Mike Burroughs, who runs the Stanceworks YouTube channel, has been a proponent of the E28 chassis since forever, building up several icons of the vintage BMW revival that took off in the mid-2000s.

The E28 BMW 5-series, released in 1981, was BMW’s breakthrough executive saloon. Designed by the iconic BMW designer Claus Luthe, the E28 was initially sold with a combination of relatively ...