I remember the Ultimate Driving Machine commercials when these came out. I owned a 528e before and I thought it was a solid car. I would not call it "ultimate", but it was cool. A convertible would be cooler.

This is what was found when helping a coworker move. Yikes, it is rough, but there is potential here. A real e30 convertible from sunny California, never seeing the salt roads of the north.

The paint polished out. The top was replaced and the wheels were replaced. Along with some other work, here is a reliable fun car on a budget.

Back view. This thing has not moved in years. Crap kind of piled around it in it's years of misuse. It is funny how sometimes treasured items somehow get forgotten and overlooked. Many cars meet the same fate, only to rot away to the point where it is junk.

A "slight" improvement from before. Days of a storage shed are gone (at least as long as I own it).

The interior has seen better days. Besides the dirt and boxes of stuff, there seemed to be no major problems. I did not see any major tears in the seats and the rear seat was splitting at a few seams. Heck, every BMW of this age has seams that tear in the same spot.

The interior turned out to be in good shape....with a lot of work.

The engine looks a little dirty, and some mice decided to snack on plug wires, but overall, the wiring and hoses looked intact. The owner tried to jump start it, and it turned over fine, but I did not hear the fuel pump, so I knew it was hopeless.

The engine turned out to be in excellent condition with strong compression and power. The upper cam area had no sludge or varnish at all.