Hello forum members,
I thought it´s time now to join your forum, being active in the german E9-forum for a couple of years.
I am Thomas, born in 1957 near Cologne.
My first classic car was a 1971 Fiat 850 Sport Spider. I like the Italian style, specially the fronts.
Visiting the Nürburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix frequently I fall in love with the design of the Volvo P1800 Coupe. The front looks similar to that of the Maserati 350 GT which of course I could not afford. In the neighbourhood I found a Volvo P1800S with the restauration having been aborted. It took me 10 years to bring it back on the road (mostly due to the fact that I had to work abroad frequently).
During this time in the mid 80s I was looking also for an E9, but even at that time there was no chance to find decent ones at reasonable prices.
So, "Aus Freude am Fahren" I purchased a 1981 E24 635 CSI, manual 5-speed, red leather seats, Polaris. It was my first "really expensive car". I stem from a poor family, but after working in Saudi Arabia for one year I thought "you really deserve it, now or never"!
Getting older the passion to own an E9 slowly returned, so in 2014 I found a 3.0CS, FjordBlue-metallic. After enyoing driving for some time curiosity let me dismantle the right front fender. Guess what happened? Of course, a full restauration started, of course more work than expected.
Still working abroad frequently I found not much time for this project and it is still not finished, final painting after KTL and reassembling is still pending.
But I wanted to drive the E9, so by chance I found a decent 1974 CSI, Verona.
Enough is enough I heard my wife saying, but last year I saw the 1972 RHD CSL on Ebay, also in the neighbourhood. Some of you will recognize it, it was auctioned in 2017, Historics at Ascot. I was the first who answered the ad, a week later it was (hidden from my wife) in my barn.
Lots of work, lots to tell. So let´s start.
Thomas
I thought it´s time now to join your forum, being active in the german E9-forum for a couple of years.
I am Thomas, born in 1957 near Cologne.
My first classic car was a 1971 Fiat 850 Sport Spider. I like the Italian style, specially the fronts.
Visiting the Nürburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix frequently I fall in love with the design of the Volvo P1800 Coupe. The front looks similar to that of the Maserati 350 GT which of course I could not afford. In the neighbourhood I found a Volvo P1800S with the restauration having been aborted. It took me 10 years to bring it back on the road (mostly due to the fact that I had to work abroad frequently).
During this time in the mid 80s I was looking also for an E9, but even at that time there was no chance to find decent ones at reasonable prices.
So, "Aus Freude am Fahren" I purchased a 1981 E24 635 CSI, manual 5-speed, red leather seats, Polaris. It was my first "really expensive car". I stem from a poor family, but after working in Saudi Arabia for one year I thought "you really deserve it, now or never"!
Getting older the passion to own an E9 slowly returned, so in 2014 I found a 3.0CS, FjordBlue-metallic. After enyoing driving for some time curiosity let me dismantle the right front fender. Guess what happened? Of course, a full restauration started, of course more work than expected.
Still working abroad frequently I found not much time for this project and it is still not finished, final painting after KTL and reassembling is still pending.
But I wanted to drive the E9, so by chance I found a decent 1974 CSI, Verona.
Enough is enough I heard my wife saying, but last year I saw the 1972 RHD CSL on Ebay, also in the neighbourhood. Some of you will recognize it, it was auctioned in 2017, Historics at Ascot. I was the first who answered the ad, a week later it was (hidden from my wife) in my barn.
Lots of work, lots to tell. So let´s start.
Thomas
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