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[Ravell]

derin100 said:

RacingTeatray said:

Derin - have you stopped doing your concours number on various interesting BMWs now? Seems ages since the last one was for sale on your site (which happens to be in the "cars" section of my favourites...).

Edited by RacingTeatray on Friday 30th May 00:29

Well (ironically) I put this on my website very late last night: (clicking on any thumbnail will take you to the full "Gallery":

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/e34_525i/

AND I might finally have this finished very soon and be able to put it up for sale:

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/gallery/index.php?spg...


(p.s neither is accessible through the main website yet)

Edited by derin100 on Friday 30th May 06:52

How on earth do you get the cars THAT clean without just boying all new parts?! I can spend days cleaning the car and it would still look like it belongs on a scrapyard compared with your efforts!

Most look like they haven't left the assembly line at BMW yet!

[derin100]

Thanks Ravell,

Well, there are indeed a lot of brand new parts and some of the cars can take me up to the better part of a year to do! I have an E28 M535i in Diamond Black 'coming soon' that I've been doing for someone else (i.e doesn't belong to me). I've had it for over a year now (and ok...3 months of that have been squandered with delays in the body/paintshop)...but that's how long it will have taken with me working on it most free evenings and weekends.

Ok, I'm a slow, crap, self-taught mechanic...but you don't need to be that skilled to scrape a quarter of a century of crap off the underside and engine bay of a car is my philosophy...you just need to keep going at it week in week out. Most other things you can either fogure out for yourself or learn via the internet. When I can't I'm fortunate to on the older cars to have the help of Moseley Motorsport or a semi-retired ex-BMW Head tech of 25 years standing that I can call on and pay to help me out.

Both the recent E28s will have had between £4.K and £5K spent on them in terms of parts and third party expenditure...and of course that doesn't take into account my own time and (not inconsiderable)frustration/aggravation!

Looks like I may possibly have sold the E34 today though...