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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck... Go back to the plate from 1990 and run that through carjam instead of the personalised plates since, and you start to get a picture of the history... Dare I say it, you can picture the exact moment one chassis became another, right down to the day. 08/02/11 WoF fail for PA6782 at 292,862km but a pass the same day. 23/09/11 WoF pass for PA6782 at 251,009km... (oh sh*t we didn't swap the cluster) 10/09/14 WoF pass for PA6782 at 256,622 (wow that's weird). 09/06/15 WoF fail for PA6782 at 296,522, (hmmmm seems familiar). And then the classic E30 cluster odo gears fail from that point.

I have cut up a few with a reciprocating saw and taken them to the scrappy myself, it's a bit of work but quite satisfying! I can fit half of an E21 on my trailer.... 😉

After a lengthy lay-off I can say Im back and ready to keep building. Reasons for lay-off; 1. Let 3rd child grow up a bit more (kids come first) 2. Built another car in the mean time (its a VW dont hate ok) 3. VW virtually finished (its the daily so it was prioritised over the rest of them) - Now FBO inc. larger 550hp turbo, big fuel system, Tein Monosports, swaybars, brakes all round etc etc 4. Lots of drone fishing, A coulpe Golf pix but then onto 1M Clone... So 1M Clone? Where did I get to? Single turbo thoughts, strip interior mostly out, half cage installed (MANZ approved), had a ST ex manifold made up, extra high heat ceramic coating via HPC to , turbine housing, CHRA and a silver coating to comp husing. Needed to make up downpipe, wastegate needs to be plumbed into DP, oil & water lines need some work. I have an inverting TIG at home, which now sits proudly in the dining room as the welding station. Keep back kids. Ive made it out of 1.8mm thick 3" SS304 using 1.6mm rod and tack welded for now which will tap into the 2.5" twin exhaust. Now its longside the engine mount I can prob either keep going in 3" or widen to 3.5" then a merge into the dual 2.5". Sundays are usually the day for car work these days Now that Ive worked out syncing from Google drive to the PC and phone life is easier to post, apologies for the delay Crucial learnings about project cars, dont let layoffs defeat you, put a cover over it and be patient, the time will come again when the time is right

Swaps?

I'll check then out, thanks.

I had my non-functional 318 picked up, bear in mind this was 7 years ago now, but I believe the company I used was https://a1carremoval.co.nz I filled in their web form on a Sunday morning, got a phone call from them about 45 minutes later. Asked a few questions and gave me an indicative cash figure over the phone. They arrived an hour later, looked the car over and confirmed they'd pay slightly more than they said on the phone. Took the license plates off, loaded the car on the truck, gave me the cash and all done. As I said, 7 years ago, so who knows if it's the same now, but was a great experience from my perspective.

Typically on an E30 you just cut that section out and weld a new one in, easy peasy. so finding the original numbers may be problematic Until then you have a car that is advertised as being very illegal

Yeah, was for sale a year ago and got pulled. Screenshots in the September part of this thread. If the correct vin is hiding under the swapped one I guess it could be re-registered / certed / complied? Although assume the correct vin is long dead? Not sure how that all works TBH but looks like at least one bidder is pissed off.

That's exactly what's happened. I was interested in bidding but wanted to know more about the history, tracked down one of he previous owners (wasn't hard to do) and he confirmed it for me.

If that has indeed been plate and tagged, that is quite naughty.

It's not new but put a sim driver in a real car? Not sure how much IRL drifting he's done.

Touring convention

someone M635csi set to be delivered

1985 m635csi, amazing condition.. only done 85000km

That platform was rebadged so many times, pretty sure it got uglier with each though. Bringing this back to BMW though - here is the best variant: