Yo,

You may or may not know that I already own these 4 cars!

1980 Mk1 Golf Series 1 - 1.3 Turbo (in its element!)

1981 Mk1 Polo L - 1.6 16v

1984 Mk2 Polo Coupe - 1.3 Carb

1985 Mk2 Polo Coupe S - 1.3 Supercharged

The Golf is currently in daily use, but as a temperamental stripped road-racer, its constant need for attention is impeding me from cracking on with the restoration of my poloes.

So I needed to find a more suitable daily.

Having owned 25+ cars is the last 6 years, they have all been front-wheel drive VW's, so I wanted to step outside the marque and have RWD.

It had to be old, for sheer rawness of the driving experience, awesome looks, ease of home maintainence, and because I'm over 25, the joys of cheap car insurance.

Bonus points for car finds that were older than 1973 (tax excemption) or 4 x 100 stud pattern as they could share my collection of existing wheels.

Such a vast array of weird and wonderful cars, but I found a Gorgeous E21 beemer, which I am collecting tomorrow, details below

Spec

BMW 316 E21

Ordered on 20th August 1982 with optional extras - Manual Sliding Sunroof, 5-Speed Gearbox & a Blaunkpunt Radio/Cassette in the Colour Black with Anthracite Trim for an on-the-road price of £6,981,

Built on the 4th October 1982

Purchased on the 4th November 1982 from Hexagon of Highgate

1,766cc

114,982 miles

Purchased by a husband for his wife, the car remained in her possesion in Tottridge until March 1989 where it was sold to her brother, in Chester.

Woken from a 7 year slumber, he wrote his own advert with spritely enthusiasm.

ello, I am a BMW 316 E21

I was made in October 1982 (I am 30 years old) and I have been with the same family all my life.

I have travelled 114982 miles and always been very well looked after.

For the last 7 years I have been locked up in a garage and now I am free to travel and enjoy my old age.

Oh by the way, I'm in pretty good condition for an old boy.

Heres a couple of pictures albeit poor. I will take some proper ones very soon, as I am on a 2 week holiday from work.

I am on the lookout for a decent coilover suspension kit, or a equivalent good shock/spring sports setup (Hnr/Koni) that would drop well with 14x7 wheels running 195/45 tyres with no arch contact.

Not sure what the general aftermarket wheel/tyre choice is for regular e21 owners.

I will be fitting compomotive splits, banded steels, borbet bs, exips or oz ruotes to it (they are all 14x 6-8), lowering it, repairing the drivers seat, and upgrading the factory speakers, popping a sub in the boot and enjoying it in daily use while I crack on with the work on me poloes.

Edited 9 October, 201213 yr by grungeisdead

Will be watching this closely mate, Love E21's

This will be good!!!!!

Needs one of those quad lamp set-ups and it's finished. Quad lamp E21's (or whatever model that makes it) in black are fucking classy.

yessss i will bob up soon and have a looksie :p

Very nice indeed. Treat her to an underseal!

Very nice indeed. Treat her to an underseal!

Sound advice there! Shame to let such a nice car rot

this is going to be interesting, i love old bmw's!!!

I wouldn't bother touching that Saf! Looks too good! <3

Just drive it and look after it, you'll appreciate it more in time :)

Looks nice.

Beware of the rust on these - give it a good going over everywhere!

My jaw hit the desk! Love these!

Cheers guys,

I wont be making any drastic changes , however my housemate has an E30 cab which we are putting a V8 into so he is upgrading all his suspension to M3 items, so I will hopefully be able to utilise his suspension and get my tig welding genius of a friend to make up some coilovers with a rally design kit.

Drive home was fab, such a pleasant drive and well put together car, however there is a judder under braking ( of which the brakes are poor) and slight vibration when driving, will get the car on the ramps at my friends work and give all the bushes a pry. It could just be the tracking and balancing, or warped disks.-

Replace brake fluid, check disks for warping, check bushes and joints for play

Oil and grease the door hinges

drain oil and coolant, replace filter and fluids

replace fuel filter

give the paintwork a mop

few rusty spots will get attention and I'll give the floor a cleanup and reunderseal and hopefully next year we can get the car in and give it a blowover, some grazing of the paint of the rear left quarter.

so bar giving the cars engine a general service, getting the car looking fresh, and a new set of wheels I will be happy with a fantastic looking cruiser.

Will get it down to my unit tomorrow and get lots of pictures for all :) as we do love pictures!

Edited 9 October, 201213 yr by grungeisdead

Very nice. Which of your wheel collection will be making an appearance on it? Always wanted one of these in that neon yellow they came in.

routes routes routes routes routes

Gangster!!!

Now just sit and wait for the snow haha

Ah mate, that is just immense, sexiest cars ever.

I might have missed it, but how much did it set you back?

it probably will be the ruotes, as they are close to alpina wheels, however I think I'd want them refurbed first but unsure on colour.

cheap lad - 1200

Waaa! £1200

Do they come up often at that??

Looks SO cool.

Between 1.& 3. Expect projects for sub a grand or runners with mot but a.bit ropey up to 2k

Gave the car a full wash, g3 and wax and tried on some new wheels. The banded steelies looked tiny but are wearing 195 40 14s so.i threw the 15s on there

Awful pics.again.but it.was.dark so outdoor pics would have been useless!

Got a spare momo team to fit and got the falarm fixed so its nice and secure now :-)

Personally I think those wheels are too modern for the styling.

id say they look gay saf - but i want them so i would say that

looks good tbf dude, deck it on those and it would look spot on shame you didnt win those 15" routes i found you :(

They aint staying on these, just modern tyre wins over 30 year old zepplins.

Couldnt try the routes as they were on the golf which was ont drive and it cant pull of 14s with low pros until I can get some coilies.

Yeah was gutting about them, went for 415 dukes which was too rich for my liking. Hella pimp mind

You want wheels with big fat balloon tyres on this Saf These BMWs suit a classic wheel and tyre and standard ride height over a slammage and low pro girth.

Get some Saf specials on it with balloon specs

Watch the sump when you lower it, I would deffo make a sump guard!

Edited 11 October, 201213 yr by Winston

Looks so pimp on them dude. You need a pimp stick now, and maybe a fur cape.