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Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:31 pm

Recently bought an e30 sport after wanting one for years and been buzzing off it.
Amazing car in amazing condition, previous owner done everything it needed doing - rust etc and engine.
And now, I am having to sell as a different opportunity has presented itself and need the cash.

It is quite painfull! Although not close to some other cars I have driven as far as outright performance is concerned, the image and look is no.1 and I don't think I will be able to find one like it at a good price again :-(

If only I had other things inmy life which could be sold instead!

:( :( :(
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Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:05 pm

:| sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and get on with it........

you'll just have to pay more for the next one or just get a loan maybe...?
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Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:49 pm

Tell us more about the car mate, photos etc. Good chance it will sell on here if you do.

I'm looking for something that sounds like what you've got.... :D
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Post Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:05 pm

Yeah, I know it will be quite hard to find a good one at a good price. Most people just hold onto them.
To be honest, I want a fair bit more than £3k and alot of people would say its not worth as much as I want but then its an opinion. I saw a few where the buyers wanted 3k and they were in worse condition. My cars pretty good, actually stunning in my opinion and it just needs some very minor attention to make it immaculate.
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:17 pm

Lets av a nosy

Get some pictures up...
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:27 pm

I don't know how to upload pics!
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:36 pm

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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:50 pm

beautymeanswheels wrote:Yeah, I know it will be quite hard to find a good one at a good price. Most people just hold onto them.
To be honest, I want a fair bit more than £3k and alot of people would say its not worth as much as I want but then its an opinion. I saw a few where the buyers wanted 3k and they were in worse condition. My cars pretty good, actually stunning in my opinion and it just needs some very minor attention to make it immaculate.
No offence but do you have proof that the car is solid and not riddled with tin worm? It's impressive how much the cars can be eaten away by it and look immaculate.
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:40 pm

Car has now sold :o: :o:
I have had many cars over the past 3/4 years and this one was my favourite by a long mile. Looked stunning!

@FinalD, If you were interested you would have asked me for proof of things you'd lookout for. I did not make out to anyone that the car as being absolutely immaculate, but I did say and still maintain that it was an excellent car. The inner arches had been done, rust taken out and welded in quite a few places aswel, major engine work etc etc which I cannot be bothered to list as it's now gone. It was stunning. An immaculate car in my eyes is one that needs absolutely nothing. It needed some minor things to make it very close to immaculate and not a good couple of grand worth of parts which most of these cars need. After doing quite a bit of research over a period of months and seeing a few cars, an 'immauclate example' would probably fetch £5-£6k on the 'open market.'
The car wasn't riddled with tin worm either mate. It had a lot of sentimental value for me as I'd been a fan since I was a child and wasn't going to buy a crap car.

Thanks for the input and feedback anyway.
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:49 pm

how can a random car have a lot of sentimental value if youve only just bought it and out it straight up for sale :?:
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:43 pm

Some people are just sentimental
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:29 pm

Sold in a day....thats very good.
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:08 pm

diable wrote:
polsta wrote:how can a random car have a lot of sentimental value if youve only just bought it and out it straight up for sale :?:
If you've spent your life shagging fat ugly women and then one night you kopp off with a stunner then it can get sentimental or is that nostalgic?
No, thats just lucky! Happened to you too??
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:35 pm

Funny guys! Why is this a point of argument anyway? I got a car which I have always loved and then sold it because of other important things. End of.
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:41 pm

How much did you sell it for then?

Also, yeah, pictures? Or did you delete them?
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Post Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:22 pm

http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/h39 ... 1QQtppZZ20


All the pictures I had guys. It was baught off a zone member last year, worked on and then I bought it from this person. Unfortunately had to sell it due to a business opportunity that has come up sooner than I expected.
Will be getting another one in teh future! Lovely cars.
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Post Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:13 am

diable wrote:
Z3I wrote:
diable wrote: If you've spent your life shagging fat ugly women and then one night you kopp off with a stunner then it can get sentimental or is that nostalgic?
No, thats just lucky! Happened to you too??
Yep, a business opportunity popped up and she divorced me she made money out of it and I didn't :mad:
Ouch!

Hope the Ops read the small print on his opportunity and hasn't given away his beloved beemer to a lost cause.
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