E30 Zone

I'll start,back in 1994 when I was about 19 ,here's my first one,an 87 325iSE with high comp engine
This car was an animal,just 'kin flew. It was hammered daily had 170k on the clock 40kish of mine,never had an oil change in four years,was bodged up beyond imagination as i was seriously penniless!
But it paved the way to E30 love babee

Sold it to someone in London and despite all the abuse I gave it,80mph across Salisbury Plains,several near death experience's and various other scallywag nonsense it got written off whilst parked on the side of the road!

Good old E461LWS


Twin straight through Cherry Bomb 'silencers' too,damn that was loud



Lets see where your affair began

PS ignore the camera date,I took a pic of a pic and just found it on the PC and decided to put this thread up:D

About 2 years ago i bought this 2 door 320 from a mate for £300, after getting it through a test i replaced the front end with aftermarket pannels and was working my way through the car, trying to make it a good-un, then i realised i just didnt have the money so the new and useable bits were sold then the shell scrapped

This is as good as it ever looked




I was hooked on the noise of the straight 6 and eaven though my later 1.8 escort SI would wipe the floor with either of the 320's for speed, the E30's are much nicer to drive

Mine started in 1994, I was 18 and bought my first E30 325i of my Uncle who had the car for 5yrs, a very nice clean example and pics to follow

Forgot to add with my 1st one i had 1 of best looking IS interiors i have seen, and all i could get for it when i fragged it was £75, i have seen worse sets going on ebay for approaching £200 recently

Erm, My first and only E30 is the one I lovingly call the Turd.

my first e30 was 13 years ago it was a 325ise on an e reg last of the chromies. sadly ive no pics as i hadnt even had a pc at that time i drove it every day for 18 month and it had a hard life with me and when i sold it to my mate he had it 3 hours and wrapped it round a pole

Loved the look and bought my 1st in 1998 an e reg 325i 4 dr dolphin grey,since then i've had a 320 (too slow) 316 tourer! for 6 weeks,then 325 4 dr 3 years,325 tourer 4 weeks then a 325 cabby.

I was 20 (17 years ago) when I got my first E30. It was a theft recovery, hence no history 316 (1800cc non injection) but only 55K on the clock nothing done to the engine due to insurance. Resprayed, retrimed interior, suspension uprated, wheels replaced . I owned it for 8 years.

It all started with RLX, cheap runabout, turned into expensive project

Mine was an 83 Bronzitbeige 320i with no side indicators and a great retro brown interior.
Scapped it years back but parts still live on, i'm still running the gearbox on my 2.7.

my old man used to be/ stiill is a bm dealer and he used to race in the gt series(bm of course). H made me drive my first 325 when when i was 14. at the time i was racing a xr2 in mini stock. the feeling never left me, and at 19 much llike rog i got my own d reg 325 in cirrrius blue. sold it a few months later for a astra gte. but once you get the bug you keeep going back. had so many other motors but still kept going back. i'm sure i will always have one too.

I got my first e30 2 years ago when i was 18. my peugeot was being too french and i wanted a new car. My old boss was selling his e30 so i test drove it and fell in love with it and I still have it now everytime he says me he always tells me he regrets selling it to me because he misses it but is glad its me who owns it because i look after it!

I bought this 318i in 2000 when i was 18, found this hilarious picture of me as a hoddie! You can just make out the half leather Evo 2 interior i bought for it for £150 out of adtrader. The drivers seat was hammered on my old interior and this was the best/cheapest interior i could find at the time. If i only i'd known the value of that interior! especially with M3 parts prices now! It had a fibreglass tech 2 boot spoiler. I didn't add that

I pranged this on Christmas day in the wet in 2001 hit a tree and then tree stump at 60mph. I had it jigged as it bent the chassis leg and drove it for another 6 months




So thats where it all went wrong, me mum and dad had matching red chrome bumper 4drs in the day! 325iSE for dad and 318i for mum. Thats who i blame

my first e30, 1998 bought it for £700 with a split sump and dodgy clutch slave cylinder was a minter though. picture was a few years later.

zaust wrote:my old man used to be/ stiill is a bm dealer and he used to race in the gt series(bm of course). H made me drive my first 325 when when i was 14. at the time i was racing a xr2 in mini stock. the feeling never left me, and at 19 much llike rog i got my own d reg 325 in cirrrius blue. sold it a few months later for a astra gte. but once you get the bug you keeep going back. had so many other motors but still kept going back. i'm sure i will always have one too.

And like Marc,I also had an Astra GTE

i got this to go back to rwd after years of escorts that got progresivly worse as they went fwd.
i owned this 14 mth and got a fragger to keep it alive and have a load of spares
then i got the white IS and bought another fragger for the rear opening windows what i'd like on it...
some pics as usual

then got this

a nice lot

i was gonna 6 pot the blue one but found big rot on inner arches,so taxi for AVR

#this has the same weak inner arches,,,but it has pop out rear windows,,,and will break up well
a 318i 2dr auto

so in total 1 good IS and 3 fraggers in 15 mth a shed, loft and next doors shed full of bits
and still no 6 pot,,,,i'll get one just to see what all the fuss is about...but the IS is not for sale

Simon13 wrote:I bought this 318i in 2000 when i was 18, found this hilarious picture of me as a hoddie! You can just make out the half leather Evo 2 interior i bought for it for £150 out of adtrader. The drivers seat was hammered on my old interior and this was the best/cheapest interior i could find at the time. If i only i'd known the value of that interior! especially with M3 parts prices now! It had a fibreglass tech 2 boot spoiler. I didn't add that

I pranged this on Christmas day in the wet in 2001 hit a tree and then tree stump at 60mph. I had it jigged as it bent the chassis leg and drove it for another 6 months




So thats where it all went wrong, me mum and dad had matching red chrome bumper 4drs in the day! 325iSE for dad and 318i for mum. Thats who i blame

Si you are a man of such style...... US Marine hair cut,muscle shirt and chopped off jeans.........quick,phone the Fashion Police

this was my first e30 in 2005. at least it got written off on the way to the garage for the cossie conversion and not on the way back.....

ive no idea why the pic is so small as i resized it....?

336tdse wrote:

my first e30, 1998 bought it for £700 with a split sump and dodgy clutch slave cylinder was a minter though. picture was a few years later.

what color is this,,,ive not seen this before

All started with this beauty below, back in 2000,first bmw, the best one yet.

I was the 2nd owner, had cloth interior, tech 2 kit, mirror/map light, tech 2 steering wheel, basicaly the whole package, computer etc etc, you get the idea.

As this was my first, i didnt have anything to compare it too, but now i miss the hell out of it, was a really really reeeeaally strong care, drove absolutely spot on, like it came from factory, everything was in good condition, only bad point was a rust at the bottom of the front window, and a little bit on the boot lid.

Dont see any like that anymore, now ive had around 6/7 e30's and none of them can come close to this one.

Ok enough of me remenissing!

Jesus325iTouring wrote:

zaust wrote:my old man used to be/ stiill is a bm dealer and he used to race in the gt series(bm of course). H made me drive my first 325 when when i was 14. at the time i was racing a xr2 in mini stock. the feeling never left me, and at 19 much llike rog i got my own d reg 325 in cirrrius blue. sold it a few months later for a astra gte. but once you get the bug you keeep going back. had so many other motors but still kept going back. i'm sure i will always have one too.

And like Marc,I also had an Astra GTE

I hope it was a mark one like mine. ( although i actualy reshelled the gte a few times because of the 2.0 16v red top from a calibra pulling the chassis apart)

thats v,nice it should have been a 2dr though,just my preference in body lines.
but a nice looker none the less,,,sig cars look well too

My 1st Bmw was a 4 door 320i in red on a "E" , I had always been a Ford man until I worked a shift with a bloke who was Bmw mad, we spent the entire shift talking car's, I was after a cheap motor and bought the 320i off him with out driving it, when I picked it up I remember driving down the road and thinking "this car feels like a tank, what have I done?" then I got onto the main road and floored it, have n't looked back since!!.

My 1st was a 2 door White 318i, then had awhite 2 door 320i. Had two calibras and an mx5 then got a 325i this summer and then got my Alpina a few months ago so on my 4th e30 since 2002.

Ive always wanted an E30 and after coming back from working abroad i got my 1st one
318i (srapped)

then my second
318iS(keeping for eva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

then my 3rd
325i(worth scrapping and advertised the engine on the bay with a free shell)

and had all 3 at one point

magpie wrote:

336tdse wrote:

my first e30, 1998 bought it for £700 with a split sump and dodgy clutch slave cylinder was a minter though. picture was a few years later.

what color is this,,,ive not seen this before

i think it was canary yellow ?

^nice album pic

My love affair started off in 90' with my mates E21 323i. After getting a run in that beast, I knew that I just had to have a 3 series. A couple of very good E21's came after that, and I'm currently on my 9th E30. Can't see me ever being without one now, althouh a very good E21 would tempt me back !!

My first and current E30 is a 1990 moredoor 320i Auto in Brilliant Red. Love it. Bought it off Rkive (a mate) for 500 and spend a little on her but not much. Just wanted to get the feel for the cars... kinda wish i hadn't and never seen the Zone... but now i'm hooked. As someone (strangely enough today) said to me "E30s are like Crack... once you have your first you need another fix every 10 mins"... so true.

Well she's up for sale and i hope someone takes her into their wings and looks after her. Dont want to flog her off for dirt.

But thats because i'm moving up into the world of the 2door 325i soon... cant wait till i get back from the UK to go pick her up!!

Heres the beauty.

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Gonna miss her. Wish i could keep the two

No pic of my first but it all started about 6 years ago.
Needed a cheap car for a few months and was offered a facelift 316 2dr with no MOT for £70.
Had been stood under a car port for 2 yrs and was Green with tree sap.
Gave £20 for it in the end with the thought in mind that if its a nail ill weight it in for more.
Anyway new battery,fivers worth of petrol and one front flexi pipe later saw it with a years MOT
Since then ive owned probably 30+ E30`s,a few E34`s and a couple of E36`s.

336tdse wrote:

magpie wrote:

336tdse wrote:

my first e30, 1998 bought it for £700 with a split sump and dodgy clutch slave cylinder was a minter though. picture was a few years later.

what color is this,,,ive not seen this before

i think it was canary yellow ?

Dakar Yellow I think you will find. It's a popular colour found on e36 M3's so I am guessing this was re-sprayed this colour.

Dakar Yellow I think you will find. It's a popular colour found on e36 M3's so I am guessing this was re-sprayed this colour.


thats it mate the e36 m3 colour

v,nice,i'd love to see it's big bro in a pic,,,,,c;'mon need it now

finally I got something right

well the first car i had ever been in apart from ambulance was an e30 from the hospital in 1991, h reg 316 very poverty spec

but the first i owned was when i was 14, my step dad baught it for 100 quid as he wanted the BBS wheels of it and gave the car to me, it was a 318i A reg and the plan was to restore it but the floor inside was rotten due to haveing wet footwells for a long time, rear arches were non existant and was not worth spending money on.





anyway after that was fragged i baught a 316 c reg chromie for 350 quid and transfered the leather interior out of the A reg car to this. I planned to restore this one too but after 2 years sitting on the drive till i was 17 i found out i could not afford to insure the thing being a 1.8 so sold it for 400 after spending loads on it







then after finding out that i could insure a 316i i baught this for 750 quid and transferd the leather over again. i got it insured but when i passed my test they wanted an extra 1.2k which i could not afford and had to stay with that insurance company or i would lookse the 1.3k i had allready given them so i had no choice but to get a corsa





anyway about 6-8 weeks ago i got an IS for 500 pound which is the best in terms of body work, as its almost mint

im 18 in feb and have had a few insurance quotes and this time i WILL ge this on the road for longer than a week

the car has been stored in a field for the last 7 weeks since i baught it but it came back today







^^^ more like my life story