E30 Zone

So I just got back today to where i live in kent having been driven to rotherham on friday for a mates wedding. Being a passenger and not driving for once, I decided to try look out for any e30's when I wasnt looking for auto exotica or fit birds in cars, on the offchance there were any I recognised as zone cars, not likely I know but it helps those motorway miles fly by. So after approximately 12 hours in the car (there and back, had to stop off Iver Heath then High Wycombe both on the way there and back I counted 4 840 beamers but only 1 e30, a gold chromie on the m25 either m25 or m4 on saturday, it was too far away to see if it was stickered up or not.

Anyway, you work it out, there must be far more E30's in use on the roads then BMW 8's so how is it that I see 4 in 3 days and only one e30????

Where was everyone?

There was a techno violet 840 outside my house in iver heath, there were 7 e30s hidden behind the gates !

might have been outside yours, i saw an 840 on the grass verge by a main road in iver heath cant remember what colour it was, whihc was the last one i saw, cant remember what the road is called but it was just before you go over the bridge that runs over the motorway (m25 i think) heading away from the small co-op at the bottom of ashford road towards the m40, was it yours????

still doesnt answer where the e30s were

Yes thats my place and where all the E30s are hiding !

Pete shoves all sort of stuff up his back passage. The 840 was next in line at a guess

d6dph wrote:Pete shoves all sort of stuff up his back passage. The 840 was next in line at a guess

My entrance is very tight so it's a bit of a squeeze, but it does fit !

Plenty of 20/50 and anything will go.

The late great Paula Yates once said, "saliva is the best lubricant , it has no aftertaste "

nice, you dont live to far from me sister and me mate in iver heath then...... wish i could get away with hoarding e30s, wouldnt go down to well with the doris or the neighbours though

That is a point though, I very rarely see an E30 on the motorway, and I do a fair bit of motorway driving in mine... maybe the majority are past the stage of being used as high speed long distance cars now...

I can testify to the greatness of Pete's back passage!!! I've never seen anything like it! It's almost heavenly.....and St.Peter decides whether your allowed in or not.

I agree with above - was working in Oxford all last week so 170 miles down from Stockport and not a single E30

During the week I did see a G reg green 316 Touring which was a bit battered (in Oxford) and then nothing until I got back home and saw a Red H reg IS

It's grim

It's been raining lately so everyone's been in the garage and gently rubbing up against their classic BMWs, looking through catalogues for dehumidifiers

I hardly ever see E30's on the road full stop.

A couple of times I've seen an E30 on the motorway.

Once I got a PM a few days later saying they had spotted me on the motorway

Another time I had one sat in my rear view mirror flashing

I wave, beep and flash my lights at every e30 I see just to see if it gets a response, even if I'm in a totally different car. A few wave back, usually the old dears in 316s with wheeltrims. At least I like think they are waving..............

there all still there just all in garages geting engine conversions rust patched up ... or polished ....(mines the slow engine conversion)

sunnysr wrote:there all still there just all in garages geting engine conversions rust patched up ... or polished ....(mines the slow engine conversion)

mine isnt, its my daily driver, though i didnt use it this weekend as my mum complains about the exhaust...

wish i had known that was petes "back passage" would have had the old man slow down for a closer inpsection

i sometimes flash at e30s, dependent on who/where, and i did have a guy in a z3 flash me once, so i flashed back, cant imagine why though, but i was dissapointed not to see so many

never ran into another zone car though.....

wait sunny, why would you convert for a slow engine

I went to wales a short while ago! about 5 hours drive and saw a modest 5 E30's! A touring, lagune green coupe, 3 chromies and a battered 4 door 318i!!!!

They all looked very tatty apart from the bronzit chromie that was mint!!!!

its a m50 conversions just getting done slowly ...and i have thought of another reason people like pacerpete hording haha i have a couple of friends with more then one but can only ever drive one at a time

i figured, sunny, just thought i would wind you up a bit

as for ollie, that battered 4 door 318 was probably mine.... wasnt burgundy ws it?????

nah, cant have been not been near wales in my car yet

robbo86 wrote:i figured, sunny, just thought i would wind you up a bit

as for ollie, that battered 4 door 318 was probably mine.... wasnt burgundy ws it?????

nah, cant have been not been near wales in my car yet

Nah it was a really faded blue, completely rotten, dented, smokin like a b*tch!!!!!!! I actually can't believe it was on the road!

even mines not that bad

living in sale, manc i get to see a good 9 or 10 different e30's per week.

normally on my way to work or back i pass a few daily runners, mostly grotty 316i runners but still.

i know when im heading over to jaffro's there is a high chance i will see one or 2 nice e30's in stockport.

good to see them but i cant flash as i will be in a non e30.

i bet when i get my m30 running i wont see any decent e30's

^O/T Ric,I used to work in Sale Moor years ago.Is the MOT centre still there(Gresty`s old yard)?

quote "i bet when i get my m30 running i wont see any decent e30's"

Are you still fagging around trying to get the m30 running

There is a very tidy 325i Cab in blue (cant decide if its a genuine sport or not!) round the corner from my house which I see pretty much every day.

I see a nice 3dr in white on the A38 in Brum quite regular. Looks like an iS and it has black BBS rims.

Its right though in that you dont see them on the motorway anyway. They tend to be just used locally.

Saw a tidy looking white sport today M6 heading north Preston area,i was heading south in a Honda Civic hire car.
My new iS project not ready for general consumption yet.
Weather depending might go to the pod and camp in the 944 ?

I see the occasional few on my regular sheffield - southampton run, not usually more than 1 on a return though...

I did spot one the other day near baslow. was giving it some out of a junction and thought eh up an E30, eh up its diamond schwartz, eh up its a touring, eh up its my old one! Made my day... until some t*wat in a rav 4 came on my side of the road to avoid a small puddle, pushing me into a puddle which had a pot hole and blew my tyre. cheers di'k 'ed

sheffield - southampton M1, M69, A46, M40, A34 & M3 today...

i think i see your robbo by dane park?

eko wrote:^O/T Ric,I used to work in Sale Moor years ago.Is the MOT centre still there(Gresty`s old yard)?

if thats around the little one way sytem then there is an mot place and a really old guy who loves his morris minors etc. he is a great chap who is always willing to help. he has a white 318i 4 door now as a run around with massive roof racks.

time to mot my car so i might take it there??? i think i need someone well dodgy to pass my big 6.

fingerman wrote:quote "i bet when i get my m30 running i wont see any decent e30's"

Are you still fagging around trying to get the m30 running

yep. now im fagging around in an mx5 just to add to the fagging

it so close to being done im just haveing a slight prob with the exhaust because the engine is so far back. might have to re-route one down pipe

bene30jane wrote:i think i see your robbo by dane park?

yep, thats mine...... now you know wheere it is wanna go clean it for me.... i cant be arsed...... might treat myself and do it friday actually

i see a few (ussualy being driven by old ladies as has been said) around my area but i cant understand why i only saw 1 in all that time i spent in the car over the weekend

ric325i wrote:

eko wrote:^O/T Ric,I used to work in Sale Moor years ago.Is the MOT centre still there(Gresty`s old yard)?

if thats around the little one way sytem then there is an mot place and a really old guy who loves his morris minors etc. he is a great chap who is always willing to help. he has a white 318i 4 door now as a run around with massive roof racks.

Yes the one on the one way system.Used to be Sale Moor Cars but that was about 15yrs ago.

having said that, i saw one today on my way home from work, flashed him and he gave me a half arsed wave back, already equalled what i saw in 4 days today but you win some you lose some