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This is a much more worthy cause than your cab ,if it's real, I.E the engine started life in that car. This is one chrome turd that needs rescuing.Its real, confirmed numbers with Hartge plus its still with the original owner, this is the only UK RHD and 'probably' the only RHD H27SP in the world.pacerpete wrote:Very sad, another rare car molested by a sad sparco c0ck !
I have no idea mate, owner did say 'roll cage not included to me', naturally i was gutted....I have a few other pics that show the car has rear spoiler (dont have front one) and cannot tell if its got the side kit or not, also looks like its had a very bad respray at some point.Steve-E30 wrote:Can i ask why pics 1 and 3 show no cage and pic 2 does , Where the doors are ... or was the owner in the stage of putting a cage in ??
somebody needs to go and teach that lad not to meddle with things that dont belong to him and also to do a little research before he decides to trash what could be a one off car.bloom_meister wrote: the person who has so badly f**** it up is NOT actually the owner but the garage owners son apparently..
Working now Simon?bloom_meister wrote:Well i'm slowly getting closer to getting hold of this car, took the owner a month to get back to me this time but he called me today and sent me some pics:
As you can see the car is basically a total loss:
Dashboard
Interior
Sills
Engine
Engine apparently needs a 'full rebuild' ............no idea whats wrong with it yet.
Car is just..butchered, no other words for it. When i find more info on state of engine and rest of chassis I will decide whether its worth restoration or not. Such a shame.
Provenance is not in queston here, owner is the guy who originally had it converted with Birds and number plates check out with the records they have. As you can see the mutli throttle body assembly is still on the engine. According to Kevin the owner wasnt someone who looked after his cars so i guess i shouldnt be too suprised at how it ended up, though if i had a dispute over work with a garage i'd find a way to settle it, i wouldnt leave it there to be butcheredSimon13 wrote:Cheers working now. Needs saving if it's legit, but it needs some work!
My alpina is costing a bomb but reckon you'd safely out spend me getting that back to full health!
You're not kidding! In a former life I was an insurance investigator, so I'd be fascinated to learn how you found the car - Reg from Birds, then a DVLA search?bloom_meister wrote:When i was researching the cab i came across the Sp of course and i also saw iain mention he thought there was one in the UK so i put my detective hat on and ..TADA! I'm good at finding things
I already knew the car model of course, and its colour, i never said it was easy!
they are very rare and it has a hartge conversion which entails suspension, engine, exterior styling mods and also interior differences compared to a standard e30. this one in particular is a very rare if not the only right hand drive modelc2pete wrote:forgive my ignorance but whats so special about these cars ?
thats also true ian i was covering that under engine mods.. just cant beleive some one wouldnt realise how rare this beast is1an wrote:this one also has the idependant throttle bodies aswell which are very rare.
aye saw the throttle bodies in the pics,what kind of power did they put out with bodies,did all the h27,s have them,was it like a homologation special for touring cars or just a jazzed up 325 like the alpinas lol1an wrote:this one also has the idependant throttle bodies aswell which are very rare.
i think, though i'd have to check, that the SP was rated at either 215 or 220 bhpc2pete wrote:aye saw the throttle bodies in the pics,what kind of power did they put out with bodies,did all the h27,s have them,was it like a homologation special for touring cars or just a jazzed up 325 like the alpinas lol1an wrote:this one also has the idependant throttle bodies aswell which are very rare.
