What seemed to stall the restoration at the 2nd shop? There are other cars in the pictures, did those restorations stop as well?

I'm enjoying the pictures because I am presently restoring 2 1974 Baur's. One is a RHD and the other is LHD. Looks like you are converting from square tail lights to round.

Very much enjoying your post and wish I could get my hands on a windshield and rear quarter panels!

windshields are reportedly the same as used in 2002 Tourings.

On 11/17/2021 at 3:33 PM, Patrick1974 said:

What seemed to stall the restoration at the 2nd shop? There are other cars in the pictures, did those restorations stop as well?

I'm enjoying the pictures because I am presently restoring 2 1974 Baur's. One is a RHD and the other is LHD. Looks like you are converting from square tail lights to round.

Very much enjoying your post and wish I could get my hands on a windshield and rear quarter panels!

The story in the second workshop was complicated and even more difficult. A friend told us that a man with a lot of experience in restoring classic cars had just opened his own workshop. I went to see the workshop and the man, who showed me the jobs he had done in the past, while working as an employee in other workshops.

At that time I decided to take my 1974 Taiga green BMW 2002, and my cousin decided to take the 1972 Targa Baur to his workshop. We were his second and third clients.

The first months the work progressed well, slow but very neat and high quality work. Then we began to notice that there were days when no one was working, not even the workshop was opened. Every day there were fewer people working in the workshop.

It turned out that the man is an irresponsible alcoholic, who drank all the money that came into the workshop, stopped paying his workers. His problem with drinking was so great that the man began to sell the parts of the cars that he was restoring in order to buy alcohol.

There are 2 things that are very sad in this story, the first is that these stories are very common in Colombian workshops; The second is that this man was really talented in his work, but his drinking problems did not let him progress.

Of the other cars in the photos, I understand that he only finished one. A BMW 323i E21. The rest were failed jobs, including my BMW 2002.

I´d love to see pictures of the 2 baur's you are working on.

Best regards,

JuanCa González