Daily Telegraph today

Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:15 pm

Piece about using old classics for daily runners- based on this the E30 has finally made it...

AND ITS A MOREDOOR

I told you all Moredoors FTW... shame its not Bronzit

Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:19 pm

£2500 - £7000?

seems like every turd out there should carry a four figure sum!

and FINALLY they ARE a CLASSIC!!!

good old Merc W124 there. Good old bus they are

Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:23 pm

Dont tell Trev about the Frog cr4p

Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:27 pm

There's a steady creep of little signs that unmolested E30s (not just M3s either) are getting there, classic status wise. Recent examples: the Octane staff car 320i (cab), the Daily Tel feature, the James Ruppert book, the Four Star Garage ad in the latest Classic and Sportscar, the 'youngtimer' craze...

It's been posted before by others that we do a disservice to E30s (the nice ones) by referring to them as 'turds' and the like. I think the shape, build and rightness of an original E30 (two door or cab) is superior to almost anything else from the Eighties.

The Telegraph's "from £2500" notion can't be bad news either.

Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:26 pm

BEERBOY123 wrote:There's a steady creep of little signs that unmolested E30s (not just M3s either) are getting there, classic status wise. Recent examples: the Octane staff car 320i (cab), the Daily Tel feature, the James Ruppert book, the Four Star Garage ad in the latest Classic and Sportscar, the 'youngtimer' craze...

It's been posted before by others that we do a disservice to E30s (the nice ones) by referring to them as 'turds' and the like. I think the shape, build and rightness of an original E30 (two door or cab) is superior to almost anything else from the Eighties.

The Telegraph's "from £2500" notion can't be bad news either.

Err think you forgot to mention Tourings in there mate in your reference to "rightness".

I just can't believe a zoner reads the Torygraph

Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:10 am

Not a regular thing, I promise... the wife wanted some free supplement with it.

Times usually...

Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:25 am

I would imagine the effect on the market will be simply to make it harder for Old Colonel to prise the keys from confused Blue Rinsers rather than making every tatty turd an instant classic.

Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:36 pm

^^^Probably true!!! Yes, and Tourings are rightness too, sorry bpowell555!