I get emails from people looking for E30 M3 parts from just about everywhere in the world. I had someone try to order a M20 oil pump only to find it was just discontinued. Here is a pic of my old car. Disregard the Z4 that car is a bucket lol.
I get emails from people looking for E30 M3 parts from just about everywhere in the world. I had someone try to order a M20 oil pump only to find it was just discontinued. Here is a pic of my old car. Disregard the Z4 that car is a bucket lol.
kung fu jesus (06-25-2014)
S52 it is then!
Have you found a set of those wheels already?
No, but they aren't *too* hard to get. I am on the fence about retrofitting e36 brakes to my car. Yes, the brakes are massive doing that, but the suspension geometry can be a little problematic. Swapping over to e30M3 brakes would be neat, but hard to find all the hardware. I would do it for the stopping power, but sadly most do it for the wheel options (4x100 to 5x120).
It's funny. I was just reminiscing about the stereo shop that I used to work at and I remember now one of my friends there had sold a purplish E30 with the M3 wide fenders. It had gold BBS' with polished lips. I remember he sold it to another coworker for $5k. Never really realized about the car but at the same time, I had bought a different car. When I go back to the stereo shop in September, I will inquire about the car. It's been a Cali car so no rust.
A badly rusted, original E30m3, with 13x,000 miles, undriveable, sold on ebay this week for $20k.
Jees!
No todo que es oro brilla.
I know Ron will hook me up if he still has it or if it has been wrecked. I don't think this was a true M3 though.
Yeah, I estimate it would take another $15-20k to get it in showroom condition. Most of the floor was rotten, the brakes looked seized. One owner Wisconsin car.
So I looked it up and it looks like the color was the Daytona Violet. It was fading last time I saw it though.
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kung fu jesus (06-26-2014)
Daytona Violet is a rare e36 M3 color. If that car isn't an original e30M3, someone put a LOT of money in bodywork to make it close! It may not seem like it, but the e30M3 shares very few body panels with the regular e30. Even the windshied and frame is different.
Hmmm. Now you have me wondering if it was a true M3 or not. I could have sworn he said it wasn't and when after he bought it, he went and got the wide body stuff put on later.
Ok. I looked at the colors again and it wasn't Daytona Violet. I apologize. It looks like it was Alpina Blue or Royal Blue but faded. When faded, it looked like purple.
The trunk, c-pillar, and rear roof line are unmistakable e30m3.
Alpina blue, or alpinblau:
Oh. That wasn't his actual car. I was just using the picture for reference. Sorry again. It looked like that though.
I can tell you for sure if you have the last seven digits of the vin number.
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