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[dickybirdclocks]

About to become BMW driver due to purchase from Brother of 318 coupe S reg dark blue - full soft black leather interior with body mods so it resembles M3 - He paid 24K new and was intending to take it abroad to reside at holiday property but change of mind allows me to aquire .It has been garaged for approx 5 yrs and started periodically - he took it to BMW a while ago to get it back to scratch and cant remember the exact figure but circa £1000 was spent on new brakes - discs - pipes etc etc . Brother claims back box will need changing as he thinks it may fall apart if touched (Most prob still original) Car had new heater rad behind dash a couple of years ago he paid BMW garage about £350 they tried to increase it by several hundreds when they realised how tough a job it was . Car looks absolute mint but is sure to have suffered due to lay up - Tyres etc Brother claims also car will not tickover now (He is not a petrol head) i wonder if its just idle contol valve at fault . Any thoughts chaps and is it poss to get car on classic insurance as thats how i insure the 2 cars i have at moment due to them being aged .

[Snypa-D]

Welcome to BMWOC :)

get some pics up of this car !!

[dickybirdclocks]

May not get car for a few weeks yet but will post pics as soon as - need to do some prep to make room for car here maybe have to let my Senator go .

[IanIOM]

AWWW vauxhall senator, they were proper cars!

To be honest if this 318 has been standing for a while, i guess a fresh tank of fuel and a good blast will resolve most faults

[dickybirdclocks]

Senator still is a proper car 3-0 straight six 180bhp and this has only done 70k engine is mint although does drink petrol at a fair rate - Saw it at Tatton Classic car show 6/7 yrs ago and it was like new i told owner if he ever sold it to let me know and wrote my tel number on a !Removed! packet . Jeeeez 2 yrs down the line the bloke rings and i purchase ,went 4 yrs passing mot without a single advisory .Last mot it failed on some rust at back end of cill so had new metal welded in and it then passed . I have the Coupe version Badged - Opel Monza GSE only about 30 still on the rd.

[DAN@ADRIAN FLUX]

About to become BMW driver due to purchase from Brother of 318 coupe S reg dark blue - full soft black leather interior with body mods so it resembles M3 - He paid 24K new and was intending to take it abroad to reside at holiday property but change of mind allows me to aquire .It has been garaged for approx 5 yrs and started periodically - he took it to BMW a while ago to get it back to scratch and cant remember the exact figure but circa £1000 was spent on new brakes - discs - pipes etc etc . Brother claims back box will need changing as he thinks it may fall apart if touched (Most prob still original) Car had new heater rad behind dash a couple of years ago he paid BMW garage about £350 they tried to increase it by several hundreds when they realised how tough a job it was . Car looks absolute mint but is sure to have suffered due to lay up - Tyres etc Brother claims also car will not tickover now (He is not a petrol head) i wonder if its just idle contol valve at fault . Any thoughts chaps and is it poss to get car on classic insurance as thats how i insure the 2 cars i have at moment due to them being aged .

Hi,

Feel free to give us a try for a quotation if you like. We can offer 2nd car, limited mileage policies for this type of vehicle.

Regards,

Dan.

[dickybirdclocks]

Had my Monza and Senator on classic insurance for the whole period i have owned them through Ad/Flux and your competitor Lancaster .but they are 1985 Monza and 1988 Senator is there an age when BMWs qualify ? seem to remember it was 15 yrs with the 2 mentioned .

[IanIOM]

Ahh a fellow monza owner! We will get on fine.

For my sins I have a black manual gse! Not that it get used any where near enough!

3.0se is a cracking engine

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