I’ve done a fair bit of veneering in the past and still have a small flitch of left over pomele mahogany in a sheave with some Sapele and other exotics. I find the figure of this veneer greatly at odds with the aesthetic of the rest of the interior. It’s possible for two beautiful objects to be mismatched as a pair, and for my tastes that applies here. The driving video was apparently carefully crafted to show this E9 is docile and won’t over heat when driven slowly in heavy traffic. I would have found a more open and interesting road where I could get it up over 2000rpm...
But otherwise the car seems spectacular.
Trunk carpet. It is my impression that the little cutout at the left is not for the 74 and later bumper bracing as I have this cutout and it is not needed to clear the extra sheet metal reinforcement.
I speculate originally there was a short section of wood (covered with grew vinyl) on the top of the spare tire board which prevented small objects from rolling over and down into the rear inner fender well (as good as lost). These short blocks of wood get knocked off or lost over time.
The pics show the brace and carpet cutout as well as the lonely screw holes that once secured the short bit of wood. This is 1point concours deduction, right?
