E30 Zone

mine was by being given an absolute bag of shite dolphin grey 318i A reg chromie with more rust than you can think of

how did you get the bug ????

A phone call in the middle of the night saying "Do you want a BMW? its free!"

ermmm looking on ebay and came across a 318i round the corner in white. then whilst scrolling ebay i bought a spoiler of a zoner who asked me if i was on the zone i said no whats the zone??? then i joined and you guys made me love them more and more

Seening MJG drifting his beast at the BDC.

Then realising they were buttons on ebay!

watching Frank Sytner race them years ago.

Albinojay wrote:Seening MJG drifting his beast at the BDC.

Then realising they were buttons on ebay!

did the button look like this

I ended up working on my uncles tourer and then got offered his old one for peanuts
Kinda haven't wanted to stray towards anything else since

Apart from when i rolled the last one and was having difficulty finding a decent tourer shell
I did consider going to the dark side and buying a ricer, started looking at imprezza's for a while but a mate took me to one side and "had a word". Not only that, i had/still have too many decent E30 bits stored to give up on them for now

This is the beast that got me into E30's!

did you ever find that car??

Alex wrote:

Albinojay wrote:Seening MJG drifting his beast at the BDC.

Then realising they were buttons on ebay!

did the button look like this

LMFAO They did but never the ones in the "Albino" price range.

Luckily some dude was selling a 320 tax and tested for £500 notes in Derby on DW just after I sold my spaxo vts

Bought my first baur when i was at uni...didnt really know much abouthm....just that it was a cbbrio, a bmw and the power went to the right wheels....loved it, got a 2.5 (after driving a few oddities in between) and found the zone...

Always liked them since a mate had a g reg 320i in 1995. He was 18 andit was so smoooth and sweet sounding.

Then 5 and 1/2 years ago, I happened to hear that a friend of acolleague at work was selling his BMW. I was in a 5 series at the time. Asked if I was interested, he was desperate to sell.

Wanted £5k for a 320i cabby, so I gave him £3900. His wife was pi55ed off by my dealings, but got a SLK out of it.

the old man had an m3... but what really did it was this pre facelift schnitzer kitted diamond black 2 door i fell in love with.. i cant remember how i found this forum.

i wonder if its to with the fact that the first car i travelled in when i was born was an e30, brand new alpine white 1991 316i poverty spec, i have pics of it somewhere

when i was 5 my mum and dad got me an radio controlled red e30 . Loved the shape ever since then. Got my 1st e30 when i was 22. Now on my 4th e30

Was time to upgrade the family car, a Pug 205.
Hadn't a clue what I wanted, the only requirements were that it be family saloon sized and RWD - I'd ridden bikes for so long that FWD just felt wrong.
A bit of research told me I was looking for either a Ford Sierra or a 3-series BMW.
I think I ended up with the right one

ford V bmw not a hard choice

Alex wrote:i wonder if its to with the fact that the first car i travelled in when i was born was an e30, brand new alpine white 1991 316i poverty spec, i have pics of it somewhere

me too except i experienced a black 2door 316 carb! (except it wernt brand new and then it was sold for an astra )

Cook318IS wrote:

Alex wrote:i wonder if its to with the fact that the first car i travelled in when i was born was an e30, brand new alpine white 1991 316i poverty spec, i have pics of it somewhere

me too except i experienced a black 2door 316 carb! (except it wernt brand new and then it was sold for an astra )

my dad, wait for it









































Traded his e30 in when it was 1 year old for an escort convertable in blue

which iirc got stole any way

off that dodgy looking ho outside logan airpo... Oh you mean e30...by first being offered an e36 318 and then finding mine on auto trader after missing out on the e36

Oh hi guys by the way an back from my holiday

This actual car about 12+ years ago. 323i chromie with bottle tops. My dad bought it and repaired it.

My old man got an '77 E12 525 in 1979, and then got an '81 525 new two years later. He's since been through 2x 525e E28s, an E32 735, an E34 530, an E34 525 Touring, a 528i E39 Touring and now a 523i E39 Touring.

I always liked the E12s, and he had the first eta when I was looking to change my car when I was 20. Wasn't looking for a BMW as didn't think I'd ever afford one, but found a few E21s at sensible money. Bought a 320 and despite the carb giving me problems, I loved the car, and have since been through an E21 316, an E12 528i, an E28 528i and an E30 320i 4door auto. Sold the 4door when I left home, but after 9 1/2 years the loss got too much for me, and I got the Touring.

My touring was handed down to me by my parents, stumbled accross E3024v.com whist looking for inspiration as to what wheels I should get lol. That lead me here.

started work in a bmw bodyshop as an apprentice back in the very early nineties, the majority of the cars were e30`s and i was smitten. the tech 2 kitted cars really looked the dogs back then hence my present condition

mine started when my dad bought me a limited edition black m3 scalextric car when i was 7,and plus my neighbour bought silver 325 sport the next day,that was the day i said i want won(and now i have)

A test drive of a friends brother's chromie got me hooked!!

My dad bought a 87 chrome bumper 325iSE 4door in about 1990, i went with him to pick it up and trade in his gold E21 318i. All he kept saying was about the 6 cylinder smoothness and howl

He kept that for 6 years and my mum got a chromie 318i a few years later and that was it for me. Used to go to school in it and was sunroof monitor as it was windy!

I can remember the school run with steve right on Radio 1 with tracks like dubs international just be good to me and enigma sadness part 1 playing

I was brought up as a child on Fords in the 80's and had a passion for them from a child so when i started driving it was Ford from the 80's mainly ie, XR/RS models along with plenty of other stuff, capri's, Granada's etc but always had a liking for German cars especialy BMW's. When i was nearly 19 after several Fords i was offered a silver B reg E23 728i of all things! But it was cheap and i was insured through work to drive any car/van so i took the plunge and smoked it till i killed the auto box and to which it was sold to a BMW breakers.

Fast forward a few years and i was offered a one owner diamond black tech two sport with N/S/R quarter panel damage for £500 taxed and MOT'd so after a test drive an a quick look and i was sold but much to my dismay the seller changed their mind! So after being impressed enough on the test drive i decided to look for another! A chrome bumper D reg 2dr 325i manual in gloss black/schwartz with highbacks, mtech supension, bottle tops and no LSD came up in the Loot (Before the domination of Ebay!) for £500 so this was bought and over the 6 months i had it the bug bit!

I get bored having the same car for to long sometimes so it went and another Ford came. A few years ago a metal bumper 325i auto convertibe in the same colour as the last one came up cheap enough so was bought a run untill meeting its end being bounced of a lamp post!

It wasn't untill i was lucky enough to be offered my current diamond black tech2 sport at the right price, that i found the zone through TotalBMW magazine and then that was it! Its been several E30's since plus an E46 and an E36.

Its all your falt!

handpaper wrote:Was time to upgrade the family car.
Hadn't a clue what I wanted, the only requirements were that it be family saloon sized
A bit of research told me I was looking for either a Ford Sierra or a 3-series BMW.
I think I ended up with the right one

Similar to the state I was in, only it was between a 3 series and a Cavalier.
Woke up one morning, and found a shiny, but very sick, black 318 sitting in the middle of my workshop!

Bought an M10 2dr facelift 6yrs ago for 20 quid....the rest is history

I brought one when i needed a car for a few weeks just to use when id snaped the cam belt on my (dont laugh)
rover 220 gti,
anyway the 220 was fixed but i sold it because i fell in love with the E30
loved the E30s since the early 90s so when i needed a car for a couple of weeks i thought id give the E30 a go to see what there like to own
and havent looked back!

i bought this first had her 14 mth worked a bit on her an was gonna change 18i m40 for m42 then later 325i and rear disk,,,,,,but the is i went to buy to pull apart ended up better than i had.only failed mot on h/light adjusters .rwd is .i had mk11 eccys 2ltr's self built but only 2 drs .i just love the body lines of an e30

white is on rd 12 mth ticket 6 mths tax totall cost £500 love it
but me bluen has to go

in the late 80's BMW had their new facelifted e30 on the back of just about every magazine' I always said I would get one

my cousins wife fell in love with my shiny new vauxhall cavalier she made him get rid of his 6 month old 2 door 316 so I had to do a deal with him and i never looked back

My first e30 memory is of a white touring that always parked near the newsagent i did my paper round from,thought it was a lovely shape at the time!I actually started my Bmw career with an e36,it was an edition of Performance Bmw some time in 2004/5 that had a red 2 door e30 on the front cover with a black bonnet and an e36 m3 lump that made me start thinking about e30's again.I thought the car looked so mean so the hunt was on for a red 325,i bought this-



Thats how it ended up after i had my wicked way with it,totally stripped interior etc...just like the feature car.I had intended to have the bonnet painted satin black but sadly the engine went pop at an e36coupe.com meet in Salisbury and also uncovered lots of tin worm so that was that!Ive had countless more Bm's since,if you'd have told me all those years ago i'd have a pair of tourings on my drive i'd never have believed it!Only an american muscle car would temp me away now i think

i had a go at sierras after the early eccys even an h plate 4x4 cozzy which resulted in a 1yr ban
smart enough motor, but just unlucky.always liked e30's though.now have two 2drs