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hi guys just thought id post up a few pics been to see the car today in doing so come across some other mere morsels ;) thanks to steve for taking on the final straw of the project absolute legend.
Its been the longest up and down story ever the reason its not been on the road for 6 years the work thats gone into the car is unbelivable when i think about it considering it all started with changing a set of brake pads..........
when the cars finished i will write up the full story with many many pictures to go with it but this is just a little teaser from today.
I have such a good feeling about the hartge and still feel very honoured to own such a car.....

i suppose the one thing thats good about not having the car on the road is shes done 0 milage in 6 years and been dry stored throughout the whole project.

Anyway ive rattled on enuff heres a teaser.....



just taking a rest


the tunnel of love


the ass end underneath


genuine hartge engine throughout



Then there were some other cars in progress.....................

Very nice work.
Be careful of the Jolly green giant from Manc land

Nice to meet you Ian

And this is a proper car, credit to you mate.

Don't forget what we talked about

lol thanks rav its me u gota be carefull of though lol. Its safe in steves hands lol itll get finished i have faith........i just get my head up my ass to much sometimes

and kieran was really nice to meet you aswell bud lovely looking e46 sport too very attractive car that

thanks mate like i say i couldve told u the full story today behind the car but ud still be there now tonz of history behind it i dont take all the credit but no matter whats happend shes been there i even lost a house and kept her lol


i wont forget what we spoke about mate

Keep the pics coming dude. thats a bloody big unit ..............................



No Black E28s being broken yet

cheers spook dude its cool will keep it coming if i hadnt have left my hard drive at steves id have put more pics up lol and im lost with the e28 ?

he means the turd outside Ian

should be a great project this, something I am really looking forward to getting completed

thanks for the heads up today fella, the jigsaw puzzle is now making sense

I cant wait to see this finished.

Who owns the C2?

ahh he meant the h5 outside yeh v nice turd indeed and steve no problems at all mate glad somethings starting to make sence lol just shame i left half my world behind lol ;)

and i dont know whos the c2 is i think e30 topless does though

Looks like its going well Ian, Steve will sort it !!

I've admired your car each time I've been through at Steve's gaff, so many unique parts on the car and a unique car too. Full marks for sticking with it as I know you have had some real tough times with it

thanks iain yup its going real good so far.....and thanks beemer lad it is very unique i just dont like to shout about it unlike some lol when its all together though and totally finished itl look fucking sexy lol

Probably about time the story continued......

I now own the car and it's still with Steve for finishing. It needs a centre exhaust section made, a water pump fitting, a set of front calipers, the engine loom fitted on and a service and MoT to get it on the road.

The car will be ready for spring and I plan to be taking her around the larger shows down south and in Scotland.

I have made contact with Hartge and they are giving me nothing. Given the first owner was Hartge GmBH and the second was the company owner's brother, I think this was the first one they ever made.

I forgot i had this turd !

better go dig it out and get started

Wowsers, what a fookin turd Toblag you jammy coont

spook wrote:Wowsers, what a fookin turd Toblag you jammy coont

It was just lucky timing I managed to get my hands on it, people had tried to buy it previously and had no success.

It's my midlife crisis car.

Makes me think about my Alpina cab.. just sat there.. getting old!:(

I can't believe this is still going. More importantly I can't believe Ian ever sold it

this car sat on a mates drive down here for 4-6 months after it came down for a clutch job and ian never paid the guy who did so it stayed on the drive.this amount of time. He was from Bracknell up the road from me. I remember for some reason he moved up the north to Redditch iirc








i took these pics of it at Gaydon 2004

/\ you can see the duck tape on the front wing! it was no prize then but a hell of a car.

I'm sure ian had an h26 2dr later on also and numerous 325i sports along the way too

About time this car got back on the road!!

Some awesome frag in the unit!

Is that diff a Hartge mod or something someone has done later on?

Simon13 wrote:this car sat on a mates drive down here for 4-6 months after it came down for a clutch job and ian never paid the guy who did so it stayed on the drive.this amount of time. He was from Bracknell up the road from me. I remember for some reason he moved up the north to Redditch iirc








i took these pics of it at Gaydon 2004

You dn't recall if the original front brakes were on it ?

Simon13 wrote:

check out the cool H26 wagon in the background !

Ironic really that years later they have both been parked up together collecting dust !

e30topless wrote:

Simon13 wrote:

check out the cool H26 wagon in the background !

Ironic really that years later they have both been parked up together collecting dust !

It's not a workshop you've got it's a Fooking retirement home.

Simon13 wrote:/\ you can see the duck tape on the front wing! it was no prize then but a hell of a car.

I'm sure ian had an h26 2dr later on also and numerous 325i sports along the way too

Ian had a few Tech 1 sports and he fragged the green H26,


The H35 has been to hell and back more than once, the last ten years has been an epic journey of bodges/garages that failed to do work and lost parts..it was even repossessed by a landlord of one of the garages that went bust

I took it on 2 years ago Hoping i could resurrect it to former glory, sadly it arrived in boxes with everything un-labelled and many custom parts...it's a major jigsaw puzzle with nothing but a few photo's to help out,

last April Ian decided to sell it so he could move on in life and buy a house, I was left with a half built car and the task of finding a new owner..

I called Colin knowing he was the guy to own and respect it.. his response was .. I have to have it !!
I'm glad I made that call

so far myself and Colin have slowly gathered the parts needed and I just need time to put it together .. the day it fires up and drives after all this time will be simply awesome

i remember the head of was off it too for some reason. Cant recall if it was down here or not. All i know is Ian didn't have any money and nothing got done quick for this reason

i've seen this car at steves and it really is jaw dropping awesome !

I was tempted with this car but the fact of the missing parts and the engine sat on a crate left me somewhat concerned for its future for the money being asked.

The car could do with a good paint job to bring it up to top condition, another factor that went against it sadly.

Hope it comes back to life with minimal effort and problems.

Is this car for sale ?

spook wrote:Is this car for sale ?

Is it fook, the wife will be sold before the H35 is.

With a fair wind, should be ready to drive in the next couple of weeks.

Watch this space.

Has that Lazy Yorshire coont started work on it Colin

Rav335uk wrote:Has that Lazy Yorshire coont started work on it Colin

We're planning to blitz it when the exhaust and brakes arrive, hopefully next week.

On that note, the FAO section seems to have gone and I need to order up the brakes from Keri-wms urgently. Anyone got a number for him ?

Nope Colin

FAO section is under pub talk now .

why aren't you keeping the OE brakes? i expect its a similar system to the B6 3.5's and a big 296mm disc with W124 merc calipers