89 Vert project

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Some stuff prepped for paint, the valence sporting new stone guard.

I'll let you guys guess the paint color. It's not bronzit.

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Drivers door off and stripped down, also have the frame rail repair welds dressed.

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Pulled the fuel tank and continued the rust repairs. I found an unexpected hole above the tank on the passenger side. Figured I'd start there lol.

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I've come down with some sort of cold but despite that I had a full day to work on this thing... or so I thought. My girlfriend's mini needed a cowl leak looked at and during that I noticed the recirc flap was broken. Three hours later I was able to fix the flap and isolate the leak.

I took a quick brake to relax for about an hour so I could get back to the car. I managed to get the surprise hole done on the passenger side done before we lost power from a gnarly thunderstorm. I called it a day at that point.

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Just four more holes in the seat pan before I have to tackle the floor pan.

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I started dissecting the passenger rear floor pan before we lost power. Pretty straight forward just have to trim and fit the panel 700 times.

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This rear seat pan is blossoming into somewhat of a mess. There are small pinholes all over the place along with the larger ones that I have already pushed through. My plan is to weld one or two per night this week until I'm down to just the pinholes then I'll probably sand them back, treat them and smear them with seam sealer. Is it the right way to do it? No. But there's only one other option and that's cutting out the entire thing, finding a good one, and welding it in. Too much work for very little return plus it's under the rear seat and above the fuel tank so not exposed at all anyways.

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Vert's look 1000x better when they dont have the 3rd brake light on the trunk lid...

Whats the long-term plan with this?

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Vert's look 1000x better when they dont have the 3rd brake light on the trunk lid...

Whats the long-term plan with this?

Oh yeah coupe trunk lid on this one!

First and foremost is getting the rust repairs done to the floor, spot prime/ undercoat then get the tub to paint.

I am on the fence about painting the engine bay body color or satin black. Its satin in my 318is and actually looks pretty tidy but then again I have everything out of this one so it might be a clean/ scuff/ shoot job. Either way it will look better than the cosmoline/ dirt/ bronzit lol

When its back from paint I am going to strip the red car of everything mechanical and transfer it to the good painted chassis and refurbish things along the way. I'll probably start with the hvac box, replacing the heater core/ evap/ make any flap repairs and work out from there. Entire body harness will need to be moved over then on to suspension rebuild, drivetrain, top interior etc.

Kinda feel bad about cannibalizing the red car but the necessary metal repairs to get the red car to where this car is just doesn't make sense.

After the car is together and we get some miles on it we will pull the interior in favor of black or something else more exciting than pearlbeige and just focus on all the little detail stuff.

Try not to engine swap it.

Try.