1972 BMW 3.0S - slots?? . . I don't think so . .

[Boogieman]

had this for quite while . . but took it out of it's dusty corner today to clean my workshop . . .



I really love the look of it's rear end . . .


oh look . . it's brown on browner ;D

sorry, I had only my prehistoric crappy point-and-shoot-camera with me . . so picture quality is very low .. anyway it's not as nice as it looks . . will need a lot of welding and probably a completely new interior (so maybe a really fat track car?? . ;D) . . oh well . . it's going to be a future project . .

[dollywobbler]

Well, I like it! Saw one in the South West of England last week - right next to the sea. I hope yours is rather more rust free!!

[youngtimer]

OMG! I'm in love!!!!

[hairnet]

first pic does it for me!!

[penski]

New(ish) big bimmer six and track car stylings.

*n

[Ray Singh]

Really nice. Back end is the highlight for me......

[mirafioriman]

Lovely to see one of these. Great cars.

[e21'er]

I used to own a 3.0si back in 92 that I bought for £400. It was pretty damn quick with 200bhp and a rare sight nowadays.

[Boogieman]

yeah they really disappeared quickly . . you can pick up a really really good one (if you find one . .) for about 5'000£ these days . . so restoring a bad one is just pointless (I got mine for free . . because nobody else wanted it, but am not sure what to do with it) . . . there are a few good ones around, but there's nobody who really wants em . . sad, since I think they are great cars!

[HoTWire]

Excellent cars .. would love one! The rust on them is super scary though!

[e21'er]

Just bought a mint one in sahara beige. Pick it up next week and then start hunting for some lower springs.

[e12gabe]

I love e3's! Beautiful car you have there. much rust on it?

[Boogieman]

well . . news on the E3-front ;D . .

after having the blue one for over 3 years sitting in my workshop in the dusty corner . . I decided to sell it . . it has just too much rust ,. . too many layers of lousy paint jobs . . just too much curse word to make me wanna invest any time or money . . .

And to be honest . . I really need to cut down on my car fleet . .

So I put it up for sale as "restoration project" . . not 2 days later, a customer of ours wants to get rid of his granpa's "old useless BMW" which blocks the garage so his shiny new Bimmer doesn't has a place to stay . . I went and had a look . . 2 hours later it was blocking my garage and my "not so new and shiny" daily-driver Bimmer has to stay outside . .

. . so I ended up getting a second E3 instead of selling the one I had . . great . .

that was in November last year . . I just didn't have time to make some pictures . . today I did . . even though they are lousy ones . .

Anyway . . it's a '72 3.0S automatic as well . . but in way better condition . . original "chamonix" paint (I really love it . . thought about painting the blue one in chamonix) . . some rustbubbles but nothing serious . . even the spots where E3 like to rust like crazy are ok . . the blue velour interiour isn't perfect but way better then the brown one in the blue car . . so overall a base I can work with . . and the blue one will be a good donor car . . ;D . .








now: PICTURES!


Quite sporty looking for a big luxury barge . . .(funny fact . . the new 5 Series is almost 8 inches longer than the E3 . .)


I love the rear end . . (and thanks to the blue one, I do have a rear bumper without a dent . .)


proper 4 door saloon . .


yikes! . . not too impressed with the colour of the blue interiour . . but could be worse . . .

will take more pics, as soon as it's moved to my workshop . .

[mirafioriman]

Nice I like very much

[Davenger]

Awesome stuff.
My dad had a 2500 E3 when I was a kid.
Brilliant car

[Boogieman]

Mar 10, 2011 19:31:50 GMT Davenger said:

Awesome stuff.
My dad had a 2500 E3 when I was a kid.
Brilliant car

I never liked the early E3's as the 2500 . . probably because the main attraction for me on the E3 is it's rear end . . which was different on the early cars . . . and the silver grill around the headlights doesn't work for me either . . . it's one of the few cars which I like the "late" ones better than the older "real retro" ones . .

[Davenger]

It wasn't an early car, it was a 73, in Fjord Blue

[b7]

Oooh. I love these being a BMW freak! Proper hooligans car back in the day.

[Boogieman]

hmm . . didn't know 2500's were even made in the "facelift" form . . thought the 3.0S was the base model . . but very cool pictures . . is that a vinyl roof on the second picture?? . . . . . me want!

Mar 10, 2011 21:02:39 GMT b7 said:

Oooh. I love these being a BMW freak! Proper hooligans car back in the day.

with a top speed of 200 km/h you were in the top league at that time . . today you have to wrestle with small cheap family diesels on the middle lane . . . .

[Davenger]

Yeah, full vinyl roof.
One of the coolest cars my dad ever had