Interesting conversation with my shop neighbor...

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I have a small shop in the Sacramento area where I run a part-time business. A couple shops down from me is a guy that does a lot of fabrication on cars, mostly dragsters, and is certified to weld on cars down to around 7 seconds or so (speed on the drag strip). His welds look like a machine did them...

He has an E36 with a small block 427ci Chevy engine mounted in it that he's building right now and we started talking about BMWs. He said he worked on one of the really nice looking coupes from the 70's for a doctor in SF quite a while back. Did the entire swap (except for the wiring) to a later six with fuel injection, built a custom batter box/strut bar for the trunk, etc. etc. I've seen some of his work on other cars an he is really good.

If anyone is looking for a fabricator in the Sacramento area I would be glad to introduce you to him. He's a good 'ol boy with major talent!

Dan
 
BMW Fabricator

Is it Tim Rayner? He built Dr. Ke Ping Tsao's coupe, using as much of a wrecked M5 as possible. Ping is now located in the San Luis Obispo area, and his beautiful black coupe occassionally graces the weekly Donut Derelict car show in Arroyo Grande on Saturday mornings.
 
YBNormal said:
Is it Tim Rayner? He built Dr. Ke Ping Tsao's coupe, using as much of a wrecked M5 as possible. Ping is now located in the San Luis Obispo area, and his beautiful black coupe occassionally graces the weekly Donut Derelict car show in Arroyo Grande on Saturday mornings.
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I asked him that and he said it was a "doctor in SF, white guy and it was an orange car". Like I said, he's not a BMW guy, but he sure knows how to build stuff...
 
Strut bar

When you see him again ask him how much to fabricate another battery/strut bar for the trunk.
 
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