Project Daily Driver Eta: Slow and Meticulous

[Simon S]

Fuck yeah.

[firefirefire90]

She goes in for paint next week! Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.

this entire video, I thought you were trying to start the car. Interesting sounding vehicle :rofl:

[Schnitzer318is]

^Yes she does have a bit of a noisy valve train to her. It will be fixed eventually. Looking for a good head... Would look for a replacement motor but this one has so many miles on it that I want to keep it original.

Feb 23, 2012

Dropped the car off at the body shop after tucking the rear bumper, swapping to a late model front valence, and removing much of the trim. I don't trust body shops to do trim removal under most circumstances. You always end up with missing fasteners and broken clips.

They are repairing all the dents (that they find), doing some rust repair on the rear of the car, and giving her a complete respray of the original Alpine. They are going to respray the trunk area and delete the antenna hole too. I had thought about doing an m3 "rc" car style antenna but I am not sure. What do you guys think?









March 2, 2012

Went to get a look at the car and see what had been done. Not a whole lot... I told them to take their time. They did manage to get all the dings out of the driver side and the roof. They said they were going to hit it hard today and finish the dents and start on the rust repair next week.

Here is how she was. I had pulled the glass for them earlier in the week.

[BUDNUNTA]

Are they going to put clear on it?

[xphiledan]

love the attention to detail

[AcSchnitzer318is]

Are they going to put clear on it?

If it turns out the original is single stage that is what they are going to lay down to avoid any reactions.

love the attention to detail

Thanks. OCD has it's benefits and draw backs.

[kingston]

I'd say a big "YES" on the M3-style antenna. I'll do that to my car at some point as well. Props for continuing to bring this one back!!

[MattAvino]

She is coming along nicely. Is that late model valence rusty?

[ANDRÜ]

Looking clean! Huge transformation, well done.

[Schnitzer318is]

I'd say a big "YES" on the M3-style antenna. I'll do that to my car at some point as well. Props for continuing to bring this one back!!

I'll look them up and see what I can find... also see if I can find any other e30's with them on the roof to see how it looks before taking the plunge.

She is coming along nicely. Is that late model valence rusty?

No... no rust on it. The original color is calypso so it kind of looks rusty in that pic. Those are cell pics also so they might not give the most accurate depiction of color.

Looking clean! Huge transformation, well done.

Thanks... I'm anxious to see how it turns out. I like the rest of the work I have seen from this shop and for the price I couldn't touch it anywhere else, unless I did it myself of course.

[Mouse]

Sub'd for fapping material. God, why do I find e30's sexually attracting?
Oh, that's right, it's because e30's are FUCKING SEXY!

[Schnitzer318is]

3/19/12

Here is how she was the last time I saw her. This was right before paint.










3/29/12

Went to the shop and re-installed the glass and lockstrips. What a pain in the ass. Luckily the wife went with me to help and did a good job of taking over when I was ready to break the windshield.







Looks like I will get the car back Tuesday after he buffs it. Definitely looking forward to it.

[Cronopoulos]

That looks amazing! Keep up the good work.

[OnMy2ndE30]

Car looks great man! Can't wait to see it in person. I will be getting your old valance in the next few weeks bro....need a replacement for my beat up and twisted valance.

[Schnitzer318is]

4/13/12

Teaser pics. Slowly putting the car back together. Hopefully I'll be done today or tomorrow and I can take her out and do a small photo shoot to show her off. Car came out really nicely for what I paid (I think).