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Hi Dan, Would love to see your facility and maybe get some work done. I’m in Roseville, proud owner of a ‘74 tii. Let’s meet up some time!

Thank you!!

Without knowing your skill level or aptitude it's sort of hard to guide you. If you're fairly handy, you'd be surprised what you can do yourself. I restored my '72 without it ever leaving my garage, including body and paint. To see what you'd be up against, take a look at my thread. (add in Tii complications for your car on top of it): If you decide to sell, All of the local places (Sac Craigslist and FB marketplace) are good places to start, as well as the classified section here, of course. Good luck!

If you decide to restore it I have a small shop in roseville that you can use for paint. It's a garage but I get decent paint jobs out of it. If you research other restorations you'll see it's a lot of work but not complicated. Dan

Hi! I’m new here. I have a 1974 tii project car that I want to either sell or restore but don’t know how to go about either. I’ve owned the car for 20+ years (second owner) and it mostly sat for 15+ years. I got it running about 2 years ago but it still needs a lot of love. Any advice on how to sell it? Restore it?

Great, thanks guys, I’ll go to the Eurosunday with my son.

I went to the one in October 2019, not sure if it continued after Covid. It was a pretty small affair.

I haven't seen anything is quite a while but Eurosunday is in Roseville on the 26th. I'll probably bring my 2800. https://eurosunday.net/sacramento/ Dan

Is this event still going on in Sacramento? Joel 1969 2002

It's been a minute. While the '79 G-Wagen waits it's turn I'm getting my '91 NSX back on the road. It sat for 12 years. Yeah, no excuse, that was dumb. Anyway, it's getting a mini-restoration with a clutch, timing belt, water pump, LMA assembly, tune-up stuff, fuel system, muffler rebuild, paint the top and replace the seats.

Your hats look great, and it's awesome that you're offering a discount for in-person sales. I know plenty of BMW fans would love to get their hands on one, even if they're not local. Keep up the good work! Also, you can check out more hats at: https://matohash.com/collections/custom-baseball-hats. They offer custom baseball hats and can help you expand your merchandise offerings.

I've been side-tracked with other home projects and haven't been working in the shop for months. Soon! I did manage to pick up another future project, which I cannot justify. Oi. 1979 Mercedes 280GE 4-spd swapped with a 3.0L turbo diesel. Runs and drives pretty good but will need to be completely gone through. Major sheet metal work needed, which I'll try doing myself, and the motor will need new gaskets throughout. Call me crazy. The windshield area is the worst but it has other common areas of rust for an ex German Border Patrol rig. Frame is solid.

Looking good Dan!

Driving around with the stock wheels/tires to play with settings. So far I haven't been able to find the ride I want. The Style 5's will require spacers and longer studs so I have them on order..

Homemade camber plates. Lousy photos taken from a video but you get the idea.

Well that sucks! I got the car on the road to start testing the pressures and it "screeched" going down the road. WTF! I got out and looked at the front wheels and at stock height they were REALLY positive camber and the wheels were toed in quite a bit. At about 2" lower they were still slightly positive. Turns out the guy who fabricated them measured the angles on the bench by hand instead of making a jig and the camber and caster was off. The toe is an easy fix. So my new project was fixing the struts. I still had the OEM struts off the car so I built a simple jig that aligned the strut tube with the flange for the calipers on the spindle. I cut the tubes off and was able to leave the short sleeve that he added under the tube, clamped the spindle and tube to the jig and re-welded it. They look very close to the OEM struts as far as the angles go but after that driving experience I decided to modify my adapter plates to be camber plates to give me that extra adjustment. Here's the jig and struts. I'll post the camber plates when I'm done with them. They're a lot of work since I'm modifying my home made plates to begin with.

System is in and working after some issues with firmware and bluetooth but I still need to clean up all the air line mounting and check wheel/bag clearances.

I’m going to head to Carmichael on Sunday if you are around. Would be great to meet up. Jeff

I've been bouncing back and forth between messing with the struts and figuring out what I want to do with the compressor/tank/manifold assembly. I'm not planning on showing it off so I built a metal frame on a piece of plywood to mount the compressor and tank to and hung the manifold from a bracket above. You want to keep the manifold higher than any condensation that can form in the lines and tank. The area between the shock towers has two thin metal plugs on the bottom covered with sealer so I removed one to run the air and power lines through. I also used the frame to mount an insulated corrugated board to the front, leaving the top and sides open for air flow. It ended up looking like a speaker box. Here's some photos of test fitting...

Got the modified front struts back from the fabricator last weekend. They look awesome! He sleeved the bottom for strength and help with alignment and still need to weld the brackets on for the backing plate and brake lines but other than that I'm good to go with the rest of the install.

Will do. Fighting a stuck castellated nut from the ball joint on the pitman arm. Gonna have to get the heat out ?. Should be going by the weekend but we are heading to Sonoma for the GTR races on Saturday. ?? Sunday

Nice! Stop by when you get it on the road...

Flippin’ sikko! Doing some suspension work myself. Not quite as labor intense, but knuckle busting none the less. Nice work!

Front struts are at the fabricator getting modified so I started working on the compressor/tank/manifold assembly in the trunk and the rear struts. The rear air struts are very close to the OEM E3 struts in size and length, plus the bottom mounting sleeve is the same diameter so all I had to do was shorten the sleeve a little bit for it to fit. I made a simple adapter plate with welded bolts on the bottom plate (ignore the lousy welds) and a top plate as a washer. I mounted the air strut and everything looks great and should have plenty of clearance for the wheel and tire.

New tube to be welded onto BMW strut/spindle. Threaded tube will fit inside tube with a threaded collar on top. Collar will be cut off old strut and welded onto top of new strut tube.