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Shots fired holy shit...
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So.... I acquired this car last year after it exchanged hands about 4-6 times before landing on my doorstep. The poor fella was in desperate need of TLC and an owner that would actually take the time to sort out his quirks. I dont know if I'm that owner, but I am certainly going to try to be (for now). And although I dont really have the room for him in my stable, I took him in with open arms.
With that said, the car also didnt have a title when I got it. The story is that it went to auction, and the highest bidder left it on the lot abandon and a towing company removed it and took over possession of the car. Here is where it was sold and jumped around title-less for a few years until yesterday that is, when I finally made the journey back through all of the previous owners to find out what I just explained. The towing company gave me all the necessary paperwork and after a simple trip to the DMV, I now legally own another car.
About the car itself. Its a 1984 633CSI E24 5 speed coupe. The car is fairly rare from what I have researched. Only 1173 manuals were sold here in america, and of that, the color combination is almost none existent. Alpine white exterior with Cherry red AKA"Ox Blood" interior. Pair that with the Zender kit and it seems like a pretty cool car. UNLESS you have to work on it.
So basically I am starting this thread more to help myself document the process of getting it running again and returning it into a nice factory condition. 
First day I saw it:

First day home:

Seemed appropriate for my LS swapped m3. Apparently someone at the post office liked it.

He told me he wants something like Farmers Only but have an option to search by Tractor preference.
Nothin runs like a Deere

Having moved to a new shop in July, This car hasn't had any attention between our schedules but we gave things another go yesterday and the car has started! Comparing notes between e30's it's seems to have been a combination of wiring issues and the fuel pressure regulator being bad. Don't really have a clear answer but the fpr was leaking this time after we re-wired the motor as we had planned to pull it for a m50. 
@MattY bought a sedan (build thread will start soon) so just need to tidy up stuff under the car like installing the driveshaft, exhaust, subframe bushings being the major things before this is road worthy.
*knocks on wood* this will be at the picnic, hopefully the sedan too.

I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. That must've been a hell of a raccoon to damage that much stuff. 

As some of you are surely hoping, we'll be having another E30 Picnic this year. Saturday, May 20, 2017 at Frame Park in Waukesha(same as previous years). I'll add more details as more is planned. As usual, this an event that you don't want to miss!

I don't know if I've ever seen cardinal seats in that kind of shape, and definitely not at that price point. Did the seller say when it was imported?

the terrible fender markers would suggest that it was imported a long time ago.

She lives again. Gotta beat the 375mi/3 week running streak of last year lol. Turns out my interesting running issues were a bad battery. Ben replaced the battery, fuel pump and trans mounts for me on Tuesday and the car fired up once it got fuel. Running nice and smooth now that it had some fresh gas and seafoam cycled through.