Garden Find 6-Speed V12 BMW E31 850i Revival - Project Marseille: Part 1
This beautiful Calypso red E31 850i was left to rot in Southern France for the last 10 years. It was sitting outside in a garden all this time and that took its toll on the poor 8er. I bought it sight unseen and in this episode, we go over the condition of the car as the time has come to bring this forgotten legend of the '90s back to life! Projects update at the end of the video and some exciting news too!
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Where is the part 2?
There isn't one yet.
Unbelievable how ahead BMW used to be. However from the early 2000 they started to make problematic cars with very low quality
14:45 We are going to throw that away :-)
Congrats for starting your dream career !!!
This video is AWESOME!!! May it live forever!!! 🤘🏼😄
Very very very big respect from me to you for this honest job ⭐✊🤜🤛💪🇬🇪
Hahaha he said "I'm going to get Hugh Jackman".
How much did you pay for this car ?
talking and talking and talking,. please stop! get to work , but shut up dude!
a slavic guy that lives in germany, speaks english, french and spanish, reparis old barnfind cars but also produces high quality youtube videos? i am subbed
Amazing channel the knowledge u have is amazing video editing is perfect good luck can’t wait to see more
850i is the perfect project car! Do You Do A Restauration?
4:23 That “ackman” is Huge!
The i8 should have been this car .
Enjoy watching your videos - hope you do a E34 project as it is my favorite 5 Series
Loved the video. How funny and enthusiastic you are! Subscribed
I was praying you were going to wash it and you didn't disappoint 👍 Rare car to find in manual, can't wait to see how this turns out. Great vid as always. P.S that outro is perfect love it 👌
Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour... Great content and loves his BM's if only one was a RHD would trade in my F11 boring BMW and buy one of your finished examples... a nice E39 530 or 40 M-sport would be nice
The Hugh Jackman Brilliant!
If road taxes weren’t soo expensive in Greece I would probably buy sth like this tbh
New subscriber here, excited for this 850 series!
Please keep making these forever. Helped me enormously with my 750il e32 . Only request is: Can you start including links to where you sourced the parts?
I’ve watched all the video with the idea “we need to support this guy to quit his job and do what he likes to do” So I am going to patreon page now. Thanks for amazing videos!
congratulations !!! love the videos :D
Man I love your videos. Definitely one of the more interesting channels on here. The car. I honestly never knew the E31 had the option fora manual gearbox. That makes it even more of a dream car for me. However I will always have a soft spot for the 80s & 90s BMWs having owned a few. I look forward to the next instalment and stay off the cocaine. 🤘
7:50.....let there be light.
nailpolish collor sadly
I wasn't subscribed for some reason, I am now! Great on you for taking the leap of faith to grow your channel and do what you love most. Seeing the growth in automotive FIboth channels is nuts and yours is right up there with the best my friend! Cheers From Canada!
Why do you hate aftermarket wheels? What about aftermarket BBS's? Lol
lol at the foot injury comment :D
Please when it is up and running, at stand still put it in 5th gear and pull away.
frankfurt my fav city
"Imagine if this would have been a new 7 Series. I'd be rushed to the hospital with a foot injury now... " I CRAKED ON LAUGHING =)))))))))))))
Best wishes man, hope you get to work at an 850CSI
No sunroof. Lovely find.
The new 7 series grill comment did it for me! Great videos.
Hi, love your video and the BMW 8 series is in my opinion one of the best looking bmws. Great video. 👍
14:11 and 18:01 best moments lol
Binge watched your channel during confinement and i'm hooked !! The E39 M5, the manual E61.. 👌 What you did with the Project Dubai 750 is just heart warming, and the fact the new owner wants to drive it to Portugal (my country) is the cherry on the cake. 😀
Please rebuild a 1st generation 6 series
" Deploy the foot" ,,,, excellent !! And yes, I hate sunroofs also !!
Nice collection: E31, E32, E38, E39 and E46. All these are amazing series of 80s and 90s. What is missing is the E34! Hopefully you got an E34 soon ;-)
Schönes Teil und mit Schaltung... geil!
Don't know how I got here, but this is the first video in a while to genuinely make me laugh out loud. Your videos are amazing and your commentary is wonderful. Keep up the amazing work!
AJ G. I totally agree. He has this low key southing effect on my mind. And of course, he’s a brilliant mechanic.
Hey dude, I've been enjoying all your videos for some weeks now. Why don't you look into getting a paint job in some of the cheaper EU countries like Greece? I got my 1999 Suzuki Samurai completely repainted for 1100€, and we're talking full sandblasting and electrostatic painting to factory spec. Yeah the samurai is tiny though but it might be significantly cheaper to drive to Greece from Frankfurt (~around 2400km), get it painted here, and then drive back. I'd gladly provide hospitality in either Athens or northern Greece, anywhere you find a good professional.
Well done......this channel really is superb and an absolute favourite of mine. Mr M539 you are an inspiration!!
"Deploy the Foot!!!" . . . .brilliant.
This is my favorite car channel now. I’m a BMW enthusiast. I currently have an F01 750ix, an E70 4.8 and an R1200RT. I had an E30 325, an E46 330 and an E36 M3. You are living my dream. Where did you learn how to do all this?
You had me at Hugh Jackman. Hilarious dude - subscribed :)
When tavarish like yours vídeos!!! guess what???...a lots of people LIKESSSS👍
The yellow headlights are allowed in the Netherlands, trade or sell just over the border.
Just to put it out there. 850CSi's are rare af and they cost £60k+ nowadays.
That E46 Saloon is begging for an S54 swap lol
The EML's will be bad and $1500 for spark plug wire set? I pass on that one.
On 5 E31s that I revived, all had good EMLs and ignition wires are 60€
Puff diddily lol, 850 manual is a dream car of mine, probably too expensive to find one now.
9'57" : got some infos from the plate. The "plaque d'immatriculation" is under the previous way to register cars in France named FNI (Fichier National des Immatriculations / National Databoard for Registrations) used until 2009 when it swapped to SIV system. "13" stands for "département des Bouches-du-Rhone" where Marseilles is the main city. There are about 100 "départements" in France and each one had their own data-board before. The registration system was built on letters and numbers. It started with AA. Here, your car is the 4937th light vehicle to be registered with VV into the 13th "département" of France. Then a Seat Ibiza may have been the 4938th and so on, so on until 9999 VV. Then it goes to the upper letter VW. At the date this 850 has been bought (11th July 1991), it wore "plaque noire", black registration plates, then swapped to front white/rear yellow. If you buy another French car, you can get infos from your office chair through this new service : histovec.interieur.gouv.fr/histovec/home It gives you infos about the car but also uploaded CT (TÜV) - not all, but some. Félicitation for the full-time job ! I'm following your channel since a previous 850 project and I enjoy it very much !
I agree i absolutely hate after market wheels too ! The beauty looks so much better with the correct alloys on...
эх классная восьмёрочка и дисочки от ози в тему
I dont get 6k euro for a full paint job...Here in czech republic it will cost at the best paintshop 2k euros...would be worth to do the job in CZ
I can never understand why would anyone leave a car like this to just rot away. Thank God you will be saving this special machine.
BMW should select you as a brand ambassador.👍👍
13k miles a year... hardly driven....
gotta say i prefer the aftermarket wheels
Great video, eager to see the restoration 🔥
Cool car, great colour. You're funny. Subscribed.
i love dude nice jobs ! regrats from argentina!
I'm glad to be newly acquainted with this channel. Wunderbar!
funny, where did U work before
I wish I could come see da whips at yo garage man 😭 Iuv dese vids, fixin up the bimmers 🔥 much respect 💪🏿
french people present lol
Will you fix Mercedes?
This is without doubt the best channel on FIboth. I genuinely look forward to him coming on, and I find myself mimicking his accent when I work on my cars. I also curse myself as much as he does. Great content, love the sound track aswell. I wonder where he’s from? Clearly not German.
Just discovered you channel. Good content, I like diesel cars like 330cd e46, 335xd etc. But i love the 850i. Can't wait for part 2 of this video.
I always wonder what on earth these people do to wreck their car that badly.. Seriously! How can you fuck up your car on almost every single square inch?? My heart's bleeding.
i love his resturations wish he did audi's watching this done right is very satisfying for some reason. especially high maintence older
Me encanta tu canal! Gracias por tus vídeos!
Love these videos. This man deserves over 1000000 subscribers
Are you seeling those spacers with the bolts?=))) i am really intersting in it
someone's been watching vice grip garage
When beemers were all car and not just all grill .
Fuck yes! Now you have more time to make videos. It is the best feeling to wake up in the morning and see a new video from you and watch it with a big cup of coffee with nothing but slippers on.
Is this BMW in Frankfurt?🤩 Wanna visit you to See it
Two words v12 and manual in one sentence should turn every car person on 😇
When FIboth's algorithm finally sticks you on everyone's recommended for some reason, then you'll get the 6 billion subs you deserve. Criminally underrated channel
850 schalter wie krass
What is that C124 mercedes benz behind the project dubai?
Tnx mate, very inspiring. I've kept 3 E32 750iL's and a E31 in storage for a long time, an original 7series highline and the 8 used to be my daily driver's, another 7 bought for part and the last 7 as a 74km scandinavian barnfind. I also completely disassembled another 8 back then and kept everything except the a few hunderd kg of center body iron... Let me know if you need parts.
@27:00 You could just hear the car go 'Aaahhhh!!!' as all that shit gets washed away..
I have a Mercedes S400 biturbo diesel. Do you want it?
Maybe you could get that 'Paint Job' done across in Poland...saw this guy refurbishing a Car on that British T.V Show "Wheeler Dealers' -- Trading Up-- this is the website of the Restoration guy that was used on that programme to restore an American Imported Yellow Jaguar...whatever about the Painting the Preparing work Labour Cost could/ should be much much Lower Best wishes for your Project...www.classicparts.pl/en/
How old is that red paint?
hey! Jaką cenę dałeś za tą ósemeczkę?
the 80s, when engineers were good and Cocaine was a regional sport😂😂😂😂😂
10:00 i laughed hard at that. lmao
This is my all time favorite Beemer. I still remember the day I first saw it it the Australian motor magazine I was like 😲🥰🤗 then saw the price 🥺😢😫😭 but being 12yrs old kind of didn't help either. Still I have never had one and the ability to get one here in Australia is going to never happen unless I win some money someday! I can still dream 💭💭💭 I love your channel mate awesome to watch 👍👍
Awesome Vid - Fancy helping with my E31 850i?
make a full cleaning video!!! that'll be freaking cool.
So? That means more videos? Hope 2021 keeps bringing a lot more good news.
He is the most funny german guy, right? And his accent....mmmm. Good job!