E30's

[daytona365]

Simple question. Will decent regular E30's follow on the coattails of the now stratospheric E30 M3's, much as mundane 70's Porsches have basked in the Carrera/911S' glory ?

[sim16v]

They have already started.

325 Sports used to max out at around £5k, there have been a few advertised from £10-20k in the last 12 months.

[lowdrag]

From memory. that's more than I paid new in 1986:-



This is the 323i that preceded it:-

[mickyveloce]

I loved my E30 323i. It must have been one of the first e30's and had a dog keg 5- speed, lsd and looked great in 2-door shiny black.

Much sweeter than the subsequent 1985 B10 Alpina.

[mark.c]

I think they will steadily rise as much as any things else. Best advice I would give to anyone who is thinking of buying is buy the very best you can afford from the off . Buy a car you would be happy to own if it was worth peanuts, try not to get caught up in the value thing and you won't go far wrong.

Here's my two,

[Mr Tidy]

Lovely cars, but is that engine Australian spec??!!

[daytona365]

Why do you say that ?

[mark.c]

Mr Tidy said:

Lovely cars, but is that engine Australian spec??!!

Ah, I should have previewed before uploading! Oh well you get the idea

[lowdrag]

I'm standing on my head trying to figure that one out

[mark.c]

Tough crowd...for those that don't know, this is the engine in the black car above.

Edited by mark.c on Saturday 14th March 19:30

[lowdrag]

Much better. I thought it was Jemod W MWB.

Don't worry, we are just extracting the urine in a gentle way, and your cars look magnificent too. Congratulations.

[GTRene]

I had this E30 in 1997, with M5 engine tuned to 340hp, was pretty fast but short geared, it went very fast to 285km/h but then it hit the rev limiter

a bit old pictures which I scanned in some years ago, so not that good quality.

[carreauchompeur]

Bloody hell, that's a weapon!

[StuntmanMike]

lowdrag said:

From memory. that's more than I paid new in 1986:-



This is the 323i that preceded it:-

They look lovely was there much real world difference between the two?

[sim16v]

mark.c said:

Tough crowd...for those that don't know, this is the engine in the black car above.

Edited by mark.c on Saturday 14th March 19:30

Surprisingly common....

[mark.c]

sim16v said:

mark.c said:

Tough crowd...for those that don't know, this is the engine in the black car above.

Edited by mark.c on Saturday 14th March 19:30

Surprisingly common....

Aha! Lovely, you certainly don't see many about, in fact the only other one I know of is the track prepped one in the classifieds.
Check you out with your fancy Sport Evo leads too . I'm tentatively flirting with selling mine this year when it comes out of hibernation as I have an itch to scratch. I really don't want to do it but have run out of room

[benjj]

Mark, drop me a line if you are selling the IS At some point. Want first dibs!

[mark.c]

benjj said:

Mark, drop me a line if you are selling the IS At some point. Want first dibs!

Ha no worries mate . I thought I had settled for a bit until I saw something that caught my eye. I can't believe I'm going to subject myself to travelling the country again sorting the good from bad and looking at mostly overpriced junk !

[lowdrag]

StuntmanMike said:

They look lovely was there much real world difference between the two?

A great deal of difference. The Sport would swap ends much faster!

[d6dph]

mark.c said:

Tough crowd...for those that don't know, this is the engine in the black car above.

Edited by mark.c on Saturday 14th March 19:30

Would that car happened to have resided in Cambridge area before you bought it? I think that's a close friends old car.