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I'm pleased to finally announce my new project that I picked up last week. It's been a while since I've had a car I look forward to working on.... I'm stoked!
I'm trying to go back to school at the moment and the 15mpg my big murdered-out Explorer was getting just wasn't going to cut it. So I've spent the past few weeks scouring CraigsList, AutoTrader, and even eBay looking for a decent, minor-needs older European car. I was leaning towards an mid-80s MB turbo diesel like my dad's '84 300SD. Then one day my buddy Paul (Paul@RevoTechnik) called me with a "Duuude...look what I found!" conversation.
And the rest, they say, is about to make history...
Paul and I met up with the local owner of this E28. A 1985 BMW 528E shown in an odd, albeit beautiful shade of blue lowered on jen-uuu-winee E46 M3 wheels. The P.O. had had it for two years as a project car with his E36 M3 serving the daily duties. Having lost his job, he had to say goodbye to his toys. He did do a lot of maintenance to this thing though like brand new fuel pumps, new Bilstein shocks in the rear, a bunch of other stuff I just can't think of off the top of my head right now. Needless to say, I pulled the trigger and we drove it back to my house.
Even though it had new Bilsteins in the rear, the fronts needed to be replaced so these wound up on my doorstep
I picked up a set of E34 projector headlights locally (from a super cool dude with one of the cleanest E30 M3s I've seen!). I'm going to retrofit them in once DDM Tuning sends my HIDs I ordered over a week ago
*pics later*
Since I'm going to be spending a lot of time sitting in glorious Atlanta traffic, I want the interior to nice and comfortable. Far from where it is now. The carpet shows its age and the leather seats have a couple big tears in them. I went to pull-a-part the other day and got some doorhandles so I don't have to roll down the window to let myself out
While I had the door panel off I decided to see what a ScotchBrite pad would do...
I'll be damned if it didn't look halfway respectable after a few minutes of elbow grease
Since it rained all day yesterday I went to the fabric store and got weird looks from old ladies. But I found some goodies!!
This pattern was kinda cool but I have mixed feelings about it
meh...
nah...
Chocolate suade! Nom Nom
ahHA! Perfect. Just what I was looking for. Chocolate/Natural White Houndstooth
to be continued...
I'm pleased to finally announce my new project that I picked up last week. It's been a while since I've had a car I look forward to working on.... I'm stoked!
I'm trying to go back to school at the moment and the 15mpg my big murdered-out Explorer was getting just wasn't going to cut it. So I've spent the past few weeks scouring CraigsList, AutoTrader, and even eBay looking for a decent, minor-needs older European car. I was leaning towards an mid-80s MB turbo diesel like my dad's '84 300SD. Then one day my buddy Paul (Paul@RevoTechnik) called me with a "Duuude...look what I found!" conversation.
And the rest, they say, is about to make history...
Paul and I met up with the local owner of this E28. A 1985 BMW 528E shown in an odd, albeit beautiful shade of blue lowered on jen-uuu-winee E46 M3 wheels. The P.O. had had it for two years as a project car with his E36 M3 serving the daily duties. Having lost his job, he had to say goodbye to his toys. He did do a lot of maintenance to this thing though like brand new fuel pumps, new Bilstein shocks in the rear, a bunch of other stuff I just can't think of off the top of my head right now. Needless to say, I pulled the trigger and we drove it back to my house.
Even though it had new Bilsteins in the rear, the fronts needed to be replaced so these wound up on my doorstep
I picked up a set of E34 projector headlights locally (from a super cool dude with one of the cleanest E30 M3s I've seen!). I'm going to retrofit them in once DDM Tuning sends my HIDs I ordered over a week ago
*pics later*Since I'm going to be spending a lot of time sitting in glorious Atlanta traffic, I want the interior to nice and comfortable. Far from where it is now. The carpet shows its age and the leather seats have a couple big tears in them. I went to pull-a-part the other day and got some doorhandles so I don't have to roll down the window to let myself out
While I had the door panel off I decided to see what a ScotchBrite pad would do...
I'll be damned if it didn't look halfway respectable after a few minutes of elbow grease
Since it rained all day yesterday I went to the fabric store and got weird looks from old ladies. But I found some goodies!!
This pattern was kinda cool but I have mixed feelings about it
meh...
nah...
Chocolate suade! Nom Nom
ahHA! Perfect. Just what I was looking for. Chocolate/Natural White Houndstooth
to be continued...
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