02-05-2020, 08:47 PM
Thanks for all the warm welcomes, I can't wait to come out to some events and meet some of you in person. The BMW is a really interesting car, or from what I have dug up on the car (if anyone knows the previous owner I would love to get in touch with them), I'll go ahead and make a post on the car in the members projects sub.
Sorry I don't know how to multi-quote on here yet so here are responses to your questions:
@senor_Taylor : I have not reached out on Facebook yet, I will do that later today
@davej: I did buy it in January last year from the Bridgewater area, but I don't know how many times he listed it.
Loved the wagon gallery, when I was 14 I was helping some family friends in rural Georgia once I thought we had finished I was told there was one more project that day and it was in the garage (they were paying me so I didn't mind). Well it turned out that "project" was helping him bleed the brakes on a Nagaro Blue RS2 (he was a big time VW/Audi importer in Atlanta and had bought it in the UK and brought it in the country part by part, I think I have some old photos of it I'll try and find). But looking at the "porsche" written on the side of the calipers made me fall in love with wagons and porsches that day
@Beej: It is an ambitious plan, fortunately I will not be taking it on alone and it is a very well documented swap on other forums, I will source a complete parts car just to avoid getting hung up on not having the proper retainer clip for that day's job. E39s I believe will become favored like the '55 Chevy's did because they are good looking and driving car, along with an engine bay that can swallow nearly anything ever produced and with all the aluminum in them they will stand up to rust a little better and they are relatively very light cars, but they're built like a bank vault
@ScottyB: they are relatively rare cars. They made less than 3000 e39 540i (v8) wagons worldwide, there were a lot more 528/525i (inline 6) wagons produced, but it is on the rarer side of things when it comes to production numbers on these cars. The apparent reason for the lack of v8 wagon sales was the fact that for only a couple of grand more you could get the m5 which blows the 540i out of the water performance wise
Sorry I don't know how to multi-quote on here yet so here are responses to your questions:
@senor_Taylor : I have not reached out on Facebook yet, I will do that later today
@davej: I did buy it in January last year from the Bridgewater area, but I don't know how many times he listed it.
Loved the wagon gallery, when I was 14 I was helping some family friends in rural Georgia once I thought we had finished I was told there was one more project that day and it was in the garage (they were paying me so I didn't mind). Well it turned out that "project" was helping him bleed the brakes on a Nagaro Blue RS2 (he was a big time VW/Audi importer in Atlanta and had bought it in the UK and brought it in the country part by part, I think I have some old photos of it I'll try and find). But looking at the "porsche" written on the side of the calipers made me fall in love with wagons and porsches that day
@Beej: It is an ambitious plan, fortunately I will not be taking it on alone and it is a very well documented swap on other forums, I will source a complete parts car just to avoid getting hung up on not having the proper retainer clip for that day's job. E39s I believe will become favored like the '55 Chevy's did because they are good looking and driving car, along with an engine bay that can swallow nearly anything ever produced and with all the aluminum in them they will stand up to rust a little better and they are relatively very light cars, but they're built like a bank vault
@ScottyB: they are relatively rare cars. They made less than 3000 e39 540i (v8) wagons worldwide, there were a lot more 528/525i (inline 6) wagons produced, but it is on the rarer side of things when it comes to production numbers on these cars. The apparent reason for the lack of v8 wagon sales was the fact that for only a couple of grand more you could get the m5 which blows the 540i out of the water performance wise