E30 Zone

Been working on the Cabby. today, big thanks to Adit for coming round & helping:-


New Mirrors(Thanks to Bss Barry)

Seats are now fixed in, Handbrake Console in as well.

New rear bumper, thanks to Adit,new bootlid as well (Bss Barry again)




Still loads to do,but now resembles a car, MOT to come in the next couple of weeks.

looks good, nice work

Super cool. I love the chrome bumpered cab's.

You need some fresh plates too. I love putting on clean standard plates to smarten up a car.

Plates are on the list, I want to get as near as possible to original dealer plates, it was supplied by Woods of Bournemouth

I wanted that on my chromie in the picture above... Got in contact with dealerplates.com and he emailed me a picture of what they would look like, but I assume they weren't right, but they looked nice. So I went to order them at the advertised price of £25 posted... I sent it as a payment through pal pal and because I didnt do it as a gift an incour the charges he said he wanted more money to cover his chrages though paypal.

Through principle I cancelled my order and had the same plates made up locally, but with the newer style font. Not original but they looked very smart.


Still waiting for the day someone has some Williams of Liverpool plates so I can copy them.

It's looking good fella

Putttin cracked seats in a car you wanna smarten up isnt the best wayy

It's only the leather which needs some tlc

Looking nice & loving the colour,
(Although I am biased !!)

tonybtonyb wrote:It's only the leather which needs some tlc

Its ripped

Looking good Phil nice work, +1 on new plates making a difference

Thanks Sam, I have two replacement front seats which I could swap, but they're aren't heated,I only worried at the moment in getting it MOT'd, then sort that after.

Good to see you are enjoying my old car Phil. I was just thinking you will have it ready for the summer having bought it in November, and realised it was Novermber of 2009 I sold it to you - time flies!

Look forward to more updates, this is surprisingly a VERY solid E30 shell so well worth it.

Cheers

you're welcome Phil.
an enjoyable day working on E30s in the winter sunshine (we didn't even stop for a coffee and i even found the time to sort the headlights and front grilles and kidneys on my silver Touring).
this convertible is starting to look nice now and should sell easily with a years MOT on it



come on Scrumps, it's not that boring!



Devil dog:



doing a fine job:

It's getting there

Did some more, weather was kind today:-

New Horseshoe put in


Drivers door glass now in:-





Should be ready for the MOT shortly.

well done young Philip. here are my efforts for today (lovely and sunny ) on the silver Touring:



the radio kept turning itself on and off, the blower only worked on speed 4, the right centre grille didn't swivel or slide properly,
i kept catching my boots on the broken pedal board, the driver's washer jet didn't work and a couple of the little bulbs didn't work :

rear ashtray, handbrake grip, gaitor and console, front console, glovebox and plastic covers/shields, blower resistor, centre grille and pedal board removed:







some weird mobile phone through the radio type set-up iinm. that can come straight out, along with the 10 metres of wire! :



T-piece non-return valve thingy removed (it was doing the usual squirting water out of the pin hole instead of going to the jets):




and front fogs fitted:



yes, yes, i know. the front panel is straight, so no need to remove, just looking for a decent bonnet if Painterman can't straighten this one out sufficiently to look reasonable enough (you'd be surprised) for my Winter works bus. have ordered a nice front number plate from Peakplates.

then gave her a good hoovering and "Fash-Dash", but ran out of time to do a T-Cut and polish as madam v v v was giving me long lingering looks about her Sunday walk along the beach

i wondered why the car seemed to wander a bit when changing lanes, then noticed the N/S/F tyre was in fact an offside (directional) one, so swapped that when i got back home.

a good day methinks

how nice is that old girl ?

a zinobar cab with it's chrome is quite a rare thing, and they always look sweet

Looking good Phil !

Sorry for the hijack ...

Jim320i wrote:Still waiting for the day someone has some Williams of Liverpool plates so I can copy them.

Here's the Williams Manchester plates I had on my old car. Just change Manc for L'pool and you're laughing! Not great pics i know but you get the drift.

Finally got the 325 lump in now, the big switch on today, & it starts & runs!