My '75 318 baur restoration

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:31 pm

Hello my name is Merte and I'm from The Netherlands. Last summer I bought myself a white e21 318 baur in a sorry state.
One of it's former owners had done some very poor DIY... Little patches of sheetmetal were welded all over the place and it has had a very bad repaint (from inka-orange to white

). At this moment the car is being restored and put back in to it's former glory. I've been looking on this forum for some time now and I've seen some very nice cars! I hope in the end my car will come close to some of those.

To view the pictures of my project look at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/MertePeeter ... BMWE21Baur

As we speak the car is welded, painted and waiting for some brandnew tapistry. I'll update the album asap.

I'll put some pictures in this topic as soon as I've found out how to.

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:35 pm

Pictures of the car as I bought it:

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Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:50 pm

another try...

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Jay323i · Post by **Jay323i** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:13 am

Hi there, welcome.... By the look of the pics, you are doing a great job!!! It`s gonna be sweet! Are you respraying it in the original color? Or white again?

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:33 pm

it is resprayed back into its original colour! otherwise I had to remove the engine to paint the engine bay white as well...

Orjan · Post by **Orjan** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:54 pm

Nice project! Keep us updated

ac/dennis · Post by **ac/dennis** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:03 pm

Yeah nice E21, keep us posted with some more pics!

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:35 pm

here are some pictures of the car after the welding+painting

ac/dennis · Post by **ac/dennis** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:11 pm

Nice, the fun part can begin now

enjoy it

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:12 pm

today I brought the car to the upholstery-shop (bekleder) as you can see on the pics its exterior is finished.

underway on the trailer:

at the upholsterer:

--ALPINA-- · Post by **--ALPINA--** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:20 pm

Very nice, your right that car was in a sorry state i mut admit, with all the metal work done must hae took loooong to do, eitherway i was wondering after all the cutting and grinding of the rust here and there .. are there any original bmw metal work left? as its been heavily overhauled!

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Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:52 pm

parts that have been replaced/welded are: doors (2nd hand), wheelarches (front right, back left and ricght), bootrim, windscreenrim, front spoiler and a large part of the floorpanels.
Repairing these was the biggest problem since BMW never made replacement floorpanels (I guess you know the problem). For the rest I have used "original BMW" parts.

Engine is ok (130.000 kms), It only needs some servicing (oil, sparkplugs etc), a new exhaust and the rubber coupling of the driveshaft is in a bad shape.

rasb1 · Post by **rasb1** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:46 pm

Wow looks great, a top notch job.

Now all it needs are som black on the side sills!

Sierpien · Post by **Sierpien** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:39 pm

Very nice car, i love Baurs

Agent Orange · Post by **Agent Orange** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:03 pm

Thank you all!

Pictures of todays work:

I've chosen to put new, black tapistry in instead of the original grey one. It looks better in combination with the orange of the bodywork and the black of the seats. Besides, the original tapistry smelled like rotten mushrooms...

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