (where i live). Then my mate said that he saw it every day at Napier University Merchiston Campus (where i had graduated from in 1999) then i saw it at Halfords regularly where he must have had a part time job.
It was for sale a couple of years ago but when i phoned up it had less miles on it than when i sold it
apparantly had chrome arches put on and my mate had said it was getting rough.I still think about buying it back and doing a full on resto just for sentimental reasons
Alass my beloved e36 met an untimely end in January
due to a fuckin stupid cow losing control of her astra and twatting my coupe off the motorway at 70, off a barrier, becoming airbourne, and barrelrolling then skidding to a stop on our roof in boggy ground.To say i was gutted was an understatement - i loved that car probably even more than the e30 and planned to keep it forever. It had just had new, bilsteins, eibachs, genuine bushes, exhaust, michelins etc
This was the result. It's still sitting in my dad's workshop. The DVLA and Insurance have been total wankers about me retaining my cherished plate, but after a 5 month wrangle the plate has been transferred and the claim is pretty much completed.
My fiancee and i are just feeling normal again
I'm now out of bmw ownership for the first time in 7 years (got a 55k mile 2000 Golf Turbo cheap) ,saving hard for a M Z3 Coupe but wouldn't say no to an e30 resto project for a 335i
Anyway i digress - does anyone know the whereabouts of my old 316i? And does anyone else have daft sentimental thoughts towards there first BMW?
Ewan
