Barn Find rare 80s BMW M Sport survivor car untouched for 30 years - will it run?

months when the second owner gave these practices to the first owner. Okay, this is when he didn't have a tow bar and it was yeah, this was before before. -finger barand this was after air conditioning because originally it had no air conditioning, nothing, no radio, yeah, nothing, windows closed, no sunroof, exactly, no soundproofing, that's what makes it light and we'll continue with that because there's a bit of BMW undertone. about it there, but this is from the second owner. He loved it so much that he painted his boat with the same M necklaces. It's bright, so he has the car with his speedboat.

Oh, forgive him for having a tow bar now because he has a painted M Sport Powerboat, which is the best, yeah, it's that at the auction where you bought it, that's the date I went to pick it up because I bought it, that's one of the days I bought it, okay, so that's it. the order that's it in the auction yeah okay now we're getting things getting interesting it's you topless with the gun on the hood in Safari you know we had to do it in Safari to get yeah in this, yes, so this is your part. of your big road trip, you did this, this is what I did short road trips in second gear just to uh on Safari and stuff because it's up north and far from uh, but on Safari you know the Kruger National Park several times that I was taking Kruger.

The National Park is that Kruger National, that's Krugers, but that's me and the gates there with the beer with the beer, so uh, that's Ace, yeah, and then there's some kids that loved the car, so they're just playing with it, you know? it was so wow it's just yeah yeah so uh that's the photo that you sent me right when you contacted the late break program. This was one of the shots and I was just like, oh my gosh, that's after I bought it. Know? about a month after I bought it, I cut it out and repainted the orange on the M Stripes because it had faded, yeah, and I brought it back, you know, you could still see the masking where I did it, yeah, that's it . whether roadworthy or export-worthy when it was, they sent it back to the UK, okay, along with another second round nine eleven to Maroon, I think, or maroon, yes, and then that's when I dropped it off at the agency shipment, that was the last time I saw him in South Africa the next time I saw him was in Leeds when he arrived on the boat.

A few months later, God, this is all fantastic backstory for the car and I have to see this letter from BMW you were talking about. about um just the details of what makes it a light homologated car compared to a normal m535i okay here we go yeah yeah that's the envelope they sent it in in 1991 oh that's when was, that's the ultimate driving machine, yeah, well, that's the uh, that's the letter from BMW that says because I was trying to figure it all out. You know, I wrote to uh Tony Viana, who was involved in this. uh Cliff, cheesy, he was a friend of the second owner and that's when he told me about it. and um right when he said this is special, a special after I bought it and I was trying to figure out why it's so small and everything and it's like and he told me it's one of seven uh and the production was It was supposed to.

There were a hundred, but because the series was changed from group one to group N, they didn't have to do it anymore, so only seven were produced, so this is one of the seven, so this is a fact from 1991. Yes from BMW because I wrote to BMW in Germany and then they passed it on to South Africa to respond. Yes. Dear Mr. Harris, we have received your telefacts of April 5, 1991 addressed to our parent company in Germany and forwarded. to our office to respond to your queries we would like to inform you of the following the number of models produced was between 220 and 230 which was produced in 82 and 83 the weight savings achieved was 60 kilos this vehicle was a winner in the Series 1 group in 82 and 83.

We regret that we cannot provide accurate information as we are no longer in possession of the records going back that far, but the information provider was obtained from people who were directly involved with the vehicle at the time. We trust that we have been of help and thank you for your kind comments here we go, please be assured of our sincere interest at all times and we wish you many safe and trouble-free three miles of BMW Motoring in the ultimate driving machine. I know what the slogan is, that explains it, but What Makes This Car Special and Small and Bare Bones was so special.

I have so many good memories flying around South Africa on it. Yeah, I mean, for a weekend I went to Cape Town like you do Thousand Miles there, a thousand miles back, for a week. for a weekend because it was the oldest because it was the ultimate Drive machine and you know, 20 hours of non-stop travel. I like the fact that you even have happy breakdown memories in it, yes, all about Happy memories of this car, yes, I hope they still

will

be once I get back on the road and it's to keep them, definitely, yes, like that that the next time people see this car, he

will

be on the road.

Yes, that's it, that's it. the challenge because I want to go back and see it and yeah, I see it won't take long, but the time is coming, you know, I mean, it doesn't need much to go through an inspection, it's in very good condition, I mean, it's just you know you're You, honestly, it's been well preserved, yeah, I mean, against all odds, I was hoping you'd

find

something pretty rotten, I mean, Tony worked on a lot of them and you know they end up being rusty boxes and just corroding away, yeah, but this one. It has managed to stand the test of time, yes it is lovely, let's get it out now.

Tony just put the cam cover back on. We'll take it out of the axle brackets and pull it out. opening before the end of the day who knows, it might start I don't know, I'm ready, you're clear, there are no hands here, there are no hands, so there is no stuck valve, you have put the air box back, I think take it out outside maybe we should turn it on and take it out oh now you're speaking my language which is british it's quiet now strangely when we stopped filming Tony just plugged it in um in the back there uh and we heard the fuel pump go so the electric fuel pump works , it's not stuck, which has been a common problem in previous

barn

find

s, so we could put fuel in there or use a bypass method, which I'll let you decide as the expert Tony, now you're probably wondering what this is.

Incredible looking contraption that might look a little ballistic. This is Tony BMW's can of hope that Tony put together especially for this event and it's amazing, it has a fuel pump in the back, yes, and it has a return floor. and return and delivery, so for a fuel injected car, especially this is a perfect resurrection tool to find in a

barn

, which I'm definitely going to try to buy you one of, so, give that break, give the starter motor, yes, well, it needs fuel. pressure gauge too, isn't it? because we don't know if we don't even know if he has pressure.

No, oh, so close, so close, it's like touching a solenoid, sometimes it shocks. Okay, is everyone ready and everyone happy? to try this one more time, well, let's start, stop, wow, fire in the hole, oh, you're okay, the foreigner laughs much better on six, that's it, I have six cylinders, that's the noise, oh, foreigner , decades for that and it idles just fine. I have it working Hallelujah, I am very happy and no one has been watching me. Vanilla and the brakes are seized even though he is not on the ground. It's up, so it's getting dark.

There is a small chance we can get the car back in the off-season. if we can't please forgive us uh we got it running big thanks to BMW Tony or Tony BMW okay try again yeah yeah that one is spinning there they both don't waste much fuel right? Well, as you can see. It's dark, it's taken all day and against quite a few odds we've managed to get the car running and out of the garage on its own steam which is what you did 31

years

ago oh my god that's amazing thanks to Tony too known as Tony BMW for helping me.

I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for allowing us to come and do this, Peter. I mean, another pleasure. It's been exciting. Some frustrations. Some ups and downs. But in the end I stayed optimistic, so I hope you did. I enjoyed this special barn find of perhaps the

rare

st BMW M car in existence. We don't meet him on The Late Break Show. Subscribe, feel free to comment if you want to support us through Patreon. You are more than welcome. I can usually watch videos like this early, thanks.