Needing Crash Rebuild Advice!

[Fidhle007]

I don't see any evidence of frame damage at all so you should be fine. Search junkyards and try to find another E30 with a straight front end and take it, fenders, valence, bumper and all. Then you can have a shop paint and fit the parts and if you're comfortable with fitting them yourself you can just have them painted professionally and save some dough. I'm not sure where you are in NY but if you fancied a drive my shop has a lot of E30 experience...

[nando]

your radiator core support could be a little bent, but it's not technically part of the frame. anyway, find a good sized tree trunk and borrow a come along, and pull it out if you need to.

[ddavidv]

You say you already paid to have the unibody pulled? Then the structure should be square. The rest is just cosmetic.

Your Carstar experience is pretty typical of a lot of shops that only want to work on newer stuff. They aren't interested in anything older due to getting parts, rusted fasteners, etc. so they will blow you off. It means they have more work than they need. Find someone who needs the work and they will work with you.

[xcmorgan50]

Ok, so I've decided to go ahead with fixing the car. Now I'm debating whether or not to put it back on the road now or in the spring. The car is completely driveable. I'm just so tired of driving a chevy metro around all the time when there is a bimmer in my driveway(not in the garage, just sitting in the driveway..my garage is too full) Im not concerned about getting into another incident(knock on wood) because i wont drive like that in the winter anymore. I'm just worried about the salty roads here in upstate NY. I also find very hard to work on a car that im not driving because i cant take it to a shop to get an estimate. I guess im just impatient...should i drive it now or wait. If i do drive it now, is there anything else i should to to prevent rust besides washing it? I just feel like shes just wasting away in the driveway if i dont drive it.