1971 BMW 1600 Project

[kid325e]

I'm imagining your bare feet, toes wiggling on that phresh ass carpet. Good times.

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[phreshkid]

Remember this photo?




Well now the interior looks something like this:














I like it. Surf car is now clean car. Still need to decide what I'm doing about the paint and the trim and other things.

[phreshkid]

take the rubber bit off and swap the longer bolt from your other overrider.

however, IMO no-overriders is the best look.

Did it and no.

Truth.

NO.

This build makes me want a 2002 or 1600 more and more every time I read it..

Me too. I am buying more. Always more.

Yea that rubber piece should come off, you may have to glue it back on afterwords, but then just replace the bolt.

Held on by screws. Easy fix.

This.

Yes.

Ditto.

Same.













Fixed the bumperette issue. Hardly an issue at all. I sat down, ate a burrito, and it came to me. Fixed it in 4 minutes.






And I managed to lay down the raam-mat and elsolite layer. Then started laying and gluing carpet.







These are the inner rocker pieces and I haven't quite figured out how they configure in the car. I feel like these pieces are missing some vinyl flaps that cover the seat frames. I'll ask the carpet maker (Esty). Forgive me; blurry photo.




And this looks wrong too. I need a vinyl flap that tucks into a trim piece. I don't have that. Another question for Esty.





But overall a good day. Should be done tomorrow if I am an idiot and the carpet set is in fact correct.

[rzerob]

This build makes me want a 2002 or 1600 more and more every time I read it..

Ditto.

[rturbo 930]

however, IMO no-overriders is the best look.

This.

[semaj4712]

Yea that rubber piece should come off, you may have to glue it back on afterwords, but then just replace the bolt.

[KIRIEIW]

This build makes me want a 2002 or 1600 more and more every time I read it..

[LJ851]

however, IMO no-overriders is the best look.

Truth.

[kronus]

take the rubber bit off and swap the longer bolt from your other overrider.

however, IMO no-overriders is the best look.

[markseven]

A split window kombi is the dream. Except I can't find any under $35k that are worth buying. And anything really nice is already over $50k.

I see. I lost touch with air-cooled VW realities when I sold my Notch.

And here is the photo of the current configuration. Driver's side is installed, passenger side remains with a US-variant bumperette. Goofy but the contrast in side is great.

It looks like it's ready to rabbit punch someone. Put up yer dukes!

[CorvallisBMW]

Tack a piece of allthread to the end to lengthen it?

[phreshkid]

Dvck, great job on the Pshop.

Ryan, keep up the good work.

You should hold out for a split window doka. It would be a cool parts hauler.

A split window kombi is the dream. Except I can't find any under $35k that are worth buying. And anything really nice is already over $50k.

Phreshkid, pmed you :-)

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Saw that. Responding now.

There is a guy on mye28 selling a nice m10 turbo setup that is worth a look into.

Called him last month. Not what I'm looking for unfortunately.











Today's developments:

So I bought a set of early euro reproduction bumperettes and rear seam convers from that guy on Northern California Craigslist and they came about 30 minutes ago. Naturally I decided to drop everything and install at least the front bumperettes. Except I was soon met with an issue; a rather large issue.

The driver's side unit installed fine. The bolt coming from the bumperette passed through the bumper, the spacer, and the bumper metal mounting frame thing that bolts to the frame rail. The passenger side was a different story.

The passenger repro unit came with a significantly shorter bolt that failed to pass through all required bumper parts, and I was unable to secure it to the bumper. See photos for bolt length differences:

See?


After an attempt to install it, you can see how the bolt is too short:



And here is the photo of the current configuration. Driver's side is installed, passenger side remains with a US-variant bumperette. Goofy but the contrast in side is great.




Time to contact the seller and make this right.

[Bearmw]

There is a guy on mye28 selling a nice m10 turbo setup that is worth a look into.

[fresh_TD]

Phreshkid, pmed you :-)

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[markseven]

Dvck, great job on the Pshop.

Ryan, keep up the good work.

You should hold out for a split window doka. It would be a cool parts hauler.