1. Link to a satin black drift spec Y plate chromie linked in the section
2. Everybody says what a shame
3. Some educated zoners realise this is a bracknell car
4. I contact seller with a view to purchase
5. Dealer check by another zoner reveals this to be one of the first 50 323i Henna red Cars!
6. I lost out on the sale, car is sold before I can get there
7. A zone trader/fragger sees the thread and offers the turd back to me
8. I buy the turd
Here it is sports fans:
Then I had a scout round it for defects, damage and general unpleasantries, it is 30 years old and isn’t Henna red anymore so I wasn’t expecting anything other than disappointment. Other than obvious ”apaint job”a here are a few of the battle scars...
No fogs and bashed front valance
Bleb below windscreen
Back end of O/S cill section
Obligatory rear arch fail
Piece of the rear valance missing.....
N/S Rear arch
Inner arches
Rear O/S Floor pan has a random hole?
Previous repair work to front pad areas
Crap photo of drivers side, but it is pretty much the same as the other side
It also has some crust on the rear number plate lights and boot seal areas, and a welded small case diff so the original 3.23 medium case is ”˜MIA’
ANYWAY Enough negatives!!
On the whole, it is more than saveable! We started first off to see if the satin black rattle can drift-spec paintwork would come off with some thinners....
^^ Ignore the mess, it isn’t my yard and it was only shadey area today!
All of a sudden, we were starting to see a different car before us
The chrome is still there and underneath and although 30 years old it’s better than I expected!
Both bumpers need replacing though long term as neither is straight
Oh and the roof and A and C pillars are solid black, a proper paint effort so some D.A action required there. The bonnet and bootlid have had most of the Henna paintwork sanded down so we didn’t go too mad there as it will just rust (and we don’t want that!)
Onto the boot area, this is pretty impressive actually!
It has spax suspension which is fairly new, though I fear this may well be ditched for the sake of originality
Kidney grill was black and damaged so I lobbed a decent chrome one in
Toolkit in, with genuine locking wheel bolt key (and a spare), also got a complete set of good boot carpets and consoles, I just couldn’t be arsed to fit them I was getting hungry!
Got it in for a wheel swap....
And it looks a bit different already!
Anyway, it was too nice not to take up an offer of BBQ food so at that point I downed tools and farked off home.
Still plenty to do but, yeah you get the picture.
