Stage 1??

O.K Guy's I did say the car was going into the Body shop.... So the Story unfold's.....

From the front... look's good


From the back look's good......
......BUT.. The story unfold's......















Nicola loaded the photo's Thank's Partner
Worst job so far.. Side Skirt's took ages to get off, screw's solid, rusted, way off was a claw hammer and prise them off, And the rear bumper mount's.. Battery side no problem, exhaust side............2 hours with a chisel and a large hammer ( plus a bruised knuckle)
Had the guy's round today to take the screen's out....
up date tomorrow

floody,

this may help with your restoration; all part no's

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/

i see the rust has started!!

 

Does this link help?

The E30 M3 can hide it's rust quite good.I'm finding that out for myself having taken my car off the road.
Still, look on the good side. Unlike my tiny garage, you don't seem short of space !
Good luck with the project and keep the pics coming please.

Hay Mark, if you think the body work is going a bit on yours, you should have seen my first E30

Good luck mate, take your time - it will all be right in the end

I'll be round in the morning mate!   I need to get some photos taken of mine next to yours, so I can announce to the world that I have "bought a proper car", as you keep telling me!!

Tim, just told her,she has now gone off to put some extra ice cubes in the freezer!!!
More photo's to follow soon

Did'nt get much chance to work on the car today,the boss wanted me to do some work!!! So got it back on it's wheel's, and after loading the photo, Think we have a ghost in the garage, no the car is not on fire and I was not having a fag... Weird, or someone over seeing the project!!!


Shot of some of the bit's that have been removed


Rear window out


shot of the scuttle 1, talk about rust


Side window's out, no problems here


Other side of the scuttle, more rust, it only looked like a bleb when the screen was in!!!!


front screen out




The wing's looked O.K but..........


Was going to cut the bottom off the wing's and plate them, but sincs I have gone this far... the part's on order so far are..Rear panel (Here), Scuttle, Monday, 2 sills, 2 wing's,sun roof surround, and various other item's, clip's trim, nut's bolt's etc.
The window guy's to me were spot on, �80.00 (cash) to remove and replace all window's, I would have looked at it for a week scratching my head, took them 30 min's, good money for them and well worth it to me.
Today's worst job...having to work most of it.
Going to take the dash out in the morning... must admit, not looking forward to that

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Mark, all those pics look familiar, I've been there summer just gone, seems to be all the same places too, rear valence, scuttle, though mine was OK under the windscreen rubber, it was rusted down where it meets the wings.

A little off topic, but how hard was it to remove the rear side windows?

 

 

Floody going through a full rebuild myself mate including a colour change, engine rebuild and gearbox, all in one hit, ive been posting my pics on S14.net here is the link to mine if your interested.

http://www.s14.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136 72&perpage=15&pagenumber=8

I am 9 miles from darlington in crook so not far away as well, mines just come back from bare metal paint, and ive now spent in excess of �4000 this year doing it all myself as well. your in for the long haul good luck.

 

Rob