NEW FACTORY E30 M3 Body Shell For Sale

[mwagner10702]

No affiliation - just passing this along. I am assuming most of you ave already seen this. From Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/e30o...94863140527989

[stevesingo]

Bargain

[M-technik-3]

Only issue might be is how to legally transfer a vin from on chassis to another.

[mwagner10702]

Bargain

Exactly. Especially when an S14 engine and transmission recently sold on BaT for $14,000

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...ngine-gearbox/

[SlideM3]

Only issue might be is how to legally transfer a vin from on chassis to another.

Cut and weld. No issue.

[Dave @nz]

Does anyone have the original photo of the the three new body shells together which I suspect this for sale post to is from, I remember looking at it back in the day but now would like to add it to my M3 photos.
I had a good look around and could not find it but found the link from the original post, from memory one was turned in to a new rally M3 and not sure where the other one ended up?
From memory all three were found stored in Netherlands aprox 10 years ago.

https://s14net.vbulletin.net/forum/s...-shell-picture

[jimmy p.]

Im going to probably go counter to the general E30M3 fan groundswell,,, but,,, I just cannot get super excited about this.
If it was a leftover Gruppe A Matter shell with the integral cage I’d say yes worth it, but $30K for a street shell,,, not worth it in my opinion.
What are you gonna do, build a brand new stret car from scratch?
We can still buy a “decent" street car for around that and it comes with,,, all the rest of the parts. Drivetrain, engine harness, chassis harness, interior for seat frames and foams.
Do a rotisserie resto on even a $30K street car and you still come out way, way ahead with a similarly nice outcome.

If one wanted to build a race car,,, this would be a terribly over expensive way to start as well.

Other than the novelty of having one of the last brand new shells on earth, I'm having a hard time seeing the "value" in a 30K bare shell.
Someone with deep pockets is certainly gonna buy it, but I dont see the value.

[M-technik-3]

Maybe the factory might purchase it and suddenly have build a new M3 like they did with the inka 2002. But I doubt that.

[Ironhead]

Im going to probably go counter to the general E30M3 fan groundswell,,, but,,, I just cannot get super excited about this.
If it was a leftover Gruppe A Matter shell with the integral cage I’d say yes worth it, but $30K for a street shell,,, not worth it in my opinion.
What are you gonna do, build a brand new stret car from scratch?
We can still buy a “decent" street car for around that and it comes with,,, all the rest of the parts. Drivetrain, engine harness, chassis harness, interior for seat frames and foams.
Do a rotisserie resto on even a $30K street car and you still come out way, way ahead with a similarly nice outcome.

If one wanted to build a race car,,, this would be a terribly over expensive way to start as well.

Other than the novelty of having one of the last brand new shells on earth, I'm having a hard time seeing the "value" in a 30K bare shell.
Someone with deep pockets is certainly gonna buy it, but I dont see the value.

I agree Jimmy. The only way this would make sense is if you had a wrecked car or whatever and just wanted to transfer the parts over. Even then, it's over-priced.

I fear someone will buy that shell, thinking they will acquire new parts to build it into a complete "perfect" car. To do that would cost well over $100K, and of course half the parts would be NLA. If you put used parts into the shell, might as well make things simple and just buy a car.

The other thing...that pisses me off...is the "looking for offers over $30K". IMHO this is just sleazy sales tactics. No one ever knows what will buy the shell, and the seller can play all sorts of "sorry I have a higher offer already" games to raise the price.

Someone could be selling the fountain of youth, and if they listed it as "looking for offers over $______", they could stick it up their ass as far as I'm concerned.

[Baxter E30]

Not one of the three from Netherlands. Owner has had this for 15+ years, in addition to a Sport Evo and US JP racecar. I'd pay $30K for this before I'd pay $6K for some redone seats...

[SlideM3]

Not one of the three from Netherlands. Owner has had this for 15+ years, in addition to a Sport Evo and US JP racecar. I'd pay $30K for this before I'd pay $6K for some redone seats...

At least you can drive and enjoy your M3 after you are done installing your redone seats. Btw, no idiot would be dumb enough to pay $6k to redo their seats.

[D20903]

Does anybody know how to get in touch with the seller - he doesn't seem to be replying to PM's via Facebook.

[sector7g]

At least you can drive and enjoy your M3 after you are done installing your redone seats. Btw, no idiot would be dumb enough to pay $6k to redo their seats.

Yes, they would. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/e30-m3-seats/

[SlideM3]

Yes, they would. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/e30-m3-seats/

I meant just reupholdstering (leather and labor), not including the core.

[the_scotsman]

The shell was sold last Saturday. Kinda of sad to see it go but I no longer needed it. If it hadn't sold then I would have transferred the running gear from the JP racer and installed the SE interior (which I have). There would have been some parts that are NLA that I needed, lot's of time, and lots of money, but it sold. The JP race car will be up for sale next in the coming months.