willswheels
RMS Regular
This thread is one we can keep updated with some of the projects that we have ongoing. Some are slow, some are dormant, and some are just so big they keep getting pushed back and back but as with every good project list, they will all be started some day!
Right now on the lift we have this 1991 E30 318is. It's an ex- lanes rally car, and it is absolutely disgustingly rusty. It was assured to us that is was sound but it is far from, but we're not going to let a little thing like rampant rot get in the way of putting an original NI low owner rare model back together.
Even the suspension arms have rust!
Hiding out in the workshop for the last couple of years is this 1983 E24 628i. It's an original manual car but has been upgraded to an E34 3.5 engine, which is an increase in HP, reliability and availability of parts. It was bought in as a runner in sound(ish) condition but has had a "restoration" previously in it's life in England which comprised mainly of filler, so we've been working our way around it, knocking that out and replacing it with actual metal. It's about half done on the welding now, after waiting three years, then being started about a year ago. There's no rush.
Next to the 628/635 is this 1985 E30 323i. It's a really nice original car, in metallic gold (Bronzit Beige), with brown cloth sports seats. It needs the smallest amount of welding done at the rear and then it will make a nice example for someone to tuck away. It doesn't need a lot but it'll stay indoors over winter either way so no panic just yet.
One of the more major undertakings - one that has got put away for a rainy day (or year!) - is this 2002tii. It's been started into to make it a rally car but the folks that were doing it backed out of it as they thought it would need too much bodywork. Everything is, or should be, there for it, but we have bought another, very rotten, 2002ti as a donor for it just in case.
It'll go back to it's original colour too, which you can just see on the dash area on the inside.
Rescued from the lower Sperrins, this is an original NI 1987 E28 520i, and it's only had three owners - it was in the same family from new until 2015. Unfortunately it went through the hands of a garage in Cookstown that do far too much shoddy work and so there are a few bodges underneath to sort out, but it bodywork terms it's almost perfect. This car should not take long to get ship-shape.
One other fun one is our 1976 E10 1502, which was owned for years by an old man near Omagh and painted in a lovely shade of Dulux green. It drives impeccably and the interior is really good, but the bodywork has suffered badly from being kept on a driveway and not a garage, so it needs a really thorough session with a welder. Weeks of fabrication involved mean this one is on the back burner, but, some day!
Right now on the lift we have this 1991 E30 318is. It's an ex- lanes rally car, and it is absolutely disgustingly rusty. It was assured to us that is was sound but it is far from, but we're not going to let a little thing like rampant rot get in the way of putting an original NI low owner rare model back together.
Even the suspension arms have rust!
Hiding out in the workshop for the last couple of years is this 1983 E24 628i. It's an original manual car but has been upgraded to an E34 3.5 engine, which is an increase in HP, reliability and availability of parts. It was bought in as a runner in sound(ish) condition but has had a "restoration" previously in it's life in England which comprised mainly of filler, so we've been working our way around it, knocking that out and replacing it with actual metal. It's about half done on the welding now, after waiting three years, then being started about a year ago. There's no rush.
Next to the 628/635 is this 1985 E30 323i. It's a really nice original car, in metallic gold (Bronzit Beige), with brown cloth sports seats. It needs the smallest amount of welding done at the rear and then it will make a nice example for someone to tuck away. It doesn't need a lot but it'll stay indoors over winter either way so no panic just yet.
One of the more major undertakings - one that has got put away for a rainy day (or year!) - is this 2002tii. It's been started into to make it a rally car but the folks that were doing it backed out of it as they thought it would need too much bodywork. Everything is, or should be, there for it, but we have bought another, very rotten, 2002ti as a donor for it just in case.
It'll go back to it's original colour too, which you can just see on the dash area on the inside.
Rescued from the lower Sperrins, this is an original NI 1987 E28 520i, and it's only had three owners - it was in the same family from new until 2015. Unfortunately it went through the hands of a garage in Cookstown that do far too much shoddy work and so there are a few bodges underneath to sort out, but it bodywork terms it's almost perfect. This car should not take long to get ship-shape.
One other fun one is our 1976 E10 1502, which was owned for years by an old man near Omagh and painted in a lovely shade of Dulux green. It drives impeccably and the interior is really good, but the bodywork has suffered badly from being kept on a driveway and not a garage, so it needs a really thorough session with a welder. Weeks of fabrication involved mean this one is on the back burner, but, some day!