69 BMW Euro Trash

[tricha02]

looks a lot better Thomas, do you have brakes yet?

not yet, im gonna see the price at oriley tomorrow, if its too much i found them online for 40 = A $30 CORE, NOT BAD ILL BUY A SET TOMORROW, WEATHER ITS ONLINE OR AT A PARTS STORE

Last update is nice. Starting to come together

THANKS, ITS AMAZING HOW MOTIVATION CAN GET YOU TO WORK, EACH STEP MAKES ME WANT TO DAILY IT MORE, THE NEW EXHAUST IS THE BEST THING EVER SOUND WISE, OH LOOK I HIT CAPS LOCK OOPS

it's greatly improving. paint that hood to match and throw it on too!

ill try the hood black first, but yeah think just black front would work, ima paint the front under bumper on my gti black too, you can only see it from far away anywys.

in these pics i really see how e21 took after the 2002s, normally you don't

[s13fay92]

looks a lot better Thomas, do you have brakes yet?

[Nick475]

Last update is nice. Starting to come together

[C-Hutch]

it's greatly improving. paint that hood to match and throw it on too!

[AMGwheelwhore]

Love hoopties like this

[tricha02]

so, more progress
patched the passenger floor

changed wheels over
old

new

my jack sucks so hard, i have to dig a hole, and roll it on blocks to get under the frame

put the exhaust on
BOSOZOKU!!!!

rather than using those stupid exhaust clamp things i just screwed them together


pics


my low cars


i also picked up a battery for the car, because i sold its old one with the honda

end the day with a beautiful sunset
and a dinner of toaster oven grommet tomato bread i made

[C-Hutch]

Here's the quote you were looking for C-Hutch! Hahah

AHA! thanks!

[Wyatt Lay]

Flat black doesn't hide anything, if anything it makes it look more cheap. Especially if it's two tone between the cream and black. Please just do the entire thing cream. It looks very nice, despite the smashed body.

The new wheels will fix alot of this car!

(My mint valve cover doesn't match anything haha. If I could do it again, I'd keep the bay burgundy, and the valve cover polished. )

Here's the quote you were looking for C-Hutch! Hahah

[tricha02]

ok so im waiting for my drill to charge so im gonna update this

not related to the car, but I did free up some funds by selling my Honda, the guy who was buying it didn’t zip tie the hood down (no hood latch) and on his test drive decided to leave my neighborhood and floor it down the main street, hood flipped up and broke the windshield, and fucked the brand new hood
last pics of it as I dropped it off at his house



so that gives me more room and money, but this may take some up some of my time, the wood behind the tiles rotted away and the tiles fell inwards, hopefully my landlord will take care of this


ive been making progress on the floors, im going hot rod style and making street sign floors, not doing the best job but they are solid.

Today I woke up and went by the store, got this stuff, that primer is the best, it beads water, and does a great job of keeping rust from spreading




i started by cutting out the worst rust, i kinda just tore it out
yes i am in slippers, it was morning at this point

I then proceeded to use cardboard and eyeballing to get the main floor pieces cut out
This is the drivers floor


I then had to bend the pieces which I did by scoring the back

this worked, but I realized that the scoring made it weak, I couldn’t bend the big pieces without scoring, so I made little strips to strengthen it


I had some other problems in the front, some of the metal that I planned to screw into was really just rust, surprise surprise, but I solved this with some more scrap sign screwed in higher up where the metal was metal.


more strips


I am now filling between the non scored shims, I know there are gaps, but I plan to cover them with tape and then bedline the underside so that the bedliner fills the little gaps


I still have a lot of work, but the hard part of the 2 worst floors is done

Only problem I see so far is these screws in the wheel well, but that’s nothing the grinder wont fix


ill update tonight and hopefully be done stay tuned

[Bronzit]

Hahahah, those sticks made me laugh. They're all crudely placed in the bolt holes.
Classic.............

[C-Hutch]

today i did manage to toss the front fenders on temporarily, but i dont have the bolts, so they are just hanging there by sticks and shit for now

Literally almost spit my drink out at that. Swallowed painfully, then busted out laughing.

[tricha02]

I would slam the shit out of this thing and just drag it until it fell apart then make cool garage furniture out of it. This thing is so far gone... Just make it stupid.

thats kinda the plan right now its too low to drive with the front fenders on, i really need some 13x8 et0s, but the ra's will work for now

not pic worthy yet, but i have started making the templates for the floors, i have 2 of the 4 done, and will be cutting out the signs and some of the worst rust tomorrow so long as its nice out.

today i did manage to toss the front fenders on temporarily, but i dont have the bolts, so they are just hanging there by sticks and shit for now




also some guy randomly came by the house today and offered me a parts car for $150 if i only had a place for it
my dad said if i help tear down the old house on our land i can put a garage there, but that wont be till winter, i just wish these good deals quit coming up.

[aLaFleur]

I would slam the shit out of this thing and just drag it until it fell apart then make cool garage furniture out of it. This thing is so far gone... Just make it stupid.

[tricha02]

so if i wasnt 100% sure i was redoing the paint now i am, it was a good learning experience, but today when i came outside i found these cool ripples anywhere it is too thick, they are all on the trunk where i tried to fill in the bondo cracks with paint, and also where it dripped from there but they need to go, im thinking another attempt at this color, or a nice burgundy

anyways here's the paint



also some bugs landed in it while it was wet

[jrcanes55]

Pretty much how we decided to build this car