The Long Awaited: The Myth, The Legend, The Douchebaggery

[SlimKlim]

Was casually chatting BMWs with Matthew (does anyone do anything else) and he mentioned how LTWs were his favorite wheels. I remembered one of the POs of my car had a set of LTWs on it at some point and the photos would come up if you googled "Dakar E36 LTWs."

Then it occurred to me that photos in an 8 year old thread are going to disappear at some point and if I want to hang onto em I better make my own copies, so I did some digging through the forum archives and pulled them into a new album.

These are the oldest photos I can find of the car, summer of 2008, owned by a guy that goes by Garrett M on the forums.









Then later that year or early '09 he posted it for sale.













Crazy how clean the paint still was and how straight the body is in that last shop, she is definitely showing her age now. Also notice the missing M badge on the driver's side molding, one of the very first things I changed on the car, like the week I bought it.



Vaders were already not looking so hot, the Florida sun definitely didn't help things. You can see the wear on the driver's bolster that he's trying to conceal in the photo.



I still have these floor mats, they look like complete ass now.



I also did a number on the poor steering wheel, It looked mint in '08 and I had destroyed it by 2010. Rainy track days + old leather = bad.

Then in the summer of 2009 the guy that bought it off of him posts it for sale in VA beach. He had owned it for less than a year, paid 10k for it and was listing it for $7500. In retrospect I should've known it was going to be a basket case, I think in the back of my mind I knew it was going to be, I just really, really, really, really wanted to buy the car.









And here's the most recent photo taken of her, all snuggled up in her new home.