In a way I class this as my '3rd' E30 (simply not true) but because it is A: red and B: hopefully staying in the 'fleet' for the foreseable, I'm going to run with it. It's my 3rd 'keeper' red E30, lets put it that way.
Having always owned plastic bumpered 318iS (the two other stalwarts of the collection are just this) I had a hankering to change it up. I have always enjoyed the more retro classic asthetic of a chrome bumpered car. Having the two tin tip cars I wanted to dabble in the realm of the drop top and why not go the whole way with an M20 6 pot motor. Now as much as I wanted an M20b25 in the front, the prices (at least for red ones) for up together models were madness. The people selling them I think are in for a bit of a shock as I've watched the same over priced cars for 6 months now and they haven't shifted. So I started to set my sights on the M20b20. For what looks to me to be the same car but with a different engine, for half the money (litterally in my case) it seemed the most cost effective way to get 90% of what I was looking for.
If you're still with me, thank you. Some pictures,. I'm using the pictures from the advert as they are frankly very good. This is Rosie, my brilliant red, 320i, manual, chromie, cabriolet with sports uberkaro seats, crack free dash, with only 73k miles on the clock.
Underneath she is solid. The tyres are from 2007 so they are going in the bin. I'll be putting a set of 15inch cross spokes I have already refurbished on along with new brake discs and pads all round and a birthday service.
) I can repair the damaged one some other time. The replacement was on 139,000 miles and I'd hoped a small drill may be the solution to winding those miles back to the mileage on the car, 73430.... it wasn't. Firstly rigging it up was a pain and after only trying for a short period of time, I'd knocked about 800 miles off and became very aware the plastic gears were never designed to spin that fast or for that long.
