1980 BMW E12 M535i Black, becomes a Toyota Celica

I always imagined Mr Lloyd Weber would drive a Phantom?! (do you see what I did there? )

Nice, I like E12s 8)
Sent of form V888 to the DVLA and they will sent a list of all the previous owners, how many colour changes its had etc

Oh my word, I'm completely in love

Ah great ,..... about time you were back with a new project Tony.
This should be good..........
Don

Oaksey, I did exactly that, and just got the letter back, and hey ho what do you know, Andrew Lloyd Webber was the first owner, so all I've got to do now is find a musical loving BMW fan and I'll be quids in.

But seriously Sir Andrew, if you do fancy buying it back, then please get in touch




Ejenner, you've been on this forum too long, how did you know that was coming

So First job was to jack it up and have a look underneath, I knew the fuel pipes were rotten so that seemed like the best place to start







At first glance everything looked in order, some patches of nice shiny new underseal, but nothing untoward


















Decided to drop the fuel tank and check under there too, started to clean up the odd bit of surface rust









noticed some snots of filler poking through the back panel, so decided to explore that a little further











Thought Id better take the bumper off and explore further






You can see its that thick inplaces its not actually bonded to the steel at points











Best check the other side






Yep more filler

Now as I say this had been done by an alleged professional outfit, so what came next was a real shocker

I thought it prudent to clean up one of the new shiny underseal bits, one of the floor bungs stood out, forgot to take a picture, but I was gobsmacked to find out that rather than weld in a patch around the floor bung they had actually constructed it shape and all from filler, and one touch from the twist knott brush ended in another cloud of white dust

Now filling over rusty holes in a back panel is one thing, but constructing floor sections from filler is inexcusable in my book

Will certainly be inspecting the other patches a little more closely

I can feel another weldathon coming on

Was done to me before. The car in my avatar.

The whole thing was professionally painted. Finished reasonably well. But they didn't paint the back of the engine bay (as paid for) and the lower part of the front wing and wheel arch under the washer bottle turned out to be made from filler. The mad thing is that they did do a bit of welding on the car... just felt they wouldn't bother with that bit!

wow, proper shonky repairs. i'd love to say i've never seen anything like it but i have lol, hiding under the schutz in my astra wheel arch

www.astra-mk2.com/0ddball/gte_ver3.0/wheel_arch07.jpg

looking forward to you updates, is the M on the back burner ??

I just LOL'd at that Cecotto. That 4th pic is like a sort of 'punchline'. Brilliant!!!! What kind of squirrel molester thinks that is an acceptable repair I wonder. I did better than that when I was 16 and utterly clueless!

Ian

I was very lucky in the right place at the right time to find this one

Yes car should turn out well, just needs some sympathetic repairs