Woody's New Retro Project 18/12/2011

[Beware]

I'm definitely a fan of this! New interior looks great and I love the wheel colour combo, but I might be a bit biased seeing I have a set of 16in RS' in pretty much the exact same colour shceme!

Single headlight E21's remind me of high school days, a mate had one as his first car, and even though it wasn't mine I still have a soft spot for them from being around it so much.....I might feel the need to find one one day to sit beside my E24.

[woody m3evo]

Thanks for all the comments guys.

So after the e21's success at Players & DC13 someone mentioned that I should also go along to the Prept Showdown at Brands Hatch on Saturday, wasn't going to go but a last minute decision on Thursday evening I thought why not I might as well.

Didn't get many pictures but here are a few I found.


















Again didn't expect it but I won this below.



So after a very long drive home Saturday night it was another early morning for the local SouthWest Autosport show which our Bmw group had its own club stand at.

Some pictures from Sunday.
























And again didn't expect but came away with this for best paintwork.



And finally I had a bit of a special email sent to me last week, still cant believe it.

Have a read & see what you think.

[woody m3evo]

Latest pictures from a Krispy Kreme meet at Bristol that i went too a few weekends ago.

[Nuts]

Wow!!! Your car is insane bud, clean and simple Lots of Love here bud.

[woody m3evo]

Thanks mate.

Found this pic from yesterday's German show at Beaulieu, first time ive been & really enjoyed it.

[A4crn]

Lovely!!

[woody m3evo]

Thanks mate.

Small update, when I had the interior retrimmed there a few bits that John didn't have time to finish before I needed.

The parcel shelf didnt come back in time from having the embroidery added.

Now back with the Bespoke Leather logo & recovered .



Also had the sun visors recovered to match the rest.



Shelf fitted.



Sun Visors fitted.



Also to finish off the engine bay I wasn't happy with the old brake fluid reservoir bottle so got a nice little cover made up.

Cover fitted.



So this all happened just in time for the weekend trip up to the Retro Rides Gathering show at Prescott Hill, which I have been looking forward to for a while now.

At the hotel the night before with my mates 2002.



A few from the day.















Also on the day I was on the S.O.S (Southern Old Skool) stand & we only went & won best club stand.

[woody m3evo]

A few more pictures ive found from the Retro Rides Gathering.

[woody m3evo]

So this weekend was a big one for me, last two shows of the year in one trip which all round was a 565 mile journey.
After the last outing to Retro Rides the car wasn't running right at all,so had it checked out & found that I had a valve gone.

The damage.



Also the carb was knackered & kept flooding, so I got a nice brand new Webber replacement fitted, pics to follow as have none at the moment.

Early start 4.30am Saturday morning was the plan so we could get to Rollhard for the 10am opening,got there just before 10 & started to set up in the rain.

All set up.





Great 1st show for the Rollhard boys but I think the weather put a lot of people off even though it did dry out in the afternoon,when I was getting the car ready I had a guy come up to me & asked if I would fancy staying later on for a little photoshoot for the magazine he worked for & of course I really couldn't say no.

A few pics I took while he was shooting away.









So after he had finished we drove back down to the hotel to meet up with Scott (Pea) for the evening ready for the big one on Sunday, another early start at 7am to makesure I get my hanger spot & then start the cleaning all over again.

Set up in the Players hanger.



















During the day they said if you have a Meguiar's sticker stuck on your windscreen you had won a prize,so after having a good look around the show I came back to this.



So 3.30 came & the awards were getting handed out I won a top 10 winners medal from the sponsors Meguiars, then they carried on giving out some special awards to the cars of the show & news to me my car got called out again for the G23 Engineering's car of the show,couldnt believe it & was completely shocked.





Still in shock we packed up ready for the long journey home.

Both cars together.











So we headed off on the journey home which was going all well until around 50 miles home I had a puncture on one of the rears, gutted but now the 21 is finally a trailer queen lol !

Being unloaded at 12.30am last night/this morning.



All in all I had a fantastic weekend with good company,2 great shows & lots of amazing cars roll on next year cant wait. :thumb:

[way2fastx3]

Love everything about it!

[woody m3evo]

Love everything about it!

Thanks mate.

[DarrylH]

Fantastic car buddy

[ro@dster_kevin]

Where's your battery located?
Love the car, have an e21 of my own, nowhere near as clean as yours haha!

[BettyWhitE30]

damn this is immaculate!! keep it up man!

[rice4life]

Wow, that looks great, the attention to detail is incredible! I think the best thing about this car is that you drive it to and from shows.

For some reason the meguir's sticker looks at home on your car.