E30 Zone

Just took alast minute holiday abroad ( and I mean last minute booked it the day before we went) whilst there I couldnt believe the amount of E30s I saw.

Where have you been and seen a lot of E30s??

Where did you go ?

My dads M3 lived in spain for the winter

Saw a few E30s out there last.

I hate to admit I went to Maderia, sorry if any Portugese are on here, but it was full of old fogies......

Took these pics last year in Crete.

That first cab

They don't have the rust but plenty of dents and scrapes

San Francisco - loads of them with no rust whatsoever, anywhere - even though there's fog and rain often.

Car-Nut wrote:I hate to admit I went to Maderia, sorry if any Portugese are on here, but it was full of old fogies......

Hey man I'm portuguese!!!!

AHAHAH just kidding.

Sorry about my poor vocabulary, but what are fogies?

Old people

Or you could use 'coffin dodgers'

Fogies are elderly people, older folk, usually associated with moving slowly about the place and generally getting in the way of non-fogies.

loads of them here in Bahrain, the locals swear by the E30 and E34 but slowly they are warming to the E39/E38,

E30 here is a real lads car, sports a plenty, and some nice ones, mainly 320 and 325 but almost all black / lach silver and with tech 2 kits, but they all seem to have a dolphin grey kit despite the body colour, i actually reckon i have one of the only black tech 2 kits around on my cabby

Not sure why they like BMW's here as they used to have a reputation for not liking the heat alhtough neither of mine have ever protested to nthe 50C normally found from now till end of September, infact there is one little village near to my house and every house has a BM outside all E34 and E30's, i will have to take a picture sometime its quite funny!

and as for rust.....what the hell is that? pretty much non-existant here, even real old turds are relatively rust free but they are all here mad in Japan so perhaps the paint/galvonising is better... either that or the lack or rain etc

Loads over here in Cyprus. Loads of basic 318's 316's, and any 6 pots are kitted to the max, Tech 2 kits a plenty! The funny thing is though, I've got one of the only 2 doors!! They all seem to love these chunky kidney grills, and some with mad designs on them... not my thing...

Most of them are pre face lift and quite a few (nice looking) E21's. I never thought I'd like them but there's a mint red one kicking about...

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That bronze one is very nice!

this one in Hong Kong earlier this month

Loving the wheels on those first two!

Just come back from marrakech and there was a few knocking round there, ill stick sum picks up later, but just plain tourings and quite a few diesels. My other half has just come back from south africa and apparently there was loads of them out there.

no salting of the roads = no rust

england = ghey

Are those BBS on the bronze one? Suit the car really well, what style are they - would look good on a touring!

Gravy wrote:Are those BBS on the bronze one? Suit the car really well, what style are they - would look good on a touring!

Don't think so...

Probably some brand we've never heard of.

DaveD wrote:this one in Hong Kong earlier this month

Im sure that guy is a member on here, i remember talking to someone with a blue cab that looked identical last time i was over in HK

I saw a few in Kenya last time I was there, a few knocking around Nairobi the capital, I even saw one pretty close to the Masai Mara, and trust me the closest proper tarmac road was at least 3 hours drive away Full on e30 off roading...

They were mostly RHD there as well, and one was near mint. Some where US spec with diveboard bumpers, but others were either South African Cars or UK imports.

I also saw a few in Thailand in between all the corrollas and pick ups. Here is one US spec dive board one....



My girlfriend has even got the bug a spotting e30s... she tells me she has seen some in Fiji.

m3ben05 wrote:

DaveD wrote:this one in Hong Kong earlier this month

Im sure that guy is a member on here, i remember talking to someone with a blue cab that looked identical last time i was over in HK

Yup he does look familiar I think he was deffo on BEN (bmwe30network)