This thread is long overdue, so grab some popcorn for this fun little story time.
Many moons ago, maybe 4 years or so, my brother in law decided he missed having three pedals ever since he stopped driving the mini truck he had in high school. So after he graduated from his doctoral program he rewarded himself with this C30 T5 R Design. It's an M66 fairly base model, no sunroof (Yay!), no heated seats (Oof), no power seats (Meh). The PO installed an aftermarket RSB, which is AWESOME, and kept it up with the same local indy my sister and BIL went to with their xc60, so it's been fairly well maintained.
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Now back to more recent times, my sister and BIL moved to silicon valley for work, and with good public transportation comes less driving. So he didn't really want the expense of having it around. Him and my dad had been talking about selling it to each other for awhile at the time when my girlfriend and I decided to visit my sister and BIL in the bay area for spring break of 2020. We all know how late march panned for the the pandemic, so instead of risking another flight or getting stuck in a shut down layover my GF and I drove this back to my Milwaukee!
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We made it back to Milwaukee where the VR was patiently waiting,
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It got a detail
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It helped me move into my new apartment
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And it got some upgrades
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And now with my VR's dash being in a million pieces and the 850's vacuum system leaking like a sieve I've been rocking this little thing for awhile.
That brings us up the the current state of the c30, this thread will be for any continued updates on the car and any other conversations that seem relevant!
Many moons ago, maybe 4 years or so, my brother in law decided he missed having three pedals ever since he stopped driving the mini truck he had in high school. So after he graduated from his doctoral program he rewarded himself with this C30 T5 R Design. It's an M66 fairly base model, no sunroof (Yay!), no heated seats (Oof), no power seats (Meh). The PO installed an aftermarket RSB, which is AWESOME, and kept it up with the same local indy my sister and BIL went to with their xc60, so it's been fairly well maintained.
Now back to more recent times, my sister and BIL moved to silicon valley for work, and with good public transportation comes less driving. So he didn't really want the expense of having it around. Him and my dad had been talking about selling it to each other for awhile at the time when my girlfriend and I decided to visit my sister and BIL in the bay area for spring break of 2020. We all know how late march panned for the the pandemic, so instead of risking another flight or getting stuck in a shut down layover my GF and I drove this back to my Milwaukee!
We made it back to Milwaukee where the VR was patiently waiting,
It got a detail
It helped me move into my new apartment
And it got some upgrades
And now with my VR's dash being in a million pieces and the 850's vacuum system leaking like a sieve I've been rocking this little thing for awhile.
That brings us up the the current state of the c30, this thread will be for any continued updates on the car and any other conversations that seem relevant!
