E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

[OcCoupe]

That's fantastic Adam!!! Great job and great patience! By the way, I owe you an email.

[tig]

Let me check...

















Yep. I'm still jealous.

[Karl Grau]

Mike is the closer guy and is the bodyshop manager and overall point of contact for my project

Mike seems like a 'hands on' kinda guy.

100% solid and stiff?

That describes me every time I visit this thread.

[wkohler]

This is awesome. Cannot wait to see it all painted! I'm very happy for you. Many years in the making!

[Jelmer538i]

This is so good! Can't wait!!

[grahamular]

Great progress and thanks for the update!

-Graham

[Adam W in MN]

I went and checked it out today. They don't have much left to do, some door reassembly and mounting the hood. The vin tags are riveted back on as well.

[davintosh]

Looking like a brand new car. Stuff like this makes me smile.

[wkohler]

It looks great Adam!

[geordi]

Hot tamale! I can certainly see your heart & soul is in this restoration!

[Karl Grau]

It looks fantastic! Any luck with the Motorsports stripes?

[Adam W in MN]

Thanks, yes another parts guy has done some recreations and I'm probably going to buy from him.

[tig]

[Tammer in Philly]

^^^^ That

[Mark 88/M5 Houston]

Looks great, can;t wait to see how it turns out.

[Dinan e28]

Looking solid. Amazeballs.

[leadphut]

[2 5's and a 7]

To quote Paris Hilton "That's Hawt"

[Adam W in MN]

A few minor updates, glass is in (euro E28 M5 green stripe windshield) and some of the roof gutter trim and some of the door trim is on. The parts for the brand new, rear euro bumper are shown on the rack. We used mostly new trim for the glass front and rear and the original gasket on the advice of the bodyshop and glass guy since it was in good shape. One of the corner right angle trim pieces (back window) is NLA so we reused the old one. It's not perfection, but it looks good.

Like Chris said in his E12 M535i restoration thread, it has been fairly aggravating dealing with BMW for euro specific parts and even some standard parts come in haphazardly.

I'm anxious to get the car home at this point and I'm encouraging them to finalize the door reassembly and other minor to-do's so we can wrap this up.

[CYoung]

Fantastic!

[bkbimmer]

Gotta love it.

[MicahO]

Wow - just gorgeous Adam. Inspiring to see.

[Adam W in MN]

And we're done with phase 3. Car is home now and the owner in 2040 is inspecting the paint and bodywork!

[bkbimmer]

2ishun should be the custom plate.

[wkohler]

Can't wait to see it all back together. Looks awesome.

[Karl Grau]

It looks great! Now the real fun begins.

[davintosh]

The car looks great, Adam. Do you have it put together yet?






How about now?

2ishun should be the custom plate.

That's awesome!

[m-racer]

Brilliant job!

[stuartinmn]

Congratulations!

[Jelmer538i]

Very nice! And good that this one is white so that we have to perfect E12 M535i's in different colors to look at later on.