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I bought this car about a year ago, thinking that I could restore it over the winter. As it turned out (as always) there were other projects that kept us away from working on it. But, we are finally doing it!!!

It's an 88 M6, 2 owner car (last owner had it for 15 years), clean car fax with only 63,000 MILES !!!

Unfortunately, the car was stored outside and needed full paint job as well as the interior restoration.

Prior to the sale, the previous owner performed full tune up to the tune of $2,837 (including all new catalytic converters, new gaskets, wires, caps, rotors, bushings regulators, etc..etc..)
I replaced the clutch, fixed the self leveling rear suspension, replaced rear pitman arms, etc...


This will be one of the cleanest, most original M6 on the East Coast once we will be done with it. So if anybody is in the market for such a car (serious inquiries only, please) - let me know.

The day I picked it up -



after being in the shop for almost a year, the work has finally began!







The E24 is nothing like the E30, although, not as complex as modern cars, this 22 year old is temperamental and not easy



























as of today



hope to finish the bodywork / welding on Mon, then start on the pre-paint process. Will update next week!

DO WORK SON!

This will be good.

Is that guy welding without eye protection?!?!

mooseheadm5 wrote:Is that guy welding without eye protection?!?!

and not using jack stands either
good luck with the restoration

Was this car from CT?

Scary, but the work looks good.

fukoa wrote:

mooseheadm5 wrote:Is that guy welding without eye protection?!?!

and not using jack stands either
good luck with the restoration

Living on the wild side. I had my turbo car fall on my a few years ago. Not fun.

Wow. Interesting.

Going Euro or just staying with the big, late bumpers?

Are you going with a color-change to white or is that just the base coat to make the red pop?

finished the body work today



the rest of the car was primered today as well!

Coming together real nice! I bet you can't wait.

Loving the rear fenders

Euro bumpers and lights. DOIT

Sweet.

Can't say I understand how a restored car will be one of the most original ones, but to each his own.

wkohler wrote:Sweet.

Can't say I understand how a restored car will be one of the most original ones, but to each his own.

I would agree, my 1988 M6 being it's never been restored or painted and sports "only" 130K miles.

I think he wanted to say "low mileage example".

I am surprised at the amount of "restoration" needed with a car even stored outside and that low a mileage. Much more welding and body work than I would expect.

M6's are not really that old a car.

WH

WH wrote:

wkohler wrote: I am surprised at the amount of "restoration" needed with a car even stored outside and that low a mileage. Much more welding and body work than I would expect.

M6's are not really that old a car.

WH

you should see some of the restoration work we did on the E30s which were even newer then this M6.

http://yab-nj.com/gallery/main.php

Often, when you take the car completely appart, you find so many problem areas and imprefections that you would not think existed...

problem is, if you start doing it right, you can just stop otherwise half of the car will be spotless and half of the car will be 22 years old...

vlad-NJ wrote: often, when you take the car completely appart, you find so many problem areas and imprefections that you would not think existed...

problem is, if you start doing it right, you can just stop otherwise half of the car will be spotless and half of the car will be 22 years old...

Ballpark...what does a good paint job that fixes issues like this one cost?

I have a Cinnabar red 1988 M6. It is exciting to see this work being done. Keep us updated!