BMW 325 IS 1987 - $1050

[JackoliciousLegs]

Is that the one with the rough interior? Track car?

[Jeff]

Why name it Christine? Something already happen?

I think Christine is his M swapped e36 isn't it?

[xvxax]

I ended up buying it to help a friend out. The seats are pretty rough but the door panels, rear seat, trunk and the trunk tool kit are all fine. The dash is ok but cracked. It was $600 and the title is clear, the seats worked for the drive home. The car passed a compression test and the underbody is rust free. The engine appears to have the notorious m20 valve cover leak that has dumped all over the block and oil pan. The car will be combined with another e30 to become one useable e30. Don't really have many plans other than that yet. It's automatic so either the transmission will go into this car or the engine will go into the other. I found out the gauges have stopped working but the ticker says 160,000.

The owner named Don I believe was one of the nicest guys I've met through cars. He was pretty flexible and allowed me to mess around with the engine and underneath the car while telling me stories about the buying the car and blowing up eclipse motors at 110mph on backroads and totally gsx-rs in oklahoma. He said he had a guy offer to buy it for $700 but when he found out he had intended to daily drive it he turned the offer down because the car really isn't worthy for daily driving. He wanted someone to turn it into a project and seemed really sad to let it go.

Christine is the name of my e36, this car probably won't be named. Some stuff is referring to some modifications.

[Ole]

The stick is still avail.?

[xvxax]

No, the car that was supposed to be stick, the one for $1050, is actually automatic and I bought it.

[xvxax]

Update: engine and transmission are out of the donor car, waiting on some parts from pelican parts and the dealership and it will be going back into another e30 with a good condition body and a manual transmission. After we got the car back to a friends we found some frame damage on the IS, and some rust near the fenders. We decided to swap the good condition m20b25 into an ETA 2 door car, so its gotten a bit more complicated. About 2 months ago posted up a reworked m20 for $300 with manual transmission included so I guess I am doing it the hard way, but oh well.

I am pretty bad at taking pictures while I'm working by myself on the ground, so bear with me. I will probably come home from school a few weekends and get the project done, I have a few pictures I'll post up when I'm less lazy not that anyone really cares. I would like say that whatever rust proofing bmw does on their cars is amazing. I have never seen a cleaner undercarriage of a 21 year old car.

[Chris]

wow I missed this a while ago. If you still need any random parts, I have a lot of E30 stuff near Richmond from a couple different models. I can get you a list if you're interested.