After owning a fair few E30's many moons ago and after using a mates 325i in the drift arena at the BMW show at Santa pod this year, i just had to buy another one.
I was actually after a touring, but i stumbled on a 1988 320i Convertible. It has a 2.5 in there already which was a bonus.
Here is a pic of it from the eBay advert.........
Hmmmmm, sexual i hear you say.
On arrival to the sellers house, i noticed that the roof was in pretty good order, although the rear screen had gone smokey. In all fairness, apart from the few small car park dings on it, the body is in very good condition and i can see no rust.
I paid £475 for shabby. It has 6 months MOT and 5 months tax.
I'm majorly into drifting and as the E30 is obviously RWD, it was obvious what was going to happen, so i took it to santa pod on a DWYB day in completely standard form. Needless to say, it was comical........
After nearly falling out a few times due to the stock suspension and seats, i decided a bucket seat, harness, chopped springs and a welded diff needed to be applied.
I was asked to do the DWYB demo at the Modified Live show at Snetterton. I usually drift a Nissan Skyline R32, but as the car wasn't ready, i took the shabby. Needless to say, with the recent modifications i't was much more enjoyable......
After soon getting bored with the power of the 2.5, i purchased a E34 535i sport for the engine transplant.....
I did an arena essex drift day/comp in it just to make sure the engine etc was in good order as the car has no T&T. It pulled superbly, i even managed to qualify 1st in it although i made a very amateur mistake in the top 8 and span.
The engine was pulled from the E34 and it is currently sitting in my garage waiting for the shabbys 2.5 to be pulled out.
Since the shabby was all in great order, i took it to a drift event at Norfolk arena, i took one of my sponsors with me to teach him the basics of drifting. Unfortunately, he decided to put the shabby into a wall LOL. Amazingly it didn't cause a great deal of damage, but as he owns a body shop, all is well LOL.
I'd like to thank my mates for there drawings on the back of the shabby haha!
On the way home from Norfolk, the diff mounting point gave way, maybe as it has a solid diff mount, so i got a lift home with a mate and collected a transporter to rescue the shabby.
I'll keep you all informed on the shabbys progress.
Rich
