New to the world of E21 ownership

02Man · Post by **02Man** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:54 pm

Had a 2002 & several E30's ,thought I'd give an E21 a go,behold my new whip.....
Don't laugh it was only £200.

Plan is to just get it up and T & T then start a full rolling restoration.

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:11 pm

Glad it found a good home!

DrGonzoPOW · Post by **DrGonzoPOW** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:31 pm

Bargain!! Will be a classy motor when its done. Kashmir all the way baby

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:45 pm

If we laugh are you going to get into a HUF?

Well, I thought that was funny anyway...

Looks like a good project, keep us posted!

nas80 · Post by **nas80** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:29 pm

you got your work cut out for you there - keep us updated.

02Man · Post by **02Man** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:59 am

Thought I'd better update you on this .

The car came with the boot and back seat stuffed with spares :-

Had a good prod around and underneath the car,it's remarkably solid,makes a change from the air-cooled machinery I've tackled in the past!

Gave the inner arches a complete rub down with a wire brush in a grinder,then painted with anti-stonechip paint and finished with a couple of coats of gold smoothrite which is very similar to the body colour.

Needs a bit of attention to every panel,just small scratches & dings really,then it'll recieve a full respray.
I need to source 2 front wings and a front panel/valance ... any ideas at a reasonable cost?

As this is a 316 auto,it's never going to be a roadrocket so the plan is to give it the sort of resto-cal treatment normally found on Beetles etc
I think it'll look quite cool ridiculously slammed with period nik-naks on it,but that's me....

Talking of low,how low can you go?(Bass!

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I saw Marks 323i at Knebworth (pleasure to meet you mate,sorry it was brief) and would like to go as low,if not lower...but without the negative rear camber,is this possible?

Don't know if you managed to get to see my Rover at Knebworth Mark,mine was the one full of blow-up sex toys :-

The concours judge was a tad baffled.

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:42 am

£200 well spent it would seem.

The tri-headlight look is an aquired taste though!

Are you going with twins or singles?
*dibs on the singles if you ever decide to get rid?*

I think you can make adjustments to rear subframe mounting to lose the negative camber when you drop the car a serious amount. I imagine Jason323 or Jimmy will know more?

Missed your Rover - sure I would have remembered your toys.

02Man · Post by **02Man** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:32 am

Sticking with single lights mate,just experimenting with different looks.
I like the look of negative camber (cal-look Beetles coming back to haunt me) but I would imagine it would cause uneven tyre wear?

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:14 am

Just means swapping sides once wear becomes evident.

02Man · Post by **02Man** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:29 pm

All done now and a fresh MOT.
2 new wings,bodywork all gone through,painted and detailed underarches and floorpan,refurbed wheels,new brakes and a respray in metalflake !

Just got to spruce up the interior now,and fit a f*ck off sound system

murran · Post by **murran** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:48 pm

well done on all the hard work.
nice paint job you picked, good job its your car and you obviously like it.

02Man · Post by **02Man** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:55 pm

I do,cheeky fecker!

It's different,more show than go and that's fine by me, too many points on my licence to go belting about everywhere now (getting old

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It's going to get some Von-Dutch style hot rod pinstriping soon too.

Pho21_girl · Post by **Pho21_girl** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:35 am

First glittered E21 I've ever seen! Like the beige though, look forward to more updates

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:31 am

You really need a crushed velvet purple suit and one of those big floppy hats!

murran · Post by **murran** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:22 pm

joke coming............ no one get offended. (sorry i feel i have to point it out before hand nower days.)

i can only think of two reasons for the glitteryness.
you either want to attract hookers or magpies.