Lauren

You are lucky. Because if you fail you can always go back to corporate at any time.

I wish i could say the same. Lol

Haven't gotten anymore work done to it really. Got the engine stripped and ready to be pulled and got the interior tar removed.

Whats new is I did get these. Perfect e30 sports seats front and rear and this m42 swap.

Also I'm painting it BMW urban green which is an individual color and will look amazing on the 2002.

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Publix sells dry ice so tested it out. Takes the nasty tar right off. I also tried a heat gun and its just a mess. Will have all the sound deadening out in the morning. Also tested out my new DA is strip the paint. That's gonne be fun.

After this it will be a couple weeks while I wait for parts and i actually have to go to work

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Hoping to send it off to paint by end of the month.

These 2002 guys are sick for used parts. Sold the Behr a/c system for $850, sold engine for $750, old ratty seats for $500, trim $500. At this point I've got a free car and plus money. That helps speed up the project.

Lots of work today. All trim removed and gutted interior. Need to get dry ice tomorrow so finish stripling the tar coating.

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https://jalopnik.com/this-guy-restored-a-bmw-2002-with-whatever-he-could-fin-1829528937

 

Lens looks cleaner...

Gorgeous car.

My local 2002 guy has 14 of them and specializes in nut and bolt restos and resto mods. He just sold a nut and bolt on bat for 40k.

His advise was build it how I want. There will be buyers whatever direction I go. Profit margin is better for restomod vs original.

At home in the garage. Removed the nasty us spec bumpers.

So I'm going to strip the paint with a DA here at home. Also bought a M42 complete swap. New brakes and suspension on the way. Going to get the suspension and brakes first. Then strip out interior and pull the engine. I have a local 2002 guy that is going to weld all the trim holes for me and then send it off to paint. I'm shooting for a Christmas deadline to get back from paint.

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I'll get pictures tomorrow when I bring it home. I took a video of it running I'll upload that.

I've settled on paint. I'm going to leave it malaga but I'm going to add flake to it to make it pop. Will be like Carmina red metalliac on 911

Took it out on the road today finally. Was a lot of fun. Now that its running and driving bringing it home to start the tear down.

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Hitting the guy with the ball is targeting now. Football is hard to watch anymore.

Agreed. 99% of targeting is bullshit.

NFL teams will want to see that he's tested the injury post-surgery. It'd benefit him to come back and get some playing time against top competition. Otherwise, that injury will be an asterisk next to him name.

Disagree. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose. He can skip the season, skip the combine and skip pro day and his stock won't drop. He is that good. A sports hernia isnt like tearing an acl or some other major reconstructive surgery where you have to evaluate and see if you can regain top form. He just needs it to heal properly and won't be limited.

I had a sports hernia and total hernia of my right side in 2012. Fully recovered and not limited at all

I get it, and honestly, I'm a hot rod guy so I kind of find all this resto stuff kinda silly too in how extreme it gets some times (ask me someday about restoring corvettes to get NCRS Top Flite and Bloomington gold - silliness abounds). I went through this with my GTO, I bought a 60K mile car that was numbers matching with all paperwork and ripped into it and found out the hard way that things like seatbelts and exhaust manifolds are date coded and people will pay stupid money for what I thought was junk. I took a lot of shit from resto purists for hacking up what they thought was the perfect unmolested restoration candidiate (a 60K mile 1 family car with all paperwork that had never been hit and still had it's original paint, even though it was rusty and there was no way to save the original paint). Before that car I had no idea plug wires were date coded and that people will pay money for them or treat you like you raped their sister when you tell them you threw them away.

 

As long as you are in it for the enjoyment of it and making something cool that's fine, even it it means you may take a loss with it (and there is a chance you will take a loss with it).

 

the great part of the car hobby is that 99% of the problems out there can be solved with money. the 1% are things like originality, where it is only original once.

 

 

This. Old paint is super durable and most of it can be brought back with a machine compound and buff. even the roughest stuff.

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It's paint code 018 and it's listed as a 2002 color for 1976 and 1977. Rubinrot is German for "Ruby Red" and it was a really fine metallic color. Lighter than Malaga but darker than granatrot from the same year which was a really high metallic medium dark red.

 

What made me think the car was Rubinrot was the door jambs which in daylight looked lighter than what I remember Malaga to be. But BMW puts the names of the color on a sticker in the engine bay so if he read it and it says Malaga then that is the color of the car.

 

To do a bare shell, frame up restoration of a 2002 right it costs about $30k. And you have to document where all the stickers and labels go and be cognizant of the date coded parts. Or you can just put a new coat of the same color paint on the outside and keep all of that original stuff. It also takes about a year to two to do everything.

 

When it comes to old cars, the high value cars are the most original ones and the ones that had nut and bolt accurate restorations. Anything else in between is a lesser car. People looking for original cars will overlook bolt on things like removing the ugly US bumpers, BMW wheels to get better access to tires, and changing out the carb to run better but won't care for color swaps or fender flares. The resto guys looking at a car that was bare shell will nitpick the details and how well you recreated them and reduce the value by how much they will have to "correct".

 

Guys into modded 2002s will want to see engine work and custom suspension work to go along with the flares and such. Just having the flares and cosmetic stiff is nice but it doesn't drive the value.

 

What you have is a nice original unmolested car. Your best value proposition is to clean up the outside cosmetics, put the new carb on to make it run right, and try to preserve the rest while you drive it around.

 

At the end of the day it's your car and you are free to do what you want, I'm just here giving you friendly advice because the old car hobby is different from the modern "let's mod the crap out of everything" late model car hobby. The things enthuasists value at this level are different, a lot of them think of themselves as preservationists and caretakers of history rather than car owners. They made thousands of these cars and many of them were modded and cut up so getting an unmolested one is rare, appreciate what you have.

Appreciate this post very much. We all know I eventually sell a car and don't hold onto them but I feel like this one is different. I will never find another in this condition. I kind of want to build it how I want it and enjoy it so color change and all.

I'm not in a rush with it. Seeing as its my fifth car I can take my time and enjoy each stage

This guy's 2002 is one of my favorites on the interwebs.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BV6QrFqhEa3/?taken-by=cdlss93

That car is gorgeous.

I'm recanting my thoughts. That shiny malaga you posted looks nice. With tint, proper wheels and stance, it'd look SICK.....IMO.

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Malaga is a beautiful color when done right, it's hard to photograph because dark colors aren't easy to capture.

 

Unless you are willing to take the car to bare shell to paint it, don't color change it.

I'm absolutely willing to take it to bare shell. That's the plan

Here's a shiny malaga car. Maybe this would be easier

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