It's been exactly a year since the last BMW E24 update, and there's a very simple reason for that. Of all the projects I've started, it's the one that terrifies and excites me the most. And both these feelings tend to cancel each other out most months... from the sheer excitement of wanting to see its progress to the outright fear knowing that progress usually follows with an invoice.
But this is a setup that seems to work nicely for both me and the team at CNC Motorsport. There has never been a formal deadline or finish point for the M635CSi. I originally took the car there for some jazzy centre locks and a rollcage, but inevitably excitement got the better of me and quickly it expanded to a full bare shell rebuild instead.
I'm never going to apologise for that - the work Alan, Andrew and William do over at CNC Motorsport is droolworthy. Not only do they prep and rebuild Group A classics like the E24, RS500 and SD1, they actually machine and engineer most of the parts themselves.
This story is from the March 2024 edition of BBC Top Gear UK.
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