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"Owner - Andy
Age - 18
Location - Auckland, New Zealand
Car - BMW 320i
Year - 1988
Colour - Royalblau Metallic
Body - E30
Style - 4 door Sedan
Km's - 117,000 km (as of 2/05)
Other details -
Clarion headdeck
Introducing my car. Competely stock late 80's E30. Have always loved BMW's and this here is my first car (purchased 2/05), I had been looking for an E30 for a good time before hand and the market had come to a slump just as I came to buy, and then I found this fine machine . Sure shes a 2.0 L 6 cylinder engine but that was more than addequate at the time. I do wish to upgrade in the future, but as it stands at the moment being such a young driver and taking into consideration the size of the engine and number of cylinders this was the best I could do from an insurers point of view without getting a different brand of car. I'm really happy with what I've got and will enjoy it while shes mine.
The thing that attracted me to this car, was the fact it was kept in great condition by the previous owners. It looked to have been taken very good care of. I was furthermore convince that this was the car for me after finding out it was owned by the wife of a BMW Mechanic.
I pretty much decided before buying that I would find the BMW E30 that best suited me, generally I was looking for one that was in top condition, had a service history, had reasonable kms on the odometer, and needed zero immediate work done on it. Auto or manual wasnt a factor at this stage as I knew that would be able to be fixed in the future.
Why auto you say ?
E30's are hard to come by, and its not often you find a car like this in such fantastic condition, it seems you are better off buying an auto thats been owned by some old lady for hte past 10 years whose kept it in her garage and drives it once a week to the grocery store. That way it hasnt been thrashed, its got good paint and its in a clean condition that hasnt got any rust.
With the E30's manuals I looked at, most of them we're quite rough, paint was fading in places, and every so often you'd find a patch of rust lurking around them. Each of them were above what I were in the range of about 190 - 250,000km's which was a long way from the km's I was looking at.
At the moment the car is stock, there is not alot I can do to the car at the moment as I'm low on funds.
Future modifications include -
Mtech 2 Body kit
15-17" Alpina mag wheels or 15" Basketweaves
Mtech 2 Spoiler
Leather BMW Recaro style bucketseats
Auto - manual conversion
K&N Panel Air Filter
Lowered slightly"
