e23 love...

[rice4life]

Did the mustang driver get jail time for insurance fraud/hit and run?


Looks great mane, I love how mean that front looks.

[NegativeCamber]

Darren, nice to see you start a thread on here. Don't hide that beauty from the public. Lol.

[D Unit]

Wow thats way cleaner than mine and yeah, I have the same interior and the leather so insanely nice, especially after treating it with leatherique. Way nicer than the leather on my e39 or e24

These cars are built just was well as an e28, mine as at 250k and everything works and it drives great.
Jealous of how clean yours is though!

That auto transmission sucks although doesn't it

Autotragic sucks but I do have a g265 and diff sitting in the garage. Hopefully I can have the shop install it next year or so since I can't do it myself.

Last week I threw some early chrome mirrors on and am putting together front coilovers to match the rears.



I am still waiting on some parts and will probably swap out these 8" springs for something a little shorter. Car probably won't be "stanced" but it will be somewhat low.


Here's how it compares to an e36 with Billy Sports and 1 coil cut from H&R race springs.

[Stupid Kid]

Wow thats way cleaner than mine and yeah, I have the same interior and the leather so insanely nice, especially after treating it with leatherique. Way nicer than the leather on my e39 or e24

These cars are built just was well as an e28, mine as at 250k and everything works and it drives great.
Jealous of how clean yours is though!

That auto transmission sucks although doesn't it

[BrandonMcKiernan]

really sorry on the e28. looked very nice. but this is super nice as well. im in

[kittenpuncher]

Wow crazy clean 7 series.

[244Brick]

I really love how clean an retro this is!

[D Unit]

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...