Interesting Junkyard Find..

[NuthinFancy]

He knows. Ohhhhh trust me, he knows. ;)

I saw your post on his parts for sale thread it was a lil hard to not leave a comment but I think yours did the trick

[The Volta]

Looks like "they" used the same camera too comparing the same exif data, that's him for sure.

[TrentW]

Good investigative sleuthing gentlemen. Impatiently waiting for "the rest of the story", to quote Paul Harvey.

[ogbimmer]

Looks like "they" used the same camera too comparing the same exif data, that's him for sure.

holy crap how did you do that??

[///Bimmerfan]

holy crap how did you do that??

You can just save the image on the from the forum to your desktop and view the details.

[LJ851]

Perhaps he was involved in a hit and run and doesnt want to incriminate himself ?

[george graves]

^I think the simplest answer is the most likely one. Bump steer into a corolla.

Also, in a past thread, someone knew his situation there - this is what I gleamed off of them :

He wasn't do the work himself. He had some neighbor that lived right down the street that was some retired BMW mechanic. It sounded like he was picking up work from japandrew for a while, and encouraging him to spend more money on the car. His parents (who were footing the bill) got taken for quite a ride. You combine one OCD kid, an out-of-work mechanic, and sucker parents, and apparently you get a perfect storm.

It's this mechanic "friend of the family" that did the brunt of the work. All the cleaning was JapA's doing, and the parents cut the checks.

[Roysneon]

Isn't it the guy who built the S54 TT 2002 who "helped" him with the work?

[george graves]

Yea, I believe that is the same guy.

[Turf1600]

Someone should start contacting neighbors, family members and known friends for the story.

[trackjunkie21]

well whoever really believed a 19 year old kid had that kind of money to spend must be retarded, I think it was quite obvious someone else was paying for it.

[BrewCity11]

I guess I'll be one of the few to say, Andrew, sorry for your loss. Despite all the bs, you lost your "baby" and I can relate to that. Your car was beautiful and I hope you take on the task of building another. My condolences.

[frankenbeemer]

It's this mechanic "friend of the family" that did the brunt of the work.

If I lived there, I'd want that mechanic to work on my car. It was top work, except possibly the notched subframe. I wonder how he prevailed on the "friend of the family" mechanic to get him to do that.

[The Volta]

What's the story on why he notched his subframe ?

[Roysneon]

Pretty sure it was so he could keep the m30 mechanical fan, but I could be wrong.