Trying to get my wife to understand!!

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Hello,
I'm trying to get my wife to understand about these Beautiful E9
So I need all your help. If I take rusty shell and fix all the metal to where you can't tell that it was fixed a all.
What would that shell be worth??

Thanks and Have The Best Day Ever
Joey
 
Joey,

that's not an easy question as it depends on the rest of the stuff, if you are talking about a roller with questionable engine and the other systems? will it be painted?
in my mind it doesn't have significant value until its a completed car ... i think we have seen that a car that is completely together and not even in great shape is worth 25k to 30k in recent sales. yet a year ago a car with arrested rust (no paint) and the rest of the car in boxes sold for 12k. the car that cost 25k needed everything.

face it, paint will cost you 10k to 15k depending on who will do it. cutting the cancer out can cost 5k to 20k depending on how bad it is (if its close to terminal it will be a lot more). my point is, you don't buy a rusty coupe to try to make money with it. you generally buy it only to find out that its worse than you imagined.

now for the rest of the story
- an engine rebuild will cost you 8k sitting on a stand ... installation will cost more and will depend on what type of fuel delivery (12k to 15k total ... and it could cost more if you get more radical)
- an interior depends on what you need (carpet is 1000 +/-), recovered seats are at least 5000, used seats are much less.
then there is everything else and it depends on what you live with.
 
Joey Allen said:
I'm trying to get my wife to understand about these Beautiful E9
So I need all your help. If I take rusty shell and fix all the metal to where you can't tell that it was fixed a all.
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A smart wife will tell you that if you cannot tell that it was fixed is because it was not fixed...
 
Joey,

Since you are a professional metal fabricator I think you can make money off of a shell if you are so inclined. You won’t have a gold mine on your hands. Even good shells with a complete parts setup aren’t pushing $10K (not for lack of effort by sellers).

If you go that route it is important that the repairs meet factory standards. The floor pans should have the proper dimples and beads, no visible frankenstein seams, etc.

Take a look at this site for sheetmetal:
https://www.wallothnesch.com/en/body-work/bmw-2-5-cs-3-0-csl-e9.html
 
Hahaha - My wife is currently on holiday for 5 weeks. I bought my project yesterday. When she gets back she will be welcomed home to a bare CSL shell in need of work, a CSA shaped pile of rust and daylight which as far as I can tell is held together by the propshaft and window trim and several thousand rusty, dirty, rat eaten bits of the rest of the CSL. Oh, and I just spent up large on racking for the garage which may or may not make it slightly difficult to get her car in.. You think you have problems!?
 
Ah yes Chris - so MAYBE if Joey tells his wife that he asked her to marry him because she was so beautiful, that might help? Then, show her pictures of e9's in the condition he aspires this one to be and tell her he thinks she'd be even more beautiful riding or driving in it than in their current every day driver.

Hmmm - hope she is a GOOD driver!

Ha, good luck Joey and cheers to all us kibitzers,

Gary
 
Gary Knox said:
Ah yes Chris - so MAYBE if Joey tells his wife that he asked her to marry him because she was so beautiful, that might help? Then, show her pictures of e9's in the condition he aspires this one to be and tell her he thinks she'd be even more beautiful riding or driving in it than in their current every day driver.

Hmmm - hope she is a GOOD driver!

Ha, good luck Joey and cheers to all us kibitzers,

Gary
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The other day I told my wife she is Beautiful. She said I'm not. I'm at my worst today. I said if that's your worst! Then I'm lucky.
 
Or you could have a wife who decides she wants a project car too and keeps her '89 Saab Turbo in the garage, taking up valuable working space that I need for my coupe...
 
bill said:
Or you could have a wife who decides she wants a project car too and keeps her '89 Saab Turbo in the garage, taking up valuable working space that I need for my coupe...
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bill said:
Or you could have a wife who decides she wants a project car too and keeps her '89 Saab Turbo in the garage, taking up valuable working space that I need for my coupe...
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My wife told me the other day the Volvo p1800 is hers!!
 
Here's another angle... Years back I bought a '73 CS that had some front damage. It was one of the "had to buy it now" things and my buddy offered to store it on his property. We put it next to a wooden fence and covered it up really tight. His wife saw it when we were covering it up and gave a grimace... "what's that thing?". We didn't try to explain. About three or four years later they happened to be at a event that had a beautiful E9 present and she said, "Wow! That is an amazing car!". He laughed and told her that it was the same kind of car that we had covered up on their property a few years back. She was completely blown away that they were the same car. Moral of the story... If you're not a car guy (person) you usually can't see the finished version in your mind so you need to show them a finished version to appreciate the potential value.
 
Joey Allen said:
My wife told me the other day the Volvo p1800 is hers!!
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The P1800 is great, timeless, all-time classic car, definitely a keeper, but do you want to be the default mechanic.... as I am with the Saab (parts are getting hard to find)? I'd rather be working on my coupe...
 
Love the P1800! Had one while in University. Great car. have been looking for another, but as you have detailed, the examples I have uncovered do not seem to have that "appeal" to my spouse who really wants to see what a finished one looks like. Good news is, she appreciates the Coupe:)
 
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