E30 Zone

Promised photos of this turd on Kedges thread. We knew it was a shed but f*ck me!!!!! This is something else. the nearside front corner is virtually adrift from the reast of the car!!!!:

To think the seller thought it was savable is laughable really.

A post with wing still on!





and looking from the door shut forwards



It had allowed the car to distort enough to puss the screen out of it's seal with the trim strip still in place



With the wing off we were able to.....



making the door go.....



Roof now. first from the outside



worse from within




just for Pete, a classic bit of the old hairy mary:



Taken from the A post with the wing removed:





Inner sill



and the nearside Tech 1 sill section didn't need unbolting!!! it came away in my hands:




offside wasn't so bad



Nearside rear arch



inner arch



And finally: Why buy clear indicators when you canmake your own



Discuss!

Blood curdling.

it could be saved !!

nice find that ,any decent morsels on there?

it seems rust is fashionable ,

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what is there to discuss, thats already on its way to the scrapyard above........... the owner must not have cared much

that must of been one godzilla sized tin worm.fook me thats bad where did you buy it from,the bottom of the sea.

mabz wrote:that must of been one godzilla sized tin worm.fook me thats bad where did you buy it from,the bottom of the sea.

This car has been referred to as the Titanic. We think it was one of the relics Robert D Ballard recovered from it's decks!

Trev, YOU WIN!!

Mine needs a dunk in the channel to catch up with that, thank god that hasn't been on the road for a long time.

Thats making me feel sick.

Lived by the seaside or parked in a very damp garage??

i went to see one similar to this condition it was a tech 2 and he wanted a grand for it.after rolling around on the floor in a puddle of my own pee pee.i kindly declined.what a goon.how much was that barry

Urm that is pretty screwed- I've seen worse restored but a Tech 1 wouldn't give you the return to be worth it. Maybe in another 20yrs a find like that will be worth doing for someone- shame

Wow that must have taken some real skill to let it rust that badly. Good find. It's a shame to frag a tech 1 but that is definately a no hoper

..and I thought I'd seen a rusty e30

wish I had stayed the other Sunday to see this arrive!
Si's place is looking a bit posh now, what with pimp tinted X5s and all!

Si/Trev have either of you got a tidy 62ltr fuel tank, removed mine this morning to find a couple of rusted bits and want a decent one

Looks solid. How much do you want for the driver's wing?

surely a bottle of t cut will sort that out

winx wrote: wish I had stayed the other Sunday to see this arrive!
Si's place is looking a bit posh now, what with pimp tinted X5s and all!

Si/Trev have either of you got a tidy 62ltr fuel tank, removed mine this morning to find a couple of rusted bits and want a decent one

The only tank we have Henry, is the one from this car. It actually don't look too bad. Si's going to drop it out anyway to check it. We'll let you know but don't hold ya breath! Theres been a squirrel nesting on top of the heat shield above the exhaust. F*ck knows what we're going to find above the tank!!!

jaymos wrote:surely a bottle of t cut will sort that out

All the T-cut in China wouldn't sort that out .

only one previous owner: The Man From Atlantis!

What a turd!

Ranchero wrote:

jaymos wrote:surely a bottle of t cut will sort that out

All the T-cut in China wouldn't sort that out .

a christmas cracker joke by any chance?

well thats deffinately had some plonk slapped in over the years which never really helps other than for the short amount of time it looks slightly better than before, people wonder why they get quoted seemingly high figures for resto work and why they have been quoted less than half by some other geeza and then are surprised when this is the result a short time later.

not saying bad body repair is responsible for ALL this but it doesnt help.

Glad i seen these, gives us Tech1 refurbishers some fresh perspective! lol

i think that tech1 is the older brother of my e36

Plastic padding is your friend!!

i've never seen so much filler. I nearly pulled the door off with the hinges still attached to the car with whats left of the sill!

Its just been bodged up and painted and served. This thing has been on muddy grass under trees for years before we picked it up

Yikes that is bad but surely that all cant have happened in the time its been laid up off the road?!

Is that a blue pre-facelift rear blind pacel shelf i see in the A-pillar wrestling pic? If so what condition is it in?

F uck me!!

bmwsport wrote:Is that a blue pre-facelift rear blind pacel shelf i see in the A-pillar wrestling pic? If so what condition is it in?

No, it's a halfrauds shitty £10er been screwed to the original shelf. And even thats rotted away

bss325i wrote:Yikes that is bad but surely that all cant have happened in the time its been laid up off the road?!

No, the guy we bought it off was served it by a guy in the bodywork game. Theres no doubt he was served a pup from day one. The fact he's in the car game and didn't notice the signs back then, shocks me. this things seen more filler than any Halfords can stock at any time. He paid 2 bags from it! We think it's sat on damp grass for at least 4-5 years.

We can't even get the front seats out 'cos the runners are rusty . we are going to have to cut the floor around the bolts to cut them out the car because theres some good bolsters in there

Cheers Trev, that,s made me feel (slightly) better about mine.

Pup or not he has let it get that bad. If it's had filler before then that could have been rectified but he's just left the f-ker to rot!!!
It's shocking!

Shocking!

haha!