E30 325i Rag-Top

After a few sunny days and feeling that summer is around the corner I have started to get the vert out of hibernation ready for summer. Battery on charge, a few bits off for panel and paint, some bits to bolt back together. So, it will probably start to rain for the whole summer once it’s all back together and on the road? 🤣

That is glorious!!

Rear floor damage, will need to go on chassis machine to check alignment plus a good few panels to be replaced. If you’ve got the gear and know what you are doing would be a good project. And yeah, they are writing cars off far too easily these days.

Making me think more and more about going Tech1 on my vert…

Castrol Edge 5w30 is half price in Mitre 10 Botany of all places at the moment. Not sure if it’s just there or all Mitre 10s.

I saw that on BookFace and whilst it’s a nice older BMW my first thoughts were where are all the Alpina bits? There is a photo of the car sporting the Alpina stripes earlier in its life, but no sign of any other bits being added.

Wait for a long week-end to hold up the most people.

@Neal you won’t get clicks and likes and subscribers for your YouTube channel with that kind of positivity. Got to sensationalise things to get the attention. Not sure what age the engine in question was but for ages the servicing and oil changing has been “condition based” and there’s a time factor as well. And that’s all before you get into what oil to use.

All For Sale posts must have a price, as per the forum rules, can you please add one?

A few of my reference books mention it on the 325i sport. Sport box ratios 3.76 1st gear, 2.33 2nd gear, 1.61 3rd gear, 1.23 4th gear, 1.00 5th

Always very difficult to put a price on historic race cars, and whilst it is originally a Frank Gardener JPS car it doesn’t sound like it was one of the “main” ones, not run at Bathurst by JPS Team and not one of JRs championship cars. If I get those lotto numbers I would buy this in a heartbeat!

A bit out of place amongst all the Americana at the Howick Hop but still getting lots of attention!

@325iRod I’m pretty sure I’ve got a couple of blue coupe door cards in the garage. Drop me a pm if you’re still looking.

What tyres are you running on it at the moment? Happy with those or you need to change? Check with you local BMW dealer, they should be able to offer you the Bridgestones as they were a factory option. They seemed pretty good on the 3 Series I have driven.

Another couple of parts orders to arrive and I could give the repro E30 chassis a good nudge I reckon…