My father-in-law wants me to look into selling his 1983 320i. He bought it in 1987 and has all the maintenance records on it since new. Two owner car with a professional repaint job due to being keyed sometime in the late 80's.

It is a coupe, navy ext. with tan cloth interior. I think it has 155k miles. Runs and looks great. 100% stock. Any ideas what it might be worth? I can post pictures in a few days.

Whats the paint like? Whats the compression in all the cylinders? Which rims? Lots o variables, but the right buyer might give $3000 if its great, more likely $2400 or less, depending on the things I mentioned.

waferman

oh and all e21's are coupes exept for some 4 doors from south africa

oh and all e21's are coupes exept for some 4 doors from south africa

really? never heard before that e21 has 4 doors... probably just my ignorance. anyway i saw from somewhere (i think if i'm not wrong the official bmw site or something like that, talking about 30th anniversary) that bmw doesnt call e21 and e30 2-door forms as coupes. they start calling their first 3-series coupe the e36 in 2-door form followed by e46. in whatever configuration they call e21 and e30 sedan/saloon. anyway... :)

yeah ive heard that too, they called the e24 (6 series) coupes and the e21's saloons in the 80's when they were new. even though from my understanding any 2 door cept trucks and hatchbacks and stuff are coupes....

E21 is definately not a coupe. It's a 2 door sedan, same as an 02 was, same as an E30 was.

Al

E21 is definately not a coupe. It's a 2 door sedan, same as an 02 was, same as an E30 was.

Al
i thought sedan ment 4 door:confused :help

my rego branch did not like getting told they are wrong by calling it a coupe'. so i said meh and called it a coupe from then on:D

skyflyer, are you on ecca forums?

my rego branch did not like getting told they are wrong by calling it a coupe'. so i said meh and called it a coupe from then on:D

skyflyer, are you on ecca forums?

hi mad :) yup i'm the same one as in eurocca.net, too much melbournian though hehe...

did you get your motorsports front bar of that guy?

My father-in-law wants me to look into selling his 1983 320i. He bought it in 1987 and has all the maintenance records on it since new. Two owner car with a professional repaint job due to being keyed sometime in the late 80's.

It is a coupe, navy ext. with tan cloth interior. I think it has 155k miles. Runs and looks great. 100% stock. Any ideas what it might be worth? I can post pictures in a few days.

depend though (any goodies like recaros, sport steering?). i might say 2000/2500 (well i guess) but pictures say it all.

did you get your motorsports front bar of that guy?

oh yeah i got it from that alpina323ci dude. front bar in good condition with some crack down the bottom of the bar, a few stone chips, and missing rubber strip and he told me that the guy he got it from replaced it with some alu-look plastic strip with double sided tape. look very crappy though. do you know whether the euro bumper rubber strip is a direct fit into the motorsport?

ask tom on ecca he has a motosport front on his e21:D

I think they might be being generous and would look closer to 1500. But yeah pics tell.

I think they might be being generous and would look closer to 1500. But yeah pics tell.
+1

do you know whether the euro bumper rubber strip is a direct fit into the motorsport?
the motorsport bumper/air dam is made to look like a euro bumper, so the rubber strip should fit.
Jake

yeah thought so...oh and a clean 320 is aus goes for $200-1500