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I did inform a friend of mine who is actively looking for a vehicle like this. Not sure where he is getting his prices from but seems to think it is nearly $15K over priced. He is negotiating to import one from the UK himself. Just some feedback if you are interested.

Yeah you are right. Respray for sure. Would explain why the paint is in such good nick. Or it had rust in the roof.

Great color. But not even close to the claimed 'Most Original etc'. There is a couple of concourse quality E30's around. One doesn't even look like its ever been on the road. That one looks like it has had a few changes made over the years. I wouldn't pay that much for a 4 door non motorsport.

Wouldn't you have to remove most of the center console to make it fit Passenger Seat replacement Clip in

Don't book with Play day. They make it so much more expensive than it needs to be. For no extra benefit. Book a cheap track like Puke. See how it runs. Then book Taupo. Hampton is overpriced and IMO is not a very good/fun track. It is my least favored track I race on. I went to an Airforce/Navy twilight track day a few weeks back at Puke. Was $70. Got more laps than the car could handle.

Most incidents at a Public track day only involve one car. It is uncommon for someone to hit another car. And it sounds like Ashkans mate had the same experiance as mine at the Superlap day. Stuff all track time is a real let down at any track day. I have found that you don't get that much bang for buck at the Playday days either. Can also get crowded. Running a Bimmersport day is a no go too. No commitment from anyone. You could see if Euro club would have the numbers. And the last Bimmersport day we had in Taupo someone rolled their E46 on Lap 1.

E30's are better and cheaper over there. WTF is wrong with him.

Haha they do more than that. Poor Aaron Harris got a big slap on the wrist for braking hard before going over the line so as not to Break Out. And I have to call you out on the more race cars crashing than road cars. I know you have been to one of Henry's track days at Puke. Not uncommon that 5 cars will be upside down on their opening lap all before lunch. Haha. Try and find the private track days Amber. A group of friends hire Taupo track every year. Only 30 people we trust to be there. I am sure you can organise something like that. Puke is cheap. And they do Twilight sessions. Hampton is usually out of reach for small groups. With our day we run an open pit. Everyone runs through at least 1 tank of gas. Can see it now. 15 mins track time. 6 hours of them trying to explain why their model of super beetle is better than the identical one next to it.

My E30 Series car cost me $9K to put on the road. And was a front running car. The E30 series is amazing and so much fun. I sold my "Track" car to build my E30. Never looked back. My Mrs has been thinking of selling her 270rwkw track/street car to start racing properly too. And she will have twice the fun even though an E30 is 237hp less than her current Nissan. I wouldn't go looking for a series to race in unless you have a dedicated car. Just attend open track days or try and get an invite to private ones.

Seats are steering wheel are much better too.

The BMW race series isn't run by the BMW car club. But as all race series entrants require a motorsport affiliated car club we all have BMW car club memberships. Put a cage in it and enter Group B. I looked into the time attack event a little while back. Was impossible to get any info from them. Results were available with digging around on Facebook but NO times were listed. For a Time Attack event I would have thought the Times were most important. A friend ran his Type R Integra in the street class a while back. There was 3 cars in the class. He sat around most of the day and got a couple of very short runs. Said he would never bother again. Also Tom. The horrible sounding front tugging Honda's are only faster as we have minimum time restrictions in the BMW series. They don't. Plus they are Honda's. Nobody cares how fast they are.

Yeah I used Amazon to source the two spoilers for my E60. Just check on the companies feedback. Shipping can be more than the item.

I could never bring myself to pay that much money for an E36. Unless it had the only thing special one E36 model comes with. An S motor. But I can imagine there were people in the past who thought the same about the E30 wagon. And look at the stupid money they go for now.

There is another airbag recall. BMW: 627,615 total number of potentially affected vehicles 2000 – 2005 3 Series Sedan 2000 – 2006 3 Series Coupe 2000 – 2005 3 Series Sports Wagon 2000 – 2006 3 Series Convertible 2001 – 2006 M3 Coupe 2001 – 2006 M3 Convertible http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/Vehicle-owners-with-defective-airbags-urged-to-take-immediate-action http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/business/takata-resists-midnight-deadline-to-expand-airbag-recall.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

If they were 8's and 9's around $1400 and I would be keen. But just 8's I would say a lot less and I am not keen. Is pretty hard to get people to part with 17x9 BMW wheels.

They are an embarrassment to racing. The fastest one did a 1:31 around Puke. Hahahaha.

Video number 7 with that song for the week. Is the new Sail..

In Auckland. Nowhere. Too much traffic. Late night run of the Rimatuka's South Bound is great. North bound is sh*t though. Has to be at night otherwise there is just too much traffic including heavy trucks just crawling. No strong side barriers though. Road surface is pretty standard. Masterton to Castle Point on the Coast is pretty good. Stop off at the Mrs friends pub out there for lunch. Road can be a little rough. But you can drive on the beach at the end. Road is very quiet. Wanaka to Haast is great. DId it on a sunny day in a XK8 convertible Jag. Awesome going through the winding snow capped mountains with the roof down. Hard to keep your eyes on the road as you just want to look around the whole time. Surface was good in the summer. Can get caught up behind stupid hippies in their sh*t cars that are long past needing to go to a wrecker. Hasst going North I found extremely boring and full of camper vans.

Hmm all depends on what the reserve is. Could be something silly.

Done one of my dream drives. PCH from San Fran to San Diego. Only trouble was that it was in a shitty brand new Kia Sorento. And we missed the West Coast BMW Festival at Leguna Seca by one day...

Quite a few of the guys in the series are running XYC Milan. Including their Brake kits. But really the only main difference is the support. They guys from Tauranga will help out where needed with set up and spring rates. BC... Well it is just some importer selling some shocks. Just make sure you give them a good check over before the warranty runs out.

Interesting. http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/BMW-M3-1995/SSE-AD-2894687/?Cr=0&sdmvc=1

Been up for sale many times over the years. Price keeps going up.

I tried looking for some for my E60 a while back. Might just have to be patient.

Sorry for the delay. I will grab it at lunch today and get some more photos for you.