The white pearl

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Haha ! Thank you! But I’m not that fast the car is basically done but the picture site I use to upload sucks ! I’m not very savvy with that kinda stuff .. I used to have photo bucket till it turned into a night mare

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On to interior! I had a beautiful interior from a 325ix I parted out, dark grey heated cloth comforts to replace the DESTROYED blue cloth the car originally cane with

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I ran the factory heated seat harness and relocated the heater switches to the hvac panel. I didn’t have a clean lower console with the button cut outs and I didn’t want to cut up the only nice one I had, plus I had 2 blanks to fill anyway. I used some late model e24 switches to get the correct orientation of the switches

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Re assembling interior

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Now around Xmas time got my gf some nice gifts ! One of them being this wheel I got from another member !

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She also bought her self some nice Xmas gifts ! Hahah

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Cleaning !

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Test fitting of wheels :)

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So around this time I was getting ready to send the car to get some paint work done by my buddy .... after a lot of talking and going over prices we decided we would paint the entire car ... originally our plan was to paint the valance hood and other areas but matching the pearl paint was going to be far to difficult (if possible at all) and far too much money.

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Body work and paint

This area was damaged under the bumper it was pulled and repaired. Some of the pictures are unfinished but they are still interesting to look at

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This was a crease it was pulled and filled with weld

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Valance stripped to bare metal and re chip guarded



Hood chemical stripped and brought to bare metal

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Sunroof replaced with a rust free one.

The sunroof hadn’t been opened in who knows how long I luckily got it open without any damage to the cables or mounts.

Old sunroof

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Heavy build primer . There was little to no body filler used on this car

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Base coat ! The color she chose was alpine III on of my favorite colors and a very bright white to make this e30 stand out a little more ! Sadly the engine bay was not in the budget :(