Rob and Joost E12 528 type 1 ----> 535i

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Rob and Joost E12 528 type 1 ----> 535i

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Hello I'm Rob and i'm new to this forum but here is a litte peak in to our project.
I'm Dutch so my English is not that perfect but i'm doing my best :blablabla

When i was visiting Baur 323 to buy a door for my e28 i saw this beauty of a m535i e12...
Offcourse we talked about old beemers and forums. My question was why isn't there a e12 forum.
Then he gave me the tip to check out the e21 forum so i did...

Joost and me are friends who share the same passion and that is old beamers.

We started with E30 tourings and e28... But those cars are not that rare.

So we thought we should buy a e12 and we did.

Now we are busy restoring a 1975 bmw 528 e12 type 1.

We bought the car 2 years ago. The car was i descent condition but off course not rust free.

Our plans:

- New paint job and do it ourselves!
- M30b35 from a e34 535i
- 16 or 17 inch alpina's
- Bilstein suspension and lower it 4 cm
- hopefully find a Recaro interior but is gone be hard.

The projectcar

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Old engine

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New dirty engine

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Clean engine parts:

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New electric mirrors:

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New hood
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Removing rust and making it new

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Primer and filler

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I love new paint

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16 inch alpina's

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Okay this is an impression and my first post.

At the moment we are finishing the chassis of the car.. Next few weeks we are gone repaint the chassis and we have a 99% rust free car...

Hope you like our little project and we hope to learn here a lot about e12's and other projects.


Please post every comment you want we are still noobs in the business and everything we do is the first time!
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Welcome. Nice car! just keep the pictures come please
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Nice job! you have more e12's?
I 'm following. :thumbsup
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Welcome!! Nice project, great that you dare to work on a car in that way! In what way will it be a replica? Do you want a m535i or just 535i? For that matter, are they ever built in a type 1? And the inlegt manifolt is not period correct othe e12. However, great resto and nice work!
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uwbuurman wrote:Welcome!! Nice project, great that you dare to work on a car in that way! In what way will it be a replica? Do you want a m535i or just 535i? For that matter, are they ever built in a type 1? And the inlegt manifolt is not period correct othe e12. However, great resto and nice work!
Indeed Koos, Maybe make a replica 530i Motorsport, see
http://e12.de/palette/m/02650l20.htm
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No it is not a m535i replica... because there is no type1 m535i. But it's gone be a e12 535i type1.

I will change it in the topic... :whistle
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Gonna be a beast! :thumbsup
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For sure! Peter knows all about the transformations:
viewtopic.php?f=74&t=24327
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Wow nice project Peter... That's the same conversion we gone do... To bad it is illegal in Belgium!
If we have questions we know who to ask :cheers
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Nice color!
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Nice that you have found this place.
This forum is a little bit (read very) better than the others..
I do like the pictures...and stories...and contact!
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall. Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
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Nice project guys, i was already following yours at the e28forum.nl

keep on going !
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Very nice project, arktis blue?

Is going to be a beautifull car!!

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Yes it is Arktis Blue... First we wanted to change the color but i'm glad we didn't... Now i'm really in love with the color!
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Nice job! you have more e12's?
I 'm following. :thumbsup
Yes that was Betsy 520 cab.
My girlfriend is still mad at me i sold it. It was a 520 automatic... But she is sold to a beemer fanatic in Letland.
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