It all started a year ago, one week right before I was scheduled to bring my e28 to the shop for new paint and euro bumpers, and then this crap happens. Long story short, a young mustang owner plows into me after fish tailing his car the opposite way, does a hit and run, and then has his mom report the car stolen 8 hours later. WTF is wrong with people these days?!
This
to this.
Not sure why I didn't get another e28 at the time, but I ended up selling all my euro parts and wheels at crackhead prices. Talk about sellers remorse!
In the next couple of days, I ended up buying this e23 off of Craigslist without even knowing too much about it. I just knew it had the same m30 as my e28, but this time around, the paint was much nicer. It originally belonged to a doctor's wife in Santa Cruz the first 20 years, then some chick in Los Altos for the other 7 years or so. The car had full docs and over $25K in maintenance records.
Although this e23 was not euro spec'd, it had almost perfect paint and the interior looked mint.
Old school BMWs seemed to have nicer leather because all the leather was still supple with no cracks.
Interior was so retro I loved it.
Number one priority was to ditch the US diving boards. In the e28 world, new euro bumpers are expensive as hell and sourcing used ones is getting harder and harder to find. In the e23 world, euro bumpers are also rare to find, but somewhat cheaper. Lucky for me, I was able to grab a set of euro bumpers rather quickly...
and bam.
Unlike e28s, new spoiler replicas (like hartge and alpina) are not available for the e23 and are almost impossible to find too. Then I found some local guy on Craiglist selling on authentic BBS spoiler. I picked it up on Oakland and brought this home.
That's about it for now. I got a few more upgrades in the works so I'll try to keep you guys posted.
Here's a random picture of the car being towed away to Performance Technic in Pleasanton after one of the front wheel bearings went out. By this time, the car has already been lowered on Billy Sports and mtech springs. Car will be much lower sooner than later...
This
to this.
Not sure why I didn't get another e28 at the time, but I ended up selling all my euro parts and wheels at crackhead prices. Talk about sellers remorse!
In the next couple of days, I ended up buying this e23 off of Craigslist without even knowing too much about it. I just knew it had the same m30 as my e28, but this time around, the paint was much nicer. It originally belonged to a doctor's wife in Santa Cruz the first 20 years, then some chick in Los Altos for the other 7 years or so. The car had full docs and over $25K in maintenance records.
Although this e23 was not euro spec'd, it had almost perfect paint and the interior looked mint.
Old school BMWs seemed to have nicer leather because all the leather was still supple with no cracks.
Interior was so retro I loved it.
Number one priority was to ditch the US diving boards. In the e28 world, new euro bumpers are expensive as hell and sourcing used ones is getting harder and harder to find. In the e23 world, euro bumpers are also rare to find, but somewhat cheaper. Lucky for me, I was able to grab a set of euro bumpers rather quickly...
and bam.
Unlike e28s, new spoiler replicas (like hartge and alpina) are not available for the e23 and are almost impossible to find too. Then I found some local guy on Craiglist selling on authentic BBS spoiler. I picked it up on Oakland and brought this home.
That's about it for now. I got a few more upgrades in the works so I'll try to keep you guys posted.
Here's a random picture of the car being towed away to Performance Technic in Pleasanton after one of the front wheel bearings went out. By this time, the car has already been lowered on Billy Sports and mtech springs. Car will be much lower sooner than later...
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