wally509

Since guys are putting up track/race pics. Anastos Racing e30 at Blackhawk yesterday with some lame-o's e21 in the background.

Since guys are putting up track/race pics. Anastos Racing e30 at Blackhawk yesterday with some lame-o's e21 in the background.

Since guys are putting up track/race pics. Anastos Racing e30 at Blackhawk yesterday with some lame-o's e21 in the background.

HipMF,
Shouldn't you be more concerned with this than the Benz?
https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/d/1980-bmw-320i/6266893746.html
In Hubertus...anybody know this guy?
Later,
Wally

My favorite quote from "Exit through the gift shop":
Banksy: I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Not a fan of taking trailers through the IL tolls and also I have nowhere to store it. The e21 takes priority for garage space.

Hadn't checked the MyE28 non-affiliated thread for June yet, this was the first post. Look who showed up on Cincinnati CL 😂
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/6164502417.html

Thats exactly why I stopped running a baseball on the front of my car. Its not worth the risk.

The justification for my higher education is being able to afford a garage that's deep enough so the back end of my cars don't stick out.

The justification for my higher education is being able to afford a garage that's deep enough so the back end of my cars don't stick out.

The justification for my higher education is being able to afford a garage that's deep enough so the back end of my cars don't stick out.

The justification for my higher education is being able to afford a garage that's deep enough so the back end of my cars don't stick out.

The justification for my higher education is being able to afford a garage that's deep enough so the back end of my cars don't stick out.

no rust, sport package, 5spd, hipster owned.  I asked if it was brilliantrot and he said "uh... it's a 92"  i asked again, which red is it and he said "yea, red, it's a 92.  I bought it last year.  I wanted a vintage convertible!".  I fucking walked away... you e30 guys are fucked.

That was cool, really cool.  Thanks for posting it.
I realize this is a BMW forum but...
Four or Five or so years ago I bought an air-cooled 911 with the intention of driving the piss out of it.  I wanted to load my wife and kid, take only as much luggage as we could carry and road trip in it...things like take mostly backroads out to see my sister in Wyoming, maybe drive all the way down to the Florida keys in it and such.
Because I'm stretched too thin time and money wise, it took a couple years to get the car sorted for being ready to do these kind of things and not have issues.  Not sure if you guys watch them but in that time, the car nearly doubled in value.  Then suddenly I'm having these thoughts about not piling miles on it even though I SWORE TO MYSELF I was never again going to do this "saving it for the next guy" crapola.
Next thing I knew, 4-5 years have gone by and I hadn't really gone anywhere in this car.
Finally, two weeks ago I drove it out to watch the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. ~1200 mile round trip.  It was quite awesome.  I hadn't enjoyed driving that much in a long time.  I could go on but will spare you.  Life is too short to miss out on stuff like that, drive the damn cars.

That was cool, really cool.  Thanks for posting it.
I realize this is a BMW forum but...
Four or Five or so years ago I bought an air-cooled 911 with the intention of driving the piss out of it.  I wanted to load my wife and kid, take only as much luggage as we could carry and road trip in it...things like take mostly backroads out to see my sister in Wyoming, maybe drive all the way down to the Florida keys in it and such.
Because I'm stretched too thin time and money wise, it took a couple years to get the car sorted for being ready to do these kind of things and not have issues.  Not sure if you guys watch them but in that time, the car nearly doubled in value.  Then suddenly I'm having these thoughts about not piling miles on it even though I SWORE TO MYSELF I was never again going to do this "saving it for the next guy" crapola.
Next thing I knew, 4-5 years have gone by and I hadn't really gone anywhere in this car.
Finally, two weeks ago I drove it out to watch the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. ~1200 mile round trip.  It was quite awesome.  I hadn't enjoyed driving that much in a long time.  I could go on but will spare you.  Life is too short to miss out on stuff like that, drive the damn cars.

That was cool, really cool.  Thanks for posting it.
I realize this is a BMW forum but...
Four or Five or so years ago I bought an air-cooled 911 with the intention of driving the piss out of it.  I wanted to load my wife and kid, take only as much luggage as we could carry and road trip in it...things like take mostly backroads out to see my sister in Wyoming, maybe drive all the way down to the Florida keys in it and such.
Because I'm stretched too thin time and money wise, it took a couple years to get the car sorted for being ready to do these kind of things and not have issues.  Not sure if you guys watch them but in that time, the car nearly doubled in value.  Then suddenly I'm having these thoughts about not piling miles on it even though I SWORE TO MYSELF I was never again going to do this "saving it for the next guy" crapola.
Next thing I knew, 4-5 years have gone by and I hadn't really gone anywhere in this car.
Finally, two weeks ago I drove it out to watch the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. ~1200 mile round trip.  It was quite awesome.  I hadn't enjoyed driving that much in a long time.  I could go on but will spare you.  Life is too short to miss out on stuff like that, drive the damn cars.

I never said he couldn't have an opinion on them because he (or anyone) wasn't born when a particular car was made, however, he didn't say "I personally don't like them because of X, Y, Z".  He said the car was a bomb/dud.  Well then why were there so many of them driving around in the late 1970's and early 1980's if they were so bad and they bombed?  I will tell you there were significantly more of them driving around than '02s.  So what car was better in that time frame?  Chevrolet Citation?  Audi Fox?  Honda?
Okay, so it was heavier and slower than the 2002.  How is that relevant to making a statement like the car/design being a dud/bomb?  That was due to a variety of reasons, ALL cars were going in that direction due to emissions and safety regulations outpacing design and engineering.  Americans were making 135 hp V8's!
He daily drives (I assume that's what "daily's" means) an e30 touring, I guess that gives him some credibility.  It just would have been nice if he would have gone into some detail about why he thought the e21 was such a dud/bomb.  Maybe pointing out what other late 1970's/early 1980's cars it was so far behind to give BMW this black eye.  I can remember Ford running a TV ad in '82/'83 showing the Mustang GT beating the 320i and 944 0-60, but that's about it and 0-60 is really a one-trick-pony measure of a car.
Later,
Wally

Given I am nearly 50 and had my license since 1984 this list is pretty long so I will omit some of the real turds:
'74 Dodge Dart (first car, wrecked by one of my friends) '73(?) Beetle with the unfortunate semi-automatic transmission '83 Mk1 Rabbit GTI '78 (first gen) Rx-7 '56 Austin Healey 100 (my Dad's car but I used it as a DD when home from MSOE in summers, he sold it circa 1988) '70 Opel GT '82 Mercedes 240D manual trans '83 e21 320i (gift from my parents after they used it for 8-9 years/200k miles.  Drove for a while and sold to friend) '93 Mazda MX-6 LS (only new car I ever owned, would never do that again, traded for #10 before paid off) '83 Mercedes 300CDT '56 Austin Healey 100 (found my dad's old car in Iowa and bought it back!  This was in 1994.  Not a DD, still have this car) '93 Probe GT '94 Mercedes W124 Coupe '94 (third gen) Rx-7 (fastest car I ever owned, yes I totaled it unfortunately not doing anything "spectacular") '66 Ford Fairlane 500XL (not a DD, put $$ into a partial resto then almost immediately sold, that was stupid, eh?) '83 e21 320i (item #8 bought back from friend, drove for a while and sold to another friend who traded it in w/o giving me a chance to buy it.  This was ~2001 w/~250k on) '86 Mustang SVO (used as a DD for a summer, then made into a track car when my parents gave me the '95 STS (#18)) A couple of hand me down Caddies (actual Caddies, not VW rabbit pickups) a '95 STS and '01 STS '05 Jag S-Type '87 911 (not a DD, still have this car) '07 e92 328i in the traditional BMW flavor, n/a straight 6, manual trans, rear drive only.  This is my current DD. '82 e21 320is (not a DD, still have this car, looks identical to #8/#16 same color, wheels, etc) The one I wish I had back are #3, #5 (which I did actually get back), #6, then #8/#16 (which I sort of got back in #22).
If any of you made it this far, thanks for reading...
Wally

Well that's all I had at the time, so...
Going up that hill on the front straight was a lot like the elevator scene from Blues Brothers with the muzac playing.  Plus those things twisted up pretty bad using dot track tires, surprised the doors never popped open going through some of those turns.

Actually I had two of them, '93 and a '95 now that I think of it.  How sad is that?

Whoa! I was going to say that! Not about wasting a set of Ardun heads on a BMW but the Buick/Olds 215 Aluminum (which became the Rover engine). Back in the 80's we BS'd about sticking those engines in just about everything because of the low weight. Obviously it was all talk. Always thought one would be killer in a 914.
 

His name is Rich Munz. I believe he has 4 or 5 sets of original heads, not sure if any are NOS, pretty sure they are all built up engines. There was a set of the extremely rare V8-60 Ardun heads found NOS in the box 5 or so years ago, they sold for ~$35000 IIRC and pretty sure Mr. Munz did not buy them. Either way, his collection is quite awesome...as is his collection of British motorcycles.
I can't believe there is a discussion here on this forum about Arduns. Pretty damn cool!
Later,
Wally

Snap,
Thanks for posting this, cool stuff. Hope you don't think this is a hijack but check out what is on ebay right now:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-Other-2-/272082960063?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3f59687ebf:g:c4MAAOSw1S9Wdty7&item=272082960063
Later,
Wally