I leave way too early Weds AM to go down to collect my Coupe that has been at SFDon's for... 6 years now. Since Oct 2017....
It went down to basically be turned into a hot rod.
The original 2.8L carb'd engine was toast, so Don put together an M90 with Megasquirt for me.
The 4 speed trans was shifting ok - but leaked like a sieve and... who knows what was going on inside - but the PO provided me a Getrag 5-speed when I bought the car.
The AC as installed was non-functional, so I was going to have Don get that going....
And, I was also having the brakes updated to the later E9 setup. I had the trailing arms as well (from the PO).
Basically - I wanted to keep the body and interior mostly 'as is' while jazzing up the running gear and taking care of the mechanical stuff. Basically make it a bit of a hot rod.
Once Don gets into it and starts to uncover 'things' - I get the call (actually MANY calls - LOL) - Rust. And more rust. Guess I shouldn't have asked him to do the AC (with then needing to remove the dash)... LOL
So what started out as the intent to have a hot rod with a 20 foot paint job (and nominal expense) became a 'full meal deal' resulting in a car that will look as good as it goes.
The 6 year part of this is a combination of circumstances... on both ends (Don's and mine - and COVID) and in the end worked out as well for both of us.
I have an enclosed car trailer - so, for the trip north, the Coupe will be out of the nasty weather that we are having on the west coast right now...
Since I was going to go down anyway - I'll be taking down my E23 to Don for some 'fine tuning'. When it's finished - I'll fly down and drive it north - when it works out to do so.
The car is a German market 1985 E23 728i (with 5-speed) and AC and all the expected comforts (at least as they were 40 years ago - LOL). It is fun to drive as you just don't see too many E23's on the road any longer - and it gets attention whenever I do. And with all the BS we see on the BaT listing for the CSL, this is a success story as this is a car I found on that site - and bid - but didn't get it.
A few weeks later, the winning bidder contacts me to see if I was still interested in the car as he was going to do something else.
So - we made a deal and two weeks later, the car arrived from Boston.
Now - just to get it working as good as the Coupe is. LOL
Stay tuned for the rest...
It went down to basically be turned into a hot rod.
The original 2.8L carb'd engine was toast, so Don put together an M90 with Megasquirt for me.
The 4 speed trans was shifting ok - but leaked like a sieve and... who knows what was going on inside - but the PO provided me a Getrag 5-speed when I bought the car.
The AC as installed was non-functional, so I was going to have Don get that going....
And, I was also having the brakes updated to the later E9 setup. I had the trailing arms as well (from the PO).
Basically - I wanted to keep the body and interior mostly 'as is' while jazzing up the running gear and taking care of the mechanical stuff. Basically make it a bit of a hot rod.
Once Don gets into it and starts to uncover 'things' - I get the call (actually MANY calls - LOL) - Rust. And more rust. Guess I shouldn't have asked him to do the AC (with then needing to remove the dash)... LOL
So what started out as the intent to have a hot rod with a 20 foot paint job (and nominal expense) became a 'full meal deal' resulting in a car that will look as good as it goes.
The 6 year part of this is a combination of circumstances... on both ends (Don's and mine - and COVID) and in the end worked out as well for both of us.
I have an enclosed car trailer - so, for the trip north, the Coupe will be out of the nasty weather that we are having on the west coast right now...
Since I was going to go down anyway - I'll be taking down my E23 to Don for some 'fine tuning'. When it's finished - I'll fly down and drive it north - when it works out to do so.
The car is a German market 1985 E23 728i (with 5-speed) and AC and all the expected comforts (at least as they were 40 years ago - LOL). It is fun to drive as you just don't see too many E23's on the road any longer - and it gets attention whenever I do. And with all the BS we see on the BaT listing for the CSL, this is a success story as this is a car I found on that site - and bid - but didn't get it.
A few weeks later, the winning bidder contacts me to see if I was still interested in the car as he was going to do something else.
So - we made a deal and two weeks later, the car arrived from Boston.
Now - just to get it working as good as the Coupe is. LOL
Stay tuned for the rest...
