I noticed the BMW 530i on your list, my brother has one. It is quite an amazing car
for its size, he can really drive that thing around a track. And the engine is
smoooooth. He has done a few decent modifications to it, including having a new
custom exhaust fabricated last fall.
I bought mine a few years ago for a first restoration effort. Bought it and put it away until I'd have a place to work on it.
Picked up a Haynes manual for it and was very surprised at the horsepower rating they gave for it. Took the tarp off and took it for a spin on the highway and found that when the revs are up, it's an entirely different car. I had no idea, since my test drive was slow and I was just listening for noises.
Ended up driving that car for the whole winter, then my son said he wanted it and wanted to do the restoration himself. He took it to an uncle's and he and I spent 3 full weekends sanding every bit of paint off of it. When no further progress was getting made, I told him we should primer it and bring it back home, but he insisted his uncle would do the necessary bodywork soon.
I finally went out there a few months later, deep in the winter, to find the car sitting outside with nothing on it. The entire body was rusted, and since the sunroof had been removed, the new interior was destroyed.
Fired it up to drive it onto the trailer and it sprayed fuel everywhere in back. Further inspection and interrogation yielded the information that all the weekends he'd gone there "to work on it" were actually spent off-roading it on his uncle's property. The undercarriage had smacked very large immovable objects. Repeatedly.
It sits in a field at my place now while I decide what, if anything, I'll do with it. If any local Bimmerphiles want it, they can come get it for free. I'd hate to see it go to waste, especially since it was mechanically very strong. However, it would also make decent fill for a dam I'm rebuilding.
It would run right now, but I stole the coil from it for my tractor. Figured a Lucas coil would go nicely with the Chevy alternator on my Ford tractor. :)
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