E30 Zone

Well, I've been promising myself that I'd buy a replacement shell for Brown for some time now so I tootled off to see another car today. Think Brown saw me though

Anyway, as it turned out, the guy has two E30s, one red 325i auto G-reg which is in miles better nick than Brown with solid wheel arches and eeeeverything and the other, a 320 on an F plate I think, which is looking a bit sorry for itself and hasn't got T or T.

Upshot is that I bought them both (subject to me being able to get the less good one home legally).

Hooray for having many an E30!

Piccies as I get them

Turbo-Brown wrote: Think Brown saw me though

Hahaha!

Let's see some pics when you get a chance then buddy!

Turbo-Brown wrote:Well, I've been promising myself that I'd buy a replacement shell for Brown for some time now

so you've gone and got yourself another project then alex!

Yeah I know, gonna have to spend some time swapping all the oily bits from Brown to Red and then disposing of the corpse

Then it's full steam ahead with the UBER turbo

Turbo-Red!

a fleet! result!

nice work sire, but beware odd running problems from brown...

my touring refused to start when I got iS, then when iS was crashed, touring started no problem!been 100% reliable since,and I did NOTHING to it....

Brown seemed that little bit keener to prove himself on the way back from seeing these two cars thinking about it.

Think I'm gonna miss the ol' boy when he's gone.

That's what i like to hear - another Zoner starting up their own car lot lol - i'm not on my own after all, thought i started to develop an addiction to E30's lol.

Neil.

320Touring wrote:nice work sire, but beware odd running problems from brown...

my touring refused to start when I got iS, then when iS was crashed, touring started no problem!been 100% reliable since,and I did NOTHING to it....

LOL Quality!

How's this work then:

I got an insurance quote with a reputable company through their site which covered me TPFT for 3000 miles a year and it came to almost £700 on the 325 Auto.

At the same time I entered exactly the same details barring these into confused: Fully comp and 5000 miles a year and, lo and behold, that same company came in at less than £500!

What's that all about?!

probably down to the risks involved in the drivers who go for each policy type. i've found that basic 3rd party is often more expensive than tpf&t as the people who go for that are often a higher risk and it bumps up the premiums! i always ask for all options.

my wife is fully comp on her corrado (and 525i sport before that) and that is cheaper than tpf&t.

Madness!

Anyway, pick it up on Thursday so I'll get some piccies over the weekend hopefully, then the other one gets delivered next week.

Excitement!

Will any of these be coming to the Guildford meet?

I'll say yes now, and then forget by the time it comes around

Just picked up the red one and had the most relaxing drive home!

Can't believe how smoothly the ol' slushbox shifts, everything seems to work, the suspesion's as crap as it was on Brown, as are the brakes, no oil pressure gauge to nervously check or anything!

Soon change that

Turbo-Brown wrote: I'll say yes now, and then forget by the time it comes around

Just picked up the red one and had the most relaxing drive home!

Can't believe how smoothly the ol' slushbox shifts, everything seems to work, the suspesion's as crap as it was on Brown, as are the brakes, no oil pressure gauge to nervously check or anything!

Soon change that

Be good to see turbo brown or red in the flesh when its done.

Are you breaking brown or just straight to the crusher?

Almost everything from Brown will go into Red and I'll probably flog the remnants of Red's mechanicals and then, regretably, send Brown off to a square doom

at least the square doom is very local to you! haha being next door to aldersh!te car spares/breakers yard

Seriously you can't forget every month about the guildford meet. If you give one of us your phone number we can just phone you to remind you until you block our number? hows that sound? sounds good to me anyway!

Pretty much every time I actually remember, I end up doing masses of overtime

Will PM you two my moby number (if you call, sorry about my irritating voice) so you can pester me

fook the overtime have a night off! i'll PM you to remind you to PM one of us when the time comes if your that bad