New Purchase -- Tundra '73 3.0CS

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I dragged the new addition -- the tundra '73 3.0CS -- home last night. Automatic converted to 4-speed. Has a/c. Put in the recharged battery, started right up. Needs brakes, the interior put back together, general sorting out. Solid in the important places, some rust bubbling in others. Will probably work on it over the winter and sell it in the spring.
 

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Will we get to read about it in the Roundel?
Your column is the first one I read in there every month.
Keep up the good work.
Scott
 
How could anyone put a steering wheel like that in an e9??? You'll increase the value by thousands simply by chucking that PepBoys monstrosity!

Too bad about the peeling veneer on the dash. Having replaced the wood on my coupe's dash, I can attest that it's a big job to make this right.

Is the paint salvagable? From the photos, it's tough to tell whether it's just dirty, or if the paint has oxidized.
 
what? you don't like the momo (same as the alpina) wheel? i can't believe it. o.k., just kidding - not a huge fan either.
 
I really like the Green's BMW chose for the E9. The stock wheels look especially nice with the Green. If you don't mind hearing this from a man, Ya got a nice Pair.
 
Will we read about this in Roundel?

Will you read about this in Roundel? What, are you joking? Why do you think I BUY all these cars? Without them, I wouldn't have anything to write about!

Regarding the steering wheel, it's not my taste either; it came on the car.

The paint is just very dusty. It'll shine up fine. But there is rust bubbling. The "bones" of the car, though, are very good.
 
Christmas Card

Rob,

Nice goin! Love that Tundra.

After it's buffed out the red and green e9's would make a nice Christmas Card.

Please tell us that you didn't "steal" this one like the e24 you wrote about in the last 2 columns.

John
 
Ramps

Rob: what style ramps are those that you have the green car sitting on? I have a 911 SC as ou did and it has "2 position heat" meaning I have to manually open and close the heat exchangers from the bottom of the car. So, I need to get under or pull the car on low sitting ramps like these seem to be. Let me know. Thanks!
 
"Ramps"

nealf said:
Rob: what style ramps are those that you have the green car sitting on? I have a 911 SC as ou did and it has "2 position heat" meaning I have to manually open and close the heat exchangers from the bottom of the car. So, I need to get under or pull the car on low sitting ramps like these seem to be. Let me know. Thanks!
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The green car is sitting over a mid-rise lift. The "ramps" are devices that many of us with mid-rise lifts have found we have to fabricate in order to get a low car to clear the body of the lift. Obviously if you own an SUV this isn't a problem, but even my 318Ti -- not what I thought of as a low car -- wouldn't quite clear the lift. One piece on the top of the lift hit the lowest point on the exhaust.

The "ramps" are made by taking six or more 2x4s, cutting the front of each piece on a table saw at a shallow angle (like 15 degrees), then clamping the 2x4s together, drilling a few holes through them, and bolting them together. Very effective. In this way, with a ramp on each side of the mid-rise lift, you can drive onto the ramps and give the car that little bit of extra height to clear the lift.
 
Thanks

That is something I have been meaning to fabricate as well. Yours look professional! I don't get under my CS much but definitely will come in handy with the 911. Good luck with the new pickup.
 
OK, so as long as we are prying as to what is in your garage... What is the large sheet of plywood hanging from rollers, so as to slide it along?? With hinges on the bottom?
 
It's a sliding door on the left wall of the garage that opens up under the deck off the back of the house, allowing me to stash a car under the porch over the winter if need be. In this way, over the winter, I can keep five cars out of the weather, though it's a stovepipe fit. Three of them don't move until spring, and there's very little room to work on an of them.
 
Hey Rob,

At first I thought this was a donor car, but then I learned it was becoming a member of your family...a twin.

The question I have is, once sorted out....how will you divide your driving loyalty between the 2 e9's....or will you simply indoctrinate your wife and kids with the joys of a coupe of their own?

Also thanks Rob for the kind words and photo of my Agave coupe from the Vintage BMW event at the Saratoga Auto Museum, in the November Roundel. That was fantastic event and weekend....
 
Chuck is referring to my article on Vintage at Saratoga in the November Roundel, which someone scanned and posted here:

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,365404/

Chuck, I happened into this tundra-colored E9, and will do the foster-parent thing: clean it up, give it milk and cookies and read to it at bedtime for a while, then shepherd it off to the right parent I mean owner. It is not a keeper for me. I'll post better pics of it soon.
 
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