September 15, 2003.
That monday morning came too early. 4:50 the alarm went off and I dagged myself out of bed to get ready for work. Mondays normally sucked, its the beginning of the work week and we are always busy right off the bat. However, this monday was going to end up being a very good monday.
After ariving at work and getting through the normal monday morning rush, I was talking with a few of my co-workers, explaining how I needed a new car, that my current one at the time was starting to fall apart and it was time to move on. One of them said there was a traded in M3 out back, and I should go check it out. I pondered this for a moment and came back wtih something like, "Its an M3, driven hard. Probably won't last me very long, engines probably taken a beating too.". (I didn't know much then....). I had already passed up about three or four traded M3s at this point.
So, I strolled outback and found the car sitting inconspicuously between a couple of other, larger BMW's. When I first saw her, I noticed the dark tint on the windows, that she was lowerd, had a front splitter and a nice looking spoiler on her. Not to mention the aftermarket rims. "Race car" was the first thing that came to my mind. Paint was excellent and from what I could see, she looked clean on the inside.
I then went to talk to our used car manager at the time so I could get the keys and drive her around when I went to lunch. After talking to him and getting the keys from him and starting to make my way back up the street, he turned around real quickly and said "Oh, by the way, it has a brand new engine in it". I think my responose was something alone the lines of "No fuking way".
Durring lunch I took my test drive. Wow. 101,000 on her at the time. Drove like a champ, except the suspension was kinda fubared because the last owner put lowering springs on stock shocks. There indeed was a new engine, complete block with the head. After the test drive I knew I had to have her.
Went back to our sales department and talked numbers, go on the phone with dad and told him to meet me at the dealer that night after work. (Needed him to co-sign with me because I had zero credit rating at the time). By 8:00pm, I was on my way home in my new M3. I was elated.
Three days later we were hit by a hurricane. :eek2:
I was outside in 80 mph winds making sure trees wern't going to fall on my
baby. :haha:
On a side note: The previous owner happened to stop by the body shop to get something done on his other car and I ended up meeting him, found out why he put a new engine in. Then he said he would drop off all the reciepts and records for the car, and all the old parts that came off car for his mods.
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One year later.
Boy, the saying 'Time flies when you're having fun' is so true.
So, over the last year. What have I done to her?
Put 16,955 miles on her.
Things I had to fix:
New idler pullies.
New altenator.
New belts.
Brake light switch.
New factory shocks/springs.
Reverted back to OEM exhaust.
New set of rims.
Reveterd back to OEM pullies (Going back to my URI's very soon though)
Things I have done because I wanted to:
Chrome insturment cluster rings.
Chrome window switch surrounds.
M-tec front lip. Black mesh.
Three spoke steering wheel swap.
ZKW headlamps with DDEs and hids.
OEM alarm.
Two new headunits.
E46 illuminated shift knob.
M-Tech pedals and e-brake handle.
Will the mods stop????
eace: http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/images/icons/buttrock.gif
Yeah, hope you made it through all that. Heres some pics of before and after.
-Trev
Outside shots:
Before:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/old_outside.jpg
After:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/new_outside.jpg
Interior:
Before:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/old_inside.jpg
After:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/new_inside.jpg
That monday morning came too early. 4:50 the alarm went off and I dagged myself out of bed to get ready for work. Mondays normally sucked, its the beginning of the work week and we are always busy right off the bat. However, this monday was going to end up being a very good monday.
After ariving at work and getting through the normal monday morning rush, I was talking with a few of my co-workers, explaining how I needed a new car, that my current one at the time was starting to fall apart and it was time to move on. One of them said there was a traded in M3 out back, and I should go check it out. I pondered this for a moment and came back wtih something like, "Its an M3, driven hard. Probably won't last me very long, engines probably taken a beating too.". (I didn't know much then....). I had already passed up about three or four traded M3s at this point.
So, I strolled outback and found the car sitting inconspicuously between a couple of other, larger BMW's. When I first saw her, I noticed the dark tint on the windows, that she was lowerd, had a front splitter and a nice looking spoiler on her. Not to mention the aftermarket rims. "Race car" was the first thing that came to my mind. Paint was excellent and from what I could see, she looked clean on the inside.
I then went to talk to our used car manager at the time so I could get the keys and drive her around when I went to lunch. After talking to him and getting the keys from him and starting to make my way back up the street, he turned around real quickly and said "Oh, by the way, it has a brand new engine in it". I think my responose was something alone the lines of "No fuking way".
Durring lunch I took my test drive. Wow. 101,000 on her at the time. Drove like a champ, except the suspension was kinda fubared because the last owner put lowering springs on stock shocks. There indeed was a new engine, complete block with the head. After the test drive I knew I had to have her.
Went back to our sales department and talked numbers, go on the phone with dad and told him to meet me at the dealer that night after work. (Needed him to co-sign with me because I had zero credit rating at the time). By 8:00pm, I was on my way home in my new M3. I was elated.
Three days later we were hit by a hurricane. :eek2:
I was outside in 80 mph winds making sure trees wern't going to fall on my
baby. :haha:
On a side note: The previous owner happened to stop by the body shop to get something done on his other car and I ended up meeting him, found out why he put a new engine in. Then he said he would drop off all the reciepts and records for the car, and all the old parts that came off car for his mods.
-----------------
One year later.
Boy, the saying 'Time flies when you're having fun' is so true.
So, over the last year. What have I done to her?
Put 16,955 miles on her.
Things I had to fix:
New idler pullies.
New altenator.
New belts.
Brake light switch.
New factory shocks/springs.
Reverted back to OEM exhaust.
New set of rims.
Reveterd back to OEM pullies (Going back to my URI's very soon though)
Things I have done because I wanted to:
Chrome insturment cluster rings.
Chrome window switch surrounds.
M-tec front lip. Black mesh.
Three spoke steering wheel swap.
ZKW headlamps with DDEs and hids.
OEM alarm.
Two new headunits.
E46 illuminated shift knob.
M-Tech pedals and e-brake handle.
Will the mods stop????
eace: http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/images/icons/buttrock.gifYeah, hope you made it through all that. Heres some pics of before and after.
-Trev
Outside shots:
Before:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/old_outside.jpg
After:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/new_outside.jpg
Interior:
Before:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/old_inside.jpg
After:
http://members.cox.net/morpheus91/car/new_inside.jpg
Did you just want the stock, sleeper look back?
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