Originally Posted by
OlongJohnson
Regarding all the talk about what cars are interesting, I said it earlier in the thread, but I think the E36/E46 will stick around awhile as a chassis. It's in the place where almost all of them are more expensive to keep as a nice daily driver than to just buy a newer BMW, so the cars are cheap to buy. The engines are expensive to modify and a PITA to work on, and if something goes seriously wrong with a motor, it totals the car. On the other hand, the chassis keep on going. They're RWD, well-developed, exceptionally easy to drive around turns, and you can fit pretty much any engine that can be installed north-south and not need the oil pump to be in the same place as the steering rack: SBF, LS, xUZ, JZ, K, etc. Even a turbo BP would have potential in a very lightweight "less is more" build, and the fact that they have space for an inline six means a V-8 with forward-mounted turbos is possible. So find one with a rough interior, part out what you don't need, and start painting your canvas.
As mentioned above, people who want a nice street car with late-model amenities and niceness plus tons of power are looking elsewhere, but I view them as a better option at this point for a RWD track toy than just about anything else.