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Originally Posted by Patrik
Wow! Hats off to you, it is looking brand new piece by piece. My father and I are contemplating on doing the same to his -98 740i, but I’m personally worried we’d end up dumping at least 10 000€ in order to replace/fix the rusty bodywork, on top of which you’d have the mechanics, electronics and interior to sort out. We neither have the skills or time to perform most tasks which would further increase the cost. May I ask what your budget is? I assume you do the most of the work yourself?
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thanks a lot! :-) well, you are right on the fact that like 99% of the stuff i did myself, so budget so far was quite low, for the fact that the car is basically mechanically restored at this point (at least as far as i can take it mechanically), but i dont really count the €€ spent on it, the most expensive part was the restored tank which was about 650€, but i am planning to sell the old one, and some other parts, so some of the cash should come back :-D
however, i am pretty lucky that there is no rust on the bodywork anywhere on the car, except bottom of the doors, but if you will need to do that fix, that is honestly the most expensive part of the project :-/ if you need to put 10k in the bodywork alone, dont know if its worth doing.. might be, in the long run, nice 740i is getting up there in 15k range nowadays :-)
also, i dont have a budget really, i always wanted to have a nice E38, so i am taking my time and spent as much as it needs, but so far its been way less than expected tbh.