Hi everyone!
I wasn't gonna have a buildthread about this car, as it is the daily driver, but it's Sunday, car meet plans got cancelled, I am here bored as hell, I love writing, so I said why not?
Expect lots of words, some pics all in potato quality, bad english, and come with me on a 3-years-long journey, or love story we can say.
BACKSTORY, because everyone loves backstories.
I have always loved all things with an engine in them, but after some fiddling with offroad rigs (that I still love) I found myself working on mk1 VWs. It was 2011 when I bought my second car, but the first registered in my name (as the first, a Suzuki Jimny, I bought when I was 16 and you can't legally drive nor own a vehicle until 18 here ). It was, and still is, my mk1 Golf Cabriolet and it will probably be mylife-long project. Pic for reference:
What does this have to do with an e36? Nothing at this point, but we're getting there.
So, when I got the Golf I dailyed it for a while, but then wanted to work on it and since my sister destroyed my Suzuki after just 1 week of driving it, I needed a new daily. I then looked into my pockets very throughly, got together the crazy sum of 1200€, and proceeded to go buy the worst example of rust-free e30 you could find. It was a 1.6, ate coolant, terrible mpg, squeaky doors, squeaky hvac motor, but it drove me around for some time and being 27yro it paid no road tax and ridiculous insurance.
Obviously being the hotboi I am it had to have illegal wheels and tyres on and I made that roofrack from scratch because I used it to go snowboarding with friends and there was no room inside for all the boards and sheit. It was a funny car but being riddled with problems I knew it had short life in her.
That brings us to an e36. Keep in mind we are still in 2015.
One day, driving by the local car dealer, I see this black e36 coupe. I fell in love with it and went to see it like 200 times, and one day the dealer offered to trade it for my POS e30 plus some cash. I was obviously crazy about it but being poor AF I needed some time to gather the money. And then shit happened.
The newly elected government thought old cars did not need to be detaxed, and moved the age from 20 to 30yro. That meant both my e30 and the e36 would pay everything like a modern car, and at my young age I would have passed from paying ~300€/year for two cars, to ~3000/year, and the e36 would pay even more. There was nothing else to do than sell the e30 and not buy anything, if I wanted to keep the golf. It was a sad day. Sold the e30 and got around in my parent's car for a while, time got better and I bought a new Ranger since I needed a pickup, but that old e36 left an hole in my heart.
And finally, you get to 2018, 3 years later. I see the dealer, and out of curiosity I ask him what had been of that old black bmw. "Oh it's still in my warehouse, it was too beautiful to let it go to the press". My eyes got bigger than my head! We went to see it, it was in the same spot it was 3 years ago, covered in dust! I asked if he would still sell it, he gave me a killer deal, and finally I was the proud owner of my dream!
It is a '95 320i coupe with the M50, one owner 90000 original kms with full history and receipts, basically new except for a badly swirled paint and floppy fabric in every interior panel. Not a single rust spot, not a single dent. OEM front M bumper, leather steering wheel, electronic AC. The best car I've ever bought.
And finally I can stop daily driving that frickin 2016 Ranger that I honestly **** for how boring it is to drive
End of part one for simplicity, as this is getting pretty long I think it's better to split before the mods
I wasn't gonna have a buildthread about this car, as it is the daily driver, but it's Sunday, car meet plans got cancelled, I am here bored as hell, I love writing, so I said why not?
Expect lots of words, some pics all in potato quality, bad english, and come with me on a 3-years-long journey, or love story we can say.
BACKSTORY, because everyone loves backstories.
I have always loved all things with an engine in them, but after some fiddling with offroad rigs (that I still love) I found myself working on mk1 VWs. It was 2011 when I bought my second car, but the first registered in my name (as the first, a Suzuki Jimny, I bought when I was 16 and you can't legally drive nor own a vehicle until 18 here ). It was, and still is, my mk1 Golf Cabriolet and it will probably be mylife-long project. Pic for reference:
What does this have to do with an e36? Nothing at this point, but we're getting there.
So, when I got the Golf I dailyed it for a while, but then wanted to work on it and since my sister destroyed my Suzuki after just 1 week of driving it, I needed a new daily. I then looked into my pockets very throughly, got together the crazy sum of 1200€, and proceeded to go buy the worst example of rust-free e30 you could find. It was a 1.6, ate coolant, terrible mpg, squeaky doors, squeaky hvac motor, but it drove me around for some time and being 27yro it paid no road tax and ridiculous insurance.
Obviously being the hotboi I am it had to have illegal wheels and tyres on and I made that roofrack from scratch because I used it to go snowboarding with friends and there was no room inside for all the boards and sheit. It was a funny car but being riddled with problems I knew it had short life in her.
That brings us to an e36. Keep in mind we are still in 2015.
One day, driving by the local car dealer, I see this black e36 coupe. I fell in love with it and went to see it like 200 times, and one day the dealer offered to trade it for my POS e30 plus some cash. I was obviously crazy about it but being poor AF I needed some time to gather the money. And then shit happened.
The newly elected government thought old cars did not need to be detaxed, and moved the age from 20 to 30yro. That meant both my e30 and the e36 would pay everything like a modern car, and at my young age I would have passed from paying ~300€/year for two cars, to ~3000/year, and the e36 would pay even more. There was nothing else to do than sell the e30 and not buy anything, if I wanted to keep the golf. It was a sad day. Sold the e30 and got around in my parent's car for a while, time got better and I bought a new Ranger since I needed a pickup, but that old e36 left an hole in my heart.
And finally, you get to 2018, 3 years later. I see the dealer, and out of curiosity I ask him what had been of that old black bmw. "Oh it's still in my warehouse, it was too beautiful to let it go to the press". My eyes got bigger than my head! We went to see it, it was in the same spot it was 3 years ago, covered in dust! I asked if he would still sell it, he gave me a killer deal, and finally I was the proud owner of my dream!
It is a '95 320i coupe with the M50, one owner 90000 original kms with full history and receipts, basically new except for a badly swirled paint and floppy fabric in every interior panel. Not a single rust spot, not a single dent. OEM front M bumper, leather steering wheel, electronic AC. The best car I've ever bought.
And finally I can stop daily driving that frickin 2016 Ranger that I honestly **** for how boring it is to drive
End of part one for simplicity, as this is getting pretty long I think it's better to split before the mods
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