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Safety? Get her a bog standard 520 - e34 with an auto box. Big, heavy and slow :-)

i guess going up for sale will call out all the people saying "if you ever sell" on your other one, as i found out lol

Decided to coat the covers myself. Went with 600 degree primer, sand stone grey and flat black engine paint. Waiting for the sand stone to dry, then will do a final coat or two of flat black.

Nothing downside about 100kw N42 replaced by 250kw S54 as a comfortable/practical good looking sleeper. 70000km S54 @ SMG going into this along with CSL reflash. Will be for sale when finished.

https://youtu.be/ANPgHpM8MCw Summed up rather nicely :-)

If your rattle gun dosent have handles out the side for two people to hold on to it, it isnt big enough

Fixed that for ya.

The touring looks good as it is already tbh.. whats next? e46 compact m3?

Get her a mk2 escort. If its never running she can never crash it!

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Personally, I would not let my kids drive a car without ABS and airbags - yes I know the knockers will say 'teach them to drive properly' but why would you not want the safest thing for them? I helped my son buy his first car - a Starlet with ABS and Airbag, glad I did, he had 2 accidents, one major - car was written off, he was fine - not sure how safe an E30 would be ? He then bought a E36 with airbags - no accidents in that one thankfully

Sounds Sounds proper now! nice going.

E46 M3 2004 Cabriolet S54 SMG + E46 `02 M Sport Oriental Blue Touring. Pics will tell the story.

Its not a real M3.

got this in 1997 328i touring nz new 165k's tidy well loved car original spec new wof and 6mths reg PP euro plate stays with the car $6250ono 021433600 in papakura

Darwins law, you don't deserve to be on the planet if you drive on that

This build of E30s (and other German cars of that age) is a factor. Many cars from Japan of that era feel like they're made of tin foil and tissue paper.

It looks brittle. I wouldn't drive on it.

show me these E30s!? can buy about 3 E36s for the equivelent E30 these days!

If your gonna fix it you might as well enjoy it sounds like you'll be working on it as much as she'll be driving it

Bought a set in that size off eBay, aluminium too. Was an Australian company and cost me $30 or so including shipping.

Granted the upside is the engine etc lives on

I have a 3/4 drive socket set and a bit of scaffold pipe you can borrow...

Heat, powerbar and 6ft steel pipe

Yes I sure do! They look amazing. Something about its understated look attracts me!

I seem to recall a crash test in the 90's, where a Hyundai Sonata and a VW Polo where crashed into each other. While both had airbags, the Polo afforded FAR more protection than the much larger Hyundai. Potentially, the Polo without airbags may have actually been better than the Hyundai with??? I sold an 96 Legacy wagon (NA) I had to a 16 year old girl touring the country. She was looking at the Legacy, or a Starlet. A week or so after I sold it, the girls aunty phoned to thank me for talking them into a bigger car - the girl was turning across SH1, and pulled across the path of a car, and the front left of the legacy was hit so hard, it spun fast enough for the back corner to hit the same car! An airbag in the steering wheel would have done nothing/little, but luckily, the legacy took the brunt, and only gave her some massive bruising from the seatbelt, and minor cuts from glass and flying plastic. I can't imagine a Starlet/Logo/Mirage etc for similar money, doing anywhere near as well. I'd certainly be looking at crash data etc, if I was concerned about safety.

There's a production line happening in Silverdale, Ray!

Having my brothers missus work at Silver Fern Farms means I get heaps of cheap steak. Only downside is that I have to cut it up myself and I would make a sh*t butcher.

haha thanks man. Yes its coming along nicely now with having afternoons off to do some fabrication. And its always great motivation having positive feedback from fellow forum members, because sometimes it can seem that weeks go by and there hasn't been much progress, so the motivation is good

Makeover complete. AC wheels,exhaust and steering-wheel. (white centrecaps to be replaced with gray)

My yummy push start security system arrived today. A few wires that will need to be connected.

Well, another 6 months passed! Apart from take it for a WOF (passed straight through as usual), only thing I have done to it is buy a new battery for it. Original BMW one buggered out about 18 months ago, so had an old temp one i had sitting here, but was already at the end of its life. New Yuasa battery and shes golden. Would love to have an OEM BMW one in there, but the price... and what is probably new old stock on a battery, i didnt want to take the gamble. Oh and also fitted new brake light switch, so thats probably a good thing! Picked up two very nice Clarion units as well over my time and need to fit one of them into this car too, the sony that is in there is quite in the eye sore in the dash! John and I just recieved some pics from a shoot we did in January, he has posted more in his thread, here are a couple of mine. Big thanksto Jessy Penelon for the photos!! also heaps more on this link: https://imageshack.com/a/dck4/1

Ouch. Nasty replicas strike again.

Goes overseas. Not in the family anymore.

Damn it there is nothing wrong with purple!

You were telling me like 3 days ago how much you think I should put cats in my e30 exhaust so it doesn't smell. I sense sarcasm.

I ah... i don't even know what to say...