Wow. Sounds like the kind of rig you wish you could've found before it went to the boneyard.

I took my first BMW 325i, an '87 E30 from 214k at purchase to about 450k before an electronic gremlin finally defeated me. Admittedly, the previous owner was a stickler for preventative maintenance, had a thick sheath of maintenance records from a top garage.

Nonetheless, I did have to do a couple of big repairs that would've been expensive were I'm not doing the work myself. During the oh ohs The boneyards had plenty of E30s to pick over. Some of them looked pretty nice. I was always curious what problem had brought them to the boneyard. I can only imagine that some of them might have been savable.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K