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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: detoxed on May 20, 2010, 11:59:22 AM

Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: detoxed on May 20, 2010, 11:59:22 AM
Where have all the decent 4 door m42 e30s gone? Are there any non-tracked, drift abused, out there anymore?
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: tjts1 on May 20, 2010, 02:17:39 PM
Nope. All used up. BMW only produced about 5000 4 door M42 powered E30s. All sold in the US and Canada. The vast majority of M42s went into 2 doors.
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: race2win on May 20, 2010, 02:50:54 PM
Be patient, they are out there, when I was looking I found 2 of them fairly local that were completely stock & never abused...& both were under $2K. Every 318is 2-door I found was modified and/or almost twice as expensive.
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: Ryann on May 20, 2010, 03:39:26 PM
Quote from: tjts1;92680
Nope. All used up. BMW only produced about 5000 4 door M42 powered E30s. All sold in the US and Canada. The vast majority of M42s went into 2 doors.


6730, supposedly.

I found mine a couple hours away from home with 117K on the clock for sale by the original owner for $2000. I looked around for a couple years and got lucky.
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: sKunk on May 22, 2010, 04:31:34 PM
i have one, but its in horrible condition :( its a work in progress, tho. someday...
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: DesktopDave on May 22, 2010, 09:02:23 PM
I have one, but 277K miles is a long way to go.  They are pretty rare.  I looked at three coupes before a sedan came along.  I'd have bought the coupe if I had a choice.  The sedans don't have nearly the same number of options.  No sport interiors, no sport suspensions, etc.
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: dvmotorsports on May 26, 2010, 12:56:07 PM
Quote from: detoxed;92676
Where have all the decent 4 door m42 e30s gone? Are there any non-tracked, drift abused, out there anymore?


Nope. I pretty much whored mine out. I have two bone stock coupes though. Sedans make better track cars because of the B pillar location.
Title: 4 Doors?
Post by: TooTall90 on June 01, 2010, 02:16:42 AM
OP where are you located?  i have a a nice alpine four door that i might be persuaded to let go.  it has a few "mods" like a drop and a muffler but i kept the stock stuff so you can easily switch it back.  PM me for details