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Hi guys,
I’m Jason and have been reading the threads on this great forum for the last 12-18 months, I finally decided to join up! The information and knowledge within s14.net has been very helpful I have been reading through many of the threads, the Project Cars section is of particular interest.
I bought my car in 2003 it’s a 1989 UK car originally sold from Cotswold BMW. I was so pleased to finally own an e30 M3 the car was viewed through rose tinted glasses it wasn’t perfect but it had road tax and an MOT so I parted with £4000 and it was mine. The car was my daily driver until at the end of 2005 I decided to take it off the road and fix a rust hole under the fuse box. I work in car body repair and wasn’t too worried about making a plate and welding it in……….Truth is it stayed in the garage waiting patiently for its plate until January 2009 (umm my bad). I got around to moving the fuse box out the way and was horrified by what I was seeing the inner wing had tore from the bulk head to the turret and I could see a lot more rust damage. I started to strip out the left side of the engine bay, the area where the wheel tub meets the flat for the ABS unit was also badly corroded. The shell was in terrible condition and to be honest it was dangerous, how the front stayed on is really a miracle. This left me with two choices crush the shell and try and sell off some parts from it or restore the shell. It was an easy decision, I have worked on hundreds possible thousands of cars over the years and never once done one for myself.
I am going to post up some photo’s of the work so far and attempt to write up something worth reading. This is my first forum and thread so please bear with me……..
Atb Jase
I’m Jason and have been reading the threads on this great forum for the last 12-18 months, I finally decided to join up! The information and knowledge within s14.net has been very helpful I have been reading through many of the threads, the Project Cars section is of particular interest.
I bought my car in 2003 it’s a 1989 UK car originally sold from Cotswold BMW. I was so pleased to finally own an e30 M3 the car was viewed through rose tinted glasses it wasn’t perfect but it had road tax and an MOT so I parted with £4000 and it was mine. The car was my daily driver until at the end of 2005 I decided to take it off the road and fix a rust hole under the fuse box. I work in car body repair and wasn’t too worried about making a plate and welding it in……….Truth is it stayed in the garage waiting patiently for its plate until January 2009 (umm my bad). I got around to moving the fuse box out the way and was horrified by what I was seeing the inner wing had tore from the bulk head to the turret and I could see a lot more rust damage. I started to strip out the left side of the engine bay, the area where the wheel tub meets the flat for the ABS unit was also badly corroded. The shell was in terrible condition and to be honest it was dangerous, how the front stayed on is really a miracle. This left me with two choices crush the shell and try and sell off some parts from it or restore the shell. It was an easy decision, I have worked on hundreds possible thousands of cars over the years and never once done one for myself.
I am going to post up some photo’s of the work so far and attempt to write up something worth reading. This is my first forum and thread so please bear with me……..
Atb Jase
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