1990 BMW E32 750i - Stealthbomber

You already know my feelings on this purchase

Making of cleans..


VIP enjoys a bit of detailing and kindly spent a weekend at The Auto Bahn making the 750 more presentable

Mucho jet washing to remove the heavy soil:



Gets us to this stage:



The tools of the trade:







Then a G4 / machine polish..



..gets us to here:


(ignore the denty wing - more on that later)




Then some wax.. (it rained before I got a pic but the improvement is massive)





Inside given a quick spruce too:





Then this is how she stood at the end of my 1st weekend of ownership (June 10th) - big thanks to Dan




Next up, wheeeeels..

Yeah dude


Thanks - I think we're on the same wavelength - here's my 'to do list' - glovebox full of crack look FTW!




Yeah, fresh MoT does not guarantee 4 tyres that hold air
Thanks tho - I take no credit for the clean-up job

Wheeeeels...


So the car came fitted with BMW Style 32's in 18" flavour. I rather like them so they'll be staying. Unfortunately they looked like this:









Painted (not brilliantly) in matt black - which to my eyes doesn't look right against the Shadowline trim on the car, and with knackered centre caps.



Note I've removed the bonnet / boot badges too - the plan now is to remove pretty much all the colour from the car. It's Dolphin Grey Metallic & satin black all the way..


When Dan jetwashed the car the paint fell off the wheels in great sheets!



They were also fitted with ENORMOUS tyres! 235/40's on the front and 255/40's on the rear!



So I had the 235's moved from front to back and got some 225's fitted on the front. I think I'd actually prefer 215's on the fronts but you can't be that picky with 18" partworns on a Saturday.

Looks better anyway..



Mk2 Astra 'verts have their uses



So, with the tools of the trade..





..the loose paint was first removed, then a quick rub down all over







Then etch-primed..





..and painted satin back


(sorry for the crappy phone-pics)

And fitted with new (black & white ) centre caps - not perfect by any means, but loads better




Next up, lowness & coooool stuff...

many many epics

*shoots off to buy shares in BP*

Lowering & coooool stuff (round 1)...


So we're up to June 20th now, I've owned the car about 12 days, driven it a mile tops (it was delivered to TAB for me) - about time I lowered it dontcha think?

The tools of the trade (& associated spring-carnage)..



..means it now sits a bit more like this (that's 2 coils out the front only)



Not exactly spectacular, but the smaller tyres aren't helping, and you'll recall it used to look like this:



So it's definitely better. Far from enough tho..





I also got some eBay goodies in the post



Before:



During: (ColonElk is assistance)



After:



Nice. Aforementioned removal of colour in effect..


Next up, mwoar lowering & mwoar coooool stuff...

This is good!Really fancy a V12 myself!Can I please request a gratuitous burnout shot/vid please! ;D

alfred hitchcock throwing shapes??

glad the badges are on the list ;D

Looking forward to more updates! Well done so far

Love an e32. And I love a v12. So it's win win for me.