1980 BMW E26 M1
Discussion
e21Mark said:
Definitely 1st on the list to buy when my lottery win finally arrives. (even if I find getting in a bit of a struggle) Am hoping my old E30 might end up parked next to it for a photo op' on the PH stand.
Have you had any details about the show? I've not heard a peep. Hopefully the BMWs will be parked together as there should be 3 of them.e21Mark said:
Is the exhaust system OE? I just wondered what it's like for consumables?
Yes, the car is as stock as it's possible to be given it's history. It did have a stainless steel back box, which I still have, but it's now a stock system.Standard consumables are not too bad, things like oil filters etc. although they take a week or so from Germany. The oil filter was £37 which is not much more than the one for the M6. I just use Castrol GTX Magnatec 10W-40 which is what was recommended, as it's changed regularly (apparently the injection pump tends to dilute the oil with fuel) a semi synthetic is preferred and kinder to internal seals. Things like the brake disks are available, but quite expensive at £300 each, pads about £150 a set. The air filter is large and about £300, the clutch is very expensive, about £6k for the parts. Many of the less frequently changed part are NLA, particularly suspension components.
I haven't heard anything yet but think the 3 BMW's together should look great. I'll be staying in a B&B, as opposed to camping, though anyway. I was going to ask on the thread but it has been locked.
Crumbs, that's one seriously expensive clutch! It's still just an all time favourite car of mine though, alongside the McLaren F1, 2002tii and E30 M3. I love the dual BMW roundel on the rear.
Crumbs, that's one seriously expensive clutch! It's still just an all time favourite car of mine though, alongside the McLaren F1, 2002tii and E30 M3. I love the dual BMW roundel on the rear.
E30M3SE said:
Silverstone Classic 2015, 3 Legends.
Indeed.The Saturday was 'slightly' better weather than the Friday and Saturday, this was caught on my way there
Getting there was a bit of a rush, I'd collected the car after the interior re-trim on 1st July, 300 miles and 36°C round the M25, then was away on holiday for 2 weeks followed by a week away on business. The details of the interior were still incomplete, the centre console and radio were not fitted and the window seals were perished and falling apart.
E24man said:
Is there any knowledge of how many M1's are in the UK and how many of those are on the road?
According to How Many Left there are only 4 licensed cars and 9 SORNed in the UK. The 4 licensed cars I agree with, there is mine (OKH 422V), a Red one owned by BMW UK (255 BMW), an AHG car that was in Edinburgh last year which is Black/Silver (FCC 161X) and an Orange car that was at the Silverstone Classic in 2013 (PPR 725W) and that's your 4.
I think there are probably more than 9 that are not licensed though. For a start there is the Red car at Munich Legends (PMP 452X) which has expired tax and no record of an MOT, I guess it's being run as a trade car. There's also a good change that there are other cars squirrelled away that have been imported and never registered. I know of 6 others that have been in the UK in the last 12 months or so, some of them I know are SORNed, for example the car at Bowker in Preston, others I don't know, 1 has been imported from the USA relatively recently and has probably not been registered.
Barney Halse has a dark blue one in his collection at Classic Heroes, and there was a white one down there having some engine work done about three months ago.
I saw this one a couple of years or so ago on display in T. Wells at the launch of the M3/4. Owned by the chap who was L&C I believe:
And then there's this!!
I saw this one a couple of years or so ago on display in T. Wells at the launch of the M3/4. Owned by the chap who was L&C I believe:
And then there's this!!
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